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days. the euro-dollar slightly weaker, that uptrend to seems to have been broken with a stronger dollar over g10 with the exception of the yen. it s a buy treasury single after the big selloff we saw yesterday and goldman doubling down on bullish commodity bets. i want to take a quick check on the safety asset classes. i mentioned dollar-yen, portugal if you want to take on risk, go to portugal. the yield there is down by eight basis points with a lot of buying going across the curve over in europe and the vix at 29. gold is up by four dollars now. the vix at 29 feels like the different world. david: people weren t buying gold. alix: gold is really liquid, it s not surprising saw some selling if you needed to get liquidity. you covered gold, back and forward. , the new york fed president space of the european chamber of commerce in new york city at 10:30, crude oil inventory data will be released and 21st century fox and tesla both post earnings, coming up today. terms ....
it is a big day for the bank of england governor mark carney. a report is starting less than an hour from now. topping lists the banks interest rates and new forecast on the agenda. republican presidential candidates will debate for the first time tonight at 9:00 eastern on national television, and 9 of them will be trying to stop donald trump from stealing the spotlight. he is dominating polls heading into the debate on fox. one republican strategists said survivalists must tread lightly. time,has a set amount of six and half, eight minutes to engage in the audience something about you, your policy, and why you watch to be the next president of the united states and why we should vote for you. to waste time going after trump that will burn up a lot of those minutes. at the same time, if he goes after you, you cannot allow that to stand. you can demonstrate to republican voters he will be a candidate who fight back. vonnie: the second candidate who did not hold hig ....
today and then formally next week. the other is that we go for some kind of bridge financing. these two options a this year i think both options entail that a payment will be made at the end of the day. unforeseen be an crisis. i just do not see that right now. responses economy grew an unexpected quarter. president jimmy carter will undergo cancer treatment. the former president said cancer was discovered during liver surgery and is in multiple locations. he will release more information as soon as next week. his father and three siblings all died of pancreatic cancer. china has been rocked by a series of explosions. the blast began in a warehouse for hazardous materials. at least 44 people have been killed and hundreds more were injured. managers of the company that owned the warehouse have an detained. in golf, jordan spieth is the favorite. the pga championship has begun. he has already won the masters in the self in this year, a victory this weekend would make him ....
been arrested in the deaths of 71 migrants find found in a truck abandoned on a highway in austria. probablyy they suffocated and at least some of the victims were refugees fleeing violence in syria. , president george w. bush visits the site of one of the low points of his presidency. he traveled to new orleans to mark the 10th anniversary of hurricane katrina. the former president was criticized for his administration s response to the disaster. president obama was there yesterday and watched through the new orleans neighborhood that was one of the hardest hit. the president said new orleans is a model for resilience in the face of catastrophe. i am here to say that on that larger project, stronger, more , the progress that you have made this remarkable. mr. obama called new orleans recovery a work in progress, saying the job is not to rebuild the city as it used to be but to rebuild it a new. defense secretary ashton carter is on a friend raising mission to silic ....
incredible trump energy and turn it into effective long-term progressive organizing that creates tangible wins and victories on capitol hill. so everybody knows how it s going to work. i m going to do a brief introduction and each of our panelists are going to provide a brief interinstruction and inter comments. saying, we rep by in an uncredible moment of energy and activism where americans in political stripes are speaking out and looking for ways to resist the trump-ryan agenda. saidvey from march democrats are twice as likely to say they have engaged in activism the past two months that extends to being more likely to have shared on social media, written to congress , and attendedy local meetings. they are fired up and engage and now we can figure out how to turn the energy into effective lobbying. i thought first i will start with ezra levine. he is the co-founder of the invisible project, a hill staffer who lived through the a former hill staffer. [laughter] ....