Yields have picked up. Tenyear yield above 5 . That is a significant level. We touched briefly above that for a nanosecond last week. Since then, you have to go back to 2007 when you have seen yields at these levels. 5. 012 for the tenyear yield. By the way, check out energy prices. You will see wti which is off 33 cents. 87. 76. We have merger monday as joe mentioned. Look at what is happening here. Chevron buying hess in the deal of 53 billion. 171 a share. That is a low premium over the Closing Price for hess on friday. Hess shares are up 2. 25 . Chevron down 2. 9 . This deal comes just weeks after exxonmobil made its move to buy pioneer natural resources. Both stocks on the move. Hess ceo john hess will join chevrons board. I just got off the phone with mike wirth. Very low primemium on this. This goes back long before the rumors came out about exxonmobil and pioneer. That deal went through last week. A lot of people thought after the deal, that chevron would look for Something Els
Morning. This morning a new acting attorney general. Last night President Trump fired salary yates. Came after she refused to defend the controversial reffee ban in court. Tell us how this all played out. Statement from the white house last night said sally yates is very weak on illegal immigration. Goes on to say yates betrayed the department of justice by refusing to enforce a legal order. Named dana ben tay. Please, mr. President. Reconsider. Really think about this. Dont just tweet, dont just get mad, dont just call names. Think about it. Change it. Repeal it. Too many far gone to change. Got to repeal it. Theres a message there to President Trump. In addition to firing the acting ag, president also replaced the acting director of immigration and customs enforcement. Not explanation given for why he was removed from the position. Replaced with thomas hoe men back to comments last night. Calling for tougher vetting for individual traveling from seven dangerous places is not extreme.
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Protest and demonstrate against him starting the first day after his inauguration but it turns out that wasnt a one off and turns out giant protests against the new president dont need weeks of planning and Big Coalition efforts by existing organizers and existing organizations bringing people together from all around the country. Turns out you can get a really big protest against our new president almost any day justice because the transition didnt get it together to have Top Justice Department officials in place in times to start the new administration. Lot of administrations dont. Lot of transitions to a new presidency will leave important they asked her to stay on. She became acting attorney place. Jobs unfilled at least until people can get confirmed and in place. They didnt get all their seats filled at the Justice Department. They asked her to stay on. She became acting attorney general. As acting attorney general, she is responsible for leading the Justice Department in all of