end offorecast for the the year is actually 3%. , andink that we get to 3% it really depends on the trajectoryf hikes. the feds will probably hike in june and september, but behind that i think hikes are a limited. we could temporarily push above 3%, but not a sustained think. >> everybody is sticking with me. we have lots more coming up. coming up, the auction block. russia makes a return to the bond market. this is bloomberg real yield. ♪ >> i am lisa in for jonathan ferro. this is bloomberg real yield. i want to head to the auction block now. russia makes its return. also, after canceling an auction .ast week, over in the middle east, qatar and saudi arabia raised a combined $23 billion. bond sales have climbed to $46 billion this year. that is the most since 2007. still with me is jack flaherty and ian steely. with talkingrt about when bond investors are actually going to get confident to go back to that nation's debt given the conflict with the u.s. and the sanctions. in, i want to start with you. as ausing this decline buying opportunity? it is very difficult to do because there's just s

andink the advertisers people who use facebook also what to know the good things will continue.hose are important as well. earlier this week i was in houston. i met this incredible man and went to his local taco store. when hurricane harvey happened, he lost his space. a competitor who had a taco truck and teamed up with him and than they used facebook to drive around and find people. those people were publicly sharing their location on facebook. what people want to know from us is, are we going to take steps to be more protective and more proactive? the answer is a firm yes. we are also going to take steps to make sure that the good that happens on facebook can still happen. emily: with all we know now, do you believe facebook played a decisive role in electing donald trump? sheryl: there is a lot of concern about what happened in this election. we are concerned about the foreign interference on our platform. here, iall picture don't think anyone knows yet, but it's an important question. it's one that is going to be studied for years to come. taking're focused now is the lesso

andink it is a lot of bias personal attacks on the president that is unwarranted.ost: on the pace of cabinet nominations and confirmations, a story from the front page of the washington times this morning. the president lagged well behind both of his recent oval office predecessors when it comes to filling government jobs. as of april 15, senators had approved 421 civilian nominees since trump took office, roughly 150 nominees behind president obama at the same point, with 569 confirmations. nearly 250 nominees behind president george w. bush. mr. trump says at the rate the senate is going, it would take nine years to confirm all of the to fill.has tyrone, new york city, line for democrats. do you think the nominees have been treated unfairly? caller: i think they have been given a lot of we wait i think the problem is that the president, you know, he is biased to the people that he picked. he says he only wants rich people. he doesn't deal with different minorities, and he already he does not -- the democrats as far as putting them in the cabinet, and he is always

andink there a much broader deeper context in terms of our involvement in the region, it days of backhe teddy roosevelt, even before engagement in world war i. also see president eisenhower, he deployed troops ith a power pack in the late 1950s into lebanon because of unrest and problems there. inted states have engagement the middle east long before we've seen the rise in islamic tion of jihadist terrorist entities that actors, that's a problem. you could say that the united states and all the other nations been involved in the middle east created that people or there are there that have that behavior. i would opt for the latter, the proliferating this type of terrorism are the problem. i is not the kingdom states, mean, we have obviously people n that region can have strong islamic faith and good governance and be reliable partners in the world. at fantastic leadership of king abdullah of jordan, can we clone him and send him around. he's been a great ally. have been he region important partners, you know, we've had rocky relationships but what has , really caused us to act is when