yes, david staples, the chief executive of the united grand lodge of england, that might have been whered into, he says being a freemason helps those members in roles serving society and that they have good acts that are done, too made a lot of money and the more positive side is put forward. why do they need to do this? i give money to charity, i do not need to be a dark circle to do that. women don't. it is quite odd. the mystery around it, something that freemasons believe, that is pa rt that freemasons believe, that is part of the good thing but to many others, it does us the most harm. recently we heard a suggestion that a lot of police chiefs were in this. i always suspected that there was a judge is logged in here, because they are so similar. here is a picture, of when we got the vote and we are still living with these gentlemen 's clubs. onto a totally different thing, the daily telegraph, at the bottom, records numbers die of malnutrition in the nhs, whatare numbers die of malnutrition in the nhs, what are they talking about? there is a story here that says that record numbers

we‘ve been invited in to see what goes on here by the chap who wrote this letter — dr david staples, ld we see a lodge meeting, we asked? no problem, they said. except... well, there was a problem. all right, so we have to find one? we have to find one. do you want to stay here and i‘ll nip upstairs? and see if it‘s there? ok, thank you very much. once we found the meeting, it was full of smartly dressed men wearing aprons and sashes. what‘s the daggerfor? that‘s a ceremonial thing to guard the entrance of the lodge. so, this chap here is called the inner guard. you‘re the inner guard? hello. there‘s various different... and what do you do as an inner guard? i knock on the door, let people in and... make sure people are dressed properly. do you understand why some people will look at this and go, it‘s all sinister, it is all cloak and dagger? i mean, there‘s literally a dagger there. we‘ve just not done enough to show people who we are and what we do. we‘ve allowed the media space in the last 20 years to have the same old hackneyed conspiracy theories, the same old jokey things about

good to see you, david staples.t we will talk about chief executive officer of a saudi lender. this is bloomberg. ♪ ♪ yousef: "bloomberg markets: middle east this is -- this is "bloomberg markets: middle east ." the saudi arabia and lender topped -- arabian lender topped estimates. i look at your bank stock and how it has performed over the last six months, the best-performing bank in saudi arabia, of over 27%. how much better can it get in the next few quarters from where you are standing? guest: think for having me on the program. this is not only the last six months. in fact, the bank has been the fastest-growing bank for the last five years. in 2017.chieved this regarding the financial numbers -- i am fairly optimistic about 2018 that this growth will continue. yousef: right. when you look at the change in policy from the government, they have moved away from the harsh austerity to more of an expansionary budget for the new year. there's more spending, more investment. was that don't to mean in terms of boosting

you listened to david staples there. he would argue with any of those things.it? it comes into the fact that it's predominantly secret. the home affa i rs it's predominantly secret. the home affairs select committee pointed out they have huge concerns about the fa ct they have huge concerns about the fact that no one knows how mini members of the police are within the masons. members of the judiciary. when they ask members of the judiciary to come forward and class themselves as members, 5% did but it could be as high as 20%. there have been issues in the past. what difference does it make in practice? are you claiming that if one person in an organisation, for example, knows somebody is a freemason, they will get to treatment? if they make a mistake, they will be lighter on them? where a mistake, they will be lighter on them ? where is a mistake, they will be lighter on them? where is the danger. --? brian paddock, who rang —— iran as a libdem candidate, he talks about the fa ct libdem candidate, he talks about the fact hejoined the libdem candidate, he talks

joining me now is dr david staples, who's chief executive officer of the united grand lodge of englandven a few years ago the thought of freemasons placing f— § let's e is 55?” 5151; our l.-- that is 1; our l.-- that isee-eizz- they '--- that is -; they are they are vii; fiifc %*’¥ w: 7:12: ;: ii: seen on the ie have seen on the banknotes, is the seeing eye, éfi ourselves z z — ~ — a surrounded in a strange environment, surrounded by scary things, we know giving them that teddy bear makes them feel more co mforta ble, that teddy bear makes them feel more comfortable, makes them feel safer in that environment. that is who we are, what we do. i'm looking at you because there's something still about that word freemasonry that makes people feel uneasy. its men only, that causes some suspicion. it's not men only. i am here to bust myths today. we're not men only. there are two women's grand lodges in the united kingdom ‘s, thousands of women freemasons. we'vejust celebrated the hundredth anniversary of the suffragettes, two leading suffragettes 100 years of the suffragettes, two leading suffr

elsewhere, let's talk about consumer staples, lagging. david blue buffalo being bought by general mills here it has been a horrible year for these consumer companies they don't have the cache they used to have, under assault by amazon hershey's new low, kraft heniz, new low. they're all doing terrible and this sector has been notably under performing for a long time we're up 2% for the s&p but we're down 7% as the consumer staple line, that's the orange line on the bottom for the year. meantime, keeping an eye on the fund flows and watching what has been going on. seeing more of a semblance of normalcy so we've seen inflous in big etfs in the last five days so the vanguard s&p had some inflows. high yield, that's jnk had inflows. that didn't happen a couple of weeks ago. total stock, these are broad stock funds. it has been mixed picture here there's been outflows in some of the really larger ones, but i would say they're fairly modest here the spy, which is biggest out there, had some outflows but it has been going on for a while. the russell

david westin. shery: i am shery ahn. being dragged down lower by consumer staples, and telecoms leading the decline.ng six days of gains, while the nasdaq is up after declining on the friday session. all eyes this week will be on treasures. we have a flood of debt supply today. volatility on the 10-year note is rising after three sessions of losses. the two-year yield is the highest since 2008. we have a ratio just a few minutes ago coming weaker than the previous auction. the dollar index beginning the free gaining ground, rising above -- dollar index regaining ground. david: taylor riggs has "first word" news. taylor: the supreme court is rejecting to challenges by gun rights groups. in my case, the ninth circuit court of appeals upheld the california fee for sales of transfers of guns. the court said it would make people wait 10 days to buy again even if they already own one and the background check was completed sooner. today's action came less than week after a gun man in florida killed 17 people at a high school. about 100 students from that florida high school are going to the state capital t

david westin here in washington. shery: i am shery ahn in new york. it's checked the major averages gaining momentum. the dow is up .2%, being led by consumer staplesancials. materials and consumer discretionary stocks still down, but look at the s&p 500, gaining .3%. -dayng after its best two performance in 18 months. the nasdaq is also gaining .4%. one stock that is helping the markets right now -- dollar tree. shares are popping higher after slumping yesterday, even as the market rallied. abigail doolittle joining us to break it down for us. what is happening with dollar tree? abigail doolittle: we were talking about the snap revisions yesterday, some are thinking they were overdone. president trump proposing that snap, formally known as supplemental nutrition , that that begram revised. right now you are able to take the stand to stores and use them as cash. the proposal here would be for families who are receiving $90 or more per month in food stamps -- they would actually be sent food. the question is whether this will weigh on companies that tend to sell products that are around one dollar, less than $10. most of their products are about one