reports from germany that act la merkel is pushing for the top spot of the commission to be filled with early german. i imagine there are bulls on the periphery that may be happy with that situation. matt, great to have you with us on program, jabanna and rob. we want to go to mark chess, of of 2 eagles, 10's and 30's have been up. the two-year yield, down by a single basis point. still' head, the final spread. a fresh round of data on the global trade war. this is bloomberg. ♪ >> i am jonathan ferro. this is "bloomberg real yield." i want to get you up to speed on what is coming up through the rest of the week. there is trade data from the united states as we get insight into how the tariffs between china and the united states might be affecting the numbers. look out for all of that, u.s. trade data coming on tuesday. and we get some u.s. g.d.p. working out on wednesday. look out for that as well. and housing and personal spending data, the u.s. personal income data dropping on thursday. i want to get to a big debate that has happened in the fixed income market in 2018. two pockets tha