if you wlook at tlook at the te the one i think is the most interesting is verizon again its yield is 4.3%. if a few charts and look at verizon absolute going back to 2014 and you have verizon lagging but the key of course is -- is that as the market sold off which is what you expect a very defensive asset like this was doing well let's pull it back a little further. so here we have next time frame. this goes back to the lows of '09. and again you have potential that the market has prospectively more absolute downside risk and/or relative with verizon trying to narrow the gap. and then on a long-term basis going back even further, well this looks like the same chart again. but the premise is the same. you want to play for a catch up let me show you some absolute charts and go from there here is the chart itself, has all the look of a bearish to bullish reversal but what appeals to me is the checkback to trend and then the bounce keep that in mind and look at this with relative performance this is the best part. even as verizon was selling off into the end of the year with the rest of

bloomberg economists surveyed for one .6%tlook growth in 2019.t's decent considering german and -- germany's slow population growth. joe: the world bank's cut their growth forecast for everyone in the world besides the u.s.. are we at the point where we see a policy response whether it is in europe on the monetary or fiscal side, more aggressive [ over talk]. are we kind of at that point where we start to see reflationary policies? peter: let's talk about the ecb. the latest thing mario draghi said is that there would be no interest-rate increases through the summer at least. that cause people to immediately pencil in an increase in the fall. it could be people will be rethinking things, the same way people are marking down the fed won't increase as much as expected in 2019. romaine: to joe's point, does the ecb have any policy tools at this stage? they were supposed to be going into what everyone thought was eventually going to be a tightening cycle. but saying we will not tighten, is that a tool? peter: it is refraining from using the tool, tha

so your weekend tlook, it's going to be slushy due to the rain today and tomorrow. decoratio down, better day on sunday. tercise, we have above normal temperatures outre for exercise. so let me time-out the rain for you. oudy conditions out there. we'll be dry this morning, but rain starts to move in, especially to our southern suburbs through the early ternoon. after 4:00 or 5:00 here in the d.c. metr area. we'll continue with periods of rain through the overnight and athrough tomorrow morni least. but as this system pushes to the north, we'll start to get the ap around rain and we'll continue to have some showers as we head in through the part of your saturday. drying out by saturday afternoon. mperatures in the low 50s on saturday. mid 50s on sunday. absolutely gorgeous. temperatures will be above normal this wkend but we will be on the breezy side. small chance of rain comes ontu day. melissa, how are the roads looking? good morning. >> roads okay. a couple of little problems here and ther still have the situation on the rails, getting a little bit better as wel

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