tony harris of performance trust investment advisors joins us now with a look at what's moving the bond market. good morning to you tony. - good morning angie. - i am wondering if you saw any fallout at all in the bond market that was tied to what was happening with the bomb situation in boston, especially that manhunt on friday. what do you think? - actually, as you may recall, on monday, when it actually happened, the markets were already experiencing a lot of volatility. you had the soft gdp numbers out of china, and you had the commodities falling precipitously, you had equities falling off, and you had a lot of volatility. so when the bombing occurred, really, that just kind of pronounced all of what was already happening. but actually, the market's normalized within two to three days, and it has really been fairly normal since then. - add to that, some weak housing numbers came in yesterday. - yeah, yesterday, it was interesting, because treasuries were set to open fairly soft and equities very strong, but then the existing home sales came out. the market was anticipating 5 millio

we are off to the races this monday morning with tony harris. he's with performance trust investment advisors. he's a bond trader and its great to have you on the show this morning. > > good morning angie. > > what can we look forward to in the week ahead. what's the bond market telling us? > > last friday the bond market was reacting to a very soft retail sales number. retail sales were down 0.4% month over month and even more interestingly year over year they were only up 2.8%. that's as slow as we've seen it since november of 2009. so that's a very bad thing for the u.s. domestic market. and bonds rallied significantly. they were down about basis points and yield to about 172. that's about where we were last friday when we had the terrible non farm payroll reports. so i'd say right now the bond market is doing quite well because of the soft economic data that we've seen. not only the retail sales but also in the employment markets as well as the ism non manufacturing numbers that came in so it's a poor string of data. > > historically money g

tony stewart. peter is next to me, but he's in a box. >> i see you, harris, i see you. >> harris: she didn't come inst, but battled out there. >> did great. finished in 12th place and beat her boss. and she was in last place and did well. jam jim ji johnson hitting groove and danica patrick-- >> and on my twitter page, danica doesn't have a chance, and see what happens, won't be in the top 15. >> and march madness. >> down to two. michigan and louisville. and michigan hasn't won a ncaa tournament since 1989. and louisville haven't won since 1986 and both of the teams impressive victories on tomorrow and both the squads rare for college basketball, they run up and down the court, they played very energetic and high octane, high tempo and everyone is excited for this one and a lot of college basketball fans have been soured because there's so much defense, these two teams, don't play much of it. and exciting game tomorrow out of atlanta. >> harris: you picked wichita state and you came closer than anybody i know. >> so close, i didn't fill out a bracket, but this is the year i probably should have bec

tony stewart. he is kind of next to me but inside of a box. >> i see you harris.ee you. >> she didn't come in first. she battled out there. >> she did great. finished in 12th place. everybody said danica it is not your day. jimmy jackson wins the race. the third most for any racer. without winning the race headlines here great job by her today. says on my twitter page harris falkner, sorry danica doesn't have a chance she will finish in the top 15. let's see what happens. march madness. >> we are down to two, harris. we are down to michigan and louisville. michigan hasn't won since 1989, louisville since 1986. they have impressive victories on saturday night. the game is tomorrow. both of these very rare for college basketball they run and up and down the court they play energetic high octane high tempo. a lot of college basketball fans have been sour because there's so much defense. these two teams they don't play much of it. i can't wait until tomorrow evening. this will be out of atlanta. >> you picked wichita state. you came closer than anybody i know. >> i di

tony. >> good morning. >> this is melissa harris perry, professor at tulane university.msnbc. this is part of an ad campaign for the entire network. when you first heard that, what was your reaction? >> well, i was thinking, where were they when i was changing the diapers of my five kids. this idea of collectism that everyone but no one is responsibility. it is a nutty notion, gretchen, but a staple idea of the left. this is the 201 version of hillary clinton. this is the intellectual love child of the great society and the sexual revolution where everyone but no one is responsible. it's insane but it's a reality of the way the left thinks, the way they view our children. >>gretchen: to a certain extent, i understand what she means, that, yeah, people in the community do affect the lives of your children. i'm thinking about teachers, coaches, you know, sunday schoolteachers, piano teachers, neighbors. but that's a little bit different than a theory that those people are responsible in completely raising your child; right? >> yeah. first off, this idea that our children b

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