But youve got to imagine strategically the fact that theres an impeachment inquiry now open on the president and at least in theory there is some statistical chance that theres a removal of a president , although everyone reviews as extremely unlikely here, if youre the chinese you might think lets wait and see what happens. Flip that and look at the incentives facing the president. Hes facing a situation where he wants to prove that he is delivering on the economy for the american people. He may now need a deal, need a victory here politically and economically more than he did a week ago, so the pressure on him might be to get a deal even if its not as good as he might have set out for initially but this president has been very focused on this and said hes only going to take a deal if he feels its a win for the american people. Eamon javers outside by the flags doing great work today keeping our viewers attuned to the news appreciate that. Good morning once again, everybody. It is 8 0
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Cheaper with effect fed concluding its twoday meeting tomorrow at this time. Fromtle bit of unwind yesterdays trade. The dollar gaining versus the euro and the yen. There is less risk aversion at play. Where does that leave commodities . Energy and some metals are stabilizing. That is giving a lift to the index, which marked the only second gain in the session. Year to date, there is a dramatically different for a. Down 11 . You can see a series of lower lows here. Commended march, a recovery that he in may, and the bottom falling out over the last couple of days into the middle of july and the end of july. As we next this outcome is going back to 1991. Since 2000 two, a 13 year low. Us on the back of the stronger dollar. Demand, or signs of we demand from china as well. This is a story to will cover for the rest of the hour. Lets take a look at some of the top stories crossing the bloomberg terminal at this hour. Attorneys for convicted israeli spy jonathan pollards taking has been gr
I want to thank jennifer low and charles for covering this meeting. Do we have any announcements . Please silence all cell phones. Items acted upon today will appear on the february 24th board of supervisors agenda. Item number one resolution authorizing the recreation and Park Department accept grant in the amount of approximately 27 million from the state of California Department of housing and Community Development to fund housing related park projects. Thank you very much. Good morning committee members. My name is tony. Im the grant manager for the recreation park capital and improvement division. The item before you is legislation to authorize recreation and park to retroactively accept and extend a grand in the amount of approximately 2. 6 million from the California Department of housing and Community Development department. The legislation also authorizes general manager of the recreation and Park Department to reallocate grant funds as needed to maximize city recovery for thi
Us ef faction of ucsf paid impact as much as 29 per hour but the contract paid his employees only 18 an hour. In 2013, the pay was cut to 10. 74 per hour. That is barely above our minimum wage of 10 our minimum wage of 10. 55 that the degree. Workers responded by working with the uc servers were. Union afscme local 3299 to begin organizing for better treatment. They doubled the hourly pay and benefits such as health and pension, guaranteed wage increases, and paid time off. In march of 2015 ucsf did not renew its contract with impact group resulting in many of these workers losing their jobs. Then the university then began working with another contractor. The dispute between ucsf and local 3299 has prompted an unfair labor practice complaint filed by the general counsel of the Public Employee relations board. In response to that complaint, ucsf claimed it cannot hire the impact workers because they do not speak english sufficiently, even though they had already works for you see for ma