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These are the cruise liners, the energy companies, the tourism companies, because thats whats in jeopardy. Crude is back above 50 a barrel, barely, there was a building inventory but not as much as the market was anticipating. That goldst heard futures were disappointing, we did see a big bounce but now we are pulling back. Europe, the stocks are stabilizing. Its flat today, but with decent volume. Most negative point of the day came an our into the trade, and we lifted off of that earlier. The volume is pretty good. And we are seeing the german tenyear don on offer. For the a situation loosening of the purse strings. And you are talking about the 135 on the u. S. 10 year, with a little bit of profit coming in. We could be trading 130 or 149. Around, thea going boris government johnson the Boris Johnson government may not have expected this to appear later in the year, thus the pound tracking a little low. Vonnie President Trump said to hold a News Conference on the coronavirus after G
Best performer. Yesterday we had a very different morning session then afternoon session, the 10 year yield got down yesterday, it was an alltime low, six basis points off of that now. A definite sense of relief in the treasury market. It was below 50 an hour, back above that now. We will continue to monitor that situation. And all is well in the world, despite the fact that we are going to be tracking the coronavirus in the next two hours. About, a lot talk of stories we need to focus on, european stocks are stabilizing, the u. S. Markets opened, and we saw that stocks one positive, drifting by little. Is 52. An tenyear but things are looking more positive. And today we see germany potentially talking about loosening the pursestrings. This laterk about on. And there is talk that maybe some of the spending the market has been anticipating in the upcoming budget may be deferred until later in the year. Pretty amazing that we have been speculating for and it may so long, have taken the c
From one of your districts, but i hope that this can be an invitation for partnership, because although the tenderloin is burdened with this problem, it is not just in the tenderloin, it is a problem for all of San Francisco. Thank you. Hi. My name is jessie james johnson. Im a poet and a 20year resident of the tenderloin. I believe i qualify for seats 1, 2, and 3 and or 7 and 8. I have letters of support from several communitybased organizations, a Business Owner, one from a property owner, and my landlord. Theyre included because its not who i am that are important, but the people that are in my life. These are people who are part of my daily life, people who i have earned their trust and people who i work with. You might know that golden gate is the epicenter of the open air drug dealing. As different as we all are, we are the different people we must come together to address the crisis we find ourselves in. I believe i can help in reaching a consensus. Its heartbreaking to see the
Special, unique space. Were also looking at different areas. This is just a placeholder really for that food and beverage pavilion. But theres some very fun ideas that were exploring around tucking that food and beverage pavilion under some of the raises in our lawn which ill go into in the future and being able to create an incredible experience where the infrastructure and the Natural Environment are integrated together into one. The paseos are pedestrian only in between the buildings, in between the residential and the office buildings. We have two paseos. They have been designed theyre largely infrastructure. Its almost like an extension of the street, but we want the park to feel like its coming down into this. So were knitting together the feeling of a street with a park. Again theyre pedestrian, but theyre protected areas. They do serve as important Emergency Vehicle access for the park, but theyre designed to feel welcoming and almost an extension of the park. You see here an i