The women owners are defying owners. Chicago, teachers and parents once again at odds of reopening plans that even parents say are major league screwed up. California, wildfires that are raging out of control right now with no end in sight. Talk about impeccable timing . Were on top of all of that. Were focusing on developments in washington where the president is meeting with a number of tech leaders and workers. Blake burman at the white house with more. Hey, blake. Reporter hi, there, neil, and President Trump is set to be signing an executive order in washington momentarily. Im told what this will involve to try to insure when federal contracts are given out, they are given out to u. S. Citizens and not potentially h1b visa holders. Trying to insure the contracts are given to american citizens. We should be hearing from the president shortly. We will wait to see, neil if the president will be taking any questions and if he does i have to imagine he would be asked about this tweet h
How long can the fed function with a depleted staff . The turkish currency hit record lows against the dollar. Matt we have breaking news on unifer which came out with a statement that it recommends all shareholders reject the takeover offer. They say it does not represent the full value of the company. Is saying that shareholders should reject the offer. We will be speaking of with the ceo of uniper. He says they will meet again soon but currently they recommend the shareholders not accept the bid. Than a half hour away from the start of trading. Lets look at futures. We have kind of a mixed picture but very little change. Even the you see red arrows the movementard, is very little in terms of futures. The ibex futures are down considerably. I see dax futures gaining slightly. If you look at the core of europe, you have mixed race. Trade. A look at the bund the three year yield three year yield came down considerably. Even though we had those failed Coalition Talks, it looks like we h
Plus, as the federally fizzles out, stocks are more or less fairly priced right now, getting harder to find bargains. Hello. Very good morning to you. Were into or good afternoon if youre into asia. Were into the final hour of Worldwide Exchange right now. And 54 advancers currently outpacing decliners on the Dow Jones Stoxx 600. Fairly flat for the indices. 60 odd points higher. S p snapping a fourday winning streak. The rally in the u. S. Only lasted a day. We had been rallied ahead of it, as well. This is where we stand for the european indices. The ftse 100 fairly flat. The dax and the ftse mib down 0. 2 . Bond rates, lets look at treasury yields. Wednesday night, we hit 2. 67 on the yields. Currently, six basis points above it. Gilt yields currently higher at 2. 9 today. German bund yields below 2 at 1. 91 . On the on currency markets, we saw the dollar hit a low in yesterdays session. 1. 3532 is where we stand on euro dollar. Dollar yen, just moving away from 99. 50 after being a
Needed to prevent collisions from happening. Sometimes i see that not only cars, but also pedestrians that pass by red lights. I think that we also need to enforce the education. For example, we can restore the drivers ed in high school for High School Students. It does require the mta board to put sunday to reach that vision zero goal. I really appreciate if all of you can put the budget on Pedestrian Safety. Thank you for considering. Thank you. Any other members here to speak . Okay. Aaron dong, mai fang dang. Good morning. Im from [speaker not understood] also. [speaker not understood] free muni for youth. Also continue for two years. Bus is mainly the transportation i use. And really if i can get to school, get to my Youth Program and also [speaker not understood] without really giving too much financial pressure on my family. And if its a good decision to make a Pilot Program since there are over 30,000 youth in this program. So, im sure it would be a good decision to make it per
For many lowincome seniors, Public Transit is the only dependable means of transportation. Whether it is going to doctors appointment, buying groceries or going to community events, Public Transit affectses these important parts of our lives and with the increasing high cost of living in San Francisco, it is pushing seniors who are already living in poverty to make extremely hard choitions. Should i buy food for my family or spend money on bus fare . These are the types of decisions we are forced to make every single day because we cannot afford. We are in an affordability crisis right now. Were asking you today to make a decision that would greatly alleviate the financial struggles many of us are facing. We have been actively organizing our community to fight for this program and we cannot wait for the decision to be made next january. We need the board of mta to prioritize their needs [speaker not understood] for seniors and people with disabilities. Please do not let us go home disa