[roll call] clerk madam president , all members of the commission are present. Item number 2 is the pledge of allegiance. [pledge of allegiance] clerk clrk item number 3 is the approval of minutes for the august 25, 2020 special meeting. So moved. Second. President brandon all in favor, roll call vote. [roll call] president brandon motion passes unanimously. The motion of august 25, 2020 [inaudible]. Clerk item number 4 is announcements. Please be vised that a member of the public has up to three advised that a member of the public has up to three minutes to make pertinent Public Comments on each agenda item unless the Court Commission adopts a shorter period on any tight. Please note that during the Public Comment period, the moderator will instruct dialin participants to such a tonetone phone to register their desire for Public Comment. Audio prompts will signal to dinein participants when their audio input has been enabled for commenting. Please dial in when the item you wish to com
Skyrocketing a heart thumping 50 its not all rainbows and butterflies. Ibm was caught in a bad romance. The separation sending shares up 6 today more on the big blue breakout. Ibm has seen a little love from investors over the past decade so it is splitting itself in two and saying it will list its it services as a separate company next year. Investors initially cheering that move sending shares up about 6 but the ceo reminded inversers that it i ddivested in the 90s they didnt play into the value. Shares have under performed through the broader if he can sectors to broader names like or cal. But two years ago ibm was about watson and tech. It is said watson is barely mentioned on earning calls ibm was late to the game and still far behind amazon and google back to you. Lets trade this. Question, guy. I will start with you. When you start with a question, it always confuses me. Does this spinoff actually further ibms turn around plan or is this just Financial Engineering . The latter.
It today here is how things look now. We are in the green. Look at the small cap stocks the russell 2000 we are still coming off four down weeks for stocks. A pretty louse si month. Now, the s p 500 is on pace for its best two day gain since all the way back in june did you follow that kate moore w were in a four week down street were on our best two day stretch since back in june bp the volatile till has really grown. What are you expecting ahead im told theres an election in 36 days. Is it just 36 days . It feels like its going to be any moment at this point we have this down market there is will the of consolidation and profit taking, rotation in terms of participation over the last couple of weeks. The big point and message is tlauls v theres always volatility before an election. In a year like this where we have so many cross currents between the virus. Questions around Economic Activity relationships with other countries. Theres so much for an investor whether it needs to be reta
Flat theres the s p up a corner. Tech is out performing today steve, i look at the notes from all of you today and sounds like youre growing more and more cautious on where we are and more importantly where you think we could go. I think thats right. My position is simple. Were going to get a vaccine the timing is uncertain. Its not going to be distributed on a mass basis until next year. The election wasnt decided until middecember from election day to middecember, the stock traded down 8. 4 . We have a market on steroids i think you continue to see issues which is really gutting the Technology Sector which has been leading the market. We saw more today. They want to call the ceos from google and facebook down to d. C. Again. That is the current administrations platform. Lets get tough on trade lets get tough on tech. Its been disasterous or could be disasterous Going Forward when you take a look at valuations, you know, theyre very vulnerable here if i could be 1010 club, i probably
First time we know who the fathers of the different infants are, because chimps are very promiscuous, and we could only guess before. But now, from fecal samples, we know exactly who was the father of hope. So the dna analysis has been tremendously helpful. I wish i could really answer that with more width, but thats one way we used it to our advantage. Michael ok, thank you. Another question from ken mellgren, for many years, the military, the medical community, and the space kroger mused the Space Program used primates for experiments. Has that ceased, or is there evidence that this is still going on . Dr. Goodall i dont think Space Research using primates is going on. I did learn a lot about what was happening, and it was horrendous and i think some people will remember the first chimp to go up into space was ham and he went up into space about the time i went to gombe, and something went wrong with his capsule and it crashed into the ocean it sank down day. But he was rescued. Emer