Both the m. T. A. Board and board of supervise sources has set very ambitious mode share targets for bicycling in the city. And we as an agency with the board of supervisors have been work on a number of different fronts to make bicycling a better option. From everything from infrastructure that were putting in the ground to Safety Education that we support. There is a number of things were doing to try to meet those mode shift goals that both you and the m. T. A. Bore have established and that are part of our overall Climate Change strategy as well. We see bike share as an important part of the overall move to increase bicycling in San Francisco. Something weve been engaged with for up to five years now. Like every other aspect of transportation in San Francisco and generally, bike share is a very dynamic industry at the moment. And like pretty much everything that has to do with nrption San Francisco, there is a lot of different opinions about how to do this the right way. And there
Hello, welcome. Thank you for coming back. This is folks we have today for lunch we are sandwiching lunch between two chairmen so we have coming up two chairmen and that we have a quick lunch. We are in a tight schedule but introduce our keynote speaker for the first part of prelaunch i want to introduce jerry berman for spoke about earlier today and jerry created all of this. It was his vision to create an organization that can cure to internet policy conversation where no one cared about it and jerry believes that this organization can treat this as if they didnt know it yet and we had a long long time that was not the case but people seem to be coming around and thinking this is important. Terry and thanks to jerry and other boards on the directors and also meant congressman rick white and rick white was member of the state of washington during that time and rick, thank you for coming. [applause] our next speaker will succeeded chairmen congressman white but jerry berman founded the
We have somebody here who can give us icnsight into all of tha dow futures look to be down 35 points part of what happened in the market was because of tenyear yields topping 2. 96 right now the tenyear is at 2. 926 the 2year at 2. 2 26 . In asia, the nikkei off by 1 . Shanghai is up about 2 . In europe, the early trading there, the stock markets there are mostly in the red. Dax is off by 0. 8 ftse is down by almost 1 . Barclays shares are up sharply despite the uk Bank Reporting a big drop in 2017 profits. Barclays says it lost 2 2. 7 billion once again why would that happen . Yep. They its accounting for the u. S. Tax overhaul. But also a weaker dollar there were some bright spots Barclays Says its pretax profits rose 10 customer deposits were up and its doubling its didividend. Jeff staley says he is optimistic about the future. There are a number of tailwinds. During the next year and half we will be retiring a lot of debt Interest Rates are in a much better position than they were
Host gary shapiro, this years ces, what are some of the buzz products . Gary well, ces 2018 is pretty big, and products, you know, theres a lot of focus on Artificial Intelligence in many different ways. So, we have the smart speakers which, you know, alexa and google home. Obviously, googles huge here, but were talking about other products into the home and the car. Were also talking about Artificial Intelligence in another way, and that is smart cities. We have a big focus on smart cities for the first time. We have the secretary of transportation here talking about it and a lot of different groups focusing on it. And thats not about the to assume her is, in a sense, for business and government. It is business to those investing and making our lives and cities better because twothirds of the population will live in cities soon compared to onethird in 1960. Other big things, of course, is we continue that Movement Toward selfdriving cars. We know were getting there, theres more and mo
Worth 123 billion. Hes up 6 billion overnight. Look at apple, it posted the best quarterly profit of any company in history, it now has the largest cash pile in history. 285. 1 billion. That. 1 is a hundred million dollars. Apple is now down two bucks. How about that . Next case, 200,000 new jobs in january, i will call it solid. Listen to this, wages up nearly 3 in the last year. Thats a definite improvement. This comes after a remarkable forecast from the Federal Reserve bank in atlanta. It expects Economic Growth at annual rate of 5. 4 . Yeah. Deep breath, ashley. How about that . Politics dominated by the memo. We are waiting for it. When its released, here is what to look for. Simple question, was a document paid for by the clinton president ial campaign used as excuse to spy on the president ial campaign of donald trump, thats what its all about. That question will be answered, we think, by the end of the day, yes, it is a very big day. Varney company is about to begin. Stuart al