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Commissioner to see if she needs help. President bernal with the quorum present, we move on to the next item. The approval of the meetings of the minute of september 1st. Wrong date, im looking at the minutes. The minutes of the meeting of september 15. Upon reviewing the minutes and without amendment, do we have a motion to approve or any amendments from the commissioners . So moved. Second. Before you all vote there is nobody on the Public Comment line, so there is no need to take Public Comment. I can take a roll call vote, commissioner. President bernal yes. Commissioner green yes. Commissioner chung yes. Commissioner chow yes. And lets see if okay, i will call her as we move into the next item. That looks like the minutes passed. The next item is the directors report. Director colfax. Good afternoon. The director report, grant cocolfax. One item of note, september 30, state department of Public Health released details regarding a Health Equity metric to help continuing efforts to
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Haidi very good morning. Im haidi stroudwatts in sydney. We are counting down to asias major market open. Shery i am shery ahn. Here is how markets are looking right now. U. S. Futures rising at the open. Stockster we saw u. S. Seeing its worst day in about three weeks. Investors were concerned about the prospects for more government spending. We saw some conflicting reports on whether or not that is coming. The s p 500 lost ground, 1. 6 . All 11 sectors were down, led by energy stocks. It also drags down cyclicals and small caps which managed to stay in positive territory. A bearish reversal from the gains briefly seen around the open. We had record cases in europe, fears of a doubledip recession. Take a look at oil because its also under pressure and headed towards the 40 a barrel level. Oil fell in the regular session as well with warning of an uncertain outlook for oil demand. See how things are shaping up for the asian markets. Here is Sophie Kamaruddin. Sophie this tuesday, you h