We do have a quorum. Item number two, general Public Comment. This item is to all members of the public to address the Treasure Island Development Authority board on matters that are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the Authority Board and that do not appear on todays agenda. In addition to general Public Comments, Public Comment will be held during each item on the agenda. Members of the public may address the board for up to three minutes. You will hear a single chime when there are 30 seconds remaining. Prior to making your comments, please state your name and the o you are representing, if any, for the record. Is there anybody in the audience that would like add to dress the board on items that are not on the agenda . Ok. Seeing none. Item number three, report by Treasure Island director. Thank you, chair and members of the board. Id like to begin my report today by asking Sherry Williams come up and make an announcement. Good afternoon, commissioners. For the record, i am
[roll call] we do have a quorum. Item number two, general Public Comment. This item is to all members of the public to address the Treasure Island Development Authority board on matters that are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the Authority Board and that do not appear on todays agenda. In addition to general Public Comments, Public Comment will be held during each item on the agenda. Members of the public may address the board for up to three minutes. You will hear a single chime when there are 30 seconds remaining. Prior to making your comments, please state your name and the o you are representing, if any, for the record. Is there anybody in the audience that would like add to dress the board on items that are not on the agenda . Ok. Seeing none. Item number three, report by Treasure Island director. Thank you, chair and members of the board. Id like to begin my report today by asking Sherry Williams come up and make an announcement. Good afternoon, commissioners. For the
30 minutes into the trading day on this monday. Taylor we look to be a bit directionless. Taylor a little bit of red on the dow, but green for the s p and nasdaq. The rustle up more than 3 10 of 1 . This,f the things driving farm and biotech industry. Gilead is in the s p. Perhaps shum of some of the major averages being pushed up by merger monday. The russell 2000, when we talk about that, it is all about the small caps making a comeback. You can see a little bit of correlation here and in quite a bit of divergence with the s p 500 in blue and the russell 2000 and white. The small caps posted their best weekly gains since june last week, gaining about 1. 4 . Perhaps trying to close that gap. Maybe tax reform is back on the table after we get through the debt ceiling fight. Mergeronday, it is monday so lets talk about a few of those deals we are looking at. Kite andtakeover of the expedia ceo leaving for uber. Gilead has some hepatitis c drugs. Tight is interesting in the Cancer Therap
The eu plans a shake up of the system to make the likes of google and apple pay theirfair share. But will ireland play ball . Plus hacked off. Russian Cyber Security billionaire Eugene Kaspersky hits back after the Us Government bans his products as a threat to national security. We have an exclusive interview. Welcome to World Business report. In a minute, bitcoin slumps further after an exchange in china stops trading without giving a reason. Well have the details from our asia team. We start in the estonian capital tallinn where European Union finance ministers are gathering for a meeting this weekend. Top of the agenda plans for a shake up of the way huge tech firms, the likes of google, facebook, apple and amazon, pay taxes. The giants of the so called Digital Economy have faced huge criticism in europe forfailing to pay what some see as their fair share of tax. So whats being proposed . Well the plan is to make the Companies Pay tax wherever in the eu they make money, notjust whe
The ftse is down, and the spanish market, all down following what happened yesterday. And well be getting the inside track on the big tech stories of the week, including the ongoing row over russian hacking in the us. Rory cellanjones will be here to talk about his exclusive interview with the founder of Kaspersky Labs later in the programme. So today we want to know, how safe do you feel online . And do you trust Internet Security companies . Let us know, just use the hashtag, bbcbizlive. Hello and welcome to business live. We start in the estonian capital tallinn, where European Union finance ministers are gathering this weekend. Top of the agenda are plans for a shake up of the way huge tech firms, the likes of google, facebook, apple and amazon, pay taxes. The giants of the so called Digital Economy have faced criticism in europe forfailing to pay what some see as their fair share of tax. So whats being proposed . Well, the plan is to make the Companies Pay tax wherever in the eu t