The east coast. The clock is ticking, the house doing its part to avoid a Government Shutdown last night. The house passed shortterm spending bill late last night that will keep the government funded through february 16th, now it is on to the senate where passage remains anything but certain. In the House Republicans did their job. They made sure government stayed open. We are where we are for one reason and one reason only within a day of Government Shutdown and thats insistence of our friends on the other side that we deal with this nonemergency right now. Maria very latest as lawmakers are scrambling with just hours left to avoid a shutdown. Threat coming amid a booming economy, President Trump took the stage last night in pittsburgh where he touted the major accomplishments his administration has seen and overseen in his first year in office, this comes as more Companies Give back to employees, thanks to that historic tax overhaul, the details that some employers say they will now
Senator hatch committee will come to order. Welcome to everyone to this mornings hearing. We will discuss the nomination of mr. Steve mnuchin to serve as secretary of treasury for the Incoming Trump administration. I want to officially welcome mr. Munchin to the finance committee. I appreciate your willingness to appear before us here today and serve in this important position. The position of treasury secretary is among the most important in the executive ranch. The next treasury secretary will be asked will be asked a lot of questions that are going to be very, very important here today. They will be we are going to be talking about advancing policies to improve our nations economic and fiscal outlook. This position oversees both the collection of taxes and the management of our debt and in addition, as Congress Works to reform our nations tax code and fix our broken health care system, it is absolutely essential that we have a cooperative partner overseeing reasury. That is, quite f
New fears of a bubble. Haidi beijing and washington prepare for top level talks over tensions and trade in north korea. Rishaad the secretary of the state turning up the heat on pyongyang, saying the gears of patients are over. Lets look at the markets, no trading in tokyo. , some data coming through, reaction to house price numbers out of china. Also the followthrough on this trip by secretary of state Rex Tillerson. That a lot to impact from tillerson visit. , currencies seems to be off the agenda and that g20 communicate. Forwonder what that means that fear of a currency war between the u. S. And china. We are 30 minutes away from the we are 30 minutes away from the open end the mainland and in hong kong. Sophie we do have new zealand stocks leading the drop, voice for the biggest fall since november, down 1. 2 . Aussie shares are snapping a four day advance. The yeartodate rally is a repricing for an oldschool economic recovery led by shipments to the u. S. Take a look at currencie
The city of San Francisco sfgov tv meeting of the budget and finance committee occurring wednesdayoctober 26, 2016 will begin shortly. [gavel] good morning everybody and welcome to the San Francisco board of supervisors budget and finance Committee Meeting for wednesday, october 26, 2016. My name is mark farrell all be chairing this committee. Im joined by supervisor katie tang and supervisor norman yee. I want to thank the clerk of the committee and sfgov tv for covering the meeting today. Do we have any announcements . Please silence all cell phones. Items acted upon today will appear on the november 2 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated thank you. Mdm. Clerk all item 1 is item 1, 2016 issuance by water Revenue Bonds [reading ordinance] thanks very much for our puc is here to speak good morning supervisors chairssf puc. The item before you this morning is a request for your review and approval of Revenue Bonds for water enterprise. These bonds are meant to fund our Wa
Water Revenue Bonds [reading ordinance] thanks very much for our puc is here to speak good morning supervisors chairssf puc. The item before you this morning is a request for your review and approval of Revenue Bonds for water enterprise. These bonds are meant to fund our Water System Improvement Program were what you may know as the us which is a Multiyear Program to rebuild our Regional Water system. I have some slides to share with you to go through. If we could go to the school slides please . This transaction i will walk through some details on that. Ill talk about the sources and uses of the funds. We plan to use the money. Ill go within the board resolution before you today. I will talk a little bit about the transaction documents which as you know with these sorts of transactions theres a lot of different documents to review. Ill describe those. I will go through some disclosure q a which would we know with our commission which we found helpful and ill share those with you and