Bill theres plenty of attention on what a poorer start this trading year is off to and not just any day or two days to see this kind of pressure but the two days to kick off the year traditionally not a great sign. Two other markets very quickly. Oil, yes, we continued lower again. Big time. Down another almost 4 on wti. We are now at 48. It did touch the 47 range and brent is threatening to go below 50 at this point. Lets show you if we can the 10year yield. It touched 1. 88. At its lowest point today taking us back the lows of last october. Yes. On your screen there, you are seeing the 10year u. S. Treasury note below 2 . The 30year well below 2. 5 . I mean, we are talking about levels we havent seen since the financial crisis and there is a big element perhaps of whats happening overseas but lets talk about it in the exchange. Markets see the dow off 92. Nasdaq off 39 and s p off 11. Joining us in that said exchange today, margie patel, david kudlow jeff reeves Samuel Stovall and Ri
Street smart starts now. There are the top stories ahead of the closing bell. Mylan made a hostile bid the perrigo deal would be my lens biggest yet mylans biggest yet. The real fraud and markets can be found in the pool of debt from europe to japan. The bubble is not sustainable. The statue of liberty on Liberty Island evacuated this afternoon after police receiver sports reports of a suspicious package. Police patrolling picked up the scent of a suspicious package charlie before 1 00 p. M. Lets go to the breaking news desk. After a 15 year drought, the nasdaq closed at a record high yesterday. Clearly the performer among these three major indexes. Volume and nasdaq stocks is 15 above the 10 day average. Google, microsoft and amazon those earnings those come from three Nasdaq Companies that Strategic Research group calls tax staples. They have matured into these cash generating behemoths with all of the above strategy for growth. That is helping to propel the nasdaq and leading to wha
The department of health and Human Services for the office of general counsel. I was relieved from the San Francisco jail last week after spending two months for felony charges after making criminal threats and just from being frustrated with the police that refuse to do anything and now i havent seen my son in four months. I saw him before his dad bit him in the face and there was a witness and the person made cps reports and they havent done anything and the police havent done anything and i think its convenient that greg suhr left and heard the important things that people had to say and he took charge of this case and ignored it thank you. And i think the Police Department is shameful thank you. [inaudible] next speaker. Hi. I am christopher hite and with the San Francisco Public Defenders Office and chair of the Racial Justice community and San Francisco Public Defenders Office. What i see is occurring right now in San Francisco and plays off of reverend browns comments there is a
Provide training on detecting and responding to bias based policing and other forms of discriminatory policing. Include Community Members from groups that have expressed high levels of distrust of police in other training. Take steps to eliminate all forms of work place bias from San Francisco Police Department. Additionally president obamas task force on 21st Century Policing and in the interim report says that Police Officer training standards should ensure basic recruit and in Service Training that upon incorporates contacts around recognizing and confronting this bias and cultural responsiveness and without going any further into detail about the training except to say that i have also participated in implicit bias training with other Police Departments when dr. Fidel has conducted that training because she believes strongly in bringing in a diversity of individuals and i attended a training a two day training in palo alto at the time when the former Palo Alto Police chief said in
Because no other Police Officer will Say Something and the thin blue line will hold fast and even officers that dont like it that do not like hearing it that its like a punch in the gut is not going to say anything because to talk out of turn jeopardizes their future, their promotions and so forth as not being a team player and what the department has to understand and just as they ask us in our community when we see a crime we need to tell the police about it. When they see crimes of this nature, social crimes they have to tell somebody about it and do something about it. That can not be a one way street. There has to be cooperation from the departmentand i dont think the chiefs actions have been strong or swift enough. We tried to tell him a year ago and when this happened i thought how much greater would have been if the chief said yes we have some problems and we implemented a Community Policing program that we implemented sensitivity training and that we implemented recruitment. I