Ashley, kick it off with you. Ashley why not, million listsa welcome back, connell. Hopes for a new come from mize stimulus bill and decent Economic Data has to be said helped push major markets higher in the session. We lost some steam in the final hour. What about the final minutes . More money came back in even though we know Congress Continues to wrangle over the relief bill. The dow, s p, nasdaq finishing the day as you can see on the upside. The dow up 328 points. S p up nearly 1 . The nasdaq gaining 3 4 of a percent right at the closing bell. Not bad. By the way we should mention apple, almost, i say almost reclaimed it is two trillion dollar market value gaining more than well, 1 1 2 in the end, about a buck 1 2 short of that landmark level. We should point out apple is up 27 for the Third Quarter. Not too shabby. As for the month of september, a historically weak month we know that for stocks. That kind of proved to be the case with all the Major Exchange losing ground. The do
Quorum. Which brings us to item 3. Clerk mayty make a brief announcement before we move on to item 3 . Yes, please do. Due to the covid19 Health Emergency and given the Public Health recommendations, issued by the San Francisco department of Public Health and Governor Newsom and mayor breed lifted restrictions on teleconference. This meeting is being held Via Teleconference and televised by sfgov tv. For those of you watching the live stream, theres a brief delay. On behalf of the commission, id like to extend our thanks to sfgov tv staff and sfpuc for their assistance during this meeting. If you wish to make Public Comment on an item, dial 415 6550001. I. D. 146 500 3304 and then press star 3 to raise your hand to speak. Im going to ask the commission and staff to please mute their microphones to minimize background noise, if they have not already done so. Mr. Chair, your first item is item number 3, commissioner vacancy and possible election of a new Vice President. Thank you. And le
Finalized theres a process and theres a lot of things already baked into provide checks and balances. Moving down, we also have from a more kind of Performance Management framework struck youre, we have our competency model which ive mh370 to and i believe even jenny rice has come to this commission to talk more about the competency model and its basically a Performance Management framework that shows to every employee what success in the job, in their job, looks like. Its also a way for them to understand, how can i progress in my career. Then you can see what kind of competencies may be required for jobs that you are interested in. And so, we are developing this framework and its currently underway and been underway since want to say 2014. Through out our organization and that is such an important thing to show people what success looks like so discipline isnt even an issue, right. And and lastly things we are going to do is a huge focus of our employee Labor Relations group in a hr
Hard to digest the news. Well cut right at it, give you the details in a moment. Overall, the market lacks real direction. The dows going to be up maybe 15, s p up 10. Nice gain for the nasdaq though, all green at this point. Politics [laughter] can you say softballs . One after another, they were lobbed towards joe biden at the cnn town hall last night. Not very good preparation for the first president ial debate which is, by the way, 11 days away. The standout for me came when biden suggested that if the president had acted sooner on the virus, all those people would not have died. So the president killed 190,000 people . Not a word of pushback from the moderator, cnns moderator. Today biden goes to minnesota, an opportunity for him to clarify his position on urban rioting and defunding the police after the minneapolis disturbances. And get this, the president will also be in minnesota today. You can bet hell brung up law and order bring up law and order. Mr. Trumps press secretary,
More arrests in belarus as protesters march for another day calling on the president to step down. The u. S. Has broken with all other permanent members of the u. N. Security council and declared socalled snapback sanctions on iran americas major ally is britain france and germany had already written to the u. N. To say sanctions relief will remain the dispute is over the Iran Nuclear Deal which washington pulled out of 2 years ago the other signatories say the u. S. No longer has the legal power to force through any changes our diplomatic editor james spader reports. Its aroud its even pitted the us against some of its closest allies its now over 5 years since the Iran Nuclear Deal was signed in vienna during the negotiations the us team under the leadership of the very end secretary of state john kerry devised a mechanism called snap back if iran breached its commitments all International Sanctions could snap back into place but thats not the way things played out the United States w