And again, its at the early stages but i did see the announcement and would very much like that to be included in future updates. Thank you. Thank you. Are there any members of the public who would like to comment on this item . Chair, there is no Public Comment. Ok, Public Comment is closed and there is no action to be taken and so we can move on to the next item. Item 6, allocate 11,230,724 in sale tax funds and 1,043,89, 1,043,898 and double a Registration Fee fund with conditions. This is an action item. Miss leport. Good morning. Chair, are you able to see my slides . Yes, we are. Super. So the first of the three requests presented today is for the annual funding that the sale tax Program Provides to the paraprogram and weve been supporting this Program Since 2004 and there are a suite of services that mta offers as part of the Paratransit Program, most of which are still operating, of course, with declining ridership or lower ridership to the tune of 70 to 80 overall. Over the la
Now being reported that the lebanese government is resigning amid all of the outrage over the blasts there resigning meanwhile here in the land of milk and honey in coded leaders of the United States of america are still deadlocked in the goshi ations negotiations over how little they should have to spend on the care and safety of u. S. Citizens in a time of pandemic and how much they can funnel to special Interest Groups and corporate bailouts instead of u. S. Citizens but thankfully over the weekend u. S. President donald trump finally took action from his underground bunker on the 9th hole of the Trump National golf club in bedminster new jersey from up on high the president signed a series of executive orders and proclamations that well according to the hill extend Unemployment Benefits suspend payroll taxes and offer federal addiction and Student Loan Relief well woohoo this is wonderful this. Great great new. Kind of really you see despite all the legitimacy a ball room full of G
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August 15 but also continuing down. 7 the nikkei and the futures in the u. S. Are looking lower as well. Data expected out of the u. S. Later today. And in terms of looking at some of the currencies in the region, we talked about the bloomberg dollar index. Down about. 10 . Dollar weakness is essentially beneficial to equities in this part of the world and currencies as well. Aussie, thats what youre looking like, essentially flat and new zealand had jobless numbers that came in less bad than expected. The kiwi dollar up. 2 . Lets move on to some of the commodities, gold again looking strong and well, above 2000 an ounce, a little bit of weakness in the last hour or so, down about. 2 . Terms of oil were looking at the beirut story, the port explosion there and there was concern that have geopolitical tensions emanating from that. Thats the yield picture in the points. St over 10 basis rally washe dollar rather short, and then weve got gold, the inverse correlation back at the moment. T
The print papers revenue. Mark thompson, one of nigh favorites will be here for an inclusive interview. Power lunch starts right now vaccine hopes and more stimulus on the way is helping Investor Sentiment loes that weve seen, the moves today, the s p 500 roughly there abouts is now, get this, roughly just 2 away so it may not be at records just yet one other place that was giving that stock a big boost off the session highs. And capri holding, the Company Formerly nose an michael kors are reporting sales that may be getting back to normal biff, both of those stocks well off the highs of the year. The gdx ticker there that tracks is up far more than prices, so, yes, gold continuing that run. Back over to you lets take a check of is the bond market. The cme, hi, rick. We had some powerful data and what did that do it gave us one of he rare bounces. But its all about Foreign Exchange asdom pointed out and they you aro seems to be king they seems to have gotten their issues in rough order