9 00 in london. Good morning. You are watching the pulse. Im guy johnson. Francine lacqua is not here today. She will be back on monday. We are speaking on ifo, but right now im going to bring you the numbers. Hans will be able to break them down. Ifo confidence may number at 108. 5. Median forecast 108. 3. The Current Assessment index 114 point i think we are seeing a slight dip. Essentially, fairly stable numbers being generated. At the moment, what youre seeing is while you are seeing a reduction in things like pmi and maybe headline gdp numbers what you are starting to see is a pickup in investment again. We will break that down further in a moment. Lets talk about greece. Lets talk about what has been happening over the last 24 hours. Speaking in riga, Angela Merkel has reiterated their is still a lot to do regarding talks with greece. I will have some bilateral talks and have already spoken last night with the french president and the greek Prime Minister. It was a very friendly
Lease and with the soon to be completed renovation project and the restoration project, the Department Anticipates receiving an average of 1. 3 million per year over the fiveyear term of this lease. Thats an increase of 5 63,000 per year, over 2. 2 mill over the fiveyear term,v with that, if there are any question the supervisors have . Supervisor avalos . The hearing we have coming up soon is [speaker not understood] is meeting rlb requirements, business local enterprise will be doing the concessionses in elevator for coit tower, is that correct, for the museum store in the elevator . My understanding of lb requirements those extend predominantly to contracts, not to leases. They are required to meet all of our requirements around nondiscrimination and the like for hiring. But as a lessee, those subcontracting goals do not apply under my understanding to leases. But the question is better directed toward the Contract Monitoring Division. Okay. How about answering in terms of the spiri
[gavel] the other underlying amendment, we can take that as amended . We can take it without objection. Gov madam clerk, please call item number 6. Item number 6 is hearing on the citys implementation of administrative code, chapter 14b, the local Business Enterprise and nondiscrimination in contracting ordinance. ~ okay, thank you. This is a hearing called by president chiu and also cosponsored by supervisor cohen. So, ill turn it over to president chiu. Thank you, mr. Chair, colleague, thank you for your patience as well as the patience of the members of the public that have been waiting for this item. Colleagues, i have asked for this hearing on the implementation of chapter 14b of administrative code otherwise known as local Business Enterprise and nondiscrimination and contracting ordinance. As some of you may know, three decades ago, this board of supervisors passed chapter 14b after acknowledging the history of passive and sometimes active discrimination in our citys contracting
Resignation after what he says are fake audio recordings. What are these fossilized remains of whales doing in a south american desert . Hello everyone. Let me take you first to the Chinese Capital beijing today. There it is, you cant see much. Thats because the smog hanging over the city is the thickest ever, so thick that its literally off the scale. Its now so bad that hundreds of thousands of people are fearful of doing this, of leaving their homes. Thats because of the im pafkt of breathing the air on their health. This latest pollution has already lasted a week. So how bad is it . Well, to the irritation of the chinese government, the u. S. Embassy in beijing is tracking air quality from its building with gradings from good, green air, to hazardous at the bottom. This is the Embassy Website of daily data, the current reading is right up beyond hazardous at over 500 gramts per cubic meter. These are the latest readings taken today. The level at which america starts classifying air
After a panel of judges dismissed his lawsuits alleging fraud. Hi, david. Hi, leland, Beautiful Day in washington. President trump is golfing at his club in northern virginia. He spent last night at camp david apple head back to camp david in northern maryland. If youre one of almost 90 million followers of the president on twitter you see his tweets where he claimed he won the election. In fact, joe biden is the president elect and he will be inaugurat inaugurated. However, the Trump Campaign wanted a recount and net 132 votes for joe biden, but the Trump Campaign is not giving up. Let talk about another ruling from the 3rd Circuit Court of appeals in pennsylvania, another legal blow credit. Read this quote here, charges of unfairness are serious, but calling an election unfair does not make it so. Charges require specific allegations and then proof. We have neither here. This is is an appointee of the president. The reeling went on to read the campaigns claims have no merits. The num