Good morning. Welcome to had 2017 National Competitiveness forum. I hope all of you that were with us last night had a lovely evening at the University Club for the annual dinner . I know we were all blown away by the fantastic talk that he gave on sustainability. Thank you again for that wonderful tour deforce of sustainability in our future. Allow me to recognize and thank our sponsors for their support and commitment to the counsels work. I want to recognize lockheed martin, our sponsors. And pepsico, snapon. Our chairman sponsors, university san diego. As well as our ben factors and patrons. University of michigan, Marquette University and white cap investment. Without your support we could not do it forum and we thank you very much for that. We have a full day of very exciting talks as well as the release of some of the critical annual policy work on the counsel of competitiveness. And i want to really just frame that in a few over arching facts about the good and the bad of our e
The fantastic talk that he gave on sustainability. Thank you again for that wonderful tour deforce of sustainability in our future. Allow me to recognize and thank our sponsors for their support and commitment to the counsels work. I want to recognize lockheed martin, our sponsors. And pepsico, snapon. Our chairman sponsors, university san diego. As well as our ben factors and patrons. University of michigan, Marquette University and white cap investment. Without your support we could not do it forum and we thank you very much for that. We have a full day of very exciting talks as well as the release of some of the critical annual policy work on the counsel of competitiveness. And i want to really just frame that in a few over arching facts about the good and the bad of our economy right now. The good news of course is that growth as been very strong. While productivity was flat through most of the year. Its rebounded recently and unemployment is low. In enact lowest since 2000. We kno
The chart. One stock that has dragged the dow down is apple. It is up 4 in the past six months, as you can see. A lot of red these days are commodities. In particular the oil market. We are seeing a nice rebound, particularly nine next crude up almost 2 at 46. 05. Read crude is rebounding after the significant top low 50 a barrel. Pimm and that move in the oil markets copy commodity related markets like the aussie dollar. On the bond market and see how treasuries are faring. A little bit of the selloff and the 10 year yield goes to 18, the 30 year moves higher to 288. A little bit of selling in the bond market. Speaking of bonds, lets look at s and p municipal up and you can thetaking a big guys since beginning of the spring, down the index of, puerto rico bonds as the commonwealth attempts to restructure its more than 75 billion worth of debt. We will be speaking with puerto ricos house of representatives, Pedro Peirluisi talking about the debt crisis in puerto rico. Currenciesa look
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Moving. Shakala Alvaranga this is the video el conde captured on his cell phone. With guns raised, Police Officers duck behind their patrol cars. When more Police Officers pulled up they had their guns drawn up towards the house that was right across the street. When i went up the street, the cops were swarming already and helicopters were flying around. Shakala Alvaranga police say the woman was the she was shot and killed in the 2100 block of henniker way. It appears there was some kind of Domestic Violence going on inside of the house. And she exited the residence, and he shot her outside. Shakala Alvaranga the armed suspect. Refused to surrender. A number of people did call 911, citizens did try to render aid, realized she was deceased. Maybe we may learn something in the next few hours al as a precaution, nearby residents were also evacuated. It was el condes first day in his new neighborhood. I just moved here bro. And this is what i get. Jesus. Shakala Alvaranga the man surrende