The markets. Ashley, first to you. Ashley well, guys as we say good riddance to september where all the major indexes posted a loss we embrace a new month but we havent come exactly flying out of the gates although green across the screen. The dow finishing slightly higher as you can see, about 1 10 of a percent after being down more than 100 points. S p up half a percent. But it was nasdaq showed the best performance of the new month up 1 1 2 . Like Charlie Brown with a rain cloud over his head investors are frustrated by congresss inability to agree on a new stimulus bill. With the markets going up and down with each competing headline from nancy pelosi and the treasury secretary and everybody else. As a result we saw stocks move for the most part today sideways in somewhat flat trading but as i mentioned the big tech stocks did manage to give the Broader Market some impetus. Amazon, microsoft, facebook, Alphabet Google all managed to make nice gains today which you can see gave the
Later, a Bed Bath Beyond stock handing in one of its best days ever one of our traders says it could be headed even higher from here. We start with a developing story out of washington. The next round of coronavirus aid apparently hanging in the balance. Lets get right to it with ylan mui. Reporter the house has begun debate on democrats 2. 2 trillion relief package with a vote expected later on this evening. Five Straight Days of negotiations between the treasury secretary and the speaker of the house nancy pelosi have failed so far to produce a compromise the white house has propose aes 1. 6 trillion bill but those numbers are still far below what democrats are willing to accept. Pelosi also pointed to business and child tax credits as another major Sticking Point in a statement her office said that the two sides discussed further clarifications but distance on key areas remains. Chuck schumer put it even more bluntly. He said, they are not in agreement yet and there are lots of area
Remote hearings certainly arent the same as sitting together in our Committee Room but this new authority has allowed us to continue to do our work on behalf of the American Peoples while keeping our staff, family and broader communities safe. This is the second official virtual subcommittee hearing in the ways and means committee. As with our previous hearing i want members to know i plan to continue this committees long tradition of collegiality and substantive debates. Even as we conduct our business from afar i will continue to work with our Ranking Member and his staff so to ensure that the rights of all members are respected in this new virtual format. Before we turn to todays important topic i want to remind members of a few procedures to help you navigate this new platform. First, consistent with regulations the committee will keep microphones muted to limit background noise. Members are responsible for on meeting themselves when they seek recognition or when recognized for the
Phone lines to be open to see if there is a Public Comment . Chair borden yep and is there you have chair borden how many . You have zero questions remaining. With that, well close Public Comment. Directors, do i have a motion . Secretary boomer, please call roll . Chair borden aye. Director brinkman aye. Vice chair eaken aye. Director heminger aye. Director lai aye. Madame chair, the minutes are approved. Item 5, communications. Madame chair. Chair borden as many of you have learned, our heart was broken this weekend with the untimely passing of one of our own. Antonio, a muni operator with the Transportation Agency for 19 years, was known for being deeply committed to his job and well known by the people on his buses and in many communities. He was born and raised in the Richmond District and leaves behind wife jennifer, three children and grandchildren. Well have this meeting adjourned in his memory, but im devastated. I want to thank his family to loaning him to us. He did die in s
A level of protection from our Security Services political mud it is part of the putin system why would the russian government be so stupid them and even let me fly out to drew me instead of hiding him in russia and british counties will reimpose coronavirus restrictions controversially as the country witnesses a disturbing spike in covert 19 cases. By. Their good afternoon Art International the weekend with me kevin owen here this hour this saturday the 12th of september great to have you company so theyve already been there scores of arrests as yellow vest protesters come out across france despite a ban in some areas rather leaders in say. On giving voices to all those of folks who throw the pandemic as the country registers was 10000. 00 cases in 24 hours as a daily record is in paris as so there were restrictions shot of people to find them on the last looks like it. Was called thats right we do have people coming up to certain protests in paris the ruling given the go ahead by the