Public comment. Reminder to all participants to mute themselves to minimize background noise. Please note gray indicates unmuted. This is caption test. Use the live item 5 action item. Of the august 12, 2020 retirement Board Meeting. Its a motion for the august 12, 2020 Board Meeting. So moved. Madame president we received a request to the Administrative Changes to the minutes. She made Public Comment and we indicated she represented the retired employees. She would like the title of her organization to be spelled out in the minutes. I would propose that we make that one correction on page 9 [indiscernible]. Sorry for the interruption. Ill second it. Accept the change. Moved and seconded. Well adopt the minutes with the requested changes and accepted by executive director huish. At this time well take Public Comment. Thank you. Callers, if you have not already done so press star 3 to be added. For those already on hold please continue to wait until the system indicates you have been un
It is seen as a trade war olive branch. American farmers remain under pressure. Bid from thees a hong Kong Exchange. Lawmakers are concerned about potential National Security questions. Shery lets get you started with a quick check on how markets closed. We saw the s p 500 gain ground and close above that 3000 level for the first time in six weeks. We had Health Care Stocks and tech leading the gains. Interesting, the nasdaq finishing at the highest level since july, rising for the first time in four sessions. Into valuee rotation stocks. They subside a little bit. The u. S. Futures unchanged, but lets see how we are setting up for asia. Sophie south korea closed until monday. We are seeing futures knowledge higher nudge higher. The nzx 50 treading water. Euro, it isthe little changed after briefly theing below that ahead of ecb meeting which bank of America Merrill lynch is calling the most unpredictable of the past five years. In asia, switching the board, the highlight will be malay
Saunders calls for sanders calls for solidarity amid a splintered party. The question for investors, how will politics affect policy . We are less than half an hour from the european open across the board. Lets check in on the futures. We have such a great lineup with bp to keep an eye on. Not to mention sab miller. Keep an eye on that deal being rethought. 45 pounds a share, the a b offer ab offered for sab miller. It on some of the other assets and what were looking at today. It is Federal Reserve week. It is bank of japan week. The nikkei off by 1. 4 . Concerns about the amount of stimulus. Brent crude up. 2 . Money moving into the yen. That is a concern for japanese stocks. Keep an eye on this asset. David Bernie Sanders has told the Democratic Convention that Hillary Clinton must become the next u. S. President. It came after his supporters his pleas to supporters to avoid protest were ignored. What i admire most about hillary is that she never buckles under pressure. She never ta
Forecast. The couple snowflakes out east looking at storm fox you see the flakes are drifting away. Set the stage for sunshine and next clouds. But wind will feel that way cribcam courtesy of cleveland the clouds are hanging tough hanging tough 29 degrees hopkins 28 akroncanton also you see the fleeting snowflakes lots of cloud cover. Dry air to the west eventually it will brighten our skies. Lets show the country very quiet rainfall near seattle snow to the north next weather system late sunday into monday with a few rain showers. T a more important or system midweek coming up. Looking at the chilly air to the northeast 20s there this morning. Check out the outlook to see what is ahead as we finished to march. D this Morning Police hunting for a Child Predator getting a firsthand account of abductions attempted and and lorraine. Talk to a Good Samaritan who heard the daughters screens and back sometime only if one term 15yearold daughter went through walking to the busstop stop thursd
Welcome to countdown. A warm welcome to you. Its just gone 6 00 a. M. Tech. Ng news in partneringsoundcloud and we will speak to some of the key people in this deal. Lets get back to some breaking news. We are hearing back from the forecastaising their from ¥1. 7 trillion to 2 trillion yen. It means this would be a prophet record they are now forecasting. This is the highest profit they would have ever made if they do manage to deliver on the oflyear net income forecast 2 trillion yen. An upgrade to the fullyear income forecast. We have the first half 2014 net but theoming in headline, raising the fullyear benefitorecast possibly from the weakness in the japanese currency. N joins us from hong kong to put some of these numbers in respective. Better than expected results. The positive results coming out of toyota because of cost cuts, because of a weaker yen, because of price increases. Especially with bank of japan easing monetary policy. The yen has dropped to seven months a sevenyea