Be scottish author and speaker doctor Malcolm Kendrick, who says the pandemic was real and the necessary precautions were taken to prevent wide ranging spread of disease. And finally , spread of disease. And finally, well be delving back into a conversation started last week about bitcoin, wondering if its the future or not. All of that, plus plenty of discussion with my panellist, writer, commentator and chum tom buick. But first, an update on the latest news headlines. Hi there, im Aaron Armstrong in the gb newsroom. The uk says in the gb newsroom. The uk says it would support palestine gaining full member status in the United Nations when the time is right. The comments by the Deputy Foreign secretary come as israel launched fresh attacks on northern gaza in an effort to prevent hamas from regrouping , prevent hamas from regrouping, three months after claiming it had taken control of the area. Meanwhile, thousands more palestinians have been fleeing rafah in the south as israel prep
Also apple day stocks under pressure because of iphone battery and production cuts for the iphone 10 it is down premarket. Look at this. Facebooks stock is well it is nice higher only Media Company that i can remember that urges its users to use it less. [laughter] but its profits and sales are seller up she goes. All right quickly microsoft Strong Financial performance. But maybe not strong enough. It will open lower to the tune of a buck 26. Overall, this market is headed south at the opening bell. Well be off more than 150 points this thursday morning o. All right. Politics today, dominated by the memo. This make the day when we get to see it. I sure hope we find out what fbi was up to before and after a and during election did they really protect hillary and undermine. Another day for politics and your money and thats what we do. Varney company is about to begin. If Congress Sends me a bill before christmas, the irs this is just out. This is breaking news has just confirmed that am
Facebook falls, users are spending 50 million hours a day lesson the social network and happy about it shares set to open at the record. Its a huge day for tech earnings, mike soeflft, alphabet and amazon, all on tap after the bell. Futures signal a sharply lower open obviously a whipsaw week so far. Facebook is the top story. Up in the premarket, the social network post better than expected forecasts and increase in ad sales despite the time spent by Users Falling by 50 million hours a day. Mark zuckerberg last night on the earnings call. The most important driver of our business has never been time spent by itself. Its the quality of the connection and thats why i believe this focus on meaningful social interaction is the right one. The first ever quarter on quarter dau decline in the u. S. And canada they say its not a trend. They say its not a trend i think youve got to believe. The market probably doesnt believe in them because this thing is selling at a multiple almost the market
Good morning everybody. Welcome to the San Francisco board of supervisors budget and finance subcommittee meeting for wednesday july 22, 2015. My name is mark farrell. I will be chairing the committee. I am joined by supervisor katy tang and i would like to thank the clerk linda wong and sfgtv covering this meeting. Madam clerk do we have any announcements . Yes mr. Chair. Please silent all cell phones and electronic devices, complete speaker cards and documents to be part of the file should be submitted to the clerk. Items acted on today will be on the july 28 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. Okay. Thank you madam clerk. Lets get rolling here. We have a number of items here and at the end we have two hearings and please call item 1. Item 1 hearing hearing to consider the release of reserved funds, Arts Commission to build out the secure basement Storage Space and related location costs for the citys civic Art Collection. Great. We have tom mckinney here. Good morni
Electronic devices, complete speaker cards and documents to be part of the file should be submitted to the clerk. Items acted on today will be on the july 28 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. Okay. Thank you madam clerk. Lets get rolling here. We have a number of items here and at the end we have two hearings and please call item 1. Item 1 hearing hearing to consider the release of reserved funds, Arts Commission to build out the secure basement Storage Space and related location costs for the citys civic Art Collection. Great. We have tom mckinney here. Good morning supervisors. As you know it will move to the Veterans Building in september of this year and our request is for the release of reserve funds for 50,000 to complete the move of the Art Collection to the war memorial. We are glad that the Capitol Planning Committee has allocated a historic amount for the Art Collection and afford us to the opportunity to properly store the citys civic Art Collection and by