Cheryl veronica . I hosted so im ready to be done. We have a lot of news coming up this morning. Our top story this hour was, well, it was christmas, americans spending more money online for the Holiday Season, ecommerce sales jumped more than 18 compared to last year overall. Holiday retail sales excluding cars rising more than 3 . Thanksgiving did fall later this year which pushed a lot of retailers to start sales earlier. President trump touted the news, heres what he tweeted. 2019 Holiday Retail sales were up 3. 4 from last year. Biggest number in u. S. History, congratulations, america. Veronica, your reaction in the middle of all this political abusinesabyss thats happening , you have an economy and consumer thats on fire and we have numbers to prove it. It sounds like youre trying to get away from washington but this is great for the party of washington, for republicans, for the president. This is a great economy for him to be going into 2020 with. Theres a ton of devi divisiven
The president has arrived in japan for the g20 summit, just as he stepped off air force one the news broke that china has established its negotiating position in the trade talks. Remove restrictions on huawei, remove all tariffs. Thats a hard line. Trump meets xi on saturday. Im going to call it a flat to slightly higher market. Any loss for the dow is accounted for by boeing, which is down sharply because of new problems with the max jet and look at that nasdaq go, up half a percentage point. Big tech doing well this morning. Theres a story on bitcoin. It hit 14,000 overnight but the Coin Base Exchange crashed. When that happened, bitcoin fell sharply, currently is down to 11,700. Just look at how amazon has changed the world. Their prime days dominate the summer selling season. Now we are seeing target, ebay, walmart and others join the club, jumping on amazons band wagon with a ton of special deals of their own. Thursday, june 27th. Varney company is about to begin. Who here would a
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Of course at the highrise the smallest floor points. The ground floor has retail at both corners you cant see that with the text but the lobby opens up to howard where well have this plaza that im speaking about roughly 35 feet tall it will be designed is with certain generous seating and planting and small retail and influences by the art were going to put in the plaza the terraces themselves have a nice kind of appearance to them but very useful for the tenants and also an attractive element from the exterior of the building it helps the building to stand out base of the building certain materiality mostly a glass tower you can see the tower pattern f when you get to the podium portion it is is circumstantial floor we added a footed galleys bring that to the base there is a bar between the massing of the turn over we breakdown the scale 1209 public realm this is a view of the plaza along howard you get an idea of 35 foot space the retail and art exhibit and plaza art will be located
Materiality mostly a glass tower you can see the tower pattern f when you get to the podium portion it is is circumstantial floor we added a footed galleys bring that to the base there is a bar between the massing of the turn over we breakdown the scale 1209 public realm this is a view of the plaza along howard you get an idea of 35 foot space the retail and art exhibit and plaza art will be located in this area thats what were planning for once we get the art introduced into the plaza that will be exist open space weve shown here weve got open space on the site and parcels m1 and 3 location getting to our access to those two parcels m3 and one that is Los Angeles County complicated because of the train expectation weve developed a temporary park for both of those sites and once a final assess for entry the m1 and 3 and those parts with filled with trees and outdoor spaces and seats generally well work with a nice landscaped design to be a variety of options for the users on both the p