Consumer confidence relatively judge the michigan consumers intimate data is a good guide. Lets break it down a different way. Current conditions, 85. 9. That is above expectations at 84. 9. This is what i was really looking for, expectations also ,oming in ahead of expectations but they are still below current conditions, 79. 2. They are not going down, which ethic is the really important thing, as we see the virus picking up. Alix and we didnt get stimulus, counterintuitive to what many thought would happen. Big tex stocks are lower on a stocks big tech are lower on a flurry of data. Now with us, mark st oeckle. Are you buying the dip . Tok i think people need keep it in perspective. The reports were good. I think what we are seeing today is skimming a little but of the froth out of the valuation adjustment. I think they are all very wellpositioned and very well performing companies, but lets also not forget weve had a big run up into these numbers. The interesting part is you look a
Now, 224 biden, 213 trump. Could be days prosecute we have final vote counts for key battleground states. Maybe were getting a little more clarity on that bottom of our screen right here, nbc news is projecting joe biden wins the state of maine. Want to get that news piece in there as we continue to watch for those votes. Even if biden ekes out a electoral vote, expectations could spell trouble for a democratic agenda, especially if the Vice President ultimately wins the white house for more on the balance of power in congress, lets bring in ylan mui. Good morning. Good morning. Right now its still a tossup for control of the senate. Both parties have a narrow but achievable path to victory Mitch Mcconnell says hes hoping to get more clarity on key races by the end of the day. I dont know whether im going to be the majority leader or minority leader ive been both majoritys better. But were awaiting the judge on the american people. Nbc rates the battle between gop senator thom tillis a
Good morning and welcome to the San Francisco county Transportation Authority meeting for october 27, 2020. I am the chair of the authority aaron peskin. Our clerk is here. Could you please call the. roll call . Haney absent. We have a quorum. Haney is present also. Commissioner haney is present. 11 are present. We have a quorum. Do you have any announcements. I would like to make a comment about Public Comment. It will be available for each item. Call 415 6550001. You will be able to listen to the meeting as a participant. Please allow for audio visual delays and 30 second live time during the course of the meeting. Thank you. I will move to the chairs report. Mostly good and happy news this month. We are pleased to celebrate two milestones for our Transportation Authority. One for the agency itself and one for a special staff member who has been here from almost the beginning. This year marks the 30th anniversary of the Half Cent Sales Tax Program as one of the early selfhelp countie
Eurodollar still trading around that 1. 16 level. We will get some analysis on that in just a moment. Crude just coming off its lows. The other thing worth mentioning is that we are seeing the curve flattening down a little bit today. Big moves in the 30 year on both sides of the olympic. Alix moments ago of the atlantic. Alix moments ago, Prime Minister Boris Johnson defended his plan for lockdown. Pm johnson we are not going back to the fullscale lockdown of march and april, and there are ways in which these measures are less strict. Alix he also promised a Mass Testing Program to begin in days with rapid tests. Joining us is Bloomberg Government reporter emily ashton. What is going to be the take away over the next four to six weeks . Emily this is the concern of conservative mps. The lawmakers here in parliament. We have this vote wednesday on whether this second lockdown will go ahead. I think we expect that vote to be approved, despite maybe about a dozen of Boris Johnsons own co
Increase you dont have to sell your stocks to beat some kind of Capital Gains rate that is quo going to be punitive for rich people im not saying it is solely business as usual. But i am saying that if you own tech stocks, which a lot of people do, there is nothing to keep the stocks from going higher remarkable night, pollsters seem to think there would be this blue wave that got avoided if anything, there is, i think, a recognition that whatever the heck we had before election day seems to be the same after so, david, you know, i feel kind of business as usual for us. Well, it is, carl, not business as usual this morning as you say as the votes continue to be counted in important battleground states. Three you mentioned. Want to add georgia in there, potentially North Carolina, still those early votes, carl, being counted and tabulated and were paying close attention we are, guys. In fact, front and center this hour, the president ial election remains unsettled as voting continues as