75, 52week highs, including stocks like alphabet, which well hear from later in the week. And including stocks like apple, which of course is in the dow. You take a look. Apple gets badmouthed a lot. They havent had the best run over the last several months, but looking at the past month, its about the fourth best performer on the dow, up better than 4 . Its doing okay today as well and just about at 52week highs. So despite the headlines about, oh, its over for apple, you know, whatever, peter i guess cant be right about everything every single day, at least not in terms of apples moves in the dow. Well, theres been so much focus today on materials and infrastructure, but tech is actually the second best performing sector this year, second to materials, but theres this sense in the market from traders that tech is the backbone of any infrastructure building that we could possibly get, perhaps besides roads and highway, and there is a question of which companies will stand to benefit w
Markets. Through lets whip some of these Asset Classes. A soft recession to europe when i got an early this morning. It has come back a bit further now. Market, shining bright red is sterling. About toright now, are break it. The flask pmis, ugly. Given team is quite a number cents 2009. Down for itk that we havent seen these number sense 2009. Well break it down for you in a minute. About threeown basis point. We will guide you to the markets to the rest of the hour. The worlds go around for indepth coverage over our urtire story all of o stories. Nejra is in london with the havoc wreaked on the u. K. Economy. We are joined in the public and National Convention the republican National Convention in cleveland. Like asurface it looked pretty stellar quarter. Sales were about 33 billion. Theis the stock down on report . Some expectations, they did beat expectations. Wasand gas was weak, but i worried about it being weaker. It is more about expectations and actual results. Alex where did
I think the reason why some of these have stuck around all the time, as youve said, theyre really politically intractable. But in some sense theres a reason for that, and maybe its not necessarily a bad thing. I mean, the other option is to have absolutely no regulation, right, at the extreme so that theres no conflict over what that regulation and anything goes. And if thats not what were trying to set up, a sort of superregulatory council that can sort of whackamole and bat down anything that is not the least trade restrictive model, thats where youre getting political pushback be. And thats the idea that, you know, citizens want to be able to have some say in what their economy looks like. And in some senses, you know, some citizens want greater Government Intervention in the economy. Cato would say less Government Intervention in the economy. But these are really, really important questions. And it really gets to, again, i think, marjories question when she said raise your hand if
List theyre the currently ones were working on, you know, bart yeah. We have been coordinating with the Mayors Office but looking at the priorities in corporate k and then looking at what are named as recreational projects for sfmta support. Im wondering if muni is it on the list. So far as i know were seeking state other local levels i havent heard about federal level yet. Inch got no further questions. Thank you for your time okay. Thank you. Good morning happy to be here. Have you had a chance to review the matrix a number of measures are going to be dropped for the matrix to get out of their house of original thats the reason for the delevitations. We have a b on page 8 of the matrix recommending the post position another attempt by a will you ever to freeze the program this is actually a separate item. Oh, im sorry. Im going to take comments for item 5. Open this up for Public Comment on item 5. Okay seeing no any Public Comment . For 5 its closed item 6 item 6 state and federal u
For the transportation bill it expires on october 1st, well be continuing to work with the Mayors Office and the other stakeholders to advance the priorities in that area. With that, if you have any questions, ill be happy to answer them about the legislative program and mark will talk about the things happening at the state level a little bit a question about the new federal transportation funding. I understand part of the program is the advocate for federal funds for the San Francisco transportation prongs is this list theyre the currently ones were working on, you know, bart yeah. We have been coordinating with the Mayors Office but looking at the priorities in corporate k and then looking at what are named as recreational projects for sfmta support. Im wondering if muni is it on the list. So far as i know were seeking state other local levels i havent heard about federal level yet. Inch got no further questions. Thank you for your time okay. Thank you. Good morning happy to be here