Mr. Chairman, mr. Chairman , you have a quorum. Shall i call your next item . Yes, please. Item three is clean occasions i am not aware of any. Seeing none, item four his board of directors, new and or old business. None. Seen none, item five, executive directors report. Good morning, directors. I would like to first update you on the efforts to reopen the Transit Center as soon as possible. In order to do that, we should repair fremont and first street. I am happy to report work is now complete in the streets have been restored to their original condition. We will continue opening up street closures for the next few weeks to restore ceiling panels. We install overhead lines, we in store install safety light systems in the area. We are currently focused on continuing to provide information as requested to the Peer Review Panel so we can complete their work. In addition, we are substantially completing commissioning the entire facility, which as you know, is intensive Quality Assurance
And what a first half for tech ipos. Nasdaq announcing 97 initial offerings raising over 17 billion in six months. Can it be sustained . We ask a nasdaq exec. First, to our lead and another turn in the sprinttmobile deal. The u. S. Justice department is on the verge of approving a merger. Dish could become a strong competitor in the u. S. Wireless market. Lets bring in our reporter. You broke it. Congratulations. How close are we . It has been a long time coming. Reporter this is a happy turn of events for investors. Shares are getting very close. They are being told there are a couple issues remaining but not insurmountable. Our sources say the board of deutsche telecom, which owns tmobile, met yesterday to discuss the package that is being discussed at the boj as these other remedies that will help the doj approved the deal. Caroline remind us who they are. Nabila they are selling three prepaid brands as there will be spectrum as well. They are talking about how dish gets customers a
To the united states. It has been a rocky few weeks ber, we will tell you what investors are watching. Robert mueller breaks his silence about the russia investigation. He said if he and other investigators had confidence the president not commit a crime, they would have said so. Mueller did have one last message about russian interference in the 2016 election. Reiteratingose by the central allegation of our indictments, that there were multiple, systematic, efforts to interfere in our election, and that allegation deserves the attention of every american. Discussoining us to are our guests. , we know there was interference in the 2016 election, though the president and others have downplayed it. What is the reaction to washing in washington to mueller underlining that point . There wasnt much new. He gave a fiveminute summary of his report. Hasing it directly from him shaken things up in washington, especially among democrats. We have seen an increase call from democrats to begin impe
Believe it or not, this is actually the kind of decline you want if you are a bull. We cant keep realallying on the news over and over again. President trump and president xi could hammer out a trade deal. Rallies need more and more fuel. Without it you end up on a day like this one. It reminds us that stocks can go down, too. So what did make today so soggy . All the red hot cloud based enterprise stocks, they were dethroned today. Yesterday sales force told us it was buying Capital Software for a huge premium. Everyone figured that every company in the sector and cloud kings would have takeover biz. These stocks deserve to come back down and they did. They got what they deserve. Helps businesses. Work day just reported terrific quarter down seven. Cooper software, like them. Amazing companies, amazing companies, also stocks get hammered. Think of it as cloud royalty being led to the yesterdays cloud rally was all about froth. Anyone in the industry can be a target. I think thats absu
Obviously, this sort of a big coup for hong kong after missing out on that initial ipo five years ago, the biggest one ever. This is their opportunity to win back their National Treasure of a company. Emily how much if anything does this have to do with trade tensions between the u. S. And china . Elizabeth the timing is really interesting. This is being called a trade war ipo. There definitely seems to be some element of that that people think this is an unattractive time to look for domestic investors, those kind of investors that use this Company Every day, unlike american investors, who could start turning away from chinese investments. The other thing here in the timing is that the Hong Kong Stock Exchange has changed its listing rules around these companies that have multiple share classes, the type we see from Tech Companies. They started doing that after they lost out on alibaba the first time around, had this long period of consultation, and now it is allowed. It has opened up