P president driscoll, you may start the migrant. Meeting. Due to covid19 and the Governor Newsom and mayor breed have lifted the tre tree restrictionn teleconference, this meeting is being held teleconference. In our published notice and on the web page we ask the public to participate remotely by writing to the board or by leaving a voice mail manage. I will ask all members of the board to mute themselves to minimize background noise and keep your cell phone remote, as well. Board members will unmute themselves to comment. There is staff in the background managing the Technology Functions during the meeting to switch from my slide presentation to whom ever is speaking at that moment. Thank you to all who have put this meeting together. Technology and this device is increasing and there will be more changes, all to make the meeting and the interaction go smoother. At this point, can we ask ase commissioner to unshare his screen. Square with arrow and not an x. Thank you. Item number 13
Time now for our top market moving news from our new york team. Joining me Bloomberg Opinion columnist brooke sutherland. What were some of your Key Takeaways . Brooke i think what is interesting is target talks about First Quarter comparable sales being up, but nearly all of that was from digital. Digital comparable sales were 141 in the quarter. Those sales come at a cost. They are more expensive. The natural supply chain dynamics of delivering products to homes rather than having them purchased instore is more expensive for target, so you are seeing that market squeeze. Clothes,rent buying where target gets more of a higher profit margin. They were buying food any essentials. Is this a structural shift . Are people getting so used to ordering online that they will continue to order these items . They did also callout market share gains, which is key. Given Amazon Logistics troubles, are you going to be seeing customers rediscovering target and walmart, some of these longerlasting st
Which will hit in b about an hours time. The s p up by just three basis points coming up on todays show, former National Economic council dr director, gary kohn, will join us about reopening the the economy. The debate over funding for states and the Small Business ppp funding. Plus, a flood of big name earnings set to hit this afternoon including as you mentioned, alphabet. Starbucks, ford, am well also speak with the ceo after his Company Reports earnings, what consumers are doing and how much theyre snacking around the world. Lets focus on one hour of trade. Mike is tracking the Market Action in whats shaped up for a volatile day meg has Quarterly Results from big pharma names mike, start us off with the brorder market of what you seeing some pretty strong opposing currents holding the index in a steady mode. Look at the s p 500. This goes back a couple o years because i want to point out the areas that were encountering with this rally. Here we are around 2880. That takes us back t
Well as in london. We begin with a biggie week a busy week for Central Banks. Bank of japan says they will take on unlimited buying of Government Bonds, lifting the cap also on corporate holdings. I, he joins us now. , kitchen sink, we are still throwing it. Michael Central Banks are all as string the question of what you do when you have throwing the kitchen sink. In the back of japans case, you just make the sink a little bigger. The bank of japan already has negative rates, Corporate Bond and etf buying, and an emergency Lending Program, so they just decided to make those programs a bit bigger. Unchanged at rate 10 basis points. Remember, they do yield curve control. They mentioned they would buy as many Corporate Bonds as they need to and expanding access to its Emergency Loan Program for a wider range of banks. For analysts, theres a bit less here than meets the eye. They dropped their ¥80 trillion limit on Government Bond buying, but they werent buying anywhere trillion, so it d
Twoyear is now trading, but that doesnt seem to matter. The majority of debt in europe all undergoing this powerful rally, despite the fact that we are going to see horrific unemployment number in about an hour and a half. Lets get you out of the market moving news from our new york team. We want to start with the much awaited u. S. Jobs data out of april for the next hour. Economists now estimating 22 million jobs wiped out in the past month. Joining me now is carl riccadonna, bloomberg chief economist. It is hard to put these into perspective. Help me out. Morning. D these numbers point to immense disruption in the u. S. Economy, on a scale we really have not whichn recorded history, goes back to either world war ii or the great depression. ,o put some context around this this is far more than all of the job losses we saw during the Great Recession concentrated into a single month. If we take the job losses of the last nine recessions, lump them all together going back to the late 19