To go around. Crisis, crisis, ladies and gentlemen, thats giving everyone a giant hangover. Well explain as power lunch begins now. Welcome to power lunch. The dow moving lower again today. Take a look. The Dow Jones Industrial arch now, its lower by 34 points and we were roughly 95 points away from the dow 20,000 level. There are still some notable standouts in the broader market. Nvidia, microsoft hitting record highs, melissa. Heres what else is happening at the hour. Freddie mac says the average rate is 4. 3 . Boeing says it delivered its 500 dream liner jet and a major winter storm is closing in on the plains. It could bring blizzard like conditions by christmas day. A busy two hours as we kick it off with a news alert. What were watching, shares of Energy Transfer partners. The big pipeline operator. They are moving higher. The brief spike just about now. On heels of dow jones headline, saying private equity firm blackstone is possibly in talks to take a stake in assets. Not the
Solid, more than 11 million jobs have been created over the past eight years. The most recent employment reports show that at the end of 2016 the Unemployment Rate was 4. 7 that was the lowest level to end the year in a decade and less than half of the roughly 10 peak in 2009. Wages rose at their fastest clip since the Great Recession last year something American Workers have been waiting a long time for. December 2016 almost marked the 75th straight month of job creation the longest streak in the 75 years that they have been reporting. And americans quitting their jobs is rising. Confident that they can find a new better paying job quickly. The numbers look good. While every american is benefiting. Job growth has been concentrated in some industries more than others and in some parts of the country more than others. And also because the development of new technologies. So we decided to look at not just the quantity but the quality of those newly created positions. The nations employme
Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen, id like to call the meeting to order. Good afternoon. Welcome this is the this is the regular meeting of the fullfledged Board Meeting for the sfers sfers to my left is vice chair brian and please rise and join me by placing our raise your hand over our hearted for the pledge of allegiance pledge of allegiance pledge of allegiance the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you mr. Clerk good afternoon call the roll that commissioner cohen commissioner bridges commissioner casciato commissioner driscoll commissioner makras is out of town not expected today and commissioner paskinjordan commissioner stansbury we have quorum can you call item 3. Closed session an action item thank you very much lets see go ahead to take Public Comment seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Ladies and gentlemen, were going to go into closed session and resume at the 2 30 thank you. All right. Good afterno
Town not expected today and commissioner paskinjordan commissioner stansbury we have quorum can you call item 3. Closed session an action item thank you very much lets see go ahead to take Public Comment seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Ladies and gentlemen, were going to go into closed session and resume at the 2 30 thank you. All right. Good afternoon, everybody were ready to resume id like to take a motion not to disclose what was discussed in closed session. So moved. Thank you, thank you motion made by commissioner stansbury and seconded by commissioner driscoll i want to recognize the house has changed roll call vote yes. Commissioner driscoll. Commissioner stansbury okay present thank you. Okay. Great. Thank you thank you very much all right. Folks welcome back i want to thank sfgovtv for broort this meeting i want to recognize our new member commissioner casciato who is returning to the board sworn in tuesday yesterday afternoon and just want to formally welcome you to th
New fears of a bubble. Haidi beijing and washington prepare for top level talks over tensions and trade in north korea. Rishaad the secretary of the state turning up the heat on pyongyang, saying the gears of patients are over. Lets look at the markets, no trading in tokyo. , some data coming through, reaction to house price numbers out of china. Also the followthrough on this trip by secretary of state Rex Tillerson. That a lot to impact from tillerson visit. , currencies seems to be off the agenda and that g20 communicate. Forwonder what that means that fear of a currency war between the u. S. And china. We are 30 minutes away from the we are 30 minutes away from the open end the mainland and in hong kong. Sophie we do have new zealand stocks leading the drop, voice for the biggest fall since november, down 1. 2 . Aussie shares are snapping a four day advance. The yeartodate rally is a repricing for an oldschool economic recovery led by shipments to the u. S. Take a look at currencie