Item two, announcements. The next regularly scheduled meeting will be held on january 7th, 2020, at 1 00 p. M. At city hall room 416. Please silencer Electronic Devices during the meeting. The ringing and use of cell phones or similar sound producing devices are prohibited be advised that the chair may order the removal from the meeting room of any persons responsible for the ringing of or use of a cell phone, pager or other similar sound producing electronic device. Announcement of time allotment for Public Comment, please be advised a member of the public has up to three minutes to make pertinent Public Comment on each agenda item unless the Commission Adopts a shorter period on any item. It is strongly recommended that members of the public who wish to address the commission fill out a speaker card and submit the completed card to the commission secretary. The next order of business is item three, report and actions taken at a closed session meeting. There are no reportable actions.
Carol and we hit the red carpet to celebrate the bloomberg 50. It is our annual list of those whose 2019 accomplishments stick out. Jason but first, the biggest ipo, saudi aramco. Shares surged to a market value of at their peak. 2 trillion carol a culmination of a fouryear effort from the kingdom. Talking about this, with a lot of questions. One thing to point out. Now it is publicly traded and it it is an ipo, a publicly held company, but only a small percentage, 1. 5 is out there in the public in terms of the company. Reporter the ipo has not turned out the way they expected it to happen. If you remember back to 2016 when they initially announced plans for the ipo, the plan was to sell as much as 5 of the company. What we really have to look at is what is the purpose of the ipo . It is seen as a means of diversifying saudi arabia away from its Oil Dependent economy, to raise money from International Investors and to deploy that on projects outside of the core energy industry. Valuat
We will discuss why the chipmaker chose now to release the information. And automation transportation. A selfdriving semi makes its first crosscountry freight run. We will hear from the company who performed this feat. But first to our top story. Stocks barely moved on the day as investors continue to wait for news on the potential december 15 tariffs. On the year, it is a different picture. Joining me to talk about this years big gains for stocks and tech in particular is abigail doolittle. The tech sector up 40 this year. S p up only 25 or so. Why are traders looking past all the tech macro headwinds . Abigail great question. Maybe climbing that wall of worry. Those gains are simply extraordinary. The s p 500 up only 25 . But it pales in comparison relative to tech, up 40 as you mentioned. Hardware doing especially well. Techs best sector since 2009. That was coming out of the financial crisis. At that point, stocks were on a bargainbasement sale. That is the kind of buying we are se
Federal government gets the count right, so weve created count sf to motivate all sf count to motivate all citizens to participate in the census. For the immigrant community, a lot of people arent sure whether they should take part, whether this is something for u. S. Citizens or whether its something for anybody whos in the yUnited States, and it is something for everybody. Census counts the entire population. Weve given out 2 million to over 30 communitybased organizations to help people do the census in the communities where they live and work. Weve also partnered with the Public Libraries here in the city and also the Public Schools to make sure there are informational materials to make sure the folks do the census at those sites, as well, and weve initiated a campaign to motivate the citizens and make sure they participate in census 2020. Because of the language issues that many Chinese Community and families experience, there is a lot of mistrust in the federal government and whe
Devices during the meeting. The ringing and use of cell phones or similar sound producing devices are prohibited be advised that the chair may order the removal from the meeting room of any persons responsible for the ringing of or use of a cell phone, pager or other similar sound producing electronic device. Announcement of time allotment for Public Comment, please be advised a member of the public has up to three minutes to make pertinent Public Comment on each agenda item unless the Commission Adopts a shorter period on any item. It is strongly recommended that members of the public who wish to address the commission fill out a speaker card and submit the completed card to the commission secretary. The next order of business is item three, report and actions taken at a closed session meeting. There are no reportable actions. The next order of business is item four, matters of unfinished business, there are none. The next order of business is item five, matters of new business consis