Mr. Timmons it sounds good. I am jay timmons, ceo of the National Association of manufacturers. We had a great meeting with the president and Vice President , and we were able to deliver news to the president. Every quarter, the National Association of manufacturers surveys our 14,000 members, and the survey is about their outlook on the economy and on the success of their business. For the first time in many, many years, we had an uptick in optimism among manufacturers, 93. 3 positive. To put that in perspective, one year ago the number was 56 positive. To also put it in perspective, it is the highest number for optimism we have seen in our survey in the entire 20 years we have been conducting the survey. Another data point that we found to be very interesting that we were able to share with the president is the righttrack, wrongtrack number, from the perspective of manufacturers. A month before he came to office, the righttrack number was a very low 26 . The last survey showed that t
Afternoon. Welcome to our special budget and finance Committee Meeting of monday december 5, 2016. Im katy and chair thg team and to my left is normal yee. Our clerk is linda wong and sfgovtv like to thank leo [inaudible] derek. Please silence cell phones and electronic devices. Complete speaker cards and document to be included as part of the file should be submit today the clerk. Thank you. Today we have item 1, so if you can please call item 1. Orbd nons approving and authorizing the exectv director of port of San Francisco to execute project agreement with army corp of engineering to allow dredging of Central Basin by pier 70, not to exceed 2. 2 million for project cost and port providing a 10 percent matching share nod to exceed 900,000 of the Central Basin payable over the 30 years for matching fair from the port not to exceed 3. 1 million. Thank you we have the port staff here to explain why we are here on a monday for the item. Yes. Good afternoon supervisors. [inaudible] proje
Quarter progressed really hit the company among all these retail concerns. Joe an ugly day all around, Consumer Staples losing, Consumer Discretionary energy being one area that was positive. In looking for companies or sectors that did not decline, take a look at that xle. Oil and Gas Companies make up the only sector that did not drop. This was along with oil prices. Also, Transportation Needs seemed to decline. Shipper reaffirmed its guidance, but Rising Oil Prices ending t demand, improve their oil barge business. Joe in the Government Bond arena, weve been watching a spread between the two year and year at its ten flattest level since late 2007. 210 spreadsheet continuing to flatten out today. Data, thehat cpi housing start pushing the dollar firmer against the yen. Perhaps a sign that investors are cutting back on negativity surrounding the dollar. Joe on the commodity front, we mentioned Energy Stocks. One of thing down today, milk prices. This is good news if you like serial, d
Would you spend the majority of your day doing . That is a tough question because each day is different. I spent a majority of the time working with the publishers of what books are acquiring. With the future in the organization but i spend as much of my time there. How many books sold last year or water their revenues were give us a sense of how big. To give a sense of scale their five publishers that our pretty big. The second is harpercollins third decided Schuster Simon schuster. The last three are within 100 million of revenue of each other all pretty close to the same size. With two really big companies. But a unique feature is of the smallest title towns. We are followed by a substantial number of mitt mellon and grant dove publishing. And then to be selective in of that whole experience that is a unique strength. As of publicly traded company . Our revenues heard 600 million but just acquired perseus that is a 90 million company. That sells like a lot but if you compare that th