Board will not take any formal action but looking forward to peoples comments and questions. Any people on the line, moderator . You have seven questions remaining. Chair borden okay, our first speaker, please. Caller hello. My name is joel kamisher, a School Crossing guard and a member of the sfciu 10 to 1 bargaining committee. We have been trying to talk about not outsourcing people to protect the city workers and im hearing that discussion about the flaggers and the pedestrian monitors. I wonder if we could use our own workforce, the parking control people and the crossing guards instead of having the contractors hire private people. I realize that the flaggers might have their own union, so maybe thats a problem. But im hoping that we can do other things to reduce the need of contract people to prevent layoffs . Thank you. Chair borden thank you, next speaker, please. You have six questions remaining. Caller hello, members of the board, my name is Hector Jimenez and im with the loc
The s p up 11 the dow up nearly 13 on pace for its best month since january of 1987. The nasdaq up about 12 . Check out the small caps because the russell 2,000 is up almost 21 in november alone. Thats the stock world but, melissa, our other favorite topic, bitcoin thats been moving a lot, too. Maybe joes favorite topic, at least bitcoin after recently hitting 16,000 were seeing it recoop some of those losses in recent days its up by almost 2 today, above 18,000, 18,540 guggenheim is reserving right for 5. 3 billion Macro Opportunities Fund to invest up to 10 in the Gray Scale Bitcoin Trust which is only invested in bitcoin and of course this follows many large investors including stanley drunken miller voiced support for this krip cro currency, joe. Yes, it has been getting traction interesting recent trading and good to see you, melissa and andrew its tough to come back from vacation, but having you here, melissa, i dont know, it just makes me feel very, very comfortable, happy my he
They can try to steal the election from us. The vote counting continues tonight. We heard from both president ial candidates this afternoon. Former Vice President joe biden is confident of a win, while President Trump claims fraud, though no votes have yet found to be illegal. Im ama daetz. Im dan ashley. Thank you for joining us. There are six states abc news has not called. Alaska, arizona, georgia, nevada, north carolina, and pennsylvania. Former Vice President joe biden has 253 electoral votes. President trump has 214. Remember, it takes 270 electoral votes to win. Lets zero in on whats happening in some of those key states, battleground states that have yet to be called. In georgia, President Trumps lead continues to slip. Its now just under 35,000 votes i should say, 3,500 votes. In nevada, the candidates are split by about 11,000 votes with a current tally favoring biden by less than 1 percentage point. Clark county which includes las vegas is expected to release results from 51
Take a hit. The covid consumer, walmart, home depot and kohls among retailers reporting earnings today. Walmart says ecommerce sales up 79 . And elon musks billions, tesla getting a spot in the s p 500. It is among the highest valued companies to ever enter the benchmark index and musk is on top to become number three, that is the third richest person in the world. Indeed, guys. Well start with the retail picture this morning, jim, youve been vocal as to the investor response on home depot and walmart. I guess thats related to the news out of amazon. Look, by the way, those stocks do tend to run up in the quarter and sell off thats nothing new a more aggressive amazon is always something we have to Pay Attention to i remember when amazon bought pill packs, the drug stores got killed i also point out that walmarts online david, thats not going to go away you can argue someone is going to argue thats the peak i would argue that amazon and walmart have taken so much share in this country,
You should scrappy thanksgiving travel plans, the senator who just tested positive for covid takes a stand, what does all of this mean for travel and tourism in the industry, april 11 ceo known internationally for its famed tours, equally is here on how he plans to deal with this latest blow, market is wrapping up the reek with one glittering start in particular, wait until you see what bitcoin is doing we have the dow down 135 and the s p, the nasdaq punted in the green of 12 points, breaking news, President Trump Just Announced two actions to lower drug prices, heres the first, he will require Drug Companies to pass discounts on to patients, not middlemen, those are called rebates, the middleman are called the pharmacy benefit managers, they are used to help the Drug Companies manage the situation and act as a middleman, he wants those rebates to be passed on to medicare and met him, the price drugs are the favored nations club and the prices that americans would pay would pass the l