Personally, if i may fast track, id like to understand the past and how we did this in the past. Ive been asking questions all week on how the procedure is, you know, and ive been getting good answers back. So, but if i may, if i could get john to interject. We had a quick conversation during the week. The first thing is i wanted the commissioners to understand what we talk about in public when it comes to this and what the closed sessions will consist of. And also maybe if you could talk, it would be best if you could remember, kind of outline to the commission what his memory was of how this proceeded the last time when we were looking for a new direct r for the department. John malmed from the City Attorneys office. The laws regarding closed session set up pretty limited circumstances when the commission can meet in closed session and what is appropriate to discuss during that time. There is something thats referred to as the personnel exception, which is an opportunity to go into c
Tomorrow in las vegas, and the biggest, best, newest and coolest stuff in electronics will be on display. Google gets a break from the federal trade commission but not so fast in europe. The European Union is also investigating whether google hurt rivals by manipulating internet searches. The e. U. Says its probe continues. If found guilty, the search giant could be fined billions of dollars. And its an etf freeforall. Exchange traded funds are becoming the investors choice over mutual funds. Data for the first 11 months of last year show 10s of billions of dollars more were poured into the lowerfee funds. Nearly 120 billion was taken out of stock funds, while etfs total amount climbed to 154 billion. It was a banner week for the first week of the year. Is dan haugh of pti securities cashing in and heading to hawaii . Well, it seems that way. We certainly had a good week. The iwm, the russell 2000, went up 5 3 4 in a four day week. So that is a pretty good week last week. Were you a li
Im katty kay with Christian Fraser on capitol hill in washington. We on capitol hill in washington. Apologise for being 6 as we apologise for being a little late as christian was having a nap after as christian was having a nap after a very long a few days. Not true, we had a few technical problems. On the night before the us senate votes in his impeachment trial, donald trump came to capitol hill and reminded americans why hes such a divisive figure. His state of the Union Address began with republicans chanting four more years and democrats walking out early in disgust. Welcome to Campaign Season 2020. The president touted a litany of his economic achievements, several of which were disputed by fact checkers. He made direct appeals to groups of voters who might help him win re election suburban women, manufacturing workers, even African Americans. This was more Campaign Rally than state of the union. Heres our north america editorjon sopel. Paradoxically, the standout moments from th
Culprit earnings in spain, the situation of the Banking Sector across europe, people worry that the Big Decisions havent been taken to stabilize the economy. What the italian election indicates is the anxiety about by people that the mix of policy isnt right. Personally, i think that the euro has been, in one sense, stabilized by the actions of the European Central bank over the past year or so, but as well as the liquidity problem, weve still got a solvency problem, and above all, weve got a growth problem. If we dont get the growth figures up, were in trouble. Thank you for joining us on squawk box on cnbc. Okay. Thank you. Guys, back to you. Michelle, thank you. That was a great interview. Thanks for letting us listen in on that. Folks, make sure you join us on monday with Warren Buffett starting at 6 00 a. M. Eastern time. That does it for us today. Right now its time for squawk on the street. Good friday morning. Welcome to squawk on the street. Im melissa lee with carl quintanill