Test. Test. Test. Test captions. Test captions. Test captions. Test. Test. Test. Test captions. Test captions. Test captions. Test. Test. Test. President yee good afternoon and welcome to the may 19, 2020 regular meeting of the San Francisco board of supervisors. Madam clerk, would you please call the roll. Clerk thank you, mr. President. [roll call] clerk okay. Mr. President , you have a quorum. President yee thank you, madam clerk. Please place your right hand over your heart. Would you please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance. [pledge of allegiance] president yee okay. On behalf of the board, i would like to acknowledge the staff at sfgov or sfgtv who record each of our meetings and make the transcripts available to the public online. Madam clerk, are there any communications . Clerk yes, mr. President. The record will reflect that since the declaration of local Health Emergency as a result of the covid19 disease, the members of the board of supervisors are participating
Worse. The chip index is down 1. 7 percent. A lot of those chipmakers receive revenue from china. We also have an index called the Golden Dragon china index down 2. 2 . Those are chinese firms listed in the u. S. Of course one of the triggers for this tension was the fact the senate did pass a bill that would move to d list to delist Foreign Companies in the u. S. Not saying it is targeting china, but that would be a piece of it. We she we see more weakness for the china related shares. David that is what we see in equities. What about bonds . What about commodities . Abigail it is not a different story. The bloomberg Commodity Index is down. Broadbased selling for the metals. Gold and silver down sharply. Oil was up a little bit. That is a divergence. A solid decline. Bonds are higher, so i risk off tone. What is also higher as the bloomberg dollar index. It will be interesting to see whether or not the risk off tone holds. Last year every other day it seemed we were talking risk on r
I really enjoyed it. It is a gripping story and well told. So my first question why did you decide to write this now . Was there something more you wanted to say, what motivated you . It was written to the young entrepreneurs know how hard it can be and how hard rewording it can be so that it offers an encouragement to think if i want to start my own business, i should do it. The other thing i wanted to do that before i got too old to remember because looking at this from when it dictated at the Stock Exchange and then going through all the technology was really an Inflection Point in the Financial Service industry and i wanted to tell the story from the inside so people would see the human aspect to it. Host so, the title the harder the work the luckier you get, is that tongueincheek or did you believe that . Guest sam is the one that put the phrase together but then as i was talking to the people at simon schuster, and of course it isnt about time and time again. It sounded like it s
Highs today, down about 2 . Trading volumes are down for the dow, s p, and nasdaq. Remember, we have a short trading week next week because of the memorial day holiday. It will be time to take a breather and plenty of people will be doing that. S put of 11 groups in the 500 closing in the red. The exception, industrials. Boeing and raytheon. Fromng to keep the dow falling as much as, say, the s p and nasdaq. Andre seeing some buying some of the beaten up areas, including small caps. Lets bring back dennis to. Ushehr of evercore isi in terms of data, highfrequency data will be top of investors minds. We do get some housing numbers tomorrow and there is anecdotal evidence that there are a lot more people interested in moving out of cities, certainly in the tristate area. Parts of that, that part of the economy still continuing. What is your view in terms of housing and how that will play out . It is one of the good aspects of the pandemic, that we went into this with an extremely strong
Butterfield, director of the fred w Swift National library. It is my pleasure to welcome you back here. And the Ford Motor Company each month sponsors a free book talk like this one. An opportunity for the community to come and learn from the greatest historians in the field. Thank you for being here tonight. We are thrilled to have to begin the program, im you. We will hear a brief hesitation from susan swain, copresident and chief executive officer of cspan. She will be joined by brian lam, the founder and executive chairman of cspan and moderating an esteemed group of historians discussing the american presidency. The american presidency is, as you know, a fascinating subject of inquiry in every possible way. [laughter] in the constitution, there is not much said about it. As you might imagine. Article one is quite long. Article two is quite shorter. As you can imagine, the executive power shall be vested in a president of the United States of america. Full stop. That is the first s