There are a lot of Different Things and the messaging we get in the presser later this afternoon is it a one and done scenario or changing of the back and setting a new course for the direction of rates . The strength of the wage negotiation has been heralded by the government and economists and caught a lot of people by surprise and the question is if it trickles down to the Smaller Enterprises but today this is what we see the japanese yen Holding Steady and we expect it to stay like that ahead of the boj decision but equities a notch under pressure so far, they were benefiting from a weaker yen and we will see if that trend continues but lots of different areas and parts of the market that could benefit from the policy shift, banks, brokerages, smallcap stocks some of the things we are tracking here. Korea is coming online. The focus a bit of weakness coming through but we will be tracking tech stocks because we had tech news overnight, tesla saying they will raise the prices of som
As first peoples. Item 2, a approval of minutes and july 11, 2023 Port Commission meeting. So moveped. Second. We have a motion and second. All in favor . Aye. Any opposed . The motion passes unanimously. The minutes of the july 11, 2023 meeting have been approved. Item 3, pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic, for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Item 4, announcements. Please be adviceed the ringing of and use of cell phones and similar sound producing Electronic Devices are prohibited at this meetling. A member of the public has up to three minutes to make Public Comment on each item, unless the Port Commission adopts a shorter period. Public comment must be in respect to the current agenda item. The commission will take inperson and remote Public Comment on each item beginning in person. For remote Public Comment, dial 14156550001 and access code 26612350803 , t
System will notify you when you are in line. Callers will hear silence when waiting for your turn to speak. Operator will unmute. You may watch live at roll call. President morgan are running late Vice President fraser present. Commissioner nakajo present. Commissioner feinstein present and commissioner collins is also running late and jeanine nicholson, chief of department. Present remotely. And Vice President fraser will read will read land acknowledgement. Unceded ancestral homeland of the ramaytush rahmytoosh ohlone olonee who are the original inhabitants of the San Francisco peninsula. Responsibilities as the caretakers of this place, as well as for all peoples who reside in their traditional territory. Elders, and relatives of the Ramaytush Ohlone community and by affirming their sovereign rights as first peoples. Rights as first peoples. Thank you thank you speakers shall address their remarks to the commission as a whole and not to individual commissioners or Department Personn
Officials from the Veterans Affairs Department Office of information and technology spoke about workforce recruitment and retention, Cyber Security concerns and modernization efforts while testifying on the president 2025 budget request. This is about 1. 5 hours. I would like to call this hearing to order. Once again, testimony was delivered late, only three hours before the hearing. I have mentioned this before. I am starting to feel like i have walked into a brick wall. Congress always elicits testimony from the executive Branch Agencies and gives it great respect, even when we fiercely disagree. This exchange of views between the legislative branch and the executive branch is fundamental under the constitution. Ee. This exchange of views between the legislative branch and the executive branch is fundamental under the constitution. When the vas testimony is so late that we may not be able to read it in advance, that is disrespectful and it undermines this process. I urge witnesses wi
Can go. We are going to leave this here for live coverage of the house hearing on president bidens request for the 2025 budget. Officials are testifying. Live coverage on cspan for you. As mentioned in this hearing before, i am starting to feel like i have walked into a brick wall. Congress always elicits testimony from the executive Branch Agencies and gives it great respect, even when we fiercely disagree. This exchange of views between the legislative branch and the executive branch is fundamental under the constitution. When the vas testimony is so late that we may not be able to read it in advance, that is disrespectful and it undermines this process. I urge witnesses with all the people in all the layers of the va and the white house bureaucracy who wrote the testimony to do better, not just for this committees sake but for the benefit of all the veterans who ultimately will be impacted by this. Good afternoon. Today we will examine the biden administrations budget requests for t