The euro is trading lower, we had the ecb yesterday, down. 1 . This is the dollar versus the rent, but when it comes to the dollar versus the rand, moodys, the last country to have an the last company to have an Investment Grade on south africa, this Investment Plan doubles the investment to appropriations to that company, could end up being credit negative. A big move on the south african rand. Slowing in the First Quarter, but not as much as analysts expected, with the headline number for consumer spending, pushing gd pregrowth gdp growth to 2. 1 . Discuss here to discuss is our chief bloomberg u. S. Economist. Core pce was disappointing, and the deflator as well. That definitely tainted the report slightly, but what i think is most important at this point, the economy is growing above trend, right . Bettercent growth is than the feds long run estimate of 1. 9 growth. If you are growing at that pace, that tells you although there is not strong pressure on the economy, you will see Un
Government can make a positive difference in the lives of San Francisco residents so really excited to take a moment to acknowledge and thank all of the folks who make the city run so well. I also like to [applause] i also like to acknowledge and thank our elected officials who are joining us this evening. San Francisco City attorney david chui. [applause] assessor recorder joaquin florez. Treasurer Tax Collector jose is former City Attorney dennis indiscernible and current general manager for sfpuc. [applause] and of course San Francisco very own mayor london breed, please join me in welcoming mayor london breed to the stage. [applause] alright good evening everyone it is so great to be here and after work hours never the less. Drinking in city hall, hanging out with our friends and family, and just taking a moment to pause and reflect on all the extraordinary work that so many of you have done and will continue to do for the city and county of San Francisco. In fact, i know we have s
[inaudible conversations] im looking for someone to give me a thumbs up here. So im just going to assume that we have achieved conditions for launch. So were going to go and try to follow an excellent set of keynote addresses from duelling Foreign Ministers, secretary of states, and outlined the session well. I know i speak for the entire panel and really want to make a strong contribution to this really important event here today in washington. To try to keep up with, again, the secretary and foreign minister, we do have an allstar panel to kick this off and i am going to go through their bios very, very briefly, the truncated version. Theyre famous already, and look online for their storied past and were going into the future. And left to right, i wasnt told that i would be in the middle. Ambassador Kathy Stevens to start. Everybody knows kathy, currently the president and ceo of kei, chair of the Korea Society, a fantastic gala last week up in new york. Former ambassador to the Unit
Then we would understand the burden we p put on the backs of small businesses. A couple things you would see in my bill not our plan is immediate expensing that accelerates the path of more Resources Available immediately for small businesses. The secondo say thing you would do is cut taxes. We did that in 2017. 2017. In 2017 that was one01 of the three wee believe this at the point and you can watch it in full cspan. Org. We take you live now to a forum looking at the use Korea Alliance. It is being hosted by the center for strategic and International Studies you will hear from secretary of state Antony Blinken and maryland senator chris van hollen. You are watching live coverage on cspan2. The cree Foundation Fred kempe is here dash that weve had this conference and its always been for me to highlight and is always been very important probably never as important as it is this year when you think that everything that is going on. Weve got, well, we dont really know whats going on in c
Then we would understand the burden we p put on the backs of small businesses. A couple things you would see in my bill not our plan is immediate expensing that accelerates the path of more Resources Available immediately for small businesses. The secondo say thing you would do is cut taxes. We did that in 2017. 2017. In 2017 that was one01 of the three wee believe this at the point and you can watch it in full cspan. Org. We take you live now to a forum looking at the use Korea Alliance. It is being hosted by the center for strategic and International Studies you will hear from secretary of state Antony Blinken and maryland senator chris van hollen. You are watching live coverage on cspan2. The cree Foundation Fred kempe is here dash that weve had this conference and its always been for me to highlight and is always been very important probably never as important as it is this year when you think that everything that is going on. Weve got, well, we dont really know whats going on in c