The bottom as investors are skeptical about its turnaround plan good morning tgif lets look at the stoxx 600 this morning. Off by 0. 3 . This as the global bond rout continues and it is affecting equity markets yesterday the european markets hit an 11week low ahead of the ecb minutes. Were on track to end the week flat lets show you the markets one by one all the major markets are in the red. Xetra dax off by 0. 3 . Ftse 100 off by a similar percentage one of the worst performers sector by sector, oil and gas is underperforming dramatically today this is in part because oil and gas stocks are lower on the back of Oil Prices Falling quite significantly. Wti crude back below 45. Brent crude off by 1. 6 . This is on the back of a rise in u. S. Output. That seems to be outweighing news yesterday of falling inventories. Just want to draw your attention to the fact that youre watching live pictures in hamburg where protesters are gathering to demonstrate around the g20 summit as leaders have
Consider the nomination of mr. David cotter to serve as assistant secretary of treasury for tax policy. Mr. Cotter, welcome to the finance committee. We appreciate your willingness to appear before us today. We also appreciate your willingness to serve in this capacity. And im sure that the significance of this position at this crucial time is not lost on you. Its not lost on any member of this committee. Tax reform has been a major focus of our committee for some time now and we are grateful to have you here to discuss your thoughts on these matters. On a number of occasions, i stated my view that president ial leadership will be a key component to any successful tax reform effort. Just the last week i quoted president obama in a speech on the senate familiar back in 2012. He said things like, quote, our current Corporate Tax system is outdated, unfair and inefficient, unquote. The problem was that president obama never really got around to truly leading out on tax reform. I expect mo
Against the humanity of Chinese Government taking large numbers of practitioners and stealing their organs and selling for profit. For more than a decade of time the Chinese Government has been trying to try hard to push this persecution against theoutside the border of china. Rose pat rated huge role in the city of San Francisco to help to extend this persecution into this city. Im not here to talk about those packs personal political opinions aboutim talking about the biddings hate crimes taking place on the street of San Francisco. Im talking about the incidence and discrimination events taking place in our local society because of the effort of rose pat. So rose pat stewart is totally against the values which the city of San Francisco stands for. I know youre not congress. I know youre not the state department. China is far its on the other side of the Pacific Ocean but here in this case, its not a geographical instance of thats important. Its important the value of San Francisco.
L gordon and buck and others this was a labor of love sometimes a very peaceful a lot but you guys made that happen we appreciate that and our architect an amazing joint effort between solt solomon. Prescott sanchez and societies they worked together well bruce we want to thank naomi and peter noon and i think thats our crew from the architects they did an amazing job not an easy project to coordinated but one of the things that the city and county takes an amount of prides and he certainly merry 1 00 when we opposite side one of the buildings in a neighborhood the goal no idea which one is the favorable i can tell you from the fact every time we open your building with the ocii we have lots of people want to know how to rent our Affordable Housing units and people are shocked they cant sdwisht difference our partnering not only with the agencies decide this is the hallmark of work in california to make sure we make sure were building the heist quality building for everyone involved so