[roll call] clerk madam president , all members of the commission are present. Item number 2 is the pledge of allegiance. [pledge of allegiance] clerk clrk item number 3 is the approval of minutes for the august 25, 2020 special meeting. So moved. Second. President brandon all in favor, roll call vote. [roll call] president brandon motion passes unanimously. The motion of august 25, 2020 [inaudible]. Clerk item number 4 is announcements. Please be vised that a member of the public has up to three advised that a member of the public has up to three minutes to make pertinent Public Comments on each agenda item unless the Court Commission adopts a shorter period on any tight. Please note that during the Public Comment period, the moderator will instruct dialin participants to such a tonetone phone to register their desire for Public Comment. Audio prompts will signal to dinein participants when their audio input has been enabled for commenting. Please dial in when the item you wish to com
Heidel stre zb. Okay. This is the meeting of the San Francisco Port Commission on september 8, 2020. The meeting was called to order at 3 15. [roll call] clerk madam president , all members of the commission are present. Item number 2 is the pledge of allegiance. [pledge of allegiance] clerk clrk item number 3 is the approval of minutes for the august 25, 2020 special meeting. So moved. Second. President brandon all in favor, roll call vote. [roll call] president brandon motion passes unanimously. The motion of august 25, 2020 [inaudible]. Clerk item number 4 is announcements. Please be vised that a member of the public has up to three advised that a member of the public has up to three minutes to make pertinent Public Comments on each agenda item unless the Court Commission adopts a shorter period on any tight. Please note that during the Public Comment period, the moderator will instruct dialin participants to such a tonetone phone to register their desire for Public Comment. Audio p
Hackett was brought in, he was a board member, previously he had done a great job at steel case the Office Furniture company in michigan and when he came in and he said, look, we are going to transform ford, get it ready for the future for Autonomous Vehicles, for electric vehicles. That hasnt happened ford has been mired in really not being making the move that its needed to make since 2017 they are starting to change that a little bit some of that because of the moves that jim farley has made as coo, he becomes the ceo effective october 1st and the marching orders are pretty clear. Transform this company, get ready for a future with electric vehicles, Autonomous Vehicles at some point, not immediately, but at some point, but, guys, this is the most interesting stat that i can find. If you go back over the last, what, 20 years, 19 years, only one ceo at ford, alan malaly posted a positive gain in ford shares there you see hacketts performance since may of 2017, down 38 , similar to fi
It was the big gainer. It closed at an alltime high. Tech has been leading the way. Sales force, facebook, taketwo and qualcomm at record highs you have to watch one stock in particular apple. After more than 10 gain on friday and thursday night, it closed up 2. 5 to an alltime high percentages away from hitting the 2 trillion market cap that 4 to 1 stock split is hit that price has to sit 477 not far off. Weve been talking about the pressure that has been put on yields in the treasury market. Right now, the 10year note at 0. 45 . Scott . Becky, im listening to you talk about tech and these companies. We have to get ready to talk nasdaq 11,000. As crazy as that would sound, we are on the doorstep. In spitting distance, basically. Unbelievable. Largy carri largely carried by these big five apple, amazon, facebook and alpha bes alphabet and microsoft looking back in march, would you have thought we would be talking nasdaq 11,000 by summer . No way. There is reason for it if you look at s
Nasdaq, back up there another 11point gain. Now, Interest Rates, that was the trigger this week. The market is predicting three rate cuts this year. Up goes the market. Picture this. Speaker pelosi addresses a closed door meeting of House Democrats. She comes down hard on the young radicals. You got a problem, bring it to me, she says. That did not go down well. Aoc fired back. The speaker is quote, outright disrespectful to singling out women of color. Its a fight with race and gender thrown into the democrat divide. Action in the gulf. Iranian gun boats try to take over a British Oil Tanker. A British Navy Ship stopped it. The price of oil, i believe right now its back at, yes it is, 60 a barrel, 60. 59 per barrel. Lots of factors pushing oil up today. Records on wall street and an intruder at Buckingham Palace . You get it all on Varney Company which is about to begin. Stuart watch out in new orleans. Heavy rain, flash flood, emergency in new orleans. There might be a hurricane on t