Losses early in the session after the ceo of russias Sovereign Wealth Fund told cnbc and moscow and saudi arabia are very close to an oil deal. Wti and brent are both coming off their best week on record. Not recent records on records ever all the way back to 1983 when they started tracking wti last week wti was up by 31. 7 . Up by 12 on friday alone. A meeting of Major Oil Producing Countries was delayed but still expected later this week that news just being told to cnbc that it looks like they are close to a deal. Andrew, ill send it over to you. Meantime, the latest on the pandemic the number of confirmed cases worldwide now totaling more than 1. 2 million. More than 330,000 of those are right here in the United States and more than a third of the u. S. Cases are in new york state. The death toll in america standing at more than 9600 overseas, british Prime Minister Boris Johnson was admitted to a hospital for tests a spokesman called it a precautionary test the Prime Minister test
Good afternoon, folks, this meeting will come to order. Welcome to the march 8, 2017 regular meeting to have rules committee. Im supervisor ahsha safai, chair of the committee, to my right is vice chair sandra lee fewer, supervisor, and on his way is supervisor norman yee, our clerk today is victor young, id ams like to thank jaok key larson and andy at sfgtv for staffing this meeting. Do you have any announcements. Please silence owl cell phone and is Electronic Devices, any documents to be included as part of the file should be submit today the clerk, items will appear on the march 14th supervisor agenda, eat ining the Public Gallery is not permitted. Thank you, mr. Clerk, please call the first three items together. Yes, item number 1, motion confirming reject thing mayors reappointment of Miguel Bustos to the Successor Agency commission for the unexpired portion of a four year term. Number 2, motion confirming, reject thing mayors reappointment of Leah Pimentel to to suck soesz sore
Yesterday as many people said the decks are so hot that their shoes were melting beneath their feet. Five people have died and many were injured among the 478 passengers and crew. Among the other stories we are watching today, sony says the Playstation Network is back online although it is still having problems. Playstation has been dealing with three days of disruptions that began on christmas and a group of hackers calling themselves the lizard squad is claiming credit. Speaking of sony its controversial movie the interview made 18 million in the opening weekend. And i think it was mostly independent theaters. The total was 15 million in online sales and another 2. 8 million in studio sales. The firm was purchased or rented online more than 2 million times on the four days through saturday. Four days after a competitor apple is now making the interview available on itunes. And in news watch today, oil clashes in libya smoking worries about supply from the opec member. A fire caused b
Chine chinese manufacturing pmi. Angela merkel wins a third tern as german chancellor. Some manufacturing numbers with weak. Apple selling a Record Number of its new iphones, recording that 200 million devices are now running ios 7. Leadership here and abroad changes the dow with the addition of nike, visa and goldman sachs. In germany, no change as chancellor Angela Merkel wins election shares of blackberry slipping. They expect a nearly 1 million dollop per rating loss will cut some of its workforce. A vint bid with private equity netflix shares, what else, they are higher. They did have a victory yesterday at the emmys well start with p ale. The tech giant announcing it sold 9 million new models. Apple says demand for the 5s has exceeded new supply. More than 200 million ios devices are running. Some estimates were close to five. Hard to be off by nearly 100 . The street has been getting apple wrong. The street should be listening to david pogue, to what the critics said. They were