Plus an increase in News Coronavirus cases, declines are being led by tech. Microsoft, amazon and apple all sharply lower today. Thomas peterffy is the chairman of Interactive Brokers hes our closer today coming on the heeled of the tieup will he now sell his companies well ask hem later in the show. Clearly coronavirus, again still only down just over 1 the markets overreacting i think if you do the math, basically if you lieu that only represents about 1 of the earns of the company no indication that this is nothing but a shortterm problems lets get on the base stories. Seema mody Steve Liesman tells us what the fed is talking about. First, lets start with seema. That safe haven play is certainly evident in different parts of the market. One standout is shares of the post 5 a new record high, up 7. 6 certainly outperforming on a day. A pause in the u. S. china trade relations. According to our ceo deere did address the coronavirus, expecting freight costs in the Second Quarter relate
Know what kind of trade deal there is or if there is one, dont know if it will remove tariffs coming december 15th, or whether theyll reduce the level of tariffs of existing ones that are out there. Thats kind of a big issue you can see the effect we were flat to slightly down. As the tweet came out here, within 15 minutes, we were up almost 40 points the old closing high on the s p 500, 3153. We are comfortably in new closing territory if we stay anywhere in this area. And of course trade related names moved the most on this as always happens we saw nice moves in bank stocks, energy stocks, retailers, typical mover, materials, industrials, all of these are moving on trade related news whats more important, were starting to see significant individual stock breakouts this is what i look for. Obviously the top ten stocks of the s p 500, maybe 22, 23 of market cap, you want broader breakouts. Besides microsoft and apple, usual bunch of semiconductors moving to the up side. Some other once
Good morning Committee Members, im dr. Derek kerr, a whistleblower. An audit of the program is a good idea but it should not be a peer review audit. That would just buy into the biases and weaknesses that all Whistleblower Programs have. It would be important to get to an whistleblower advocacy organization, such as the Government Accountability project in washington d. C. One of the consultants could advise to the standards that a Whistleblower Program should have to meet the needs of the whistleblowers in the public. It needs to be an independent audit and not by the same folks. We heard a lot about the rising quantity of complaints, but i want to talk about the quality or value of those complaints. Since the inception, the Whistleblower Program has been plagued by minor complaints. The 20102011 civil grand jury found that 36 were true whistleblower complaints alleging fraud, waste, and abuse. Then the Whistleblower Program developed a Risk Assessment policy that was designed to tria
My kids have trouble accessing content in the textbook loaded online. Sometimes physics text. Its a good idea to be using online resources, but then it brings into question my concern around access to technology for students who are expected to do their instructional kind of work is loaded on google classroom or their textbooks are uploaded. My kids are sharing the concerns, but i dont know how other than a parent sharing with principal, how that would come back to you and then us. I want to raise a question because were moving online, a lot of the instruction is moving online and that its a funny space because its not a textbook per se, but it is the curriculum materials. Kids dont have access to if they dont have access to Laptop Computers or wifi. Its my understanding that we dont have a Technology Policy around access to curriculum. Do you know about that . Not know about that . Ive asked and it doesnt seem like we have an explicit policy around ensuring students have access to onl
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