Good monday morning welcome to squawk squawk im jon fortt with Carl Quintanilla and julia. Were in the final stretch of 2020 were focused on two big ipos, airbnb and doordash. Airbnb is bouncing back strong doordash saw demands surge both of those companies seeing encouraging demand for shares and to define the future of the gig and sharing economies. Leslie picker has the latest on the ipo process. Its important to underscore the rarety of this level of issuance in a single week. Excluding spacs, were expecting to see more than 7 billion worth of ipos this week. Since the start of 2014, only three other weeks have surpassed that kind of volume. Most recently, in mid september there was, if you remember, there was a big week of software debuts unity, jay frog went public. The only week thats saw greater issuance was in may of 2019 when uber went public and then september 2014 when alibaba went public what is different this time, though, is that the billions of dollars in new stock is c
China sea. The talks cover the pact under which both countries are obligated to respond to an armed attack against their territories. Translator president elect biden has told me that hes committed to the application of article v of the japan u. S. Security treaty to the senkaku islands. Mr. Biden also told me he looks forward to working together to strengthen the japan u. S. Alliance and also move towards peace and stability in the indopacific region. Japan controls the islands. China and taiwan claim them. The japanese government maintains the islands are an inherent part of japans territory in terms of history and international law. It says theres no issue of sovereignty to be resolved over them. The pair also discussed plans to combat the coronavirus and the importance of tackling climate change. Suga plans to visit washington as soon as possible to meet biden in person. Now, as biden carries on with matters of diplomacy, President Donald Trump refuses to concede. He appeared in pu
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Thanhello, everyone. The meeting will come to order, this is the rescheduled budget and finance committee meeting. Im sandra lee fewer, the chair, and im joined by supervisors walton and supervisor handelman. I thank the sfgovtv for broadcasting this meeting. Madam clerk, any announcements . Clerk to protect the Board Members and the employees and the public, the board of supervisors legislative chamber and Committee Room are closed, and they will participate remotely. This precaution is taken pursuant to the local and state and federal orders, declarations and directives. The Committee Members will attend through Video Conference and participate in the meeting to the same extent as if they were physically present. Public comments will be available on each item on this agenda and both channel 26 and sfgovtv. Org are streaming the number across the screen. Each speaker is given two minutes to speak. The opportunity to speak during the Public Comment period are available by calling 1 415
Chair peskin welcome to the land use and Transportation Committee today, september 21, 2020. I am chair aaron peskin, joined by supervisor ahsha safai and supervisor dean preston. Our clerk is miss erica major. Miss major, could you please make any announcements. Clerk yes. Due to the covid19 pandemic, city hall and board rooms are closed. Committee members will attend through Video Conference and participate in the meeting to the same extent as if they are physically present. Public comment will be available on each item of this agenda. Depending on your provider, you can watch the meeting on cable channels 26, 78, or 99 or sfgov. Org is streami sfgovtv streaming the number across the stream. The number is 4156550001. The meeting i. D. Is 1462832975. Press pound, and pound again. When connected, you will hear the meeting discussions, but you will be muted and in listening mode only. When your item of interest comes up, please press star, three to be added to the speaker line. Best pra