Public comment. Reminder to all participants to mute themselves to minimize background noise. Please note gray indicates unmuted. This is caption test. Use the live item 5 action item. Of the august 12, 2020 retirement Board Meeting. Its a motion for the august 12, 2020 Board Meeting. So moved. Madame president we received a request to the Administrative Changes to the minutes. She made Public Comment and we indicated she represented the retired employees. She would like the title of her organization to be spelled out in the minutes. I would propose that we make that one correction on page 9 [indiscernible]. Sorry for the interruption. Ill second it. Accept the change. Moved and seconded. Well adopt the minutes with the requested changes and accepted by executive director huish. At this time well take Public Comment. Thank you. Callers, if you have not already done so press star 3 to be added. For those already on hold please continue to wait until the system indicates you have been un
Headline out of china, also a lot of focus on the dismal earnings we have had from Certain Companies and dismal economic data. China considering dropping the numerical gdp growth target for 2020. This is like a company saying it is difficult to forecast so we will not tell you. It happens in the corporate world and not usually with the country, certainly as big as china. I dont know if this will have implications for renminbi. The chief executive of alianza said we are underestimating the impact this will have on the yuan. Tom a shout out to Carl Weinberg who aggressively stated a month ago, forecast your economics as possible. It is possible we need first word news in new york city. Ritika President Trump is ramping up his push to reopen the country, saying americans should return to their everyday lives even if that leads to more sickness and death. He spoke in phoenix and may disband the white house tax form stearate tax force steering the government response to the outbreak. The e.
Markets pointing to lower opening. Major averages. Take a look. The nasdaq lower by 65, the s p lower lower by 34 after the markets rallied last week, the dow, nasdaq and s p 500 second straight week of gains with market up on the session as you can see about 2 higher on the dow industrials for week. Oil prices having a rough morning, take a look at this. Taking a steep dive as the coronavirus slams demand. Crude oil now at 13. 54 a barrel. Holding china responsible, questions are swirling this morning about the origins of the virus. Chinas lack of transparency. Congressman andy barr to investigate chinas handling of the pandemic. Mornings with maria begins now. Noble markets look like this. Germany taking a step with reopening the economy. Some stores. The white house is allowing some companies to delay payments of import tariffs if they can demonstrate significant financial hardship, tariffs on chinese goods are not included in the interruption of the white house tariff program. In a
Because the Senate Just Passed another 500 billion bailout. Bailout, lets say of the last bailout. As we quickly ran out of money thats why the dow surged 457 points s p soared 2. 29 nasdaq 2. 81 house of pleasure Payroll Protection Program was supposed to be for Small Business, right . In the end a ton of that money ended up going too big businesses, Public Companies that was a back rub and sing i feel like a chump. I guess i should be more cynical about politics, just trying to help Small Business. However, if you ask me, that wasnt really the big story of whats going on. See, theres something bubbling underneath right now under the surface. And if anything, it makes me want to be less cynical about corporate america. Thats right corporate america. See, this market is rewarding businesses that have foresight and originality and most importantly, heart i dont want to sound too sappy, i dont know how else to put it. The stocks of good corporate citizens are thriving here mark benioff,
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