,fficials warning protesters stepping up its rhetoric on that front. David one of the interesting things is how any people are demonstrating. One recruiter one reporter said it is fewer people, but they are more violent. Nejra we have seen this. Everberate through the markets youre seeing u. S. Futures negative now. They were positive earlier. The 10 year yield dropped 10 basis points last week. We are down to a 1. 69 handle. Session backodays about 1500 an ounce. David the one clear winner is gold for the last week or two. Morning brief. E we get cpi data, followed by china retail sales numbers. We get german gdp numbers. Thursday it is u. S. Retail sales for last month, and walmart reports earnings. Friday, the u. S. Reports Housing Starts for the last month. It is time for the bloomberg first take. We are joined by Brooke Sullivan in new york and Kristine Aquino with nejra cehic. Lets start with argentinas shock, a big defeat for mr. Macri in the primaries that suggests he may not g
Presentation that chris made. First of all, i have a question about whether it really is work putting in so much pesticide into the natural areas. And the fact is that i dont think that the numbers that weve showed on that graph for Pesticide Use are accurate. Going back to what i said in the database, just off the top of my head, there were two months of data missing in 2010. There was at least one month of data missing in 2013. There were three or four different reports that didnt get included in 2012. So, i think the database is working to its greater accuracy. I dont know if its there yet. Certainly at the little subset i looked at which was natural areas, its still not right. So, i cant speak to what happened before 2008 and 2009. Thats the earliest information that ive got. But certainly in the last few years the Natural Areas Program has been using a lot of pesticide and i understand why. Their job cannot be done without it. The question is, is that job worth doing . Is it worth
For any of these things. We could go through them each and talk about the market barriers or the barriers to each one of them and what we might do to overcome them. And if we were to focus on 100 renewable, thats a topic that youve become very familiar with. Energy efficiency, i could talk about that probably for a couple of days. Transportation would be harder for me okay. Im not a transportation guy. One of the things i would point out that cal was just saying, youve got the demand management side and then theres the making muni better side. And were not going to be able to get a mode shift if muni doesnt get the resources it needs to improve and expand its services. If it stays limited and you want to get on the bus its packed and the buses are bypassing you, you know, you cant shift mode. So, if muni is going to be a strategic part of achieving our mode shift goals. Thank you, commissioner. Director nutter. So, thanks, cam. I was wondering if you could talk a little about how the c
Start promoting green gas. So, the replacing the 100 renewable in our plan is going to be difficult. Now, there are some things that we can do around the edges. One of the slices there is bart 100 renewable by 2030. We can get them to go green, thats great. We have another 11 of the electricity that are direct Access Commercial customers where they could decide as businesses that the right thing for them to do is to go 100 green. So, if we can convince them, and that would be a voluntary activity on their part, that we might be able to reach another piece of the market. The question is how are we going to get to the rest of it. And thats a challenge thats been discussed at this commission and i know will be discussed in the future. So, im not going to go through each one of these parts. I will point out that urban forest is the light blue wedge at the top. Be great to see that expanded, or expanding any of these wedges. Some of them are under influence from the department of the enviro
Transportation to [speaker not understood] management . On your previous pie chart there was one slice for tdm and one slice for mode shift. Transportation demand management, i think thats it also includes pricing. Cal, you want to respond to that . Yes. So, Transportation Demand management a lot of the work our department does. So, its the car pool program, its ride sharing. Its gaunter benefits. As cal just mentioned, its sorry, managing demand. So, it can include congestion pricing. So, things we can do to lessen the demand for people driving alone. The mode shift is where we put all the policies that have to do with infrastructure investment. So, bike lanes, more muni buses, more lines for muni, things like that. So, in terms of better safer streets for pedestrians, so mode shift covers all those transportation infrastructure actions where demand management covers the more getting people just to not drive in the first place. In the report, this will be on table 2. Great, table page