He seems to be unmuted. There were problems. Commissioner scott are you unmuted thank you everyone for being patient. Well cap up with our technology. Can you hear me now . Yes. I heard everyone in test mode. Steven, can you hear me . Yes. Thank you very much. As the board is aware we annually engage in a selfevaluation for the board of directors and also an annual evaluation of the executive director. The Governance Committee met a week ago to review both documents as well as a time line for both processes. As you know, we initiate the selfevaluation first and then follow that four weeks later or so with the executive directors evaluation once we received the executive directors selfevaluation. In reviewing both documents, we did not make any changes in the executive director document. We did modify in the board selfevaluation document a couple of questions. We eliminated one question and we modified the wording on another. So those changes are contained in the attachments sent out in
He seems to be unmuted. There were problems. Commissioner scott are you unmuted thank you everyone for being patient. Well cap up with our technology. Can you hear me now . Yes. I heard everyone in test mode. Steven, can you hear me . Yes. Thank you very much. As the board is aware we annually engage in a selfevaluation for the board of directors and also an annual evaluation of the executive director. The Governance Committee met a week ago to review both documents as well as a time line for both processes. As you know, we initiate the selfevaluation first and then follow that four weeks later or so with the executive directors evaluation once we received the executive directors selfevaluation. In reviewing both documents, we did not make any changes in the executive director document. We did modify in the board selfevaluation document a couple of questions. We eliminated one question and we modified the wording on another. So those changes are contained in the attachments sent out in
The dollar gaining some ground after paring losses after that meeting. Fx sellinging asia off, especially the renminbi after reaching may 2019 highs. There are signs perhaps the currency is being overbought. Expecting boj, boe, and Bank Indonesia today. Those currencies and focus. Watching the bond market as well put it did not get adjustments on qe from the fed. We saw the 10 and 30 yield spike coming off a little now but that did lead to earlier the yield curve steepening and coming off a little. We are watching brent crude as well as wti. Also saw off some of the highs we saw overnight. There is optimism for demand but that is also losing some of those gains right now. Tom lets get you up to speed with some of the first word News Headlines and other stories. President trump says a Coronavirus Vaccine could be just tribute it widely as early as october, contradicting statements by some of his top health officials. The head of the centers for Disease Control and prevention told a Sena
I gave the place a massive facelift. Looks great. Man unbelievable. Lemonis and i gave the employees a 25 equity stake. You now have more ownership and authority than he does. But after seeing real growth, some parts of the business are now struggling. Dan we have 6,000 square feet. It is not busy enough. Lemonis and the problem may just be the staff. Why does he still work here . Dan its like pulling teeth to get him to do anything. Lemonis remember shulers . A tiny little roadside barbecue restaurant in South Carolina . Norton if the fat aint dripping on the coals, its not barbecue. Lemonis its still got charm, but its no longer so tiny. Oh, my gosh. I made one of my biggest investments. Its gonna be about 1. 9 million. But now the business may be so big that it might just be overwhelming my partners. You guys have zero experience in setting up a retail store. Zero. Ibuenos dias all ibuenos dias lemonis im back in miami to visit grafton, a fatherandson furniture business that looked
Was up by better than 5. 7 also watching whats been happening here with the treasury market in the United States. Keeping an eye on those things and youll see that right now at least it looks like a ten year is yielding 0. 689 just below that 0. 7 that we had the last couple of weeks. What was that i dont know. Im trying to explain this. I could make up a bunch of reasons. Because were reopening its the same thing over the weekend. New records were hitting the states where they were talking about more than 10,000 cases a day coming in and here you are watching the markets this morning saying yeah, okay. I was just listening to Worldwide Exchange and by the time he got done talking we should be at 10,000 on the dow look at whats happening and this, that, gaps here that are it can all end badly. At this point, this is really serious when you got this many people obviously that have passed away from the disease remember at one point i said we need a reality check i think that overall, may