Emergency and given the Public Health recommendations issued by the San Francisco department of Public Health, governor Gavin Newsome and mayor breed have lifted restrictions on teleconference. This meeting is being held virtually with all members and staff participating via teleconference. This will ensure the safety of sfers board, sfers staff, and members of the public. While this allows us to hold meetings via teleconference, it may not be as seamless as it normally would be. A reminder to the public to mute your microphones to minimize background noise. Madam secretary, roll call, please. [roll call] clerk we do have a quorum. President bridges . Thank you, madam secretary. At this time, the board will be going into closed session. The board will begin with general Public Comment, but no earlier than 2 00 p. M. Well take Public Comment ongoing into closed session at this time. Madam secretary, please open the phone lines. Clerk members of the public who wish to provide Public Comm
Waters heading for venezuela as you can see now in the video youre about to see it from a corner here theres a naval warship there a venezuelan able warship and its literally escorting its escorting this ship there it is see it right there and in the foreground now why would an oil tanker need to be escorted by a gunship now the reason is simple the United States has threatened to stop the tankers to keep them from reaching venezuela a country where citizens are waiting in line now were told for sometimes more than a day because there is a shortage there of fuel so this might be a little bit confusing for some of you who are just catching up on the story but let me let me take you through this here is a map of the 5 ships that are making their way toward iran and there you see im going to run all the way over here i mean this is plum across the world right the 1st 2 ships the fortune and the forest right here theyve already reached they were arrived at the venezuelan ports the remainin
Time for Global Exchange and bring you todays market moving news from around the world from hong kong to frankfurt to london to new york and washington. Our bloomberg voices are on the ground with this mornings top stories. Were going to start with the latest in asia. Trade uncertainty appeared to take its toll on china. The countrys economy losing more steam in october, factory input and fixed asset sales missing estimates and joining me from hong kong is bloombergs chief asian economics correspondent. Give me the rundown of the data weve got. It was a mix across the board with a slump in investment and industrial output miss expectations and on the retail spending part of things we saw the weakness go from auto and turnt and cuggetting the consumer is starting to book now none the pressure of trade war and slowing economy. There were two big takeaways from economists and onen one hand the numbers suggest were probably looking at 6 growth in this Current Quarter and probably shows the
Rtx in the mix up 7 due in large part to a 10 billion Stock Buy Back Program overall. The former raytheon, of course, higher after those results now. We are going to hear from those ceos and get the traders take on some of those names, specifically those names coming up in our three stock lunch. Now, we are also looking ahead to some key results after the closing bell today. Namely, tech giants. Microsoft and alphabet, i guess technically its communications services. Still, though, you get the point. Two companies with immense influence on the overall market. And by the way, shares of trance union hit a sixyear low, right now on pace for its worst day ever. Trans union stock the company gets its guidance cut due to weakening macro environments saying lenders are tightening lending. Right now transunion shares lost roughly a quarter of their value just so far intraday today. That feels like a pertinent number for the markets. Trouble developing for meta. More than 40 attorney generals,
Strategic and international studies. Those still in the hall, come on in. Look forward to having you here. My name is john henry. Im president at csis. My role today is entirely ornamental. Just to welcome all of you and to say how thankful i am to matt greene is here, bill lin will be with us later. You have made it possible for us to do the Global Security forum and we appreciate the opportunity. We have got a real lineup to a real lineup. We have the chairman of the joint chiefs coming. All six of the vice chiefs for the military services pit it is going to be a good day. The first panel is going to be a Stellar Group and we want to say thank you to michelle and tom and jennifer. Thank you for moderating. Kari is the genius who has been pulling this together. She picked the topic gathering storm. It refers to Winston Churchills famous autobiography really of the interwar period and how it was building up to what became the tragedy of world war ii. We dont want to imply that we are h