Reported a good quarter, but the Third Quarter guidance not needing the mark. Att stopped plunging 15 , the lows, down 18 . Its worst day since 2002. Another big story, we have been talking about silver. The spotlight today gold crossing above 1900 per ounce earlier. That haven asset, also you could say a derivative of fed liquidity on the others. Painting a risk out picture for all of this, we have the yen up for a second day. Dollaryen up 1 . That tells you investors are going into the yen, which is a true haven currency. Lots of pressures gritting this risk off picture. David it is not just the dollaryen. The u. S. Dollar is down overall. It is weakening. Is that right . Abigail yes. It has been down five of the last six days. One update was up ever so slightly. From a technical perspective it has been breaking down. A weak dollar is what happens when the fed pumps a lot of liquidity, easy money into the system. The fact you have the dollar week could suggest some traders may not li
Inclusion. It supports them and growth and mobility. Another area to think about is around testing. Each one of the presentations we saw major drop offs in regards to race and gender around testing. That is an area of concern we want more conversation about and think about strategies. We wanted to better understand budget line items in regards to equity. It is one thing to talk about equity. It is that we want to Work Together to put our money where our heart and mouth is. I want to understand how it is centered in the budget given the hearings next month and then lastly what kind of relationships are we fostering with communitybased organizations . They can help with hiring and recruitment needs. Those are the four or five areas from the office of Racial Equity that we are wanting to be a resource, partner and collobborrator on, to have more robust conversations about this hearing. I think all of our leaders have been very open and very clear eyed. They have been at the heart of a lot
Commander ford showed in the powerpoint. Its not as much increases in the applicant pool. We only hire about 5 or 7 percent of the applicants. We have lot of applicants to get at the end. Very small number of candidates actually get through the whole process. I think its important to say, i hope this isnt taken the wrong way. Background process is strenuous and its strenuous on purpose. We ultimately from the entire pool, it is a small percentage that ultimately gets in the door and we armed with our equipment and guns. I guess i was in background for many years. I remember early on, this was years ago, the underlying theme was that the background process, it is exclusive to a degree. Were looking for a certain type of individual who has certain mindset and heart to come in this organization and do this kind of work. This is a unique profession and it requires a very unique personality. Were very all organizations are very particular about who we ultimately hire. Obviously, the implica
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