The Homeland Security secretary testified before the Security Committee on the 2025 budget request and the hearing entered before the house delivered two impeachment articles against him to the senate in both of those were later dismissed. [inaudible conversations] the committee will come to order. Without objection the committee may recess at any point. Good morning, secretary mayorkas, and thank you for the committee will come to order and without objection the committee may recess at inany point. Good morning, secretary mayorkas, and thank you for joining the committee to discuss the budget that you and the president have put forth for the department of Homeland Security and on march 1 the department celebrated its 21st anniversary. I want to thank the Public Servants throughout dhs to dedicate their lives to securing the homeland in this work is vital that the safety of the nation and the security. When you took the oath of office, you swore to support and defend the constitution o
Today. I should tell you if we take a look at the indices, you have the ftse 100 bouncing back a little bit from last weeks weakness putting in the worst week in performance given the clues about. The dax is up this morning now overall europe is doing pretty well. Also thanks to the psi 20. The portuguese index not an index that will usually focus on its up by roughly 1. 6 . Port few gall has returned be to investment grading after 5. 5 very long years. Take a look at the portuguese yield tumbling roughly the lowest in the year s p the first of the big three Credit Ratings or agencies to look portugal back to an Investment Grade now deutsch bank ceo says market volatility may be higher than people think and low Interest Rates will keep hurting bank profits he spoke exclusively to nancy. Volatility is actually higher so when you price an option or the market prices an option, its using applied volatility thats been very low for technical factors, just buying and selling futures options.
Nasdaq up by almost 10 points. S p down by a point. This comes after the markets closed at record highs again the longest streak of record closes for the s p 500 in years, going back to 97 or something and its six in a row, but remember two weeks ago and three weeks ago and four weeks ago, we were saying how many records there were back then this one didnt start until last thursday so the one that takes us back to 1997 it was 130 points yesterday on the dow or 113 after all these moves. 22,775, almost 23,000 on the dow. The s p 2552 and since the election, its 24 . 25 since the election 25 after yesterday widely predicted by so many if you want to see what happened overnight in asia, lets look the nikkei was up by 0. 3 , similar gain for the hang seng the kospi was up by 0. 9 in the early trading were already seeing taking place in europe, you can see things are mixed. The dax is slightly positive the cac is weaker. The ftse is up by a quarter percentage point stocks are weaker in ital
And specific to the threat which the president said was in relation to airlines, is it an imminent threat . Was there a justification for in that moment needing to share it with the russians . I dont want to get into specifics of what exact information is shared with what exact allies, but information on this topic of the threat to aviation was shared with multiple allies. And as you know, there are already policies being put in place to protect against that threat. And you, and you and many others have reported widely on this. Something that our allies did not. Is that what youre saying . In terms of the specifics, i have no basis for comparison on what was shared with what country. But i will tell you it was our impression of all of us that were in the meeting, which ive mentioned already, was wholly appropriate given the purpose of that conversation and the purpose of what the president was trying to achieve through that meeting. But was there an imminent threat . General, when you
Good morning, everyone. This is the tuesday, december, 13, 2016 meeting of the San Francisco county Transportation Authority. My name is eric mar im the acting chair of the Transportation Authority. Our clerk is mr. Steve stamos, could you please do the roll call . Item one, avalos . Here. Present. Breed. Present. Campos. Present. Cohen npresent. Ferrill, absent. Kim . Absent. Mar . Present. Peskin . Present. Tang absent. Commissioner yee. Present. We have quorum. Item two, chair report, as our director will be recounting the accomplishments of the year and we will hold our chair elections in a moment, i am going to make my remarks extremely brief. With the adoption of plan bay area preferred scenario by the mtc and abag we are well posed to advocate for the priority projects in the bridge toll talks, which commence this week at the mtc. That is the met political Transportation Commission. Thank you, so much, commissioner david campos for representing us in those discussions tomorrow a