We have a quorum. Thank you. Number four please. [agenda item read] anyone have any corrections to the minutes . I move that the minutes of the january 9, 2020 meeting be approved. My Public Comment . All those in favor say aye. Its unanimous. Item 5. [agenda item read]. Im chair of the retired Division United educators of San Francisco. I like to get up here to publicly thank diane who has been attending these meetings regularly. She is now been replaced who will be also assistant. Our new Health Service chairperson, she will be coming here regularly too. We want to make sure that diane get some public recognition for amazing work shes done for all of us. We are in her debt and appreciate it. Well continue to be part of the Health Service committee people. Thank you. Thank you diane, i know shes watching. My name is gail, im from retired teachers. There are couple of issues that have come up in the time that ive not come here. First of all, i like to know if theres a help line for peo
We have a quorum. Thank you. Number four please. [agenda item read] anyone have any corrections to the minutes . I move that the minutes of the january 9, 2020 meeting be approved. My Public Comment . All those in favor say aye. Its unanimous. Item 5. [agenda item read]. Im chair of the retired Division United educators of San Francisco. I like to get up here to publicly thank diane who has been attending these meetings regularly. She is now been replaced who will be also assistant. Our new Health Service chairperson, she will be coming here regularly too. We want to make sure that diane get some public recognition for amazing work shes done for all of us. We are in her debt and appreciate it. Well continue to be part of the Health Service committee people. Thank you. Thank you diane, i know shes watching. My name is gail, im from retired teachers. There are couple of issues that have come up in the time that ive not come here. First of all, i like to know if theres a help line for peo
We bring you todays market moving news from around the world. Our bloomberg voices are on the ground with this mornings top stories. We want to begin with china. The government has agreed to cut import tariffs on a wide range. F goods joining us is stephen engle. Break down what we know about the tariffs, why now, etc. Stephen this comes fresh after a trade one agreement a phase one trade agreement. A gesture, yes, to show its lowering trade barriers, but it also wants to spur domestic spending for those 859 products he mentioned, from smartphone parts to food, in particular, frozen pork. All of these products will enjoy lower tariffs, and it comes as china hosts a critical trilateral summit this week that has already kicked off in beijing between china and japan. South korea will also take part. Trade, territorial disputes, military maneuverings, of course, exacerbated by north thoses posturing, and all historical animosities still persist. So those talks should be welcome. Been korea
She prepares his new years address. Is set to be ghosn in lebanon. One source tells us he fled japan ahead of a trial and financial misconduct charges. Markets in asia are winding down for the year. Australias equity market closes early this new year. Sophie has a final session how is the final session of the year looking . Sophie some pressure coming through. The aussie share market off 1. 2 , trimming the yeartodate gain but still set for the best year since 2009. Eminis little changed. Nikkei futures in singapore off by 1 and the bloomberg dollar index extending declines for a fourth straight session as the greenback is set for the Fourth Annual drop since 2010. Let switch out the board to check in on what markets are closed this new years eve. Indonesia, the philippines, and china closing along with south korea and japan entering a sixday new year holiday. We will be waiting to see whether we have yen like we saw earlier this year. Paul. Paul thanks very much, sophie. Breaking news
They are blocked from buying the securities. I just wanted to highlight that there are already decisions made so that you can implement this in a very efficient manner. Finally, if you will turn to the last slide, we will just summarize the next steps in terms of confirming that it works with the planning document and we have confirmed that we have already worked with t. D. Ameritrade on setting up a process for ongoing, and it is just a look to see if participants start using it, we are at 195, currently. We will continue to monitor the fees that are charged, and we have looked at that. Again, it is very competitive and favourable. And then we will run those quarterly screens just to make sure theres nothing that pops up on that restricted list that i already outlined. That is the ongoing process. And they have set up a system that will identify any security that might go to a pink sheet or have some sort of reregistration security, which can happen in various situations. And we will