The meeting will come to the order. Im joined by Committee Members supervisor walton and mandelman. Id like to thank sfgovtv for broadcasting this meeting. Any announcements today . Yes, madame chair, due to the health emergency, phone number of the board of supervisors and the Committee Room are closed, however, members will be participated in the call remotely. You can make public ct by calling 14156550001. 146 580 2686. Again, i. D. Number, 146 580 2686. Then press pound twice. When your item of interest comes up, dial star 3 to be added to the speaker line. Best practices are to call from a quiet location, speak clearly and slowly and turn down your television or radio. Alternatively, you can submit Public Comment in the following way. Email to myself. It will be forwarded to the supervisors. Finally items acted upon today are to appear on the board of supervisors agenda on october 27 unless otherwise stated flmplt fluf resolution authorizing the department of homelessness and Supp
Congressional Budget Office testify before the Senate Subcommittee on physical response ability and Economic Growth. Thank you all for participating. I think it will be good. Im sorry we cannot have it in a more, what to say, a more kind of formal setting because it may have been better because im not sure if there is any hearing we have that was more important than this. Our Witnesses Today will be philip schlagel, director of the congressional Budget Office and jean todaro who is the comptroller general of the United States and head of the u. S. Government accountability office. With that i will make my Opening Statement and then turned to maggie, my Ranking Member, and then Ranking Member wyden for the entire committee has a statement he would like to make as well. Again, thank you all for being here and im grateful to all who are there during us by internet. Todays hearing will address the topic that was shied away from Syrian Refugees and when it comes to our health we make choice
The dow down by almost 1,000 points the decline of 1. 8 . S p by over 8 the nasdaq a miracle come back after a laydate rally weve been bouncing around positive territory right now, the dow down around 14 points, s p up about seven points and the nasdaq up about 70 points. We are talking about a town month for the markets, we are looked at four sessions in a row. Thats the longest losing streak looking at these numbers, you are talking about these lower numbers. Month after month i think we had april, may, june, july, august are all up. Stocks only go up not in september. In an Election Year it can take on significance. The nasdaq can move. We can see it down 400 or more points can that close higher again today . Thats a good move you could look at it midmorning and then it seems like it is not the tale at this point kind of the log. Faang, tesla and the leadership move. Apple made the rally yesterday too. Gold is supposed to go up bitcoin, supposed to go up weird. Thats where you think
Global infections exceed 30 million. Saudi oil minister says, make my day, and a warning, he says whoever gambles in this market will be ouching like hell. Good morning. 6 00 a. M. In london. We have breaking news, caution to buy bankia. They see a completion of the merger in the First Quarter of 2021. A number of headlines are breaking, and they will do that, we will have an update on that. Sentiment to the downside, relatively flat across asian equities. Msci asiapacific up 0. 3 . Tencent down 1. 5 , under pressure from the Trump Administration, looking into Data Security concerns. They have large stakes in these gaining companies. Lets see what is going on across assets. Brent crude up 0. 7 . Barrel, getting a boost from the Saudi Oil Minister. It was a public dressing down of cheaters, and a blunt message to the market to not bet against the cartel. Nothing really happening in the bond market. More confidentng in its alliance with oracle. Beijing has asserted its right to block the
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