By 15 points lets look at overnight in asia. The nikkei going strong closing at the highest level since 1996. A gain of 132 points that puts the nikkei at 20,823 hang seng was up by 0. 6 pfr . The shanghai was up by a quarter percentage point in europe, you will see that at least in the early going things have been mixed. These are modest moves in spain, stocks are under pressure down by 0. 9 this is coming as some concerns arise in catalonia. Well talk more about that in a moment we have news just out from the National Federation of independent business, showing Small Business sentiment dropping in september. The nfibs monthly index dropped to 103 for the month, that compares to 105. 3 in august. The group saying the immediate temptation is to blame the hurricanes in tex and florida but adds this is not case with Small Business owners across the country becoming measurably less enthusiastic but also points out the index is high by historical standards. Also in energy news, opec secret
Year thank you. Thank you, jason freed. Hi jason freed executive officer for california last could i want to comment about the report one thing youll find in the report we took all the comments especially with the puc staff present youll find a lot of good changes only about the local jobs and what we did they did in the final version when was released yesterday they identified one they used the local and determined if its local or not youll see a breakdown of local ordinances and all the jobs blues the jobs that are local hires and youll come up with the final jobs youll get that one thing ill caution that might be difficult i know she said she was going to pull the comments in a red line version it is based on board stuff if you look at the red line and see how they changed from the draft to the final version that may be hard to pick out to understand where the changes were but i think i almost want to say may be one comment was not taken but pretty much every comment that the puc st
As a whole to represent the citizens in our region not the mayor or pg e theyre not the ones that you know the constituency your supported to represent we dont see any reason not to move forward. Thank you. Next speaker. Is jess arching man. Good afternoon commissioner president caen and commissioners up thank you for the opportunity were pleased with the annex report and at least to consider what the options are its great to know we dont have to go with the Shelf Program we can see this program will create jobs and actually help the long term sf puc financially and we would a lot of loving to have the cac director kim come back and talk about the new rates and set them to go forward i want to give you a status report around the bay area napa has joint joined the clean energy and the city testify el cerrito and Alameda County that as 1. 5 million residents and the San Mateo County of board of supervisors is voting to move forward into their Community Choice program and the city and cou
Meter this is one other thing i want to mention many hail mentioned they use the system similar to remedy and remedy you have to have a license and the consultants didnt have that license when i talked with ted, etc. On he give me the impression they were similar to remedy but the big picture wise youre in the same ball park i offered to the city and county if they want those new numbers ill incorporate those into the system but well go with the consultants with their base numbers. Can i point out one thing barbara didnt mention the report starts with an option the greener than pg e and dont have the phased out in the project one of the comments we talk about jobs as the as we 0 roll out the second phase where people start investing in the build out when you get the initial prices youre basing it on a price less than pg e point gets rid of the opt out. So if we could get a clear understanding. This was just to give you comments. Yeah. Yeah. I wasnt planning on going into detail we need
Did in the final version when was released yesterday they identified one they used the local and determined if its local or not youll see a breakdown of local ordinances and all the jobs blues the jobs that are local hires and youll come up with the final jobs youll get that one thing ill caution that might be difficult i know she said she was going to pull the comments in a red line version it is based on board stuff if you look at the red line and see how they changed from the draft to the final version that may be hard to pick out to understand where the changes were but i think i almost want to say may be one comment was not taken but pretty much every comment that the puc staff was incorporated it made it clear to understand were dealing with technical staff that the puc staff understands but to help drill down it more i courage you to look at it a it and quickly to cooperate coordinate the schedules it be did the but the sooner you can get under the circumstances us dates the con