He seems to be unmuted. There were problems. Commissioner scott are you unmuted thank you everyone for being patient. Well cap up with our technology. Can you hear me now . Yes. I heard everyone in test mode. Steven, can you hear me . Yes. Thank you very much. As the board is aware we annually engage in a selfevaluation for the board of directors and also an annual evaluation of the executive director. The Governance Committee met a week ago to review both documents as well as a time line for both processes. As you know, we initiate the selfevaluation first and then follow that four weeks later or so with the executive directors evaluation once we received the executive directors selfevaluation. In reviewing both documents, we did not make any changes in the executive director document. We did modify in the board selfevaluation document a couple of questions. We eliminated one question and we modified the wording on another. So those changes are contained in the attachments sent out in
He seems to be unmuted. There were problems. Commissioner scott are you unmuted thank you everyone for being patient. Well cap up with our technology. Can you hear me now . Yes. I heard everyone in test mode. Steven, can you hear me . Yes. Thank you very much. As the board is aware we annually engage in a selfevaluation for the board of directors and also an annual evaluation of the executive director. The Governance Committee met a week ago to review both documents as well as a time line for both processes. As you know, we initiate the selfevaluation first and then follow that four weeks later or so with the executive directors evaluation once we received the executive directors selfevaluation. In reviewing both documents, we did not make any changes in the executive director document. We did modify in the board selfevaluation document a couple of questions. We eliminated one question and we modified the wording on another. So those changes are contained in the attachments sent out in
Selloff. The dow industrials down 36 points, nasdaq up 61 and s p higher by 3 and a quarter. This as we await testimony from treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin and Federal Reserve chairman jay powell today, both on capitol hill later today. This follows a huge selloff yesterday sparked by an open Supreme Court seat and impact of it on the ledge Kellyanne Conway slalegislative agenda. Dow indusn 500 points, nasdaq lower by 14 and s p lower by 38. The state of our cities, the department of justice naming three major cities anarchist jurisdictions that could lose federal funding due to ongoing unrest. Rudy giuliani is back with us with his take on all of this. Then, fine on the field, nfl handing out massive fines for mask violations, all the numbers coming up this morning. Women and wellness, how some are expanding business while keeping their cool in the era of coronavirus. Super model Kathy Ireland is here with lifestyle tips you dont want to yo miss. Mornings with maria is live right n
We have seen strength. It has reached 690. That could mean a path to a level not seen since january. The hang seng up 1. 5 . Take a look at where we are in terms of emerging markets. They are trading higher. 1 shy of a recent losses. The kospi is up. The south korean assets will be watched today as it is expected to stoper restrictions a flareup. Gold down to 1943. Lets get to first word news with Karina Mitchell in new york. Karina President Trump is welcoming a coronavirus treatment that involves blood plasma from corrupt recovered patients, saying it will be expanded to more sufferers after the fda approved its use. This makes it easier to make it accessible. Even though its full effectiveness has not been proven. The fda has concluded the treatment is safe and works. Virushas marked a grim milestone topping 3 million infections as the outbreak accelerates. New cases rose by 59,000 sunday with 57,000 people having died in total. South korea is considering imposing tighter Health Res
3 yesterday so it is the year to date momentum names in technology and large cap growth that are taking things there cloud stocks, the Broad Software group, ecommerce, all those baskets are up 2 or so today, so you know, at a time when people are unsure about the fiscal package getting through and maybe what the pacing is of the domestic economy, kind of the old reliable move is whats working for now but as you say, the Broader Market is kind of on the softer side for the start. Julia, a bunch of Technology Names that have dipped their toe or maybe a couple of legs into media also higher this morning looking at amazon, up 1. 5 , alphabet up a little bit more than that. Netflix itself, which is all in on media, of course, up better than 1 . That trend continues and of course, we have to point at tesla, those shares up about 5 and just look at tesla, up 290 year to date, john, just really striking in the context of Everything Else today. Yeah. Needhams chris wrestler is going to join us