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Supervisor president london breed supervisor campos supervisor cowen supervisor farrell supervisor kim not present supervisor mar supervisor peskin supervisor tang supervisor wiener supervisor yee madam president we have quorum. Thank you ladies and gentlemen, can you please join us in the pledge of allegiance and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Ms. Short madam clerk any communication. I have none to report colleagues, any changes to the september 6th Board Meeting minutes sienna. Madam president thats the minutes of the september 15th and august 8th and thats july 15th. And 2016 and august 8, 2016, is there a motion seconded by supervisor peskin colleagues without objection, without objection those Meeting Minutes will pass after Public Comment. All right. Madam clerk can you please call the next item. You. The policy decide between mayor ed lee and the board of supervisors the mayor any provide comments up to 5
Economic data in the u. S. , 7 00, we have the Weekly Mortgage application. That is a volatile number. 8 30, the account balance. 2 00, fomc followed by Janet Yellens News Conference. We will carry that live. That is a very big deal. Doesnt paint a malaysia 370. We will talk about that in a bit. Alicia Central Bank Cut their gdp forecast. Malaysia Central Bank Cut their gdp forecast. We have been supplying so much liquidity to world markets, that has helped other economies, malaysia is an example. I would argue the central bank is in considering any of that given all of the turmoil. They basically did not acknowledge it at the last meeting. They said, deal with it. On your own. Earnings before the bell, fedex is the one you want to watch. After the bell, guess. Stocks, bonds, currencies, commodities. Not much going on. On to the second screen. Currency markets. We will get to that in a moment. Sort of. Ly, even the Australian Dollar putting on a bit, a stronger aussie dollar. Putin ral
Security. And, lastly, and this is important particularly in light of the metcalf incident, that has been talked about here, and theyre in the early stages of this but the, they are working on working on a project to develop security, security protections, physical protections and others for substations. So thats going to be extremely critical also. Were very proud of the work that is done at the Idaho National laboratory. Like i said they are reknowned when it comes to Nuclear Energy but there are these new areas that they are developing and Grid Security is certainly one of the things that theyre going to be focusing on. The reason i wanted to say what ive said about this is i want to make sure that everyone in the industry, everyone in the government agencies, knows that these facilities are available because sometimes they have a tendency to fly under the radar. So i want to state that for the record and thank you for making the time available, madam chairman. Thank you, senator ri