The most important issue. The blur of information we are getting, the effect on the markets, the effect on the nations politics, it doesnt matter. The pandemic statistics, the cases, the hospitalizations, and yes, rising death rates are front and center. Jonathan couldnt agree more. The conversation is so familiar to everyone sitting in london, in europe watching this play out. You start at 10 00 p. M. Curfew you start to limit dining. Then what . That is the concern for a lot of people this morning. Tom im going to use the hands up. That has proven so effective on radio worldwide. Think of it like three hockey bucks of death in europe. Inis only one hockey puck the United States. Europe is way out front of this, and i am frightened by the idea we will begin to see the deaths expand. The other thing i am frightened by, lisa takes a day off, and rumor has it she left day bear, and i think shes returned a bull. [laughter] jonathan lets see how long this one last. I reckon we can get to a
Afraid. Alix the cotton crop is the most vulnerable now. In the markets, this is your job set up in the middle of easing from russia and china. Both of those contributing. Yesterday. Her continue to see some followthrough buying, up 0. 1 taylor the dollar is kind of back up 0. 1 . The dollar is kind of mixed. You had a sort of large selloff block in asia in the treasury market, so that exacerbated yields moving much higher, but crude all of the sudden off by 0. 2 . Off by 2 . Time now for the global exchange, where we bring you todays market moving news from all around the world. Going us from hong kong is bloombergs jeff black, tony ahrens in london, Francine Lacqua in italy, and Michael Mckee in washington. We want to start with china, where the countrys central bank announced it will cut reserve ratios for banks. Bloombergs jeff black is in hong kong. Put it in perspective for us. Jeff good evening from hong kong. This is all about the ongoing slowdown of the chinese economy, the on
Much. So good morning and welcome to the budget and finance committee, everyone. Todays agenda is focused on bringing back departments that we heard presentations from last week to hear recommendations for reductions from the budget and legislative analyst. Also on todays agenda are particular training items particular with each departments budget. There will be Public Comment on those items at the time they are heard, and there will be Public Comment on budget reductions after each item is heard. Before i get into the items, my office is releasing a proposed spending plan that totals over 30 million over two years which will be on the boards website. As you all know, its being released before each committee knows the budget. We know that the demand for budget allocations the board received far exceeds far exceeds the available funding. Our office has received budget requests totaling more than 500 million and as i noted, this initial spending plan totals 30 million. While we have a st
Test. Test. Test. Test captions. Test captions. Test captions. Test. Test. Test. Test captions. Test captions. Chair fewer this is the june 19, 2019 special meeting of the budget and finance committee. I am sandra lee fewer, the chair of the budget and finance committee. I am joined by supervisors mandelman, stefani, ronen, and yee. The clerk is miss linda wong. Madam clerk, do you have any announcements . Clerk yes. [agenda item read]. Chair fewer thank you very much. So good morning and welcome to the budget and finance committee, everyone. Todays agenda is focused on bringing back departments that we heard presentations from last week to hear recommendations for reductions from the budget and legislative analyst. Also on todays agenda are particular training items particular with each departments budget. There will be Public Comment on those items at the time they are heard, and there will be Public Comment on budget reductions after each item is heard. Before i get into the items,
Chair fewer this is the june 19, 2019 special meeting of the budget and finance committee. I am sandra lee fewer, the chair of the budget and finance committee. I am joined by supervisors mandelman, stefani, ronen, and yee. The clerk is miss linda wong. Madam clerk, do you have any announcements . Clerk yes. [agenda item read]. Chair fewer thank you very much. So good morning and welcome to the budget and finance committee, everyone. Todays agenda is focused on bringing back departments that we heard presentations from last week to hear recommendations for reductions from the budget and legislative analyst. Also on todays agenda are particular training items particular with each departments budget. There will be Public Comment on those items at the time they are heard, and there will be Public Comment on budget reductions after each item is heard. Before i get into the items, my office is releasing a proposed spending plan that totals over 30 million over two years which will be on the