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Interest rates unchanged at its final policy meeting of the year. Last month, though, policymakers surprised the markets with a cut in the Interest Rate to a record low of 0. 25 . Well check in with Ross Westgate in just a few minutes. The dow and the s p are now on a fourday losing streak. This morning, futures are around the flat line. Down by about 2. 5 points for the dow, down by 0. 5 for the s p and the nasdaq is up by 4 points. November samestore sales will be coming in throughout the morning. Coscos comps rose by 2 during the month. That was short of what the street had been expecting. ...

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Plan. So you will have a Long Distance call whether you are in either area. That is any initial reaction anyway. Commissioner dooley . We discussed the idea that in San Francisco retained the 4 15, we were acknowledging it would run out. But what we would prefer is to therefore have a new area code assigned exclusively to San Francisco at that time. That is one thing that we had felt might work well. Because we have such a strong identity as a city and county of San Francisco, this might be a good time to move that forward. That idea we would retain 415 and add our own overlay commissioner dwi...

If you split it, there are two ways that we may split the eastside or we may split it where we stick it to san mateo and stick it to marin. Bad choice of words, but basically they take the problem. The issue with that is that were kind of kicking the can down the road, if we do that, because it will get exhausted. It might get exhausted quicker than ten years with Cell Phone Technology and what not. So im kind of thinking it would be better to deal with it now and not have to deal with it later. And the overlay sounds very fair to me, because people who have their numbers can keep them. And th...

Certainly if we did just the geographic overlay as the geography is today, it would be distinguisheding as an old resident or new resident and that in in and of itself might have cache about it. So marketing people spin it however they want, but splitting San Francisco in half is ridiculous. So this was sort of to address both proposals and say fix the one. Either one of them, if fixed, are acceptable, but we prefer the one where San Francisco gets 415. So i think the discussion today, i mean, because we talked about this a lot, more than i just did. [ laughter ] and just to give you that back...