we do see a clear improvement of business climate if you take the doing business service by the world bank in 2011 russia of us ranking place 124 between gun were acquired i know they are place 27 so part of the company's y.p. if they do see this other companies they see that we have again an increase in europe kristie and they see things like the biggest u.s. investor mr kelly being arrested and on the house arrest this was a man who was running around and saying hey russia is a great place to invest come here and then. spend a couple of months in jail and i was in 100 house arrest so how did russia manage to climb up from 120 something in into the top 30 in 10 years less than 10 years you can register your business extremely quick russia is now on the. top 10 worldwide they do have some improvement in difficult areas like customs where they are still lagging behind so point for point they were working on this difficult matters very briefly corruption still a problem yes as simple as that thank you very much much he said from the german russian chapter of commerce in moscow. and we s

item 14, authorizing the director to execute contract 2018-18 armed and unarmed security services doing business as allied services for inappropriate tuf activity and insure safety of personnel not to exceed $58 million for a three-year term and with three options to extend the contract. >> good afternoon. i'm victoria wise. so, as you all know, safety and security in our system is a paramount importance, both on the system itself and our facilities of which we have many throughout the agency and so we have a multiprong approach at the agency in addressing security issues and one of the prongs is right-sizing the private security contract which is what we're here to speak about today. although, as part of the presentation, we'll touch on how we deal with this. the approval of a three-year contract with three one-year extensions and the current contract expires at the end of march of 2020, which is why we're in front of you today. if you were to approve this contract, we need no move on to the board of supervisors for their approval. we'll do that in early 2020. this is more than $10 million so t

world closer together in order to do that we believe that we need to offer a service that everyone can afford and we're committed to doing that how do you sustain a business model and what use are your service. center we write out it's. the end of the day there is no free lunch especially when it comes to social media and the internet the entire in common is literally based off of surveillance and that's something that we really need think long and hard is that a sustainable business model to protect their privacy and protect their families and protect our kids moving forward what we need to think about is how can we continue with a light touch deregulated approach but one where people have the information they need to know what's being done and whether they consent to it or not and so that's why i think we need to have a really big focus on transparency on privacy on a level playing field across the board so that people understand what's happening and they can make decisions in a way that they're not able to very clearly right now. it isn't obvious that regulators are fast enough to keep up with the tech world they're going to be 5 years behind the game

doing small business in san francisco. the office the small business should be your first stop when you have questions about what to do next. you can find us here at city hall. best of all, our services are free of charge. the office of small business is your place to voice concerns that affect the economic vitality of small businesses in san francisco. if you need assistance with small business matters, start here at the office of small business. >> clerk: item one, call to order and roll call. [roll call] >> clerk: mr. president, you have a quorum. >> president adams: great. next item, please. >> clerk: item 2, general public comment allows public to comment generally on items that are within the small business commission's jurisdiction but not on today's agenda and suggest items for the future commission's consideration. item 1, members of the public, you are welcome to come up and make public comment. >> president adams: so would anyone like to make public comment on items that are not on today's agenda? come on up. >> clerk: and members of the public, if there are going to be many of you, if you could lineup on the right side of the meeting room, that would be great. thank you.

the country and of course we don't rebuild countries, we do provide stabilization so that there is water and electricity businesses will services so businesses can come in and do the work. the rock is the middle income country. there are one of largest oil producers in the world. they don't need nor should they want, our aid money to provide reconstruction. they should be ready and wheeling to hire competent and clean companies do that. and partially, will not staying that just yet. for many of the reasons that we have talked about here earlier, there is an endemic corruption that is preventing this from taking place. our companies are renting and where they're advocating for them. they just need a good reliable partner in the iraqi government. another through for other governments as well. and quite, with other governments, provided investment guarantees and loan guarantees have more than $30 billion for these reconstruction efforts. most of it has been taking advantage of because the government has so far not been wheeling to come forward and find products at our company would-be wheeling to go in for. >> thank you very much.

heading to next year is not only do they have momentum in their noniphone business, this could be a year of good iphone sales on 5g. >> what about the focus on services what do you think we'll see in terms of growth there, and how do you expect them to tie the recently launched apple tv plus with news and everything else? >> from a services standpoint, i think it does help that they have such a large installed base of hardware, especially smart phones i think they face a little challenge there to the extent that for most of 2020, we were looking forward to apple tv plus now it is up and running some forget the first show from netflix was not "house of cards," even if "the morning show" is a big hit, gives them something to build off of. i look for them to expand in 2020 >> how big do you think the market is for the air pods and for all of the new products? there was so much concern when the watch came out that it was too expensive, came out with various iterations of lower price watches. when you look at the next generation of devices, do you think we'll see the same pace of innovation we saw with iphone and ipad and all of that >> it is tough on air

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businesses to make themselves more efficient beginning to stracratch the sure to the consumer. now it is everything we do hard to look at industry that doesn't use technology, cloud based servicesdevices to drive business maybe technology is a staple now, not a sector people need to worry about. >> mike, do you agree, do you think we're seeing a change how tech is treated moving forward >> i agree in the sense that stability of the revenue and profit pools, when you talk about the tech sector as this block of the market, it is important to know what you're talking about when you talk about the s&p tech sector. 40%, apple and microsoft another 10% is visa, master card, which are software utilities, payment processors. it is not like it used to be, a boom bust. semiconductors cycle driving the market it does seem to have taken on those characteristics. still, what do you pay for a consumer staple or for a defensive growth stock that becomes the question. nasdaq trades 23 times forward earnings highest in ten years nowhere near 20 years ago. >> 5g, tim, continues to be less understood story now than it will be later obviously, but i wonder, is it a consumer story or enterprise sto

authorization request to establish and legalize a 5200 square-foot nonretail sales and service used doing businesses first republic bank located at the ground floor of the existing building located at one front street. office and all other nonretail sales and service uses within the zoning district require a conditional use authorization to locate the current fort. the space would function as first republic's ground-floor employee cafÉ and in addition the post proposal would include a 610 square-foot cafÉ that would front onto market street and be accessible to the general public. the proposed 5200 square-foot cafÉ is an expansion of office use on the ground floor due to the private nature of the use. at the private cafÉ, the use is considered accessory to the principal office use. in the spring of 2016, first republic secured tenant improvement and exterior modification permits for the change of use to the limited restaurant use which is considered a retail sales and service use. however, as the limited restaurant was not acceptable to the general public, it is considered an accessory office use pe

financial services, for example, cannot offer there are restrictions on the ability of companies to do business without a local partner, if you will. and the chinese government has the ability to take information at will. all of these fundamental issues need to be addressed. >> the president and ceo of the information technology industry 8:00il, monday night at p.m. eastern on the communicators on c-span2. ♪ has been passed to , new generation of americans tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace, proud unwilling toge and witness or permit the slow rights to those human which this nation has always been committed, and to which we are committed today, at home, and around the world. ♪ >> we are met and solemnity to memorialize our late president, john fitzgerald kennedy, and to to theate our lives suffrage of the human spirit to which the late president was committed. against a heritage of hate, the late president committed to the world a new heritage of mutual , peace with justice. chgether, we grasp the tor from his hands. >> 38 days in a few hours ago, john fitzgerald kennedy, t

we do provide stabilization so there is water and electricity and essential services so that businesses can do their work. iraq is a middle income country. they're one of the largest oil producers in the world. they do not need, nor should they want, our aid money to provide reconstruction. they should be ready and willing to hire competent, clean companies to do that. unfortunately, we are not seeing that just yet. for many of the reasons we talked about here earlier, there is endemic corruption that is preventing this from taking place. our companies are ready and we are there advocating for them. they need a good reliable partner in the iraqi government. i know that is true for other governments as well. kuwait, we come with other governments, provided investment guaranteesand loan of more than $30 billion for these reconstruction efforts. almost none of it has been taken advantage of because the government has not been willing to come forward and fund projects that are companies would be willing to go in for -- our companies will be willing to go in for. >> mr. vargas, you are recog

as you see western businesses doing more business in china and in particular, financial services gettingcess. what are the implications of that? eleanor: china is highly protectionist when it comes to data. lawas its 2016 security which european partners have also highlighted as a key source of concern. --t the law does is companies have to store data lake -- locally. this will be a defining feature. make -- howre we to do we differentiate private companies from state run enterprises in china? i was looking at the dialer mler -- daimler story. german companies are worried u.s.they will have sisyphus concerns. trend is definitely for private companies being .equested to help out funding ship.ure of donor in certain cases, private companies located in those provinces have been asked to step in and provide refinancing for those banks. anna: thank you, elinor all caught. -- eleanor olcott. the threat of retaliation should germany impose a ban on huawei. germanll be covering the story on the radio. this is bloomberg. ♪ anna: welcome back to the european market opened this monday morning. 20 m

the office of small business should be your first stop when you have a question about what to do next. find us online or in person at city hall. best of all, all services are free of charge. the small business commission is the official public forum to voice opinions and concerns about policies that affect the economic vitality about business in san francisco. start here at the office of small business. >> i would like to adjourn tonight's meeting in honor of mark dwight and irene riley. do i have a second. >> second. >> all in favor. aye. meeting adjourned. thank you everyone. shop and dine on the 49 promotes local businesses and challenges residents to do shopping and dining within the 49 square miles of san francisco by supporting local services within neighborhood. we help san francisco remain unique, successful and vibrant. where will you shop and dine in the 49? san francisco owes the charm to the unique character of the neighborhood comer hall district. each corridor has its own personality. our neighborhoods are the engine of the city. >> you are putting money and support back to the community you live in and you are helping small businesses gr

businesses go beyond the expected. to do the extraordinary. take your business beyond. and now for their servicemmunity, we present limu emu & doug with this key to the city. [ applause ] it's an honor to tell you that liberty mutual customizes your car insurance so you only pay for what you need. and now we need to get back to work. [ applause and band playing ] only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ david: a california activist is unveiling plans to build a 300 acre, private, all inclusive city for the homeless, he said his community would house 150 thousand people and will have amenities leak communal tv, hospital, cafeteria aren' ren f- rent free, cost to build it 3 million, is this a solution. >> no. this say extreme fancy, i think it is a nightmare. it is proposed to be privately funded, have at it, but it is a waste of money did does not address the reason. david: which is. >> the nimby environmental regulation plo prohibit develop, that is why housing is so expensive in california but not pennsylvania. there is job growth in pe pennsylvania, but they don't ha

one off return of gm workers but we saw widespr gains across health care business services and even manufacturingn neral. but i dohink that there is still room for caution here. when we take a longer term this morning's report while positive doesn't dismiss some of e earlier anemic trends we saw in hiring for the better part of the past while this morning'seport certainly was enough to support a run up in the equity markets, there is still some concern that marketabout theor going forward into the new year. >> which sort of leads me to my question, i'm curio to know your answer to the point that ylan mui made at the end of the package how much longer in tight labor market can last. e and whands it? does it peter out? or what happens do you think. businesses are still very that hesitant to take on a verybu level of long higher wage employees. we a seeing a heavy reliance on part time and gig employment. this is a theme for some time also a renewed reliance o artificial technology acting to replace some of the need for additional labor in the labor market. a lot of the ongoing themes are going to slowly weigh on wo

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business. second let me ask you a direct question. what we are m seeing his employs muser fashioning what we do so attitudes towards tobacco, attitudes to saudi arabia are conditioned by whether people in the service business are willing to work together. that largely many see this in silicon valley in the tech industry so sears may want to take a position on something fashioned by what joe said 89% of what the people think as you speak out but what is the specific issue and saudis are the most difficult. china is probably difficult issues. >> thank you for asking the question. i think saudi is a great example for the mostou part the first yr after castro's -- since then there has been silence but he raised a really important point that we are seeing in silicon valley in particular the same time we are seeing ceos we are also seeing employees get her activeve in push their companies into uncomfortable corners perhaps. you've seen perhaps a lot of companies walk out and certain companies with employees and other companies push back on a contract with the u.s. s border patrol and the d.o.t. and other intelligence. it puts them in difficult positions and i don't think folks have figured out what the

doing business in san francisco. it should be your first stop with a question about what to do next. you can find us online or in person here at city hall, best of all, all servicesrge. the small business commission is the official public forum to voice your opinions and concerns about policies that affect the economic vitality of small businesses in san francisco. if you need assistance with small business matters start here at the office of small business. >> item one. call to order and roll call. (roll call). mr. president, you have a quorum. >> item two. general public comment. members of the public can comment on matters within the small business jurisdiction and to suggest new agenda items for future consideration, discussion item. >> any members of the public to make a comment on any item that is not on the agenda today? seeing none, public comment is closed. next item. 3. approval of legacy business registry application and resolution. the presenter is the legacy office of small business. >> good afternoon. richard, legacy program manager. i have a power point presentation. before you today is one application for consideration for the legacy business regi

there's just not the jobs that they are used to doing so they still have to service debt and that's a tough thing to do. taking a lot of dad in your business slows down that's why they're in the crocs they're in the midst of some tough times so a lot of these majors are trying to insulate themselves from a downturn they've expanded their wealth to refinery networks in order to control costs and sustain periods of low prices but it's kind of a catch $22.00 is it not that in expanding they've also kind of over leveraged and now carry huge amounts of debt so how can their vertical integration help them and can they whether 2020. yeah we're not very concerned with the majors and obviously you have in absolute terms large amounts of debt but if you look at their capitalization to debt ratios they're actually right in line with other non oil type companies so i think again you've got to go down the food chain to see where the real weakness is and where the likelihood of greater consolidation would be and also where you might see further bankruptcy so the pressure is not on the majors and you can see this across the share prices if you're looking

business. >>> and deliveryars. fedex cuts profit forecasts for next year as compeeation up and demand for faster service intensifies. those stories and much more tonight on "nightly business report" fortuesday, december >>> and do bid you good evening, everybody and welcome. sue is off tonight. investors have been in a god mood lately and continued today. stocks made new highs again as wall street welcome better than expected reports on the economy and more progress o trade. and once again, the gains may have bee slight, but it was stillood enough for more records. the dow a tayrages just a feign of 31 points to 28267. nasdaq rose about 9 and the s&p added just one point but closed higher a fifth straight session, the longest win streak in a month. bob pisani starts us off tonight from the new yorkck s exchange. >>> stocks back in record ralmo s&p 500 and ow nasdaq closing at new highs the bare 30th record close of the year for the s&p. what's fueling theal rly no major headlines today but the bulls sck with the story o more clarity heading into the end of the year and particularly into 2020. interest doesn't appear to be a recession in sight in the u.s.e omy. that's the most important. look at the data toda in

to restaurants where if you want to do delivery services, but they don't actually want to have it in their own restaurants. it is a pretty capital-intensive business $300 million into that. and is doing pretty well. the latest valuation from a january investment by the saudi's valued that at $5 billion. not a bad return for travis kalanick. that leaves a huge amount of money left on the table. that is sort of the guessing game right now. not really sure what he is doing with it and it is all in cash. he is very liquid. whether there is a big opportunity out there that may emerge or he is just playing it conservative and wants to get out of uber and sit on his fortune. lisa: when you say he has a knack, he certainly has a knack getting it up. i am also wondering how typical it is to see a co-founder liquidates so much of their holdings right after the ipo. tom: at least -- i've been covering this space for six years, and i have never seen something at this pace. it is pretty extraordinary. to give you a bit of context, his co-founder sold off about $35 million of his shares out of a $2 billion portfolio. that is much more the pace you typically see

business is doi to fight off competition from mobile gaming and streaminges servic all that and much more tonight on "nightly business report" for this monday, december 23rd. and we do bid you a good evening, everybody. sue is off tonight. stocks again close at record levels. we'll get to that shortly. first, another shoe hashe dropp inongoing crisis involving boeing's grounded 737 max, and this te it fel in the company's c suite. ceo dennis muilenburgs out immediately. chan david calhoun will take over next month and investors reacted positively to that news sending shas higher 3%. phil lebeau has been following this. why now? >> reporter: bill, i thiwo there were things that had happened within the last month that the board of directors ounally said, . we have to make a change. the first one being thatbu denn muil was called to washington, d.c., and he was essentiallyressed down by the head of the faa. theead of the faa said you don't make demands. we call the shots as to when this plane is safe anddy r to return to the air. that was a very public meeting. maybe the meeelng i wasn't public but it was a dressing down. ceos rarely he that happen. the second thing ha

voter he supports the liberal democratic party because it promised to back small businesses like his own doing a service in turkey and i smell serious elections we're just normal no no we say freely what we think before we very scared we can see the reality even if it's still not completely transparent i hope this will continue and it will become more liberal. president museo you have promised that parliament will become a true school of democracy billions of whose books hope that day comes sooner rather than later but at that hammy tashkent the news because that. preliminary results from afghanistan presidential election so incumbent after half has secured a slim majority the results had been expected until it was only released by the independent election commission on sunday gonna secure just over 50 percent of the vote for his main rival of dilla say they don't accept those results the electoral commission says the final count could change well have a wire dad has a political analyst and founding member of the transparency afghanistan he says it will be very difficult for the parties to agree on thes

business do you own? caller: i have an administrative services business. : are you paying oklahoma's minimum wage or do you pay on top of that? more as well as many of the people that i associate with. $7.45.nimum wage here is we pay eight dollars. it is different in restaurants, but we are paying above the minimum wage. host: do you see a difference in the type of employee you get when you pay lower versus higher wages? caller: i do not think so, now. host: will you have to raise the cost of the services you provide if they raise the minimum wage? onler: that would be passed for the services we provide. host: let's go to patricia who is calling from michigan. patricia makes minimum wage. patricia, good morning. caller: good morning. up inm-wage has to go order -- our children, our neighbors, i mean everyone should be able to make a wage to be able to live. it is not happening. my heart breaks because i have four children, three grandchildren. i am desperately afraid of where our world is going. i have worked since i was 11 years old and i am now going to b