. >> on that point, i'm going to defer to deputy superintendent and chief brent stevens, because the high school graduation and physical education and activity, i think there is urgency to those two. >> if we could... >> so can we pull the members of the -- poll the members of the committee to make sure that june 18th works? >> my understanding is rules committee has been scheduled for the 18th, so there may be musical chairs involved. >> how about rules goes -- how about [laughter] -- >> we'll work that out. so we will have a rules committee in june so that we can have this taken care of before summer. ok. so can i hear a motion and a second for first reading to the policies and for 185-22 a 1. >> so moved. >> second. >> thank you. suspension of the rules, there are none tonight. section l, board members reports. standing committees, can i get a report from the committee of the whole? commissioner cook? you've already taken care of that. report from curriculum, commissioner norton. >> commissioner norton: there were two items on the agenda, the first was the petition for the mary l.

this evening, our chief academic officer, brent stevens, will be coming forward to give this award. >> good evening, superintendent, inventive, resourceful and decisive, even when times are rocky. there's many more comments here that i could read, but in the interest of brevity, i'm not going to. i just want to personally extend my congratulations to you rob for your many years of service, and like the employee, i personally thank you for all you do for our students. so with that, i'd like to welcome you up here. the mic is live, and it's all yours. [applause] >> thank you, dr. stevens, thank you, dr. matthews, thank you board, thank you friends and people here, and especially the students of our school district and especially the ones that revel in the arts and arts education. good evening. i'm rob daniels and i'm humbled to be the recipient of this award. it's a long way from the farm in lake odessa, michigan, where i grew up. my dream and my career became a reality because of the arts and arts education which include all the amazing people and experiences that an artist encounters

brent: u.s. treasury secretary steven mnuchin has denied reports that the united states is specifically targetinghinese firms in its crackdown on foreign acquisitions of u.s. tech. following reports to the contrary in two major outlets, managing tweetie, the stories in bloomberg and wall street journal or false, fake news. he win on to say that plans to impose investment restrictions would apply to all countries accused of trying to steal u.s. technology. the final announcement is due at the end of the week. >> are investors buying the explanation? >> eveven if they are buying ths explanation, it doesn't necessarily make things better, right? not just china but also other markets and potential investors would be limited to the u.s. tech industry. so what -- what ideas circulating is that on one side, investments into the u.s. technology industry might be limited, and on the other side come also exports of technology out of the united states could be controlled more or also restricted. we did see quite a reaction among wall street, blue chips closing by more than 30000 poin, nine out of past 10 tr

steven: re-think oil continues to rise. our medium term target for brent is $85 a barrel.ink it will be driven by willg demand and that we see supply struggled to keep up. we are very happy from that perspective with the $85 target. previously, we were looking at overcapacity and too much supply, but we recently changed that to you. market.new view in the that is one of the reasons why we think the energy sector and oil stocks in particular in europe continue to move higher. one of the trade recommendations we had in our cross asset team has been to buy energy stocks in europe against the auto sector. this is an aria that has been spoken about quite a bit from trade. trade friction is a key risk. donald trump is threatening tariffs on european union-made cars into the united states. this is a huge market for producers. they will come under pressure. that is why we like this trade of the overweight in the energy sector in europe. matt: fascinating. it is clear logic. you are going to stay with us. we have more to go through. want to get into the market. it is up across the

brent sliding over 1% after report that the u.s. asked opec to hike its output by over one million barrels a day. joining us now is our executive editor for energies. >> we already knew from stevenhat he had been talking to allies to increase their production capacity. when you look around the world and you look at who is an ally with spare production capacity, it is a pretty short list. that we knew. we also saw the tweet from trump talking about how opec was niggling the oil price, how it needs to change. this adds a little bit of flesh to those conversations. no one suggesting the u.s. is somehow threatening opec to increase by this amount or there will be consequences, but there gives a sense of the scale of what they're facing. look at the iran sanctions. ae last time we lost about million barrels-plus out of the markets. as retail gasoline gets up to three dollars a gallon, you need to find oil somewhere else to keep that stable. alix: to be clear, president trump reinstates sanctions on iran and then called opec to make up the losses that we may see from those sanctions. it is thatsure simplistic. there are lots of other conversations going on here and it is a complex iss