so it seems leaving no stone unturned austin's equity office reviewed all the city's property on whether it had any connections or not to confederacy and they came up with a whole list of street names of monuments that they said should be changed all removed although you'll see that changing the city name is not let it happen any time soon as it would be given medium priority so if you live the don't panic yet anyway what's the controversy about let's go back to the history books a little bit so about this guy stephen f. austin the father of texas he was secretary of state of the new republic in the nineteenth century but he was a prominent slavery have occurred and even infamously said if slaves were emancipated they would turn into a menace he had slaves as domestic servants as well himself back there back to today however what do people think about it when we spoke to one resident at least naming the city after the state found it is common sense says media relations consultant and local resident john griffin. we've got this push in texas to try to you know be careful not to withstand

the state capitol of texas may have to rethink its name a report by the equity office in austin suggests taking a closer look because the city's named after a supporter of slavery it is long been a sensitive issue in a city that's considered to be among the most liberal in the united states. so this is what we know austin's equity office refute old public property to see whether it has any ties to the confederacy is most controversial period and they came up with a list of street names monuments that should perhaps be changed or removed although renaming the city is not likely to happen any time soon the issue is being assigned medium priority well the controversy lies with the city's namesake steven austin the father of texas well secretary of state all of the new republic in the nineteenth century but he was a prominent slavery advocate even infamously said that a month's a painted slaves would turn into a menace he had slaves the mystic servants as well but back to today naming the city after the state fundraise common sense media relations consultant on austin resident john griffin.

may have to rethink its name a report from the city's equity office raise the issue that that texas state capital was named after a supporter of slavery and i suppose sensitive issue for a city that is considered one of the most liberal in the whole country. so a bit more about what's going on here austin's equity office for a view to fight all the city's property on whether or not it had any ties to the confederacy and they came up with a whole list apparently of street names or monuments that should be changed all removed all virgo that being said as you can see it's got medium priority to change the city's name so it's not likely to happen anytime soon and more about this controversy what's happening here well it's all down to this guy steven austin he was the father of texas he was secretary of state for the republic of the nineteenth century but he was a prominent slavery and even infamously once said if slaves were emancipated they turned into a menace he had slaves apparently domestic servants as well but back to today naming the city for the state fodder is simply common sense tho

the state capitol of texas may have to rethink its name a report by the equity office in austin suggest taking a closer look because the city's named after a supporter of slavery it has long been a sensitive issue in a city that's considered to be among the most liberal in the united states. well austin's equity office reviewed all public property to see whether it has any ties to the confederacy's most controversial period and they came up with a list of street names on monuments stop should perhaps be changed to remove all the renaming the city is not likely to happen any time soon the issue has been assigned media priority now the controversy lies with the city's namesake steven austin the father of texas well secretary of state of the new republic in the nineteenth century but he was a prominent slavery advocate even infamously said that a month's a painted slaves would turn into a menace he had slaves domestic servants as well but today though naming the city after the state fund is common sense a media relations consultant austin resident john griffin. we've got this push in texas

may have to rethink its neighbor report from the city's equity office raised the issue that the texas state capitol was named after a supporter of slavery and that's a sensitive issue for a city that's considered one of the most liberal in the whole country. we're fact austin's equity office reviewed all of the city's property whether or not had any ties to the confederacy and they came up with a whole list of street names and monuments that they thought should be changed or removed although it has to be said the cavite to all this changing the city name is not likely to happen any time soon as in the beginning medium priority anyway what's the controversy here a bit more detail well the guy in question is called stephen austin he's the father of texas there is he was secretary of state of the new republic in the nineteenth century but he was a prominent slavery advocate and even from some infamously once said if slaves were emancipated they turned into a menace he had slaves as domestic servants as well still naming the city after the state found common sense says media relations con

austin's equity office reviewed in fact all of the city's property and whether it has any ties to the confederacy and they came up with a whole list of street names and monuments that should be changed or removed although changing the city name is not likely to happen any time soon as it seems to have been given only a medium priority now the controversy here lies with the city's namesake stephen austin the father of texas was secretary of state of the new republic in the nineteenth century but he was a prominent slavery advocate and even infamously said if slaves were emancipated they were turned into a menace he had slaves as well but back to the day naming the city after the state founder is common sense says media research relations consultant and local resident john griffin. we've got this push in texas to try to you know be careful not to withstand anybody but texas is offensive because liberty's offensive but the fact that texas is named that its capital city is named for the person that started the colony in texas that became the state that's common sense the city council here

the state capitol of texas may have to rethink its name a report by the equity office in austin suggests taking a closer look because the city's named after a supporter of slavery now it has long been a sensitive issue in a city that's considered to be among the most liberal in the united states. so austin's equity office refute all public property to see whether it has any ties to the confederacy's most controversial period they came up with a list of street names and monuments that should perhaps be changed to removed although renaming the city is not likely to happen anytime soon the issue's been assigned medium priority well the controversy lies with the city's namesake steven austin the father of texas with secretary of state all of the new republican in one thousand century but he was a prominent slavery advocate and even infamously said that a month's a paid slaves would turn into a menace he had slaves as domestic servants as well. today though naming the city after the state funder is common sense media relations consultant and austin resident john griffin. we've got this push i

the state capital of texas may have to rethink its name a report by the equity office in austin suggest taking a closer look because the city's named after a supporter of slavery now it is long been a sensitive issue in a city that's considered to be the most liberal among those in the united states. well austin's equity office reviewed all public property to see whether it has any ties to the confederacy's most controversial period they came up with a list of street names on monuments that should perhaps be changed or removed although renaming the city is not likely to happen anytime soon the issues being assigned medium priority well the controversy lies with the city's namesake steven austin the father of texas was secretary of state of the new republic in the nineteenth century but he was a prominent slavery advocate and even in first said that months it paid to slaves would turn into a menace he had slaves domestic servants as well but back to today naming the city after the state founder is common sense so save media relations consultant and often resident john griffin. we've got

so to tell you a bit more but what's been going on here austin's equity office reviewed in fact all the city's property whether or not it had any ties to the confederacy and they came up with a whole list of street names of monuments that they thought should be changed or removed or the caveat to all that is changing the city name is not likely to happen on the site any time soon it's been given a only medium priority anyway what's the controversy here well let me tell you it's all about this guy coming up here stephen austen he's the father of texas the secretary of state of the new republic of the nineteenth century that's the catch he was a prominent slavery even infamously said if slaves were emancipated they'd turn into a menace even had slaves as domestic servants as well wouldn't go down this day in age now back to today that naming the city after the state founder is commonsense though says media relations consultant and local resident john griffin. we've got this push in texas to try to you know be careful not to withstand anybody but texas is offensive because liberty's offens

may have to rethink its name a report from the city's equity office raised the issue that the texas state capitol was named after a supporter of slavery and that's a sensitive issue for a place that's considered one of the most liberal in the whole state. i report reviewed all the property with ties to the confederacy it shows street names and monuments that may possibly be changed or removed changing the city's name has a medium priority though so what is wrong with the name we ask well stephen alston the father of texas was secretary of state of the new republic in the one nine hundred centuries he was a prominent slavery advocate and even said if slaves who were emancipated they would turn into a menace he had slaves as domestic servants as well it seems media relations consultant joe griffin told us that despite the history it's just common sense though the city is named after its former head you've got this push in texas trying to you know share what i do with and anybody but texas is offensive because liberties are they're not going to gain acceptance by everyone but the fact that t

austin's equity office reviewed all public property to see whether it has any ties to the confederacy and they came up with a list of street names and monuments that should be perhaps changed or removed although renaming the city is not likely to happen anytime soon as the issue has been assigned medium priority now the controversy here lies with the city's name sic steven austin the father of texas was secretary of state of the new republic in the one nine hundred century but he was a prominent slavery advocate and even infamously said that the man who emancipated emancipated excuse me slaves would turn into a menace he had slaves as domestic servants as well back to today though naming the city after the state founder is common sense says media relations consultant and austin resident john griffin. we've got this push in texas to try to you know be careful not to withstand anybody but texas is offensive because liberty's offensive but the fact that texas is named that its capital city is named for the person that started the colony in texas that became the state that's common sense

may have to rethink its name because a report from the city's equity office has raised the issue that the texas state capitol was named after a supporter of slavery and that's a sensitive issue for a city that's considered one of the most liberal in the whole country. so than austin the office has reviewed all the city's property and whether or not it's got any ties to the confederacy and they came up with a whole list of street names of money once that they say should be changed or removed or the cabinet to this is must be said the city name change is not likely that anytime soon and the only begin a medium priority list look a bit deeper into this why is this so controversial here well we think of the name steven austin he was the father of texas he was secretary of state there is fine looking chap in the new republic of the nineteenth century but he was a prominent slavery advocate at the time and even him for infamously said if slaves were emancipated they'd turn into a menace but he had slaves as domestic servants as well still naming the city after the state found his common sen

now report by austin's cheek so my cheap equity officer, the city should consider renaming itself inniel davidson is a senior contributor at the federalist and joins us right now. do you think this should happen? get rid of austin? >> let's get rid of austin, houston, washington, d.c. let's get rid of them all. if we are going to go down this road, there's no stopping it. >> madison, wisconsin, how about that? >> there you go. jackson, mississippi. this is the problem. when this whole thing started where we had to remove confederate statues and we had to rename schools that were named after confederate generals and jefferson davis. it was really obvious from the beginning that there was no limiting principle to the renaming, that once we start renaming schools and streets in cities and tearing down statues, eventually we are going to have to go after the founding fathers, we are going to have to go after abraham lincoln, we will have to have to go after woodrow wilson. everybody in the past who had opinions that today are unacceptable are going to have to go. >> brian: you can go bac

turn it back over to director elliott. >> so when crafting the equity report prior to the program being put in place, the controllers' office took the lead on benchmarking other jurisdictions and outlining key barriers to entry for potential equity applicants. those barriers included access to capital and financing, access to real estate, licensing and regulatory fees, legal and regulatory compliance and geography. this request is seeking to try and address some of those barriers. you are all familiar with cb3p and i worked on it and so with that, the goal of the program was included in the report as a recommendation for implementation of the city. and the goal of the request is to allow those who are participating in our equity program to receive the benefits of cb3p if they opt into that. with that i'm happy to answer questions. thank you for hearing this item today. >> great. >> first o. i want t off, i wany great presentation. yes, you are involved with that cb3p program. and this is, in m in my opiniont it was put into place for. we should absolutely get behind this. i'm going to see what my other fellow commissioners

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is the chief equity and service officer at the national school boards association. she provides leadership and management over educational equity programming content and research. before joining, she was the chair of the board in prince george's county public school district. and she was president of maryland association of board of education. .nd she chaired an sba to -- q she knows boards, she knows urban. she is a go to. fraley, so glad to see him. he is the press president of asa. and he served for almost a decade as superintend in texas and has more than 70,000 students. he retired, at least that's what hometown ofen his said he neededs an interim he served as interim, but i bet he is going to stay. he's also a member of the urban academy committee. harris, director of education policy and practice. she works with a variety of partners to further and ea's agenda and is the primary liaison to the department of education. 2012, i'm not a say who 12,elected, but in 08 and she served as an ea liaison to the democratic president campaign. she got her law degree at hq

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the medical school has like a diversity office and we have a strong equity. from my dad, i think some establishments are more interested in discovering what is this about. there's just such a powerful example of it for the whole historical legacy is so much we are dealing with that dealing with have never dealing with have never thought of that historical legacy and women in hysteria or feeling. it is just another way of getting out this. >> yeah, and that is another area where there is more interest than implicit bias, all sorts of implicit bias. like i said, i do think there is a lot of a lot of work that has started happening in the medical system focused on various aspects of the problem and so i hope that maybe one thing the book can do is tie these things together and kind of is a richer context to support that work could point out why it is necessary. >> i have a question about maternal mortality. i've been reading a lot about how the rest of the first world it seems like we've are declining, but in the united states they are raising. wondering if your

set up when he was prime minister now his questioning by anticorruption offices comes the same day that a luxury yacht known as equity arrived at a port just about an hour's drive outside of kuala lumpur and this luxury your it is part of a u.s. department of justice investigation and a civil action to recover assets allegedly bought with money stolen from one end now the ultimate owner of this your it is believed to be a malaysian citizen known as low take joe who is now a fugitive and believed to be the mostyn mind of this plan to steal billions of dollars from one m. d. b. and the new malaysian government that took power in may following a general election is scrutinizing and looking into this corruption scandal extremely rigorously and they've been looking at projects that are believed to be linked to one m. d. b. they've suspended contracts involving chinese companies because it's believed that some of that money may have been used to pay off some of one debts and the government also recently announced the closure of a cent test set up and backed by the saudi arabian government to combat extremism and the govern

she is is chief equity and member services officer at the national school board association. ership and management over educational equity, programming content, and research, before joining, she was the chair of the board in the prince georges county public school district. and she was president of the maryland association of fate of boards of education. she chaired an sba cube, which is the council of urbans board of education. she knows boards. she knows urban. she's a go to. alton, alton fraley, so glad to see him. he is the past president of asa and he served for almost a decade as a superintendent in texas and has more than 70,000 students. he retired from there, at least that's what he said. and then he -- his hometown of texas needed a superintendent. he said he would serve as interim. he says he's interim, but i bet you he's going to stay. he's also -- [laughter] >> -- a member of the urban academy steering community. donna harris aitkins is at national educational association. she works with a variety of partners to further the agenda and is the association's primary

equity, and sovereign funds. corporate have their own venture fund. you're talking about the venture capital community, corporate, and family offices. , will thising aboutontinue in terms of fundraising? i think there is a lot of dry powder, being capital raised as well as assets in portfolio private equity firms out there and available to be put to work. people looking for returns and i do not see an end in sight. emily: so you don't see a time when the powder will dry up? michal: it's not a matter of the powder being dry, there is a lot of capital on the sidelines. if you are a disciplined investor, the big question is where do you put the money to work? do the valuations justify making investment at this time? that is the bigger question. one of the data points coming out that there has been a drop in capital calls. folks have been raising money, yet capital calls, meaning actually asking investors to find the commitment has been dropping and distribution has been exceeding capital calls. emily: what does that mean? michal: a lot of money on the sidelines and folks are looking to put it to work. emily: i want to talk about tesla here because it is su

set up when he was prime minister now his questioning by anti corruption offices comes the same day that a luxury york known as equity arrived at a port just about an hour's drive outside of kuala lumpur and this luxury your it is part of a u.s. department of justice investigation and a civil action to recover assets allegedly bought with money stolen from one m. d. be the ultimate owner of this your it is believed to be a malaysian citizen known as low take joe who is now a fugitive and believed to be the mostyn mind of this plan to steal billions of dollars from one m. d. and the new malaysian government that took power in may following a general election is scrutinizing and looking into this corruption scandal extremely rigorously and they've been looking at projects that are believed to be linked to one m. d. they've suspended contracts involving chinese companies because it's believed that some of that money may have been used to pay off some of one m.t.b.f. debts and the government also recently announced the closure of a cent test set up and backed by the saudi arabian government to combat extremism and the go

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office into a european base due to brexit. it's official — us retailer walmart now has a 77% stake in india's e—commerce giant flipkart. walmart‘s investment includes $2 billion in new equityth. let's go to devina gupta in delhi who is following the story. this has been a long while in the making and we have arrived. it is a huge deal, isn't it, for flipkart and india? absolutely. it has taken three months for regular tory approval to come through in the second attempt of walmart to enter india is finally sealed with india's leading online platform, flipkart. just like the us, fall walmart the biggest competitor in this market is still amazon but unlike the us where amazon is edging past walmart in the online platform, walmart has the advantage of an indian partner, flipkart, which 0regon advantage of an indian partner, flipkart, which oregon has a 100 million customer base. they are attracted to deep discounts which woolmark has a great synergy for and will be looking at entering the grocery online market which is the next battlefield for players here. —— walmart has a great synergy. it is only 3% of the overall market that walmart will be able to take share in the e—comm

office the same time, there isn't equity capacity.ap dollars, on any particular place. tesla was iap for think $80 billion or something in those regions. you have got to say that makes it quite difficult. >> want to end on this. a lot of the time when people with investment banks say they to me, you sitt, between traditional lending on one side and also on the other side. what is the correct way in the market? not stand for anything. we are a full-service investment bank. we lead with our advisory product, our advice. people come to us for equity distribution. we have a wealth management business that allows us to both distribute in an source new business. a lot of our work with corporate climates -- geographic reach is unparalleled. one very strong global investment bank in china. . dominant european franchise it is easy in the middle east. we are able to give a geographic reach and as i say, we are a boutique with a balance sheet that much more of a bluetooth -- boutique. that is very, has it. thank you for joining me. lisa, i will

office space and services and corporate customers account for about a quarter of memberships wework is valued at $20 billion. this is the second i investment by softbank. it invested 4.4 billion in equityunding last august as wework adds more buildings and debt, there's plenty of optimism about the company they are on the verge of surpassing jpmorgan as the largest occupier of office space in new york. >> they put in $3 billion a yea and a half ago this is another investment >> they're growing fast. >> do you know people engaged in wework >> yeah. >> especially in new york. >> yeah. >> are they able to work i knows there the we they have party fridays. is there work? >> they have those joint areas where i'm sure there's a little friday happy hour -- >> joint areas with pot being legalized, that may be saying something. >>> to your big morning stories, dropbox shares dropping in the premarket. they're down big the company's ceo leaving the company. they beat earnings forecast. the market focusing on the guidance. >>> universal displays latest revenues topping revenues. they expect a pick up in orders in the second half of the year the stock is up 10.3%. if you own that stock, take your

congressional budget office lowered its forecast for this year citing uncertain for widening tariffs a how utious should investors be right now. let's turn to barry bannister, head of equity strategist. an awful lot of cross winds going here, barry with everybody convinced that we may see aom correction time next year. what do you make of that? >> yeah. there's a gd chance of that. if you look at the broader s&p 500 andn important market index it's actually still below where it was on january 26th of this year. it hasn't made a lot of progr s progress, we've had strong earnings to be sure and the ratio of price to earnings has fallen while the earnings improved. soe' had a market that's really flat year to date. >> you also men otioned that th maet's view on interest rates is basically well below the fed's rate view. how mu more aggressive do you think the fed is going to have to be? >> yeah. the trouble for the fed is they don't really have any good choices. they have to cross an interest rate that's goi to undermine some of the wall street's aeculation before they get to rate that is consistent with what's called the dual mandate, which is low inflation and full employm

asset management is overweight, while clint datrow, the chief investment officer at jewel financial is underweight u.s. equities right now gee, do i go with the bull or the bear we'll flip a coin here you have been underweight for a while. we by our own disciplined nature have taken those positions off and have not found places to redeploy i get especially concerned -- i'm not always a contrarian, but i am concerned when i see all of the bullish statistics out there. especially today's report. it's easier for me to be bullish when people are pessimistic. >> okay. meelk, do you feel like you're in a crowded trade right now still being bullish this market? >> well, whether it's a crowded trade or not, i still feel like it's justified when you look at the earnings we reported this quarter, they're phenomenal, and you look at the data going forward i think there are three drivers that keep us very constructive on u.s. equity markets, and that is the earnings trajectory, which we should be able to maintain the buyback activity at about $1 trillion run rate, and then the economic data in the u.s. continues to be very

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officer report. >> okay, here we go. front page, you will see that we returned 1.02% for the month and equities up a couple percent, in particular our global equity manager aerostreet does really well. and the private market strategies were all slightly in the green. i did want to turn to page 2 and highlight one thing. and that is that we have added a column off on the far right side and that is the dollar amounts of our unfunded commitments. again, we're on page 2 on the far right side in the new column. and that is to show just a magnitude of our unfunded commitments because it's grown quite a bit. and we were at less than $2 billion, 3.5 years ago. we are still in a good position and we monitor this all of the time and there's a lot of metrics and someday we'll walk through it. and commissioner driscoll asked to do a cash flow for casting and so we will walk through that in a future meeting but we are in good position here. but we want increased visibility for the board to see the dollar amount of our unfunded commitments. if we turn to also -- also to the graph, i'm not sure that i see a page on it but commissioner driscoll

equity is always trying to do a deal. this is a company in focus. they have the office buildings.rminating their talks with terra firma and tdr. this stock has had a cracking run. this is one week. talksmay, when these first came around, they rallied by nearly 30%. they are also giving us numbers for the year. the key line is this, terminating talks with starwood, terraform a -- terra firma, and tdr. with market estimates. let's see how they open. those talks are off, share buyback program. let me come back to that. more details on that to come. other markets now in noon to the fact that u.s. could go to $200 billion and china could go to $60 billion. it is all well within the china paradigm. is everyone happy with the xi jinping negotiation tactics? you are seeing this overall view from the markets. you got 94 months. , 94producer of daybreak months of job growth in the united states of america, an unbroken trend. that is the backdrop to markets. there's specs of light coming through the clouds of gray when he came to the view of the world. u.s. stocks rallying for five straight

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let's bring in peter anderson, chief investment officer at anderson capital management and scott, senior global equity strategist with wells fargo investment institute >> welcome back, bill. >> peter, theoretically we would be that high if the inflation rate were higher, if the economy were a little stronger i mean, the rate reflects what the economy is doing right now, right? >> most of the time. that's what the text books tell us, and the economists tell us it isn't always the case i think the most important thing that mr. dimon might be hinting at is maybe we could decouple the u.s. economy if i dare say so from all the trade tariff noise that we're seeing. the day to day changes in tweets, et cetera, make investors really uncomfortable, i think, with what direction the economy is going in, and for mr. dimon to zero in on the u.s. treasury rates, i think is pretty smart because where i think he is implying, hey, while we've got all this noise going on and this three-ring circus, and the center ring the u.s. economy looks pretty good, and i'm preparing for higher rates >> what would 4% due to the ec

companies should require to have to set up a cash office themselves brings up safety issues with trucks and bulletproof vests, don't want to encourage that. so, equity with some things readily available. so, it is important we get the scooters up and running. let's not hang on to the past. let's not have anger and acrimony in the process. but deliberate in the process, thank you. >> james moore, kathy da luca. >> james moore, head of government relations at skips scooters. i would like to talk a little bit about the scooter share as well. i understand that it's been said the process has been a little opaque. i think it was pretty clear application process, and i think there were some clear factors that were asked by this board for a director riskin to take into consideration, namely the past act of scooter providers. and whether they were providing scooters at the time, they interacted, such as lyft and uber, or bird and lime, these actions should be taken into consideration. if they are not, the city runs a risk of inviting more companies like this and preventing companies like skip from obtaining permits through a process that is set up by m.t.a.

in the most recent fed senior officer loan survey, they are reducing lending services for large firms. private equity for loans as banks tighten their belt. of gsoed to dwight scott capital partners about that environment. banks have really shrunk in the number of banks and they cannot quite often -- they were part of a group of a syndicate that would provide capital to these companies and they cannot do it on their own, so there are just not as many of them anymore to provide that capital. we provide a little more capital to a buyout firm that is trying to do this and so while we won't -- while we are more expensive, we do provide some leverage to their returns. alix: joining us now is steve bradshaw, bok president and ceo. talk to us about the lending environment you see right now. steve: it has been incredibly robust. had our highest loan growth order in the history of the bank in the second quarter. building throughout the first part of the year. i think the fact that business optimism is higher and the fact that we have also removed the uncertainty around health care and tax reform has really im

office teams. continuing on the operations and finance, develop a plan to provide clarity and develop an equitiable and sustainable salary management schedule. in december, the board, acting on my recommendation approved a unified salary schedule for both classified and certificateed managers and all employees have been placed on the schedule in accordance with clear and consistent criteria. next recommendation was continue to use financial data in a transparent matter so that the district makes fiscally responsible decisions. in the district we have a team called the smart team. it meets twice a month, and through that team we've been able to make budgetary recommendations as well as budgetary cuts to make sure that we're staying fiscally responsible and to maintain the district's fiscal health. and then, you see the second status report in this area is that school community -- school communities are engaged through the annual school planning and budget development process, and you heard that report earlier tonight. continuing under operations and finance, communicate clarity regarding revenues sl