with the reduced reward but still plans to appeal the verdict saying that there was no scientific proof linking its best selling herbicide round up to counts of german chemicals john the buyer earlier this year and inherited thousands of roundup related losses. let's bring in our financial correspondent for friday for paul what does this ruling mean for buy and how did the market react to. well you could expect two hundred million dollars to pay less would be a good sign but overall this ruling is not good for fire actually it could be potentially devastating because the judge held the ruling by the jury and the buyer was unable to break that link between its product and the cancer this this man suffered from that could trigger or encourage other people with similar cases to