Now, they are mixed in trading. They pretty much have been for most of the day. Volume has been pretty off, as well, especially as we head towards tomorrow and the july jobs report. Earnings are backandforth today, and this is what we are getting. Training s p 500 within a band of only about 10 points or soap you right now, the dow is down. 1 . Lets take a look at the s p sectors. Lets look at the Sector Health in my bloomberg. Generally speaking, a majority of our sectors are in negative territory, financial done the most, by about. 3 . Energy also down by about. 3 to technology is up the most, by about. 5 . Materials up. 4 . Taking a look at what is happening in terms of the biggest loser, metlife scraping the bottom of the barrel right now, down about 10 . Lifeis the u. S biggest insurance appeared secondquarter profit fell on the order of 90 . It plans to cut costs by 1 million by the inbound of 2019. This is its biggest fall in six weeks. Leslie get energy in terms of oil. Oil is
Well as eric jackson of Spring Owl Asset Management and an outspoken critic of management teams, including yahoo and viacomm. Earnings in revenue beat expectations. A big win for Ceo Jack Dorsey who, of course, runs two companies. The stock of square down more than 20 so far this year. Prior to todays move. I did speak to dorsey last quarter about the path to profitability. Square has been a very strong and really predictable business for us. And were really happy about that because we feel like we have a real understanding of how the business grows and what it takes to move it forward and can really understand what to do next. Predictable, of course being the keyword. How much of a victory is this quarter for jack dorsey . Short term its a great victory, longterm its a problem because square catches mass of competition from everywhere. And not only is card readers now, you have apple pay and new infrastructure. A lot of new technologies that could be developed that could really hurt t
Well, i think the data i showed, especially that curve, pretty clearly demonstrates that that we can identify the vast majority but not all cases within 21 days. So when were talking about declaring a country free of disease, then twice that, 42 days is the criteria that w. H. O. Issues. And i think intuitively you can run the graph out there and you can see there are no new cases at the far end. So it seems to me that thats, that additional safety precaution is clear . No . Obviously not. One more response, yes. What would you say to that second little hunt when you looked at your very nice geometric distribution, roundabout 14 days, it looks like there was a small second peak . And i wonder, if an alert reporter were to ask you, does that suggest that the time point one should be later and that the true doubling is to take care of unexpected, unrecognized second outbreaks . Or is it really the doubling of the that, you know . Thats a good observation and i think you need to just keep
James deluc. I want to start with a question and i and inspired by a couple presentations. What it has to do with for the purposes of working on kyushus like protective equipment, disinfection, waste disposal, has any thought been given to what is an appropriate surrogate for beat ebola virus in terms of the behavior of survival under various conditions yet does not require being in a Laboratory Facilities in order to run an experiment. To people have any ideas . Dr. Peters . There is the species of ebola which is not pathogenic for humans and can be downgraded from 4. In addition to that, colleagues have produced an ebola virus by genetic engineering to ward off interference which ebola has and that is probably not pathogenic, institution or review board giving permission to use it. Any ideas about that . There are various viruses, and the question, you do those experiments and say is does that react the same way as the real virus but that would be another idea. From the point of view
As something of a surprise, the fact there was going to be such a long term state of emergency. Presumably, making that announcement he must be pretty confident that he has got the political backing in the parliament in madrid to actually get this through because he has had one confrontation already with the Regional Government in madrid, he has got the opposition pp party or pepe saying, we dont like this because of the economic damage and we should be allowed to do things that are strictly at a regional level. So he must be quite confident to say, look, this will be a state of emergency and it is going to last for six months . Yes, thats right. I mean, he has acknowledged that he can only introduce the state of emergency for two weeks initially, then after that he has to go to parliament to get approval for an extension and obviously this is a very long extension. Now, as you pointed out there, earlier in the year when he was. He extended the state of emergency during a lockdown ever