Nikkei flat. European equities, still positive. Nicely positive. Its better than yesterday. Germany, france, ftse, spain, all higher by more than 1 . Even more italy who has suffered so much lately. Price of crude oil up this hour across the board. 47. 97. Brent is reapproaching 50. 49. 34 with a gain of. 55. Danone is buying whitewave foods to expand the presence in the United States. Whitewave is the producer of silk almond milk, Earthbound Farm horizontal organic milk its a 24 premium to whitewaves Closing Price over the last 30 days. Tesla ramping up the word of wars with fortune. The electric car maker saying it did no wrong waiting to disclose a fatal accident with a car with self driving technology. This after fortune accomplished accomplish fd a story that was critical of tesla setting on the news for eight weeks. Criticizing the fact elon musk sold shares in the interim. A blog post late last night denying it knowingly withheld information from shareholders regarding that cras
No now. We begin with the zika virus. So the outbreak may be here in the middle of america in omaha, its top of mind. Its in 66 countries, its spreading. It can cause devastating birth desks. The virus is impacting tourism plans around the world. President obama is asking for almost 2 billion to fight it. Thats our cover story. While the mosquitoborne disease is name for the zika forest. It is ground zero for the outbreak and brazil being the start of the summer olympics in three month, it could have an impact. It expects a tourism boost. Here, zika may cause it to be 20 . If toll the zika could cost latin america and the caribbean at least 3. 5 billion this year. Mostly from lost tourism from jamaica and aare you ba. Dengue cost more than 8. 5 billion. In the sars outbreak. Chyna lost 2. 5 billion in investment. The u. S. Costs could surge, president obama has requested 1. 9 billion from congress to battle zika. So where is that money being best to protect potential mothers and newbor