0. 719 andrew and we have numbers to bring you this morning from United Health group just out with its quarterly numbers. Reporting Quarterly Earnings of 3. 51 per share. It beat the consensus estimate of 3. 09 revenue also above forecasts, saying that medical care trends that had been disrupted by the pandemic are moving closer to normal you are looking at that stock up just marginally this morning and we have three more financials, bank of america this hour, Goldman Sachs in the 7 00 hour and then wells fargo in the 8 00 hour. Joe. Thankthanks, andrew. Another Clinical Trial halted over safety concerns, eli lilly late stage trial has been paused by u. S. Health regulation tors it used a Health Sample from one the first patients recovered from coronavirus ill given you more details. Because it leaves out something important. Of the trials ongoing of the antibody, they decided to add remdesivir along with the antibody and that is when they had to halt the trial for some kind of safety
Whether its medical, some of these states posting some of their highest caseloads since the pandemic began, but then again optimism about the recovery at the same time. Right look, i think that we are all kind of thrown its governor to governor, yesterday in new jersey suddenly we get the you can have 100 people outside, 50 people inside. Versus six we are all kind of confused. With he see some parts of the country looking worse, other parts of the country that were so terrible its wide open and the confusion to me is what are the numbers going to be look like what are they going to look like given the fact that new york now feels like post wuhan and the rest of the country seems like, i dont know, maybe is it going to be italy, is it going to be spain i dont think it is. I think its going to be better, but i have to tell you, carl, that the stuff thats being bought is not in synch with whats happening, particularly the airlines, the hertz rental car, we saw a very good piece in the jo
Days, weve seen the dow up over 1,000 points a gain of 553 yesterday and 529 points on tuesday. Looking this morning at the dow futures indicated up another 105 points we are back above 25,000 for the First Time Since march when watching the dow s p is up just under a point the nasdaq down around 54 points both of those indexed were hire yesterday as well. The 10year looks like it has been yielding around where weve been around 0. 677 we will continue to watch this this morning we have a lot of big guests coming up. Now to the moment weve all been waiting for. Joe and andrew, ill send it over to you. What moment would that be well be in a twoshot we are good we spoke yesterday we are good. You didnt have much time. We made the news. A few comments. People seem to have differing opinions he wasnt able to talk much. We were moving on. He had zuckerberg. We dont have time to dwell. Weve been together 10 years longer than many marriages we have our moments but we will disagree but not be d
Nations distinguished thinkers an innovators. It is my privilege to introduce todays participant to engage us in a captivating discussion of health care. Let me start by introducing the guest speaker who i have known for many years and consider him a mentor and friend. Scott serota is the ceo of Blue Cross Blue Shield, and a National Federation of supporting 36 independent communitybased and locallyowned Blue Cross Blue Shield companies and including Blue Cross Blue Shield of michigan. The Blue Cross Blue Shield system through its federation of insurers covers 1 of 3 americans, and i think that this is a very important statistic, because nobody else does this frankly, it serves every zip code in the united states, meaning in every zip code in america, someone has a Blue Cross Blue Shield card. He is overseeing one of the most trusted brands in health care, and scott is one of the most influential leaders driving Public Policy and conversations on health care and health care reform, and
Investments ever. Were closing in on new records in the markets, this amid new optimism for that potential china u. S. Trade deal as you saw stocks are set to open higher. And the tech lash heads to the states a major multistate investigation into antitrust practices at google, set to be announced later on this afternoon. David, kick us off on t. Interesting here. In so many ways. 3. 2 billion as you said the stake from elliott, the largest single investment i believe they made at the company, a long letter comes out this morning detailing the reasons why this could be a 60 stock within lets call it three years or so, 2021 is what theyre talking about. 65 or so upside to todays stock price. They believe 5 in dividends and 55 stock price, you could get to 10 earnings per share grower with significant margin improvement, what theyre calling for. And buyback. Something i want to make sure people understand here, it is interesting, people who know the company well, but sort of are vaguely