You can find more information about both of those verifications on our website and you tube channel but one irony our guest identifies in his new book is that britain was once the envy of the world when it came to handling epidemics Contact Tracing was pioneered against cholera in londons soho area and so what can we learn from past pandemics how they transform the world professor Frank Snowdon author of epidemics and society from the black death to the present joins me now via skype from rome in this early frank welcome to going underground before we get to the book which i think is being read by more and more people than maybe you even expected tell me about how you contract it coded in rome and why youve dedicated your life way before coronavirus to the study of pandemics and epidemics yes one devoted so many years to pandemic diseases because it seems to me there are a wonderful way forward. Understanding how societies function and their put together their values the relationships
Markets. Up and down. But right now if you look at what weve seen happen over the last month it has been impressive somebody this week was talking about 1938 in a different context. I cant remember what it was not political context in a fed or some type of economic context yeah. Yeah. So thats quite awhile may wasnt so great. May was terrible. That set you up for june all three major indices are having their best month since january of this year triple digit gains as we head into the g20 meeting this weekend with so many people watching what will happen between china and the United States look at what happened overnight in the asian markets you will see the nikkei was down by 0. 3 . Same thing with the hang seng. Shanghai was weaker. Down by 0. 6 then this morning in europe, where there is some active trading taking place right now, green arrows across the board at this moment. Biggest gainer is the dax, which is up by 0. 4 . Everybody is up by 0. 2 or more. Look at treasury yields thi
Pitch as its expected to field acquisition offers this week. And unexpected fireworks from the Vice President ial debate last night. Well look at the highlights and the impact on the campaign. Amazon hitting another alltime high yesterday. Announcing prime reading, which unlocks thousands of kindle books for free. What that means for the industry. But first up, twitter shares rising in the premarket amid some increasing talk about a possible sale of the company. Comes more than a week after david broke the news that twitter has received expressions of interest from a number of Tech Companies that are considering whether to make a bid for the social media company. Little more color being flushed out by some regarding splits on the board between av and dorsey, the role nodas had in sort of driving morale. Yeah, interesting story from bloomberg. Our reporting sort of is where it was, you know, perhaps it is this week as i last reported. There was a formalization, more or less of a process
Speaker john boehner said he is hopeful a deal will be reached, but also added the g. O. P. Wants the white house to provide details on spending cuts. But in the white house wants the same thing from the g. O. P. But either way that is good enough for the market. We took off and we stayed to the upside. So far neither side has been specific on spending cuts so coming up in just one hour o ony 4 00 p. M. Eastern, former treasury secretary paul oneill says he has easiest way to cut spending. Fox business exclusive and in this our whole host of leaders in business talking about what specific they want to see. In terms of individual standouts. Apple right now about 2 to the upside. Some excitement over the iphone 5. How is this for a order in china. Brenda marshall says china unicom has more than 300,000 people on the waiting list. Nicole petallides with talk about this earlier, but that is enough to boost the stock. Sales in china friday, can you imagine the lines . Sec dont airlines is s