The flat line. Dow futures up by 9 points s p futures down by 1 point. Nasdaq up by 5 1 2 nasdaq up for two out of the last three sessions as Technology Stocks continue to defy odds. Oil prices dragging things down yesterday. You can see in asia, the nikkei down slightly. Hang seng was weaker shanghai was down by a third of a percent. In europe, in the early trading, already seeing some modest declines the cac is the biggest decliner, its down by a half percentage point. The ftse off by 0. 4 crowd oil prices sitting at a tenmonth low. 42. 80. Still below 43. The big stories were watching today anything that happens at uber is big. Its another departure it took a day, but its front page on all the papers today about travis so late it missed the papers. Even now, if youre interested, some guy named bill gurley, who you may or may not know, a venture canpitalist at benchmark who was behind the push to get ckalanick out, now e stepped down from his role at company. Gurley served as a board
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Editorial more and reward and in the end instead of six hours we went close to ten hours. You can watch this and other programs online at booktv. Org. Good afternoon. I am the director of the institute for research on women, gender and sensuality and it is a great pleasure and great honor to be used this afternoon to moderate this panel and the celebration of a wonderful new book, a book on marriage eat quality by catherine frankie. What we are going to do this the afternoon is have some presentations and responses to the book and then open up for questions and discussion. We have assembled a stellar panel of the people who are just the right people to undertake this discussion and introduce them all briefly altogether and they will speak in deep water that we determined. It is all going to begin with a presentation of the book end its main issues of history by catherine frankie. She is the professor of law, director of the center for gender and sexual along which is a wonderful instit
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