Expectations for users and ad revenue. A drug also showing some positive results that may have been getting investors some optimism. To facebook, tesla and microsoft in a moment. Lets bring in taylor riggs to wrap up the day that was. Information showing that gdp pal gdp fell 5 . Maybeas thinking that things were not as bad as we think and that there was a sign that things could stabilize if not improve. You could say that was going on in the markets all day long. We got that data of a 4. 8 percent drop in gdp. Markets were already shrugging it off. Looking ahead to that news that we got from gilead. Tech is doing the best stuff. 3. 6 today. Those smallcap stocks are also some of the biggest out performers as we talk about how to reopen the economy. Gilead sciences was the driver behind all of this. They were up 5. 5 . Helpedxperiment drug coronavirus patients recover more quickly. Some 11 days instead of 14 or 15 days that was initially expected. Dr. Fauci came out and said this was a
Taken since yesterdays 3,000 point drop jim, you have never been a huge fan of futures, but you think they are especially irrelevant now. Right these are fraught. I got up three, the market looked great it was up like looked like we would make up half of what we lost yesterday i come back, were down. Lets stay focused on individual stocks individual stocks are all being brought down by the indices. The great opportunities, i want to use that word, come from the obliteration of the futures, mean while there are companies who are doing well theres companies doing quite poorly well go over both there will be opportunities today. Theres a lot of give up yeah. I want to get i have a lot of specific questions for you i know you have regeneron tonight. Signs of hope, whether its test kits from roche, therapeutics, you heard gottlieb a moment ago talking about it those three things, test, therapeutics, vaccines we are starting to see very early signs of progress. Absolutely. You look at tesla.
Good afternoon, good evening. Welcome. Happy fat tuesday, thank you all for spending you tuesday with us. Im joe could ross has been an important member of the institute, since our founding, hes been or media fellow and helped coordinate some of our events, some of our more contentious events. Youve may have seen ross was involved in. Were super pleased ross is joining today on i think the day of the release of his latest book. All of you know ross as one of the moe commenter men taters of the american culture, on the New York Times opinion page, written more than a few books and seem to all at least 0 couple of. The have the title of how we became something. Might want to steer clear of that or explain that. Anyway, today the format will be that i will engage ross in a conversation about the book, i actually had the pleasure of reading it and its an interesting book. In my judgment not the sort of typical conservative harangue on the way things are but takes a nice tact to explore wha
To jump to 2nd place in the book after winning the battle of the. Old faces and up haunting as they slip to fit. America evanston its good to have you with us. The Italian Government has put about one quarter of its population under quarantine in a bid to stop a rapidly expanding outbreak of the coronavirus Prime Minister just as the qantas signed a decree after midnight the lockdown affects the region as of lombardy and other northern provinces and then clued venice and italys Financial Capital of milan italys the country with the most corona virus infections in europe the governments most recent figures show 5883 confirmed cases and 233 people have died of the disease the lock down is the most drastic measure yet taken in a european country to try to contain the outbreak. Deserted train stations and empty roads northern italian cities now placed under quarantine wake up to the effects of the new decree overnight a very different scene news of the imminence lockdown set off a rush to
Her father is remembered now as the envoy who tried to negotiate peace and for the goodwill with america while the Japanese Military was secretly preparing to attack pearl harbor. She is the youngest of ambassador crews three children. Her mother was american from new york city. After world war ii she married an american, worked in commercial real estate, and lived much of for a adult life in the grand rapids area. One of her greatgrandchildren is in the audience. A candidate in the leadership academy. To your farright is the youngestenstein, grandson of colonel ralph hauenstein. Brians grandfather is pressed best known as eisenhowers u. S. Army officer u. S. Army officer who liberated paris and into places of unbelievable horror. After the war, ralph discovered as an entrepreneur and recognized as the father of goldfish crackers. [laughter] in theughout his career private sector, he also became one of mesh west michigans lead philanthropists. I will say later, its more than just the f