Taylor even though we mentioned a little bit of a pullback today, the take a look at this chart i am showing inside my terminal. S phe top, the percent of 500 members trading above the average. The highest on record. At the bottom of the screen, the percent with rsi over 70. The highest since 1991. The general tone continues to be a slow grind higher. 500 toive inside the s p some individual movers. Macys has opened 450 stores, but that is not enough to give investors optimism. Suspendedy company their dividends and said they will not reopen at least 150 of their stores. We move up into some of the luxury names. Sales off 52 . They will keep north American Stores shut until july 15. Along with jp morgan, the financials mentioned earlier, selling pressure today, facinglarly the consumer banks. Short positions are back. This is data as of last week. Futures seeing the biggest net short positions since 2015. This is interesting because last week, the put to call ratio was the lowest ever.
Will have him just on audio. We will see how that goes. We hope that you can hear well enough if we do it this way and let us know in the chat box if it is not working for you. So just a warm hello to all of you, i am so happy to see that there are so many of you. My entered i am the owner and i want to start by thanking our speakers for being game to switch and for all of us this is a new way of life, we are presenting tonight in the partnership with a very good friend from the public library. I think we are all good by the precarious and frightening reality at this moment but there are so many books that can serve as antidotes and historical memory is certainly one of those antidotes. I think its another were sharing the next 45 minutes or hour or so tonight. And basically before introducer speakers more detail and step aside are many minds or whatever it is that we do these days, i just want to say quickly that davids book, here it is unmasking the angel of death is available or wha
Mr. Baker, this becoming age of mobility. You write did that so this book is about. What you mean about that pretty. John its an information revolution. Weve been watching it for the last half of century. It spread into computers and overwhelmed media and advertising in the spread into telephones and we are carrying on the internet wherever we went. And now in this next stage, the internet and the mobile machines we will be caring for they will be carrying us around so i think it is going to be an age in which all kinds of new choices going to surface for us and we are going to be able to, go a lot of places and will have a big effect our cities. And at same time, companies and city governments are going to be able to manage our movements and that will raise all kinds of questions about privacy. So is just the next stage of the internet revolution. It. Imagine a scenario, los angeles, 2028. What should be expect. One thing about information revolution is you cant bet on certain things.
We know from early historians how devastating this variety of smallpox was, 90 of all indigenous deaths were attributable to smallpox, tell us about that. There was a point of scholarly discussion. One of the sources we have, most of the media is a chronicler, spanish chronicler arrived in spain, he wrote a diary or memoir, talks about the actual mortality rate, keeps talking in terms of 50 but some of the other sources we have, people like cortez himself cortez writes and cant stand, and in europes time. From 1522 january 15, 21 is one of smallpox was introduced, theres a very early source, talks about him and writes a letter to charles v in 1520 and this is the first mention of smallpox in the new world from a spanish source. He was surprised when he arrived, there were very few people there and he attributed to dying of smallpox, he heads off and finds immediately upon arrival of the expedition, the native people began dying of smallpox fairly rapidly, very rapid phase but a number
Of mobility what do you mean by that . Is an information revolution and we have been watching it for the last halfcentury it has spread into computers overwhelms media and advertising. And then it spread into telephones. We were caring around the internet wherever we went. Now in this next stage, the internet panda mobile machines are becoming us around, it is going to be an age in which all kinds of new choices are going to surface for us and we are going to be able to go a lot of places and its going to have a big effect on our cities and at the same time, companies and city governments are going to be able to manage our movements and that will raise all kinds of questions about privacy. Its the next stage of the internet revolution part. Imagine the scenario something you write about in your book, los angeles, 2028, what should we expect . Well, one thing but information razzle revolution is you cannot bet on dates. We have seen it before with cell phones might coauthor night were i