Alix they were never gone. David timeout for your morning brief. It is joel jobs opening data. The u. S. Treasury will auction off notes. Disney reports Third Quarter results after the bell today. Get update on what is making headlines outside the business world. We turned the emma chandra with first word news. Emma on capitol hill, republicans are discussing a compromise when it comes to overhauling the tax system. According to people familiar with the matter, lawmakers are talking about mixing permit revisions with temporary rate cuts for individuals and businesses. Changee trying to the tax code without adding to the federal deficit. President trump plans to wait a week before going ahead with the trade investigation of china. According to an administration official, that is because china supported those United Nations Security Council sanctions against north korea. The white house is still concerned about possible chinese violations of intellectual property laws. Countrys moste sen
She discusses her latest book, the new better off. First up here is astrophysicists [applause] thank you welcome to the American Museum of natural history. Im your host for the evening and coauthor of this book talk, i am Neil Degrasse tyson. I serve as the frederick t rowes director of the Hayden Planetarium, a place we all went to as a kid. I was never the same after that. Come back and actually become director. I also want to welcome cspan into this event, they are recording it for book tv, so cspan is in the house. [applause] tonights book is called welcome to the university and i love saying that, welcome to the universe would go to planetarium director school they teach you how to speak like that. Let me immediately and reduce my coauthors, first, Michael Strauss. [applause] and richard, the third, these are my two coauthors. [applause] so just a bit of introduction, i taught for ten years at Princeton University from 1994 through 2003, before i transferred all of my activities h
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Cspan in the house. [laughter] [applause] tonights book is call welcome to the universe and i love saying that. Welcome to the universe. They tee that too. Let me immediately introduce my coauthors, first Michael Strauss. [applause] these are my two coauthors. [applause] so have a seat. So just a bit of introduction. I taught for ten years at Princeton University from 1994 to 2003 and before i transferred all of my activities here to this museum but over that time i taught a course on instructory astro physics. We realized we could charge, we could energize the course even more by adding other talent that has expertise that could see the curriculum, see the syllabus, in particular Michael Strauss is an expert on our galaxy, its structure, largescale structures of the universe in particularly. In fact, ph. D thesis was mapping the universe. Thats right. In fact, we met in the andies mountains of chile and we became good friends and colleagues. Jay richard gott, the third. While michael
Firm. Welcome to countdown, everybody. I am anna edwards. Manus i am manus cranny. They warned us, saying the problems would be tough, dropping around 50 less. Let us bring you the first news. First have sales coming in at 3. 7 2 billion, that is down 11. 4 , a little bit less than will the market was perhaps expecting. 353he operating profit, million swiss francs, that is down 53. 6 annually. They expect the results close or equivalent to last years, with that kind of pressure, this was last week, the stop dropping 14 on the day. The drop in profit they expected it to be twice what the analysts had expected. It is all about switzerland. Anna lets stick with the corporate thing. Firsthalf sales rising by 5 , and roche confirming the forecast of interest, analysts say first half sales will be 20. 5 billion swiss francs, a touch above the estimate of 24. 8 billion swiss franc. And at 7. 7 swiss francs versus the estimate of 7. 64. A look ahead of estimates. Looking in particular for Blad