Or on the line every day. Last week, we talked about how important testing is to our desire to reopen the economy while taking every appropriate measure to protect the lives and health of customers, staff, business owners, visitors and residents in every corner of our state. Today, we are very pleased to announce a partnership with idx it employs 3000 people in our state, and worldwide leader in the production of diagnostics is partnering with us to provide covid19 test material sufficient to more than triple our current Testing Capacity. While this a deal was and that works, we boarded for the fda and washington to give final emergency use approval to idexx new approval. That approval arrived this morning. This changes everything. For weeks, my administration has been in discussions with idexx to make sure people of wade would be the beneficiary of their new test kits should fda approve them. And now we have that approval. As a result of this partnership, the state of maine will have
Announced a new partnership with a local laboratory 11 the state to test more people for covid19. Her state or conference with state Public Health officials is about an hour. Gov. Mills good morning, good afternoon. We have good news for you today. 67 days, our Coronavirus Task force has worked day and night to provide the resources to make every man, woman, and child in maine safe. Has talkeddr. Shah about the critical need for testing of the virus in any number of settings, particularly when it comes to protecting our most Vulnerable People and our frontline workers whose lives are on the line every day. Who lives or on the line every day. Last week, we talked about how important testing is to our desire to reopen the economy while taking every appropriate measure to protect the lives and health of customers, staff, business owners, visitors and residents in every corner of our state. Today, we are very pleased to announce a partnership with idx it employs 3000 people in our state, a
Also indicted were three russian entities and separately an indictment followed an american who was allegedly involved in related credit card crime. The Deputy Attorney general Rod Rosenstein briefing reporters this afternoon laid out a case called the Internet Research agency employed hundreds of people to the budget to the tune of millions of dollars in a longrunning effort to influence u. S. Politics. Ultimately, in the 2016 president ial election to benefit now President Donald Trump heres how Rod Rosenstein described the elaborate effort by the Internet Research agency. The defendants allegedly use that infrastructure to establish hundreds of accounts on social media networks, such as facebook, instagram and twitter. Making it appear those accounts were controlled by persons located in the United States they used stolen or fictitious identities, Fraudulent Bank accounts and false identification documents now the, bill, what im told here is that ultimately the special counsels offi
Very excited. Again, we did hit 18,000. Pulled back a bit. I think the important think is were approaching the historic highs. With a historic closing high. That was way back on may 19th. Broad group of stocks leading, right now you have disney leading, and you have chevron and exxon. Along with jpmorgan when would a great week last week. Its a pretty broad advance. Energy is leading 3 1 advancing to declining, and its been marching forward throughout the morning. The volume is on the moderate side, the vix is declining, and Oil Volatility is declining. I think thats the big story. People keep asking me, why are we advancing today . The smart money was short oil into the doha meeting, widely expected there would not be any big agreements. You bet buy programs coming in, take a look at the sectors, energy are leading. That would support the idea, that we are getting some short coverings in the energy group. Back to you. Your other big story is, as, of course, bo been mentioned, crude bo
400 points plus a day. Look what happens when the two sides in washington begin speaking again. Over to you. The important thing, maria, is theyre talking. Thats all anybody cares about right now. Put up the full screen. We held up throughout the whole day on the idea that we had Senate Republicans meeting with president obama for about two hours. As long as we hear words like encouraging, constructive, thats good. If we get to monday night, Tuesday Morning and we hear words like dead look. Thats bad. One side night, earning season, as you noted, will start in earnest next week. Im hearing a lot of concerns. Theyre expecting big numbers, 9 Earnings Growth, and theres can concern theyll use washington as an excuse for taking numbers down. Wells fargo, jpmorgan, a little disappointment. Revenue were on the light side. Mortgage business not as expected at wells fargo and growth anemic. Take a look at retail stock this is week. We had a tough time overall. Gap was a disappointment. Same st