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good tuesday morning. welcome to squawk alley. jon fortt, sara eisen and myself at post nine. apple s conference is usually focused on software but this year hardware is stealing the show. josh lipton has that story from san francisco. hey, josh. reporter: that s right. apple s ceo tim cook took the stage and unveiled home pod, a new smart speaker. we have such a great portable music experience but what about our homes? we think we can do a lot to make this experience much better. just like we did with portable music, we want to reinvent home music. reporter: the smart speakers are integrated with siri, designed to work with apple music which we learned has 27 million paying subscribers and $349, home pod is pricier than rival devices from amazon and google. it ships in december. we also learned about new partnerships at last year s code conference, remember, amazon s jeff bezos said the two companies had not been able to negotiate acceptable terms but apple a ....
dow futures up by almost 65 points s & p up by five and a half, nasdaq up 24 comes after a week we saw gains in the markets take a look at what happened overnight in asia. green arrow there as well indicating it was up only one-tenth of 1%. hang seng up and shanghai up. in europe, more of the same, gains across the board dax, and france, cac up by almost 1%. check out crude oil prices oil down by almost $2. this morning up 31 cents we have seen a big take down in gas prices here are big stories this morning. shares of nestle sharply higher, at record high after activist investor dan loeb announce stake in the company they re erjing nestle to improve margins, shed noncore businesses earlier nestle considered sale of the confectionary division. argues nestle should sell 23% stake in the cosmetics maker l oreal. shares at an all-time high today as well. in auto news, the company at the center of the biggest safety recall in history filed for bankruptcy takata saying it ....
at the aspen ideas festival this year. [laughter] it is about the most important technology that will affect our technology crispr technology that will allow the editing of the human genome. importantt the most moral question you and your children will face, which is to what extent should we allow this .echnology to edit human genome with me is the author of a more and creation. importantly she is author of a 2012, scientific paper that is basically explaining how crispr crispr testas-9 nine, can be used cas-9 can be used in the human genome. we will talk about the implication of what that means, especially as we edit the human germline, and allow it to be passed on to our children. but before we get to the ethical implications i thought we should start a little bit with the narrative of how you got there. think on this stage, some of you remember, we had dr. james watson, and francis crick of the double helix dna, and one of the main things he did was he wrote ....
welcome everybody. i am walter isaacson, and you re about to enjoy the most important session you will hear at the aspen ideas festival this year. it is about the most important technology that will affect our lives, crisper technology crispr technology that will allow the editing of the human genome. it is about the most important moral question you and your children will face, which is to what extent should we allow this technology to edit human genome. with me is the author of a crack and creation. more importantly she is author of a 2012, scientific paper that is basically explaining how crispr or crisper cas-9 crispr test nine, can be used cas-9 can be used in the human genome. we will talk about the implication of what that means, especially as we edit the human germline, and allow it to be passed on to our children. but before we get to the ethical implications i thought we should start a little bit with the narrative of how you got there. i think on th ....
triangular relations between the u.s., china, and russia, the world s great powers. and we thought it would be appropriate to hear president views on thisand matter, 45 years ago. the clip you are about to hear is from the nixon white house tapes. this is president nixon talking to his national security adviser dr. henry kissinger, in january , 1972, just one month before the historic trip to china that february. [inaudible]xon: xon: [inaudible] it wanted to introduce a special guest in our audience today, president nixon s younger brother, ed nixon. [applause] , the stage isat yours. , thankk you very much you for having us here. we had a wonderful tour this afternoon at the library and we all enjoyed it very much. i m going to start our on theion by picking up tape that jonathan played for us nixon s idea of former leading relations to counterbalance soviet power. he turned out to be very prescient in terms of not worrying about china necessarily in 1972 but worryin ....