Public health field and its a real, you know privilege for me to. Be here with you to you know to talk about your brilliant new book. I want to just you know start simply. You know explain the title silent invasion and you know the reasons you wrote the book what you talk about a little bit at the beginning of the book. Yeah, great professor and im gonna call you larry. So thank you. Its really an opportunity to be with you again. Weve had a long career together battling pandemics around the globe and making sure the most vulnerable are served and i hope we take that message here in this country, but i called it silent invasion to really raise the alert that despite the capacity. We hadnt been diagnosing truly diagnosing respiratory diseases ever in this country. I was confronted that in africa 20 actually in 1998 where fever was treated first as malaria, and then its Something Else and then its Something Else and maybe it was tuberculosis and maybe it was hiv and it was all perceptive
Parliament observed a miami of silence today. Drug maker pfizer has just authorized a new 11 billion Share Buyback program in addition to the 1 billion remaining on the companys buyback plan. Their sales have been declining since 2011. They blame generic drugs for stealing sales from block busters like lipitor and viing a rasm streaming Radio Service pandora said sales rose and revenue from mobile grew 52 . Listener hours were up and the companys active listener base grew more than 5 . Still, their forecast for the coming quarter is coming in less than estimated. That has shares trading down. App ook launched a new ios called rooms. It comes from facebooks creative labs and is the companys latest attempt to build standalone apps independent of the social network. Now to our lead. Amazon posted a wider loss of 437 million on revenue of more han 20 billion. The c. E. O. Is still spending, for the pending purchase of twit er to the new kindle fire. Forecast for the Holiday Quarter revenue
The nasdaq touch and go early on. Briefly dipping below into correction territory. But its now in the green, up better than a full point. In terms of the long bond yield on the tenyear note, treasuries and commodities, they are also on the move in todays trading session. After moving sub2 in yesterdays trading day, the tenyear note. The yield is now 2. 171 . In terms of oil, west texas intermediate is on the upside by almost 2 on the trading session. And gold is near a onemonth high, although it is in negative territory. So we have a lot ahead for you in this hour. We have every angle covered. Bob pisani is going to join me here at the nyse momentarily. Bertha coombs is at the nasdaq. Rick santellis at the cme. And skrjackie deangelis is over the nymex. Thats right, a very busy hour ahead. It was just one day ago that we hit the bottom in the dow and was off more than 450 points. Europe fueling the fears in the markets. Seema mody is in london. Michelle carusocabrera tracking those soa
Melissa happy friday to you. I am melissa francis. Lori and i am lori rothman. We will tell you how to protect your investment. Melissa how worried is business . U. S. Chairman joins us in just a few minutes. Lori boeing 787 dream liner is safe. If boeing stock safe for your portfolio . Melissa if your new years resolution is to get in shape, this one will hurt. The gym membership, at that price, they better be working out for me. [ laughter ] all right, time for stocks now as we do every 15 minutes. Lauren a sibling that he is standing by. Stocks struggling today. Holding this titrating pattern for much of the session. The dow is up seven points. Energy is flat. Lets take a look at wells fargo. Profits hit a record high. That is good. They are not doing as many mortgages. They are the nations biggest lender. You can see it is down by one and a quarter percent. Cheryl how did last years drought play out . Jeff it was pretty wild in here today. Five of the past six years, this has been
And amazing aides that you have in your offices. They have really been our partners on some of our most difficult projects. And kudos to you for bringing aboard and supporting such smart passionate folks to drive and deliver an agenda together for great 21st century streets in San Francisco. So, i will miss you guys tremendously and it is a very bitter sweet goodbye for me but i really appreciate all the support and partnership that you have offered in my time here. Thanks. applause our next and final commendation for the day will be provided by supervisor mar, who i understand has a number of commendations. Thank you, president chiu. As many people know, this past sunday was the oneyear anniversary of the tragic crash, asianic errol flight 214 crash from july 16, 2013, and im humbled to be here with five amazingly courageous he roic heroic airfield Security Officers from our San Francisco airport. And before i call them up here to come accept these commendations, i wanted to reflect a