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Fascinating conversation and content out of those interviews. Cant wait to see them all. I amme to daybreak asia, haidi lun here in sydney. Betty i am betty lou at the Global Headquarters in new york. Before we get to the great therviews, a recap of markets. We sell the dollar gain, oil markets higher, oil touching above the 50 a barrel level. That led to stocks rising. Lets pull up the board to show where markets closed. The dow added on 40 points. S p gaining. The nasdaq higher, as well. We continued to digest lots of news in the u. S. We will be watching economic numbers that are key for th...

Reporting, what exactly chinese banks are and are not doing Going Forward with north korea . Sure. First of all, thank you for bringing it up. I think its an important topic. I did have the opportunity to go with the president to the u. N. General Assembly Last week. It really was an incredible experience, sitting in the General Assembly and listening to his speech. He also signed last week in new york an executive order, which gives the Treasury Department the most extensive powers on sanctions that we have ever had. These are very important powers. We will be careful in using them, but we th...

Cable companies and is brought by your cable or satellite writer. Provider. The communicators visited several Technology Fairs this year, heres a look at two of them beginning with researchers at microsoft washington, d. C. Headquarters. Ati am a researcher microsoft researcher guest research. The reason we think about that is 60 percent to 70 75 were caused by pathogens maintained an animal populations. Ebola and sars are examples. People [inaudible] do you monitor its action bats and figure out if they have ebola . We imagine using a mosquito as a device. They take blood samples. Nonre other...

Epidemics are caused by pathogens maintained in animal dna. Theyre difficult to monitor because if you take ebola, for instance, its believed that ebola has a reservoir in egyptian fruit bats. How do you monitor in the environment the population of egyptian fruit bats and whether or not they have ebola . Its a very hard thing to do. So we imagine using a mosquito as a device because they bite all sorts of animals, taking little blood samples. They bite everything from animals from amphibians and reptiles all the way up to humans and chickens. Host so why would microsoft be working on a project...