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10:30AM - Senate Hearing on Ebola
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10:30AM - Senate Hearing on Ebola
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10:30AM - Senate Hearing on Ebola
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10:30AM - Senate Hearing on Ebola
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Another Algo Trading takedown coming up = opportunity to buy cheap.
My bet is that $LAKE will have a good earnings report.
Algo Trading still smacking ANV around a bit. Starbuxsux may see another opportunity to get in at .8x.
Hopefully, Algo Trading will chill out a bit and let 'er rip some.
This ticker is going bananas. Missed this opportunity when it was in the $1s. Oh well. Whomever is still in this from the $1s, congratulations. It should be a Merry Christmas in your household. Good job!
LOL! That actually happened to me last night when I clicked on the link to check it.
12/10/14: The Ebola Fighters - TIME Person of the Year
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CNBC is covering this around 8:42AM EST. Ebola coming back into the media, slowly but surely!
12/10/14: The Ebola Fighters - TIME Person of the Year
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CNBC is covering this around 8:42AM EST. Ebola coming back into the media, slowly but surely!
12/10/14: The Ebola Fighters - TIME Person of the Year
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CNBC is covering this around 8:42AM EST. Ebola coming back into the media, slowly but surely!
12/10/14: The Ebola Fighters - TIME Person of the Year
CNBC is covering this around 8:42AM EST. Ebola coming back into the media, slowly but surely!
http://time.com/time-person-of-the-year-ebola-fighters-choice/
The Choice - They risked and persisted, sacrificed and saved. Editor Nancy Gibbs explains why the Ebola Fighters are TIME's choice for Person of the Year 2014
7:41 AM ET
By Nancy Gibbs
Not the glittering weapon fights the fight, says the proverb, but rather the hero’s heart.
Maybe this is true in any battle; it is surely true of a war that is waged with bleach and a prayer.
For decades, Ebola haunted rural African villages like some mythic monster that every few years rose to demand a human sacrifice and then returned to its cave. It reached the West only in nightmare form, a Hollywood horror that makes eyes bleed and organs dissolve and doctors despair because they have no cure.
But 2014 is the year an outbreak turned into an epidemic, powered by the very progress that has paved roads and raised cities and lifted millions out of poverty. This time it reached crowded slums in Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone; it traveled to Nigeria and Mali, to Spain, Germany and the U.S. It struck doctors and nurses in unprecedented numbers, wiping out a public-health infrastructure that was weak in the first place. One August day in Liberia, six pregnant women lost their babies when hospitals couldn’t admit them for complications. Anyone willing to treat Ebola victims ran the risk of becoming one.
Which brings us to the hero’s heart. There was little to stop the disease from spreading further. Governments weren’t equipped to respond; the World Health Organization was in denial and snarled in red tape. First responders were accused of crying wolf, even as the danger grew. But the people in the field, the special forces of Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), the Christian medical-relief workers of Samaritan’s Purse and many others from all over the world fought side by side with local doctors and nurses, ambulance drivers and burial teams.
Ask what drove them and some talk about God; some about country; some about the instinct to run into the fire, not away. “If someone from America comes to help my people, and someone from Uganda,” says Iris Martor, a Liberian nurse, “then why can’t I?” Foday Gallah, an ambulance driver who survived infection, calls his immunity a holy gift. “I want to give my blood so a lot of people can be saved,” he says. “I am going to fight Ebola with all of my might.”
MSF nurse’s assistant Salome Karwah stayed at the bedsides of patients, bathing and feeding them, even after losing both her parents—who ran a medical clinic—in a single week and surviving Ebola herself. “It looked like God gave me a second chance to help others,” she says. Tiny children watched their families die, and no one could so much as hug them, because hugs could kill. “You see people facing death without their loved ones, only with people in space suits,” says MSF president Dr. Joanne Liu. “You should not die alone with space-suit men.”
Those who contracted the disease encountered pain like they had never known. “It hurts like they are busting your head with an ax,” Karwah says. One doctor overheard his funeral being planned. Asked if surviving Ebola changed him, Dr. Kent Brantly turns the question around. “I still have the same flaws that I did before,” he says. “But whenever we go through a devastating experience like what I’ve been through, it is an incredible opportunity for redemption of something. We can say, How can I be better now because of what I’ve been through? To not do that is kind of a shame.”
So that is the next challenge: What will we do with what we’ve learned? This was a test of the world’s ability to respond to potential pandemics, and it did not go well. It exposed corruption in African governments along with complacency in Western capitals and jealousy among competing bureaucrats. It triggered mistrust from Monrovia to Manhattan. Each week brought new puzzles. How do you secure a country, beyond taking passengers’ temperatures at the airport? Who has the power to order citizens to stay home, to post a guard outside their door? What will it take to develop treatments for diseases largely confined to poor nations, even as this Ebola outbreak had taken far more lives by mid-October than all the earlier ones combined?
The death in Dallas of Thomas Eric Duncan, the first Ebola patient diagnosed on U.S. soil, and the infection of two nurses who treated him, shook our faith in the ability of U.S. hospitals to handle this kind of disease. From there the road to full freak-out was a short one. An Ohio middle school closed because an employee had flown on the same plane as one of Duncan’s nurses. Not the same flight, just the same plane. A Texas college rejected applicants from Nigeria, since that country had some “confirmed Ebola cases.” A Maine schoolteacher had to take a three-week leave because she went to a teachers’ conference in Dallas. Fear, too, was global. When a nurse in Spain contracted Ebola from a priest, Spanish authorities killed her dog as a precaution, while #VamosAMorirTodos (We’re all going to die) trended on Twitter. Guests at a hotel in Macedonia were trapped in their rooms for days after a British guest got sick and died. Turned out to have nothing to do with Ebola.
The problem with irrational responses is that they can cloud the need for rational ones. Just when the world needed more medical volunteers, the price of serving soared. When nurse Kaci Hickox, returning from a stint with MSF in Sierra Leone with no symptoms and a negative blood test, was quarantined in a tent in Newark, N.J., by a combustible governor, it forced a reckoning. “It is crazy we are spending so much time having this debate about how to safely monitor people coming back from Ebola-endemic countries,” says Hickox, “when the one thing we can do to protect the population is to stop the outbreak in West Africa.”
Ebola is a war, and a warning. The global health system is nowhere close to strong enough to keep us safe from infectious disease, and “us” means everyone, not just those in faraway places where this is one threat among many that claim lives every day. The rest of the world can sleep at night because a group of men and women are willing to stand and fight. For tireless acts of courage and mercy, for buying the world time to boost its defenses, for risking, for persisting, for sacrificing and saving, the Ebola fighters are TIME’s 2014 Person of the Year.
Algo Trading still at it pre-market. Algos attempting to walk the share price back down on the Ask side.
Keep your eyes open for great buying opportunities that Algo Trading creates for retail buyers.
12/10/14: $IBIO sees a significant drop in short interest
http://www.watchlistnews.com/ibio-sees-significant-drop-in-short-interest-ibio/178840/
12/10/14: Listen Live! - Senate Hearing: The Ebola Epidemic: The Keys To Success for The International Response.
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12/10/14: Listen Live! - Senate Hearing: The Ebola Epidemic: The Keys To Success for The International Response.
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12/10/14: Listen Live! - Senate Hearing: The Ebola Epidemic: The Keys To Success for The International Response.
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12/10/14: Listen Live! - Senate Hearing: The Ebola Epidemic: The Keys To Success for The International Response.
Find the listen link here on the right side: http://www.capitolhearings.org/
Direct link to listen beginning at 10:30AM 12/10/14: http://www.capitolhearings.org/Hearing/SSFR00201412101030/dirksen419.aspx
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12/9/14: Deal reached on massive $1.1 trillion spending bill
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If $LAKE has a pretty good quarterly report AH on 12/10/14, I expect to see a ripple effect to other Ebola-related tickers.
Good luck to all players.
12/9/14: Deal reached on massive $1.1 trillion spending bill
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12/9/14: Deal reached on massive $1.1 trillion spending bill
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By Ed O'Keefe December 9 at 6:48 PM
Congressional leaders have reached an agreement on a massive $1.1 trillion spending measure that will keep most of the federal government funded through next September.
Months of protracted negotiations between Democratic and Republican leaders concluded on Tuesday night, with passage expected in the coming days, according to top aides. Final details of the bill were still being sorted out and leaders were still mulling whether to approve a stopgap bill to give lawmakers a few more days to pass the final bill and avoid a government shutdown.
Extending current funding for just a few days has happened before, but doing so this year would provide an embarrassing finale to one of the most fruitless congressional sessions in history.
With just two days to go before government funding expires, “There’s no reason the government should shut down,” Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) said Tuesday. “And we’re ready to pass a year-long spending bill to take care of this.”
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) assured reporters that the bill would pass “before we leave here this week.”
Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) joked that last-minute drama with the spending plan “is a Christmas tradition,” but added: “I don’t see it getting derailed. I think it could get slowed down, but I think it will ultimately get across the finish line.”
Once the bill is released late Tuesday, House Republicans will have to wait until Thursday morning to hold a vote as part of their rule requiring legislation to be considered for at least part of three days before a vote is held. But that would give the Senate just a few hours to earn rare unanimous consent to bypass the normal rules and quickly approve the bill, increasing the likelihood that lawmakers will pass a stopgap bill and work through the weekend, if needed.
In the House, top GOP leaders plan to use Wednesday to build support for the legislation, especially among conservative lawmakers who have bucked House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) in the past. Boehner has vowed to adjourn the House by Thursday and has predicted that the bill will ultimately pass with broad bipartisan support.
Congressional leaders originally hoped to release the spending bill Monday night, but last-minute attempts to add language renewing a government-backed terrorism insurance program delayed the release. By Tuesday afternoon, leaders had dropped plans to include an extension of the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act in the bill, opting instead to move it as separate legislation. The National Football League and the powerful insurance, construction and hospitality industries have been pushing for Congress to renew the program before it expires on Dec. 31.
Many of the spending bill’s biggest details are already set in stone thanks to spending caps agreed to by the White House and lawmakers last year.
The agreement is expected to include most of the money President Obama requested to fight Ebola, but it is expected to slash funding for changes to school lunch programs that are backed by first lady Michelle Obama.
Several congressional Democrats said their support for the legislation was dependent on whether Republicans try tucking any policy “riders” into the bill.
Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton, the District of Columbia’s nonvoting Democratic representative, and other Democrats were warning they would vote against the bill if it puts any restrictions on the District’s plans to legalize marijuana possession, which city voters approved last month.
The congressional interference, however, could create a level of chaos in the District, legalizing possession and home cultivation of the plant, but prohibiting the city from spending additional resources to set up a regulatory framework to allow for legal sale and taxation of pot.
Reid told reporters Tuesday that he opposes putting any restrictions on the District’s new marijuana program, but conceded that it may be difficult to remove such language from the final bill.
“The District of Columbia should do what they want to do,” he said.
Aaron Davis contributed to this report.
12/10/14: $LAKE reports earnings AH.
A good earnings reports from LAKE may cause activity in other Ebola plays. Also, we have a Senate Hearing on Ebola at 10:30AM tomorrow and the government's budget is still pending.
Google it!
$LAKE is one of the few tickers in the Ebola field that lifts the other tickers up. Fingers crossed here for a good report tomorrow AH.
Right now, the Algos are attacking ANV and running it down (to be expected on an offering). Same thing is happening in another ticker I am in.
Algos will create some great buying opportunities.
Algo Trading is running IBIO right now, not so much of retail. Retail usually cannot Ask or Bid in .xxx or .xxxx increments.
You are seeing the Algos at play.
Algo trading is hitting this stock hard.
House-Senate negotiators near spending deal
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House-Senate negotiators near spending deal
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House-Senate negotiators near spending deal
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House-Senate negotiators near spending deal
http://www.politico.com/story/2014/12/house-senate-spending-deal-113375.html
The goal is to have the massive measure ready by late Monday.
By David Rogers
12/7/14 4:01 PM EST
Updated 12/7/14 8:44 PM EST
House-Senate negotiators neared agreement Sunday on the last pieces of a $1.1 trillion spending bill designed to avert any shutdown this week and put most government agencies on firm footing through next September.
Building on a long weekend of talks, the goal was to file the giant measure by late Monday and then push for quick floor action before the current funding runs out Thursday night.
Details were closely held given the tense political climate. But the formula for the compromise was direct: Freeze domestic appropriations at home and direct the most dollars and punch to counter new threats from overseas.
Almost all the big initiatives begin at the water’s edge: containing Ebola in West Africa, fighting the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant in the Mideast, shoring up Europe against Vladimir Putin’s Russia, helping Central America counter the violence and poverty that sent thousands of children across the Rio Grande into Texas last spring.
By comparison, President Barack Obama’s domestic agenda — like Alice’s Red Queen — will have to run hard just to stay in place.
Even the president’s popular TIGER transportation grants are reduced to $500 million, $100 million below 2014 and less than half of what Obama wanted in 2015. The National Institutes of Health will benefit from new Ebola funds for clinical trials, but its core $29.8 billion budget is expected to grow by just $150 million — not enough to keep pace with inflation.
Indeed, from Amtrak to Head Start and low-income fuel assistance, much of the domestic budget is flat.
Modest increases are allowed to hire more immigration judges and make good on promises to beef up child care grants. Funding for Pell Grants is preserved and new steps begun to address the problem of college affordability. But Republicans resisted repeated efforts by retiring Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) to allow some cap adjustment for NIH. And despite support from Obama and Western Republicans, it remained a hard sell to allow emergency, off-budget spending for catastrophic wildfires.
Caught in the middle of this zero-sum game are two favorite Republican targets: the Internal Revenue Service and the Environmental Protection Agency.
The bill provides an estimated $10.9 billion for the IRS and $8.1 billion for the EPA — real cuts from current funding, especially for the IRS. At one level, it can be argued that the bill takes money from Peter to pay Paul for a string of Republican priorities, such as $50 million in drought response funding in the Bureau of Reclamation and a $100 million increase in the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund.
This type of competition was baked into the cake a year ago when Congress and the administration agreed to revised spending caps for fiscal 2014 and 2015.
That pact allowed Obama to recover in 2014 from deep cuts made by sequestration in 2013. But the second increase for nondefense spending in 2015 was so small that it was immediately overcome by prior commitments to veterans’ medical care and a drop in federal receipts that had previously helped offset the cost of housing programs.
Nonetheless, at this stage in Obama’s presidency, the emphasis on security-related programs over investments at home is still striking. And all signs indicate the pattern will repeat itself in 2016.
Friday’s strong jobs report testified to how far the nation has come since the Great Recession, which greeted Obama when he first moved into the White House in 2009. But despite the improved economy, Obama will leave office with fewer real dollars for domestic appropriations than President George W. Bush had before him.
Veterans’ medical care — which has ballooned with two wars and the aging Vietnam veteran population — is the big exception. But the clear message for Obama is one of retrenchment as he seeks to prep the battlefield before Republicans take full control of Congress next month.
In fact, well over $600 billion or better than half the spending in the bill would come under either the Defense or State departments.
In the Pentagon’s case, its core budget will be $490.2 billion, supplemented by about $64 billion in Overseas Contingency Operations funds counted outside the budget caps. This is more than Obama first anticipated last spring and reflects the stepped-up U.S. military operations in Iraq and Syria as well as $175 million to aid Ukraine and Baltic states like Latvia in the face of Putin’s aggressive posture.
Another $49.2 billion is designated for the State Department and foreign aid accounts, including almost $9 billion in OCO funds. The extra OCO funds will help preserve what’s become a greatly expanded refugee assistance program of just over $3 billion annually. Almost $1.9 billion is provided in disaster assistance — again heavily dependent on OCO support.
Closer to home, the bill provides about $260 million for a basket of programs to help Central America address some of the economic and social ills that drove the spike in child migrants this past year. But after all the tough talk of standing up to Egypt on human rights, the agreement backs away from cutting Cairo’s $1.3 billion in military aid and instead makes a small but surprising cut in economic assistance.
The funding to address Ebola — adjusted upward Sunday to $5.4 billion — will be treated as emergency appropriations, separate from OCO. The total could yet change again before filing Monday, but on balance Obama is assured of most of the $6.2 billion he requested — and without substantial contingencies.
Pentagon researchers would receive about $112 million, but the bulk is distributed through the U.S. Agency for International Development and the Department of Health and Human Services. USAID’s portion is expected to be about $2.5 billion. HHS is likely to get closer to $2.7 billion, money that will go largely to NIH and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But some portion is expected to also compensate medical centers in Georgia and Nebraska that treated some of early cases of Americans infected by the deadly virus.
The final mop-up negotiations over the weekend had less to do with dollars than policy riders challenging Obama’s regulatory powers.
Republicans are furious with the president for having used his executive authority to pre-empt them on immigration reform. And in a bit of tit-for-tat, the GOP is eager to flex its new muscle over the power of the purse.
Despite angry protests from the Transportation Department, Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) and the trucking industry were expected to win changes related to new rules governing the rest required for drivers. Child nutrition standards backed by first lady Michelle Obama were in play, though the House agreed to back away from some of its earlier demands.
And despite a pivotal 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling Friday, the business lobby was still pursuing changes Sunday related to how the Labor Department calculates what “prevailing wage” should apply for low-income guest workers under the H-2B visa program.
Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.) and Rep. Hal Rogers (R-Ky.), the respective chairs of the Senate and House Appropriations Committees, made significant progress in face-to-face talks Friday. But several outlying issues remained Sunday that could require sign-offs from top party leaders in both chambers.
To appease the right, the Department of Homeland Security will be kept on a short leash so Republicans can revisit the issue of Obama’s executive order on immigration. But all other Cabinet departments stand to greatly benefit from the chance to update accounts. And as the bill gains momentum, efforts are underway to use it as the engine to pull other year-end legislation, such as an extension of the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act, a priority for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
If successful, the package would very much be a personal triumph for Mikulski and Rogers after the two lawmakers passed a similar omnibus measure a year ago.
But the level of secrecy they imposed for this round has been exceptional and could yet hurt the Appropriations Committee leadership as it tries to reestablish itself.
Backroom bargaining is nothing new for Appropriations, but there has also been a long tradition of tempering this secrecy by offering informal guidance as the decisions are made. This has been more absent now, with veteran clerks fearful of talking about even noncontroversial parts of their bills.
The leadership would argue that the secrecy is justified given the political tensions in Congress. But the picture is of a committee so scared of outside disruptions that it’s forgotten the pride it once took as a public panel making public decisions about public money.
Short sellers own this stock until news is confirmed...setting auto-alerts for price and news and going on about my business.
Happy Holidays to everyone and best wishes to you all in 2015.
$LAKE earnings 12/10/14 after hours
Even if you are not invested in LAKE, good earnings from LAKE may lift up other ebola tickers.
$LAKE earnings 12/10/14 After hours
Keep your eyes open for $LAKE earnings. This is one of the better ebola tickers that may lift up $IBIO if they report good earnings.
What to watch this week of 12/8/14:
1) Congressional approval for $6.X Billion to fight Ebola. President Obama is pushing for funds to be approved by Thursday, December 11th, 2014. This will be huge for ebola related stocks. Otherwise, short sellers will continue to have the advantage until January.
2) Senate Hearing on Ebola International Response:
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12/7/14: Man tests negative for Ebola in Seattle
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