it's where she does her research on hereditary hemorrhagic telegenic kaser, or hht, which leads to chronicsometimes life-threatening bleeding. in the past four years, her funding has been cut in half. the project is on the verge of being canceled. a patient's association provides money for to salaries. >> we are working on a very concrete illness, and if we stop the research and no other lab and 10 use the work, the patients are left without any hope for some port, like abandoned orphans. >> the crisis in spain has prompted some quirky solutions. louisa went on a popular tv quiz show where she won 15,000 euros. of course, she put the money right into her research project. while some sell lottery tickets, others are packing their bags. amaya, for instance, the highly trained astrophysicist, is relocating to the united states. the 39-year-old will be doing research for the u.s. space agency nasa and baltimore. her contract in spain has not been renewed. since 2009, successive governments have cut the research budget by one one 4 billion euros, a reduction of 40%. amaya published an open lett

this could be joe kaser's first empowering his workers. he is talking about trying to increase shareholders among employees. of course, some five percent of their shares were traded on new york, so it is not a massive shift. it does seem to be bringing the moreny back and have a employee-led focus. as they try to become more profitable, 10% is what they are at this year and the old goal was 12%. it seems like this is an employee-led move and we will he whether it can withstand these other challenges, including a strong euro. it seems like they are on the right path. 12y have delivered 4 of 16, more to deliver and we will try to get a ride on one of those locomotives. >> that sounds like a cool assignment. thank you very much indeed. u.k. gdp figures for 2013 are breaking this hour. questions remain about the sustainability of that growth. let's find out more with manus cranny. how solid is this recovery going to be? >> the view that is coming through from the notes i am reading, you will see a bit of volatility in the construction number.

patrick kaser, tim lesskow, and jon fortt here around set with us. you. the first thing you will be looking for is dot, dot, dot. >> iphone number because tim cook last quarter said they were below their target level of four to six weeks inventory. that's important because they're expanding distribution in japan and china. street is expecting around 58 million units consensus. if they're not counting on inventory fill we could get closer to 60. that would also provide some upside. >> okay. want to talk -- max, you guys don't own apple, right? what are you going to be looking for? iphone approximates. >> we'll be looking for iphones and margin if it's above 36.5 and also looking very closely at the forward guidance. >> forward guidance. i would hope it's above 36.5 because as i understand it tim, this is a company that guided 36 to 37.5. >> right. and i think the street has slowly been cranking up their expectation on gross margin. apple continues to talk down gross margin which really they have been doing for three years. so i think the street has it