we thought we'd try to raise initially 10 million vertex kicked it off with the vertex foundation making a million dollar gift and then i called a couple of my friends jack connors and two of the business leaders here in boston and we went out and it's been really remarkable, meg within the first day of it announcing the fund we surpassed our $10 million goal, and a week later we were over $20 million and we're still moving north and i think it's just a real testament to how the boston business community comes together in a time of crisis they did it in the marathon bombing case and they are doing it now and it's just very heartwarming to see the business community come together in that way. >> well, it is good to hear, jeff thanks for joining us. it's nice to hear good stories of kindness and people coming together as we're all in such a scary time right now thanks for being with us >> thanks, meg >> meg, our thanks to you as well, meg tirrell with the ceo of vertex. there will be impacts on the effects of coronavirus to other drugs in the pipeline. >>> coming up, small businesses were

then i can go down the richmond and vertex berg railroad and lee will have to fall back to the north or south in order to fight me. i will gain this enormous advantage without spending a drop of blood. meade thinks this is common sense. and he is right. this is a civil war. they are inherently political. lincoln and halleck veto this proposal. you cannot take the army of the potomac back to fredericksburg 6 months after that disaster. this seems to indicate that richmond is his objective. lincoln and halleck have been saying for almost a year, richmond is not the objective. it does not matter where you fight lee's army, start to grind it up. that is wonderful theoretically but if you are a general you have to plan a campaign, it is not as simple as that. this thoroughly irritates him. the relationship between meade and halleck and lincoln is incredibly dysfunctional. they do not trust each other. lincoln and halleck will forgive meade for failing to strike at williamsport, but they will never forget. when they hear meade talk intelligently and logically about the difficulties of supp

i spoke with the ceo today and he's saying these estimate rs the best guest right now we had the vertexn they want to protect patients from any expo hur to covid-19. second, they say it's important to optimize health care resources around the world so they can be focusing on solve ing that problem and thirdlily, they need to maintain the integrity of their clinical trials so just another example of some of the effects we're going to be seeing for some time because of this pandemic it's hard to grasp how long this will delay any new medicines, but something we're going to have to watch closely for a while, guys. back to you. >> yeah. i know, it's a shame, meg. i guess that the silver lining here is that a lot of these companies are focusing their efforts and resources on covid-19 treatments. where do we stand on clinical trials we need to get some data out there. >> we really do. and the good news is this is moving incredibly quickly. we are going to siedee data next month, certainly from gillead on remdesivir and we're going to see data in april from region ron's trials of the existing

vertex pharma, something new with the virus, maybe, they are up 7%.ldings, another s&p winner, up 6%. the nasdaq, big winners on the nasdaq, probably technology stocks. what are they? nasdaq winners -- sorry. i got it the wrong way round. this is the s&p winners. whatever it is, i can't read that at the top. viacom, mckesson corporation, they are the winners. let me get back to intel. susan, come in. it's a big winner today. what's going on? susan: they are going to unveil their chips in april. intel is a big provider, chips provider to global hardware users and makers in the world and also, by the way, maintain an overweight by morgan stanley even though they cut the price target down to $61 from $59. still a ways to go and citigroup cut its price target to $58 as well from $67. stuart: okay. we've got the dow now up 475 points. i'm going to call that a rally. however, we have the price of oil moments ago below 20 bucks. now it's at $20.35 per barrel. that is a real problem for the economy and certainly for oil producing states like north dakota. it'