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The Aussie share market is eyeing a 1.6% gain at the open, which will help us recoup some of the 2.3% lost last week. 

Millions of Australians will receive a second $750 payment from today, with the one-off cash payment going to eligible pensioners, carers and students, which will cost the government over $4 billion. Free childcare ends today after three months, while some parents will receive 100 hours per fortnight subsidised until October 4. 

Despite COVID-19 cases in the U.S. rising to a record high, U.S. stocks charged ahead on Friday after Gilead reported its COVID-19 treatment candidate showed an improvement in clinical recovery and 62% reduction in the mortality rate compared to the level of care. 

What to watch today: 

• Expect stocks linked to the economic recovery to attempt a slight claw back following Wall Street’s lead. 
• Tomorrow NAB (ASX:NAB) will report its business confidence for June, Consumer confidence data is out on Wednesday and unemployment data is out on Thursday with consensus expecting unemployment will lift from 7.1% to 7.4%, less than the RBA’s forecast of 10%. If data is better than expected, expect the market to rally along with banks and consumer discretionary stocks. 

Local Trading ideas:

• UBS reiterated Nine Entertainment (ASX:NEC) as a buy with a $1.70 target, after the CFO announced his resignation after a family member passed away. At the same time, Nine announced its full year earnings (EBITDA) for FY20 should be $390-$410 million beating UBS’ expectations. 
• Bell Potter increased its buy rating and price target of NAB (ASX:NAB) to $19.90.
• Bell Potter initiated coverage of Calix (ASX:CXL) as a speculative buy with a $1.10 target as it’s growing organic revenue amid its U.S. expansion into differentiated water treatments. All in all, Calix has five targets, from CO2 emissions in cement manufacture to commercialising its aquaculture and crop protection with a total combined market of $70 billion. 

Ouça os destaques internacionais desta quinta-feira (02/06/20) no Estadão

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Bruce Miller, showrunner of THE HANDMAID’S TALE joins Jenny Curtis in a “Stuck at Home” special of Hollywood Unscripted to discuss the show, his career, and the nature of the industry. Through the conversation they discuss: 

0:37 - Bruce’s experience during quarantine. 

1:10 - His early connection to the industry through his Dad, when he realized he was a writer and his first screenplay. 

3:03 - His path before success, getting fired several times and when he did and did not think about quitting. 

5:09 - Being drawn to stories about strong women, the strong women in his life, and being guided in how to properly tell those stories. 

6:26 - A time when the women thoroughly dissected an idea before it making it into the show. 

7:32 - The atmosphere of the writers room (and set) contrasting with the heaviness of the show. 

9:11 - How THE HANDMAID’S TALE series came to be, how Bruce got involved, and how long he’d been thinking about the project. 

11:24 - Meeting Margaret Atwood and working with her to make sure THE HANDMAID’S TALE series and the book THE TESTAMENTS fit together. 

15:17 - Navigating the characters survival in the danger set in the world of Gilead. 

17:13 - Elizabeth Moss; the effect she’s had on the character of June, her professionalism, and being an EP. 

19:05 - Creating a slower pace for the story and June/Offred’s internal conflict. 

22:09 - June’s mental state in season 3, favorite moments from the season and how pieces of dialogue can be very effective. 

23:07 - The character of Emily and the subtlety of Alexis Bledel. 

24:37 - The possible influence of society on the story and not inventing cruelties. 

26:27 - The absence of people of color in the book and why Bruce decided against using that story point in the show. 

28:49 - Creating the look of the show and how all departments work together in the development of it. 

30:20 - The purposeful detail in the art design and not explaining decisions to the audience. 

33:10 - Bradley Whitford coming on the show and the development of his character,  Commander Lawrence. 

34:43 - The character of Nick and Jenny’s misunderstanding of his story. 

36:36 - Taking the mystery out of an anticipated confrontation scene. 

37:32 - The status of season 4 and how quarantine has changed the writing process for the better. 

38:23 - The difficulty in scheduling and the benefit to having table reads. 

40:24 - Sharing some insights into the coming season

42:12 - Two things in Bruce’s past that he would revisit to change and the part of the industry that shouldn’t be indulged. 

44:55 - The job of a showrunner.  

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The Australian share market is eyeing a soft start to the week with the futures suggesting a 0.1% fall at the open. It comes as US equities ended lower on Friday despite Gilead’s COVID-19 vaccine being approved by the US FDA and rolled out to patients in America. 

Today investors will be watching Westpac (ASX:WBC), Afterpay (ASX:APT) and Fortescue Metals (ASX:FMG).

Building Permits/approvals are out for March with consensus expecting a 15% drop, following the 19% surge in Feb. All eyes will be on construction linked companies like Brickworks (ASX:BKW), Boral (ASX:BLD) and Adelaide Brighton (ASX:ABC).

On Thursday, the ASX200 closed off the month up 8.8%, the best monthly gain on record since the data set began in 1993. Not bad... almost as good as the All Ordinaries clocking off the month with a 9.5% rise - its best result since 1988. Plus, the University of Queensland and Gilead make breakthroughs in potential COVID-19 treatments.

In this week’s wrap, Jessica covers:

• Four key reasons the markets rallied (0:35)
• Energy gets a boost, rising 12% in this week's sectors report (1:13)
• Stocks in the spotlight: (Mon-Thu) AP Eagers (ASX:APE) up 46% while ResMed (ASX:RMD) fell the most, down 6% (1:23)
• Are we back in bull territory? (2:35)
• Recalling a not-so-distant historical 20% rally in a bear market (3:12)
• Stock ideas: Bell Potter's list of 10 recovery stocks (4:01)

The Australian share market looks like it will re-enter a bull market this morning following a stellar night on overseas and commodity markets, as the world is closer to a vaccine for COVID-19. The Aussie futures are eyeing a lift of 2% at the open, so if the ASX200 does see that rally, the local market would have collectively gained 21% from its March lows which means we’ll be back in bull territory, as a bull market is defined as a gain of 20%.

Global markets rallied for three important reasons:

1. US biotech tech company, Gilead revealed its trial cured over 50% of the patients with severe COVID-19, with a five-day dose of it's drug Remdesivir.
2. COVID-19 cases are slowing in the U.S
3. The US Federal Reserve pledge to keep rates as close to near zero to help the US economy.

Today, investors will be watching: ANZ (ASX:ANZ), Fortescue Metals Group (ASX:FMG), GPT Property Group (ASX:GPT), Mirvac (ASX:MGR), Qantas (ASX:QAN) and Woolworths (ASX:WOW).

This evening, all eyes will be on weekly jobless claims.

Novelist Marilynne Robinson and physicist Marcelo Gleiser are both passionate about the majesty of science, and they share a caution about what they call our modern “piety” toward science. They connect thrilling dots among the current discoveries about the cosmos and the new territory of understanding our own minds. We brought them together for a joyous, heady discussion of the mystery we are.

Marcelo Gleiser is Appleton Professor of Natural Philosophy and a professor of physics and astronomy at Dartmouth College. He’s the author of The Dancing Universe, A Tear at the Edge of Creation, and, most recently, The Simple Beauty of the Unexpected: A Natural Philosopher’s Quest for Trout and the Meaning of Everything. He was awarded the 2019 Templeton Prize.

Marilynne Robinson is a professor emeritus of the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She’s the author of several novels, including Housekeeping, Home, and Gilead, which won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Her works of nonfiction include Absence of Mind and, most recently, What Are We Doing Here?

Find the transcript for this show at onbeing.org. This show originally aired in January 2012.

Novelist Marilynne Robinson and physicist Marcelo Gleiser are both passionate about the majesty of science, and they share a caution about what they call our modern “piety” toward science. They connect thrilling dots among the current discoveries about the cosmos and the new territory of understanding our own minds. We brought them together for a joyous, heady discussion of the mystery we are.

Marcelo Gleiser is Appleton Professor of Natural Philosophy and a professor of physics and astronomy at Dartmouth College. He’s the author of The Dancing Universe, A Tear at the Edge of Creation, and, most recently, The Simple Beauty of the Unexpected: A Natural Philosopher’s Quest for Trout and the Meaning of Everything. He was awarded the 2019 Templeton Prize.

Marilynne Robinson is a professor emeritus of the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She’s the author of several novels, including Housekeeping, Home, and Gilead, which won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Her works of nonfiction include Absence of Mind and, most recently, What Are We Doing Here?

This interview is edited and produced with music and other features in the 

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 episode "Marilynne Robinson and Marcelo Gleiser — The Mystery We Are." Find more at

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. This show originally aired in January 2012.

Há um tratamento que impede a transmissão do VIH com uma eficácia próxima dos 100% – chama-se PrEP (Profilaxia pré-Exposição). O Estado iniciou, em 2018, um projeto experimental utilizando-o, mas quem pagava era a farmacêutica que detinha a patente. Esta ano, esta limitação terminou. A PrEP foi alargada a qualquer pessoa elegível por recomendação médica em todo o Serviço Nacional de Saúde e chegaram ao mercado genéricos. Contudo, as associações comunitárias de luta contra o VIH denunciam a demora na marcação de consultas no SNS e reivindicam formas mais céleres e próximas de acesso e distribuição dos comprimidos.
As taxas de novas infeções por VIH, em Portugal, mantêm-se das mais elevadas da União Europeia. A maioria dos novos casos diagnosticados é do sexo masculino, entre homens que fazem sexo com homens. Destes, 79,8% têm entre os 15 e 29 anos.
Maria José Campos, médica, e Rui Guerreiro, enfermeiro, refletem sobre as estratégias públicas de combate ao VIH e a implementação da PrEP.
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Warning: This episode contains spoilers for Season 3 Episode 12 of The Handmaid's Tale, “Sacrifice”.

In this episode we farewell Mrs Lawrence who, it seems, may have sacrificed herself for the good of the cause.

Fred discovers that his wife has betrayed him and Serena gets some precious time with her baby, but not without a few truth bombs being dropped by Moira. 

Meanwhile a meeting between Luke and Fred goes precisely as we thought it would with Fred receiving a nice knuckle sandwich. 

Join us as we unpack everything on today's episode...

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The idea behind this show is pretty simple: A university campus is a destination for all kinds of interesting people, so why not invite some of these folks out to brunch, where we’ll have an informal conversation about their work, and then we’ll turn those brunches into a podcast?

It’s a tough job, but somebody has to do it.

For our season two premiere, host Ted Fox sits down with Pulitzer Prize-winning author Marilynne Robinson, a professor emerita at the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Their conversation begins with Marilynne reading from her second novel, Gilead, the Pulitzer winner. From there, they talk about Gilead, broader ideas of faith and meaning, the writing process, and “the obligation to try to say something true.”