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This beautiful sunny day but we appreciate this regardless and we plan to be back and stronger than ever in2021. We had a great series of online events. They are all archived and available for replay at our page and you can click on raven bookstore at the top of this page to get to the list of archived events. A couple other things about how this is going to work. Marie is going to give a short author talk and show us photos from her book and we will open it up to questions. You can ask a question by clicking the ask a question button at the bottom of your screen or click it into the chat window. We appreciate you asking questions to keep the discussion moving and we want this to be a participants event as much as we can in this strange online setting and another thing to note at the bottom of the screen is this button that says buy Americas Harvest here and that will take you to the raven bookstore which we are where we have these in stock or if youre in lawrence we can deliver it to
Some sense of stability returned after last weeks market meltdown while tokyo hong kong and shanghai led a strong advance across asia investors continued to be anxious especially head of key u. S. Inflation data to be released wednesday some of the some of those concerns at such data could spark further volatile market moves almost anything could european stocks have seen a robust recovery also following the worst week in two years bringing back the bullish sentiment which has been buoyed this year by strong Economic Indicators and Company Quarterly reports the pan european stocks europe six hundred index rallied one point two percent including eighty seven percent of the stocks that make up the europe six hundred closing in positive territory plus other stocks stock exchanges in germany france and the u. K. Each rose by more than one percent. Just a little over a week ago markets were shaken to their core the Dow Jones Industrial average lost more than fifteen hundred points in just a
One point two percent including eighty seven percent of the stocks that make up the europe six hundred closing in positive territory plus other stocks stock exchanges in germany france and the u. K. Each rose by more than one percent. Just a little over a week ago markets were shaken to their core the Dow Jones Industrial average lost more than fifteen hundred points in just a single day why u. S. Investors felt the burn what was going on overseas in europe and asian markets well here to give us some more insight as hilary for the founder of mark henry thank you for being with us again were really pleased to have you whats going on in the rest of the world as we were in the middle of this market meltdown well great to be back on go i think there were actually waves of while the rest of the world tends to follow the u. S. And i would say that you know volatility bring volatility and thats what we feel now what did asia seems to recover is reported and that headlines and europe was on a
Index was off triple digits. Bu compared to what weve been seeing lately it hardly. Register some say investors took a much neededhe breafter the recent bout of heavy volatility. Whatever the cause it was the third consecutive sessionf gains. The Dow Jones Industrial average closed higher by 39 points. The nasdaq added 31. And the s p 500 rose about seven. But as bob pisani reports, both the bulls and the bears are trying to figure out what might happen next. The dow moved in a 280point range from todays high tolo yet compared to the last two weeks its quiet. Amazing. Are things finally startg to settle down . Volume today was well below the recent average. The s 500 trade three times normal volume much olast week. What a titanic week it was. Now that the dow rorecouped ughly 40 of its losses from february 1st, the big debate is what happens next . The bulls would argue the correction was technical and there was no fundamental driver behind it they say earnings are growing and the Glob