You. John hope bryant is the founder, chairman and ceo of operation hope, largest Nonprofit Organization in the United States focusing a Financial Inclusion and financial empowerment, serving over 3. 6 million youth and adult since 1992. He is also the chairman and ceo of the bryant Group Venture in the promised homes company, the largest forprofit minority controlled owners for singlefamily Residential Rental homes in the United States. In addition to that, chairman bryant was recently named by American Bank magazine for the 2016 innovator of the year and hes also served the last five United States president as a counseling, as a counselor and advisor for all of them. We are very excited to have him this afternoon and would look forward to a great conversation and book signing featuring his latest bestseller, the memo. Without further ado i i would e to invite and introduce all of you to chairman, powder, ceo John Hope Bryant at this time, and my friend. [applause] , appear, lance. He
We also want to thank barnes noble for allowing us to be here with all of you. John obrien is the founder, chairman ceo of operation hope, the largest Nonprofit Organization in the United States focusing on Financial Inclusion and empowerment, serving over 3. 6 million youth and adults since 1982. He is also the chairman and ceo of the frank Group Ventures and the promised homes company, the largest forprofit minority controlled owners for singlefamily Residential Rental homes in the United States. In addition to that, he was recently named by american magazine for the 2016 innovator of the year and hes also served the last five United States president s has a counseling, as a counselor and advisor for all of them. We are very excited to have him this afternoon and we look forward to a great conversation and book signing featuring his latest bestseller the memo. Without further ado i would like to invite and introduce all of you too chairman, founder, ceo john obrien at this time, and
Power lunch starts right now. And welcome to power lunch, im michelle carusocabrera. Stocks are in the red this hour, giving up modest gains they had earlier. The three major averages are posting losses for the shortened trading week. Thats right, no trading tomorrow. That would mean a second straight weekly drop the third out of the last four weeks. The big sectors in focus, the financials. Jpmorgan, citi, all beating estimates. Mixed results for wells fargo. Thank you. Im tyler mathisen. Heres what else is happening at this hour on a very busy news day. Seems like there havent been any yet lately. Yext the latest tech company to go public. They soared 30 on the first day of trading. Uber had a secret operation to track lyft drivers according to the information the ride sharing Giants Program called hell spoofed lyft accounts and tracked drivers. And samsung says preorders for its new galaxy s8 are better than the previous s7 which had to be recalled because of exploding batteries. We
Im celebrations in the ukrainian city of hassan after Russian Troops withdrawal from the regional capital that they captured. Ah, im carry johnston. This is al jazeera, well i from down also coming up, displaced by rebels, are now living with trauma shilling accounts of rape and torture, and the eastern democratic republic of congo. One of the wells biggest Crypto Currency Exchange is f t x files from bankruptcy, and it c o has resigned and count down to the world cup. We take a look at how categories ensure and the health and safety of funds will descend on the country. The plane is celebrating one of its most significant victories since russias invasion in fabric. Ukrainian forces have entered the Southern City of her son o residence, welcome. The soldiers and ukrainian flag has been raised on public monuments. President Vladimir Zalinski has held it as an historic day. His son is the only regional capital that was taken by russia. Its retreat is being seen as one of its biggest setb