Club. I want to take a second might be going to please silentio cell phones. We will be recording audio and video so thats a great incentive to try phones, and also to ask questions with open the floor up, theres a standing mic here in the middle when we do that after the talk here following the talk and the questions there will be assigning. We have books available behind the register. After the talk if you want to get up and purchase book and come back david would be more than happy to sign the. Finally after everything is said and done if you could collapse futures pictures about them up against a surface, that would be greatly appreciated. Thank you. Tonight i have the pleasure of hosting david unhra, plaintiff entered at New York Times. He previously was a reporter and editor at the wall street journal in new york and london. Before that he was journal of European Banking london and has won numerous journalism awards including the 2016 award for feature writing. He is the author o
Good evening, everyone. Im just so so glad here tonight. Im going to say a few words about the strand before i welcome tonights guest. For a moment of history, the strand was founded 93 years ago by my grandfather, benjamin bass [applause] he founded the store in an area that was known as book row along Fourth Avenue just around the corner from here. It was the storm of the depression, and he defied the odds by surviving while all the other 48 bookstores in book row shutteredded. The store was then passed on to my late father, fred bass, who grew the store to a scale and popularity he never thought was possible. Now im the owner, and some critics said as a woman its hard, going to be hard to run the store, and id get wiped out by, in this digital age. Right, ha. [laughter] so i want to thank you and the book Loving Community in this audience for helping us not only survive are, but thrive through the agings. [applause] so its impossible to realize tonights book, watergate girl, without
There is a skinny microphone for when we do that. After david talks. Following the talk and questions there will be a signing there are books available behind the register purchase your book he will be more than happy to sign them and finally if you could pop the chairs up against a surface that would be greatly appreciated. We had the pleasure of posting david enrich who previously was a reporter and editor for the wall street journal new york and london and the journal reporter winning the 2016 award as a journalist in previous the author of spider network. And Deutsche Bank and the epic trail of destruction and the tragic case to illustrate the global face of the financial malfeasance please help me to welcome david enrich. [applause] hello. I have had the pleasure of doing a lot of book events over the past years and then see like this i am not kidding six people in the room. [laughter] so this is awesome i will take out my phone and just take a picture. [laughter] because my wife
Italy overtakes china as the country with the most coronavirus deaths in the world. Gains in france and spain. Removing the red tape in america. President trump says he is working to speed up approval for treatments as teva rushes to bring a malaria drug to patients. California orders its residents to stay home. Rush hour refuses to submit to saudi arabias Oil Production plan. The kremlin sees riyadhs move as blackmail. Is there more turmoil ahead . Just under an hour away from the start of cash equity trading across europe and in the u. K. Lets take a look at futures. We are seeing some decent gains in european futures, Even Stronger than what we see in the u. S. You can see euro stoxx 50 futures up 50 , as of the futures for dax. Take a look at u. S. Futures. More than 2 gains with nasdaq futures up 3 . If you take a look at the big drops during the recent crisis, the nasdaq has fared far better than the s p and the dow jones. Today looks like it will do better in terms of gains as w
Been. I think the 10 moves weve seen n any direction, 4 on an up day is a little bit of a sigh of relief on this friday. We begin with the highest toll from the coronavirus is in italy. Chinas ntry surpassing numbers. Italian fatalities topping 3,400. Lockdown nationwide continues. Europe at the epicenter of the disease. France reporting a 41 rise in deaths. 28 . , an increase of now, here in the United States to california and the Governor Newsom ordering the entire state to selfisolate at home. Thats 40 million people. Far the move is the most stringent measure in the u. S. To curb the spread of the virus, allowing people to leave their homes, but for groceries and medicine. Otherwise, social interaction is limited. Businesses, by the way, not deemed essential are closed. Negotiators of postbrexit trade talks are now isolation because of the coronavirus after showing symptoms of the virus, the chief negotiator david franz isolating himself earlier on thursday. Mr. Frosts counterpart