Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to barnes noble tribeca. Have the pleasure of introducing Heather Cabot and samantha wall ravens has the discuss their new book, geek girl rising. Heather is a form abc news correspondent, angel investor, adjunct professor at columbia university, and a woman at forbes contributor. Samantha walrevens, contributor forbes, and Huffington Post and disney interactive. So join me in walking can welcoming them. This is a superexciting moment for us because, first of all, were in the same city, which we rarely are because i him new york and sam lives in san francisco, but this is the evening before geek girl rising comes out. So its a special moment for us and to kick things off just to give you a taste of the book well show you a book trailer. Lets roll the video. I think that women now understand, we are not going to get ahead unless we help each other to get ahead. I have a female manager and she is the one who handpicked me and advocates for me a
Economy is pretty good. Good enough to raise rates by more than we thought. The market endured a mild selloff. Dow breaking a sevenday winning traek. Nasdaq declined. Instead of getting destroyed. Come on. Head to the 2,000 point run weve had to the election its peanuts. I think we can admit weve been due for a bit of a selloff. We didnt see a wholesale slaughter as some people expected. Given the rare heights we got to. This kind of pull back, to use a word people hate to hear in relation to a loss, healthy. Its an extraordinary time but not so extraordinary that we can keep rallying after through and through the rate hike. There was a brief moment where the market cheered the hike. Minutes after the 2 00 announcement and the dow looked like it was going to pierce the 20,000 mark. The bideuyers stormed the rampa were thrown back by profit takers. Who seemed motivated by desire to lock in. Rather than a need to bail on the entire market. You know what that relatively gentle selloff mea
There. The price going up a little bit and the yield coming down ever so slowly. Road map this morning starts with the historic day for the eu. U. S. Markets as you just say are mixed at the premarket. The uk formally begins brexit negotiations to which britains Prime Minister said theres no turning back. Plus, betting on robots. The largest money manager blackrock changes the ways it picks stocks. And President Trump expected to sign a bill that clears the way for providers, your isp providers, to sell your browsing history. Well, one day after the dow snapped the eight session losing streak and the s p posted the best daily pormdz erformance in weeks, history is being made in uk. Theresa may has triggered the twoyear process or what could be the proyear process of britains depart chur from the eu. And this is how theyll approach trade. We will no longer be members of the single market. We are going to make sure we are going to make sure that we can strike trade agreements with countr
First, to our lead. Anticipation has been growing around the release of Samsungs Galaxy s8 smartphone with more than one Million Advanced orders, a new record for samsungs home market, but will the demand be there. Growth is expected to slow down this year. We caught up with an analyst and cory johnson. There is a lot riding on it. Samsung has a reputation to repair. We collaborated with the to do this quick study to see. The note 7 issues did not seem to be a barrier. They said that was not a deterrent for them to consider. With existing owners, it was 65 , so i dont think that is in the mind of a consumer as big of a deal as people made it out to be. They may be more cautious in their review to say this happened. I think they are playing the cards, but the reviews have been good, and people have been raving about the screen, so i dont think the note issues are as bad as people think, but now samsung needs to ramp up their marketing. Caroline you have been cautious to get to excited a
First, to our lead. Anticipation has been growing around the release of Samsungs Galaxy s8 smartphone with more than one Million Advanced orders, a new record for samsungs home market, but will the demand be there. Growth is expected to slow down this year. We caught up with an analyst and cory johnson. There is a lot riding on it. Samsung has a reputation to repair. We collaborated with the to do this quick study to see. The note 7 issues did not seem to be a barrier. They said that was not a deterrent for them to consider. With existing owners, it was 65 , so i dont think that is in the mind of a consumer as big of a deal as people made it out to be. They may be more cautious in their review to say this happened. I think they are playing the cards, but the reviews have been good, and people have been raving about the screen, so i dont think the note issues are as bad as people think, but now samsung needs to ramp up their marketing. Caroline you have been cautious to get to excited a