Senior news editor of publishers weekly, editor of pws online coverage of comics and graphic, and im also a cohost on more to come, pws weekly podcast, and aim also placed to welcome you to the 2020 brooklyn book festival online, a little different platform this year but still exciting and still doing what he brooklyn book fair does so well, to bring artists together to talk about their work. Were here today with a great trio of artists and start with dave chisolm, and emei butell and joe sacco. Theres a blinky you, purchase the books so please indulge. I want to tell you but the panel. Its called makers of the road, writing Hidden History and were league to book at three authors skillfully use the graphics medium to investigate the culture of different personalities, creative graphic nonfiction at it best. Lets tart with dave chisolm, chasing the bird, Charlie Parker in california, groundbreaking book that looks into the life and music of really one of the most revered and influencal
Journalist lies a monday, talks about her book cold girls. The American Woman code breakers of world war ii. The next session is one that i had mentioned earlier, unfortunately lynn olson could not make it and our other panelists, lies a monday has agreed to expand on her original top. Weve asked catherine to lead this section this session. Shes been involved with the museum for over a decade, and just a month ago she had organized a joint program with our museum and the Second World War research group, where we had everyone come for a deallong program. So catherines information is in your program, and i would point out in addition to being a professor at the Mississippi State university, shes an author of two books. One called a curse, and the other one strategy and tactics. Ladies and gentlemen doctor Catherine Barr b. A. And liza munday. Good morning, happy to see all these nice faces up in front, this is a fantastic event and im excited to be part of it, i would like to introduce l
But those hopes may be shortlived. Democrats proposed a new plan but republicans worn a wide gap remains. Mitch mcconnell says the plan contains poison pills. And australias plan to have women hold at least 40 of leadership roles in asx 200 companies. Aberdeen has already signed up. Shery heres a look at how markets are trading. We are seeing u. S. Futures coming online, down. 2 . This, after u. S. Stocks ended the session higher wednesday. Also the last trading day of the quarter for u. S. Stocks. Haidi mentioned talks and hopes for a stimulus package in the u. S. The house has delayed the vote on that bill, trying to get more time to reach an agreement with the white house and treasury secretary. The s p 500s on nine sectors out of 11 higher. Health care and financials led the gains. Showingitive ecodata, u. S. Companies added more than 700,000 jobs in september. The dollar weakness, a third consecutive session of losses. Not to mention before the quarter, just posted its biggest qua
Merely dealing with partisan gridlock the dow inched up two points and the nasdaq jumped 1. 12 , this i what we have to think about. Six months ago it looked like the world was ending everyone in congress had a reason to reach a compromise both sides have an incentive to be more stubborn they get to blame each other in the runup to an election but as Speaker Pelosi told me this morning, the deal is still on the table. I took her full statement as a sign getting a deal done could be extremely difficult im saying this purely in micah pasty as your investing coach without a stimulus deal, there will be a ton of private company losers and could be a much worse place a year from now if we get a vaccine by the end of the year too many struggling Small Businesses cant wait that long. Now if you got a white collar job you can do from home you may not realize how bad it can be. The future is fine for anyone that can work from home whether we get another bailout or not. For millions of americans
Many of indices. The nasdaq is 3. 2 higher. We are also seeing a recovery for oil. We are still below 40 per barrel. The vix is up there but well below 30. For all the recent volatility is favorable for some investors, lets welcome our first guest. She is managing director and head of longshores equity. Talk to us about the strength of a strategy these days. It has been a couple of years for hedge funds. What is the driver of this . Thank you for having me. This is such a great question. It is head spinning which way the markets are going to go. There is daytoday volatility. We have the election, a vaccine, theres a lot of volatility in this market. Whats important for strategies most importantly is dispersant. To see winners and losers. Short Equity Strategies struggle predominantly more because of the short book. It was the short book that was a challenge in this rising market. Accelerate to where we are today in the cycle and where we are today in the pandemic and we have real oppor