[inaudible conversations] good morning. We have a few coming in the back. There we go. My name is linda, and we are delighted to have you participate in the tenth annual savannah be book festival presented by Georgia Power and the Sheehan Family foundation. We are blessed to host such celebrated authors in the Trinity United Methodist church today which has been made possible by the generous generosity of kurt and linda anderson. Wed like to extend a special thanks to our literatety members and individual donors who have made and continue to make Saturdays Free festival events possible. Before we get started, theres always housekeeping. Immediately following the presentation, Terry Mcdonnell will be signing festivalpurchased copies of his book in the square. We have a new policy this year. If youre planning to stay for the next author presentation, please move forward into the venue so that the ushers can count the number of Seats Available for people coming in for it. Please, please t
Anderson. Wed like to extend a special thanks to our literatety members and individual donors who have made and continue to make Saturdays Free festival events possible. Before we get started, theres always housekeeping. Immediately following the presentation, Terry Mcdonnell will be signing festivalpurchased copies of his book in the square. We have a new policy this year. If youre planning to stay for the next author presentation, please move forward into the venue so that the ushers can count the number of Seats Available for people coming in for it. Please, please take a moment to turn off your cell phones, and we also ask that you do not use flash photography. And for the questionandanswer portion of todays session, its a little bit different than its been in years past. Please raise your hands, and an usher will bring a microphone to you. Terry mcdonnell is with us today courtesy of robert and diane levy and bill and nina wheel. Terry mcdonnell has won numerous awards for his edi
Columbia journalism review. The wave runner at the New York Times says he writes winningly about his regrets and evokes the magazine world payday of lavishv offices, drink in the evening and hedonism. Nism. Mcdonnell, the accidental life is the saddest fact of the team from the. He help when an amazon i spoke alloys and 2610. Please give a warm stefania oldschool welcome to terry mcdonell. [applause] thank you. This is my first boat. I cant imagine a better place to be right now in this Beautiful Church in this fine, fine city. My book is about writers and their work and working with them. It is an editors notes on writing and writers in the subhead. When i am honest about this book, and i say that out of a a kind of vanity, i want to show myself as a writer. I thought the best way to dote t that with the too bright about the great writers that i edited and what i learned editing them. Not just about writing, but thet writing life. Dating site couch and salts attacked about being a fig
Said there. Wti, 49. 54. You rolled your eyes. Im trying to figure out i initially thought that ge was going to sort of double down and cost average in, because now things are cheaper to buy. It looks like this is sort of if response to trian, trying to get more focused on turbines and medical imaging and the other businesses, sort of maybe offload something theyve been trying to get in in such a big way since 2007. Theyve been adding to oil and gas, right . Now theyre getting out. We dont know. Though the company picked all the wrong times to get into all the wrong businesses. I wasnt going to say that. Being a big bank, energy company, or a media company. Which makes me think they own all these what i think are valuable oil and gas assets, now its cheaper to buy them, the ones you bought for too much, you can buy them at a better price. Now they will offload some of the stuff they bought at higher prices . Put it into a partnership, spin it off. Unclear. Have you made calls on this .
In a moment. In the meantime take a look at u. S. Equity futures. Dow was down a couple of points yesterday. Looks like s p up and nasdaq up by 14. Lets take a look at stocks to watch today. Shares of rack space. Market valuation of 3 billion before the report of a possible sale. Fire yief announcing plans to layoff workers. Missed its own forecast of the company cut its full year outlook. Zynga releasing a weak outlook. Active users fell. And restaurant chain poe yolo co. Matched the estimates and what is that now, up 8 yesterday. Lets take a look at the broader markets this morning. We showed you the futures are in positive territory. If you take a look at the early markets in europe. There are gains there once again. Looks like the dax is up bailey. The cac is up half a percent and the ftse after the gains we saw in the market there yesterday as the bank of england voted not only to ease Interest Rates by 25 basis points, but also to add a lot of additional quantitative easing and o