Guest this is our first year for exhibiting and for me attending bookconker but were very excited to have a chance to interact directly with readers and have them come and see our authors signings its a lot of great stuff to see the interaction of readers. Were watching right now we see book bloggers are interacting with their fans, so its happening on a lot of levels. Host and because bookexpo is just for publishers and related industries. Guest right, right. Through our retailers. Were always dealing with the public but this is new, to really try to have direct interaction with readers. Host jamie raab. Guest this is my first time here, but i was amazed when i saw the lines of people. Its thrilling to think that people care enough about books to come to Something Like this pay money, get to see the authors. I think its fantastic. Host what is Grand Central publishing . Guest well right now we have a signing, we have an author named meredith wylde who wrote a series of erotic books ra
Charles we have a check on the big board, Dow Jones Industrials gaining 200 points last week. But we are pulling back this morning. This could be a critical week. I see it as a continuation from friday. Big games that pulled back, i do say bubble, dont like to use a word, but when it comes to biotech i saw the last couple of weeks the it could start collapg on friday and bio techs collapsed early in this session, starting to pull everything along with it. Circuited nasdaq. It is important to point out where we are right now. S p 500 up 1 on the year. The Broader Market rarely in positive territory. What has been scary to me is when the market does really the past few weeks, charles, it has been led by telecom and utility names. High dividend paying stocks, safe names. You have not seen an aggressive investor out there, which means there is some hesitancy to get in the market right now. Charles they are not going to the sidelines. They are rotating to safety. Another major point is the
Preliminary pmi. Also pmi data out of europe showing growth in manufacturing closed fastest pace since 2011. France improved and german manufacturing the highest in three years. A mixed picture but over the weekend very clearly we saw the idea of a tempered Global Economy and decidedly tempered russian economy. Something we will be able to discuss with Richard Clarida, guest host for the hour as well. Economic data in the u. S. , not a lot to go on. Chicago fed National Activity index. That does not typically move the market a lot but market pmi numbers for the United States at 9 45 p. M. Nine footie 5 00 a. M. Toi know you want to get company news. Herbalife to nominate three additional carl icahn designees to the board. Of course, herbalife has been down i think 42ish recently but there is a continuation of the soap opera. Bill miller on friday i thought was brilliant in his support of activists like carl icahn. He definitely was in the corner of carl icahn and also made comments abo
Hello and a very warm welcome. In his first full day in office, President Biden has asserted federal control of all aspects of the fight against coronavirus, saying it would require a wartime effort to defeat the disease. Mr biden warned that the number of covid deaths could exceed half a million by next month. The new president renewed his promise to vaccinate 100 Million People in his first hundred days in thejob. Our north america correspondent peter bowes has more on the president s plans. Tackling covid has been first on the list since he ever decided to start tackling the pandemic, at the end of last year. Hes described trump administrations efforts, especially as it applies to getting the vaccine out as a dismalfailure. He says he has a lot of work to do there, he is signing these executive orders and all it takes is a signature to make things happen. This isnt something that has to take a long time to get through congress. He can immediately order the compulsory wearing of mask
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