Worldwide trade has been slashed. Postnba future, we will hear from lebron james. Feeling more risk as we head into the last trading session of the week for asia. Lasttrading flat after the halfhour of frenzied gains, s p 500 up 20 loss in the previous session. Nikkei futures at the moment looking flat. Dollaryen holding at 107. Gainingg dollar index with the exception of the kiwi and aussie dollar. It feels like we will see modest over in spite of concerns increased virus numbers, particularly in the u. S. And globally we are averaging 150,000 new cases per day. The underscores uncertainty. The senate in the u. S. Approving a bipartisan bill that would limit banks doing business with chinese officials involved in hong kong. Tom mackenzie is in beijing. It still has to be signed into law. Given unanimous consent, how likely is it this will be enacted . Tom very likely at this stage. It has bipartisan support in the house and it has been signed off in the senate. It will end up on trump
Appetite for treasuries. Jay powell insists it is not the return of qe. Tension sores in the middle east. Turkey says its forces will move into syria at any moment. Shery lets get you started with a check of the markets. U. S. Futures under pressure, fell. 1 after the s p 500 for two consecutive sessions. Semiconductors taking the biggest hit, they fell the most in about six weeks. We have trade headlines sparking concern about tensions intensifying between the u. S. And china. That is upsetting some of the comments coming from fed chair powell, who left the door open for rate cuts. The dow lost more than 300 points while the nasdaq fell 1. 7 . Lets see how we are setting up in asia. Sophie australian markets have lower, asx 200 opening snapping a threeday gain. Bhp shares among the biggest laggards. Studyssie dollar trading after overnight gyrations on the trade brinkmanship. Confidence numbers for october are due in a halfhour. Nikkei futures pointing to a lackluster start. South kor
Twitter and instagram for behindthescenes pictures and videos at booktvs or handle. We kick off this year savannah book festival with retired air force Major General robertbo latiff on future war. Live coverage on booktv on cspan2. Good morning. My name is nancy lieb and im delighted to welcome you to the 11th annual savannah book festival. Isto presented by georgia power, david and nancy cintron, the gm family and mark metcalf. Many thanks to jack and Mary Raimondo our sponsors for this glorious venue the Trinity United Methodist church. We would like to extend special thanks to wire litter rowdy members and individual donors who have made and continue to make Saturdays Free festival of them possible. 90 of our revenue comes from donors just like you. Thank you. We are very excited to have savannah book festival this year for your phone. Please look in your program for information on downloading it. It just takes two seconds and it will be very helpful to you today. Before we get star
Later in march its the virginia festival of the book in charlottesville and the National Black writers conference in brooklyn, new york. In april were headed to texas for the san antonio book festival, and well be live once again at the Los Angeles Times festival of books. For more information about up coming book upcoming book fairs and test values, click festivals, click the book fairs tabben our web site, booktv. Org. Lets dive in a little bit more. Who is eric garnersome. Eric garner excuse me, who was eric garner. Yeah. The reason i wrote this book, let my back up for a moment, is because on the day that the grand jury decided not to indict the Police Officer responsible for or his killing and ill use a different word, but i cant legally but i went over to staten island, and i started talking to people in the street asking, you know, what was he like. And i immediately found that everybody had a story about this guy, and he was, he was just interesting and funny and complicated an
I did get to know to students who had been adopted by American Families as well and their stories are in the book and i probably dont have time to share with you the whole journey, but theres some very moving moments about adoption and an American Family welcoming them into their home here as well. Maybe thats a good note to end on. Youre actually a very expert guide. Thank you, thank you. I appreciate it. Thank you so much. Im going to be signing books. [applause] what is your next project . I wish i knew. Inaudible conversations yeah, i can do that. Im glad you guys told me. And now we are live from savanna, georgia for the citys annual book festival. But a full day of authors ahead including ryan curtis, 1942 rose bowl was moved from california to North Carolina after pearl harbor, Scott Shapiro and the peace pact of 1928 that outlawed war around the world. Celeste headley on the importance of communication in the install in on the relationship between hitting bull and buffalo bill.