The 13th annual savannah book festival presented by georgia power, bob, david and nancy, the philip e and answered be foundation. We are especially grateful to our sponsors for this glorious menu, the Trinity United Methodist church and we would also like to welcome our litter artery numbers and individual donors today. It is through your support that we are able to make Successful Events free to the public. 90 percent of our revenue comes from our donors and members and we thank you. This years festival is full of great events and authors and we dont want to miss any of the fun. So, download the new book savannah book festival 2020 app on your phone. And you can be in the know. About everything we have going this year. If you need more info about downloading this app, you can find in the back of your program. Before we get started i have a couple of housekeeping notes. Robert wilson will be signing festival purchased copies of his book in the square immediately following the presentat
Im on the edge of glory. And im hanging on a moment of truth. Im on the edge of glory. And im hanging on a moment with you. Ill on the edge. The edge. Lauren happy friday. Welcome to fbn a. M. Im lauren simonetti. Tracee im tracee carrasco, in for cheryl casone. Lauren it feels like a tri. Tracee . Tracee a friday. Tracee . Lauren we have all three major averages up significantly, a quarter percent a across the board, ill all three major averages did close at record highs yesterday and are up at least one andahalf percent on the week. Tracee lets take a look at how things are moving in asia right now. Asian shares rising as data did come out showing that chinas economy grew as expected, that was 6. 1 . Lauren and investors in europe responding to two major trade deals with china and mexico and canada yesterday, so green on the board here. The big outperformer is the cac in france, up 1 today. We start with a fox business alert and that is just moments ago irans Supreme Leader praising
Also take a look at whats happening in the treasury market 10year is yielding 1. 816 counting zeros here four commons 12 zeros Google Parent Company alphabet now has 12 zeros, also four commas becoming the fourth u. S. Tech company to reach a 1 trillion valuation joining apple, microsoft and amazon, amazon has since dipped below that mark cramer last night talking about another member is microsoft. Weighing in on the controversy on apple and how much it should aid Law Enforcement by opening locked e locked iphones or maybe creating a backdoor for Law Enforcement you cannot be cool. You have to be cool on your own. You have to take pride on the digital capability you have built. No press release with us or anyone else will do it you will need to build your dig call capability and by the way trust. There is a conversation about privacy already. We have to engender the trust. You as retailers are the keepers of the most important data you have to build trust. Whether importance or privacy
You ready for me, mr. Chairman . Yes, mr. Roe, we have your statement. It will be included in the record in its entirety. And under the circumstances, you can deliver it in its entirety or summarize, either way. Ill just sort of summarize it. Ill here to provide a frank response to questions regarding Exxon Valdez Oil spill, and to describe our continuing to efforts to deal with its consequences. Before this, i do this, however, i want to express sincere regret as to what happened on behalf of all the employees of exxon and certainly on beha of myself. I really cant tell you how sorry we are this disaster occurred. And we are particularly sympathetic to the impacts on the residents of alaska and particularly those in the Prince William sound area. Thats where the difficulty is really creating a great deal of problems for those people. As has been said many times this morning and by us earlier than this, we take full responsibility, and weve done so from the beginning. Well continue doi
Ill is up rise, either pie. Ill summarize it. I am here to product response to the oil spill and designed with the efforts to deal with the consequences. Before i do this, however, i want to express sincere regret as to what happened on behalf of all the employees of exxon and certainly on behalf of myself i really cant tell you how say we are sympathetic and particularly those in alaska and the Prince William sound area and thats where the difficulty is creating a great deal of problems for those people. As weve by, and we will continue doing all we can can in spilling up the and theyve already been this uponment in the area, and high the skies make it a particularly different problem. A few comments about the spill to put it in perspective and its been changed many times. The spill is 240,000 barrels that occurred early on march 24. We have other factual information. The weather was clear. The ship had no known mechanical difficulty. A change was requested because of ice and the outg