thank you. >> pamela craig i am -- i am pamela craig. accenture appreciates the opportunity to share our perspective on how the events impacted us and our investors. accenture is a global company with $22 billion in annual revenue. we have over 100,000 employees, 32,000 in united states. our market cap is $29 billion. over 70% of our shares are held by institutional investors based in the united states. just under 20% are owned by current and former employees. of our current employees, 25,000 our shareholders. 62% of those are in the u.s. we recognize there is not total clarity about what happened on may 6. we understand that there was seemingly in perfect form of economic news around the globe, a reduction of liquidity, unusual trading volumes, and some technology challenges. based on what we have witnessed in the market that day and cents, there's every reason to expect this tcould happen again. we believe during times of stress, all markets should operate under the same circuit breaker rules to promote orderly markets and investor and