Common occurrence for commissioners, pandemic or no pandemic. I have been muddling through that, and in terms of the work of the agency its been a really important and really fascinating time. We switched to all telework pretty quickly and i will say relatively seamlessly in march, which i was very impressed by, but even though the technological work got up and running very quickly, at least for me personally, i found it incredibly challenging to be juggling the responsibilities of the job and fulltime parenting. This baby here is my fourth so i have three kids home fulltime and needed fulltime attention, and a job that need fulltime attention. Even with an incredibly supportive partner that was in normalcy challenging. My first reaction to your question is really to think about the logistics, and i know if that was true for me, it was maybe doubly true for our staff across the agency just like it is for people working from home across the country whether they have small children in th
The hardest hit nation is iran. Nearly 22 thousand people there have died from covid19. Spacex has placed 64 more satellites into orbit. A rocket took them into orbit from florida. It is the 12th the batch of satellites for the companys broadband network. Rocketalso recovered the booster with a controlled landing at sea. Global news 24 hours a day, onair, and on quicktake by bloomberg, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in over 120 countries. Im Mark Crumpton. This is bloomberg. Vonnie it is 1 00 in new york 6 00 p. M. In london, and 1 00 , a. M. In hong kong. Im vonnie quinn. Welcome to Bloomberg Markets. In just a few moments, and inclusive interview with bill ackman of Pershing Square, an update on the spac and the market turmoil. Lets get to the markets. The vix today is above 30, the worst day for the nasdaq 100 so far since march. The nasdaq down 5 . The s p down 3. 5 . The dow down 2. 7 . Several individual companies have been doing extraordinarily well such as d
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So i have done it seems like i have known you for at least 20 years. But it doesnt feel old. Feel like we are in our living room. Yes it does. Leigh gallagher his life closest friend. Full disclosure. He asked me tough questions. It is not edgy or challenging. It is up to you to ask for challenging questions, the really tough questions. I was very flattered when i was in the middle of the airbnb story when she asked if i would do this tonight. The book is great. We expect you all to read it. I was a big fan of leigh gallaghers first book, the end of the suburb or end of the suburb. The. The end of the suburb. About the movement from the suburbs to the citys of people, companies and money. So this airbnb story was kind of a natural for you as a followup. How natural was it . How did it come along . A lot of people ask me that. Thank you for having me in this lovely room, this lovely setting, thank you for saying that. The way i came to this idea, a big seismic trend in the consumer zeit
Kayla tausche, to talk about the market impact. The president of the United States this morning commenting about the overall stock market. Yes. And how much people who bought in since the election have been rewarded. Your thoughts. It is true. I mean, theres no way to get around the timing of it all, but ive been sort of saying a lot had to come together, both with regard to policy and policy hopes and outside of that for the market to do what its done since the election, as many people have commented. Ah all of the leading indicators turning up, earnings pointed in the right direction and bond yields globally going up. All this fed into an idea that things were Getting Better. And then you had the overlay of there will be businessfriendly policy coming out. And i think it did keep investors focused on this story line, that yes, things are Getting Better now, but maybe we could even count on some help down the road. Now, what happened over the weekend and what happened into today is yo