Out of sectors. And amazon prime days kicked off an unusual Holiday Shopping season with retailers adapting to the challenges of the covid19 crisis. Which companies will benefit . Apple unveiled its new iphone 12. Will 5g drive a phone sales super cycle . My colleagues, ben levisohn, carlton english and jack howe. Ben, lets start with you. Mr. Market is sometimes described as manic depressive, but this week it was more sort of schizophrenia that we saw. Whats going on . Yeah. It was just a very indecisive market. There were days when investors flocked to tech, and other days the nasdaq went down, other parts of the market went up. It really just depended on the news of the day. Early in the week we had plenty of things that could have caused the market to sell off including drug trials at johnson johnson, eli lilly for Covid Treatment being halted, and we also saw, you know, cases of covid rising. But the market actually pulled through all that and even got some good news from pfizer.
Man in the world, is that right . In the last several decades, one of the most important people in International Finance is not that wellknown to the public. Her name is kristalina georgieva. She was a senior commissioner of the European Commission, chief executive of the world bank, and now shes the managing director of the imf. She heads an organization whose purpose is to help countries that have financial problems. Today, because of the pandemic, there are many people that are calling her and many countries with financial problems. You have been a senior commissioner of the European Commission and now you are the managing director of the imf. In getting these positions, was it more difficult because you are a woman, or you are from a small country called bulgaria . Where was there more prejudice . Kristalina ultimately i got this job, so whatever the prejudice was did not hold me back. If i am to make a call on that, i would say being from a small country always requires to work tw
Out of sectors. And amazon prime days kicked off an unusual Holiday Shopping season with retailers adapting to the challenges of the covid19 crisis. Which companies will benefit . Apple unveiled its new iphone 12. Will 5g drive a phone sales super cycle . My colleagues, ben levisohn, carlton english and jack howe. Ben, lets start with you. Mr. Market is sometimes described as manic depressive, but this week it was more sort of schizophrenia that we saw. Whats going on . Yeah. It was just a very indecisive market. There were days when investors flocked to tech, and other days the nasdaq went down, other parts of the market went up. It really just depended on the news of the day. Early in the week we had plenty of things that could have caused the market to sell off including drug trials at johnson johnson, eli lilly for Covid Treatment being halted, and we also saw, you know, cases of covid rising. But the market actually pulled through all that and even got some good news from pfizer.
Week as traders rotated in and out of sectors. And amazon prime days kicked off an unusual Holiday Shopping season with retailers adapting to the challenges of the covid19 crisis. Which companies will benefit . Apple unveiled its new iphone 12. Will 5g drive a phone sales super cycle . My colleagues, ben levisohn, carlton english and jack howe. Ben, lets start with you. Mr. Market is sometimes described as manic depressive, but this week it was more sort of schizophrenia that we saw. Whats going on . Yeah. It was just a very indecisive market. There were days when investors flocked to tech, and other days the nasdaq went down, other parts of the market went up. It really just depended on the news of the day. Early in the week we had plenty of things that could have caused the market to sell off including drug trials at johnson johnson, eli lilly for Covid Treatment being halted, and we also saw, you know, cases of covid rising. But the market actually pulled through all that and even g
In the last several decades, one of the most important people in International Finance is not that wellknown to the public. Her name is kristalina georgieva. She was a senior commissioner of the European Commission, chief executive of the world bank, and now shes the managing director of the imf. In that position, she heads an organization whose purpose is to help countries that have financial problems. Today, because of the pandemic, there are many people that are calling her and many countries with financial problems. You have been a senior commissioner of the European Commission and now you are the managing director of the imf. In getting these positions, was it more difficult because you are a woman, or you are from a small country called bulgaria . Where was there more prejudice . Kristalina ultimately i got this job, so whatever the prejudice was did not hold me back. If i am to make a call on that, i would say being from a small country always requires to work twice as hard to p