Fixed. But ok. Just leave it this way. All right. I dont consider myself a journalist. And nobody else would consider myself a journalist. I began to take on the life of being an interviewer, even though i have a day job of running a private equity firm. How do you define leadership . What is it that makes somebody tick . Aliko dangote is widely known to be the wealthiest man in africa. So is that a title you are proud to have, or is that one where you get so many people calling you for money you wish you were not the wealthiest man in africa . Aliko well, first of all, thank you very much, david. It is great to be here and seeing you today. Well, you know, when they call you the wealthiest person in africa, it comes with a lot of baggage. Of course, there are so many demands. People come up with different demands. But it is good, because i like to give back to the society. David so right now, you are involved in many philanthropic endeavors in africa and elsewhere. Lets go through som
All right. I dont consider myself a journalist. Nobody else would consider myself a journalist. I began to take on the life of being an interviewer, even though i have a day job of running a private equity firm. How do you define leadership . What is it that makes somebody tick . Aliko dangote is widely known to be the wealthiest man in africa. So is that a title you are proud to have, or is that one where you get so many people calling you for money you wish you were not the wealthiest man in africa . Aliko well, first of all, thank you very much, david. It is great to be here and seeing you today. Well, you know, when they call you the wealthiest person in africa, it comes with a lot of baggage. Of course, there are so many demands. People come up with so many different demands, but it is good because i like to give back to the society. David so right now, you are involved in many philanthropic endeavors in africa and elsewhere. Lets go through some of them before we go to how you ac
Journalist. Nobody else would consider myself a journalist. I began to take on the life of being an interviewer, even though i have a day job of running a private equity firm. How do you define leadership . What is it that makes somebody tick . Aliko dangote is widely known to be the wealthiest man in africa. So is that a title you are proud to have, or is that one where you get so many people calling you for money you wish you were not the wealthiest man in africa . Aliko well, first of all, thank you very much, david. It is great to be here and seeing you today. Well, you know, when they call you the wealthiest person in africa, it comes with a lot of baggage. Of course, there are so many demands. People come up with so many different demands, but it is good because i like to give back to the society. David so right now, you are involved in many philanthropic endeavors in africa and elsewhere. Lets go through some of them before we go to how you actually made all of this money. Recen
Is slightly better than economists were expecting an better than the previous month. Leasing Property Investment looking better. Fixed assets investments, also a drop of 6. 3 . Aonomists were looking at drop of 6 , but the trend seems to be better than the previous month. I guess it continues to show that this could still be an uneven recovery we are seeing in china. Uneven recovery but a broadening of chinas recovery, as well. We heard new home prices, the most in six months. That is a good sign as the economy reopens. We are seeing how home prices in terms of growth has accelerated. Easing on credit, helping a lot. Just to recap, retail sales, 2. 8 . Retail sales, still contracting, retail sales have collapsed. Consumers are pretty cautious when it comes to coming back to spending. Beijing and other chinese cities are giving up consumption vouchers to its people. They encourage them to spend in the fiscal month of the year. Retail sales slumped 16 nationwide so as long as retail back
Territory. We will see how long that lasts. A strengthening dollar today and treasuries at around 63 basis points for the 10 year yield. European markets are returning today. The ftse 100 was the only one open on may 1. The rest were closed. We went lower the first thing this morning. The ftse opened and was trading higher, but all of the others lower. Out of the gate as you say, we got a stronger teller today. A big move coming out of the ecb tomorrow sorry, out of the Constitutional Court regarding the ecb. We had some really poor Economic Data out of the manufacturing front in europe as well. The italian 10 year selling off just a touch. Brent crude up by 1. 21 . Climbing init risk europe unbidden mounting economic concerns over u. S. Suggestions that china hid the severity of the covid19 outbreak. A sickly escalating rhetoric, which is being a little bit aggressive towards china. We have a speech from the National Security advisor today which called out china and the suppression of