[applause] the highest calling of mankind, ive often thought, was private equity. [laughter] and then i started interviewing. I watched your interviews, so i know how to do some interviewing. [laughter] ive learned from doing my interviews how leaders make it to the top. Jeff i asked him how much he wanted. He said 250. I said fine. I didnt negotiate with him. I did no due diligence. David i have something i would like to sell. [laughter] and how they stay there. You dont feel inadequate now because being only the second wealthiest man in the world, is that right . [laughter] in recent years, one of the most successful wall Street Investors has been bill ackman. He has built Pershing Square into one of the most successful and listened to firms on wall street. But he has been outspoken in a number of other areas including philanthropy and politics. I had a chance to sit down with him to talk about a variety of issues, including his latest bet on where the economy is going. There is gene
Over much of the past three decades, ive been an investor. [applause] the highest calling of mankind, ive often thought, was private equity. [laughter] and then i started interviewing. I watched your interviews, so i know how to do some interviewing. [laughter] ive learned from doing my interviews how leaders make it to the top. Jeff i asked him how much he wanted. He said 250. I said fine. I didnt negotiate with him. I did no due diligence. David i have something i would like to sell. [laughter] and how they stay there. You dont feel inadequate now because being only the second wealthiest man in the world, is that right . [laughter] in recent years, one of the most successful wall Street Investors has been bill ackman. He has built Pershing Square into one of the most successful and listened to firms on wall street. But he has been outspoken in a number of other areas including philanthropy and politics. I had a chance to sit down with him to talk about a variety of issues, including
Difficult and kind i ever thought was a and then i started interviewing. I learned from doing it appears that leaders make it to the top. I asked him how much he wanted, he said 250, i said no problem. You have no problem being the second wealthiest man in the world, is that right . One of the most successful wall street businessman has been bill ackman. He has also been outspoken in a number of other areas including philanthropy and politics. I had a chance to sit down with bill in his office recently and talk about a variety of issues including his latest bet on where the economy is going. There is a general consensus in the United States that we probably have avoided a percentage for the near future. We will have a socalled soft landing. That is the consensus. Is that your view as well . It is really hard to predict. I think the economy is weakening. We are seeing evidence of that in some of our companies. I have some concerns. There has been a huge subsidy in terms of Interest Rate
Month for the markets, s p is fractionally higher by four and nasdaq is up by 12. These are small gains for the two embassies. We were mostly higher earlier and kind of hire now but these numbers are not accelerating by any means. What is accelerating his United Auto Workers strike. We had latest headlines from the picket line which is leaving little hope for the end of the strike anytime soon. Ford is saying despite progress there is significant gaps to close on key issues before labor agreements can be reached. Meanwhile the uaw expanded strikes against gm and stellantis to 38 different Parts Distribution Centers Across the country and the uaw strike obviously is continue to heat up in another American Strike seems to be cooling down. Lets give you the good news on this monday the hollywood Writers Strike that is looking a little bit better. Lauren simonetti with a potential deal with a fivemonth walkout, hard to believe. It is unbelievable. The Writers Guild of america calls this te
Wilfred frost. Lets check on Global Markets because we are on this friday seeing gains, at least on the futures side of things you can see futures pointing to a higher open, the s p up by about six points, the dow up by about 78 and the nasdaq up by about 13 points overall. Lets get a check on the fixed income markets on the treasury side specifically with the tenyear u. S. Treasury note, yields are 2. 362 , a little lower than they have been over the last couple of days. So the Interest Rate picture taking a little bit more clarity given the feds Interest Rate hike and some commentary about the future still, though, yields in focus, especially for those financials, courtney. Lets look at whats going on around the world in trading. So take a look at what happened in asia overnight. Mostly lower, as you can see the south korean kospi is the one outlier higher by about 0. 5 the hang seng was the biggest laggard, down 1 a lot of focus on whats going on here in the u. S. When it comes to o