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 . One of my friends invested in uber a number of years ago. It was at a 3 billion market value. I said he was going to lose all of his money, no ridehailing company can be worth 3 billion. In fact, it turned out to be worth staggering sums of money and now it is publicly trading. I have the same reaction when i heard of didi, an uberlike company in china. I do not think it would catch on but i was wrong again. It is the single largest ridehailing company in the world. The person running the company is a young woman from china who rose up because of her hard work and now she is the president of didi. She is one of the best known Women Business leaders in china, an extremely intelligent person who is clearly going to make
Ok. Adont consider myself journalist and nobody else would consider myself a journalist. I began to take on the life of being an interviewer even though i have the day job of running a private equity firm. How do you define leadership . What makes somebody tick . Invested iniends uber a few years ago. I said he was going to lose all of his money, no ridehailing company can be worth 3 billion. Obviously it was worth staggering more sums of money and now it is publicly trading. I have the same reaction when i heard of didi, like uber in china. I do not think it would catch on but i was wrong again. It is the single largest ridehailing company in the world. The woman running at rose up because of her intellect and hardworking now she is the president of didi. She is one of the best known china,s this leaders in and she will clearly make the company even more successful as she continues to lead it. We are here with the president of didi, the largest mobile Transportation Company in china a
A live update in other headlines as. North korea fires 2 missiles into the sea off the peninsula is an east coast prompting a strong reaction from seoul. The coronavirus pandemic has hit another grim milestone today with the global death toll now passing 11000 the battle has governments worldwide imposing stricter unprecedented measures to stop the spread of the virus tens of millions of americans have been told to stay at home and the u. S. Government has now closed its borders with mexico and canada for all nonessential travel italy recorded 627 deaths on friday the biggest day to day increase italy and spain are also struggling to stem new infections despite unprecedented lock downs and the the u. K. Has joined them ordering the closure of cafes pubs and gyms in Asia Thailand reported more than 89. 00 new cases the biggest daily jump in the number of infections so far taking its total to 411 and singapore has recorded its 1st 2 deaths from the virus difficult joins us live from hong
As well. Down 0. 9 . That was expected considering all the liquidity we have seen pumped into chinese mainland markets. The hong kong hang seng well off the lows, very modest losses. Roughly flat on the day. Up near 1 surging, at the moment. As you mentioned, this after losses of 3 in the u. S. Trading session, the worst day in two years. That completely detracted those gains for the index. Lets look at a couple of the risk metrics. Across the fx and commodity riskts, seeing a little, seeing a little bit of tension, a push toward risk. Put it all in perspective. Some major moves in these Asset Classes in the past couple days. The yen having its best day since august. The aussie dollar trading near the lows since 2009. Look at commodities, copper pushing for the upside, representative of Global Growth in the economy. The gains in gold over the past five days starting to temper. 1650 dollars near a troy ounce. Haidi taking a look at a deeper dive, david is in hong kong. What you watching
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