Coronavirus restrictions by taking a trade behind closed doors. This is the view of dictator when you business on robots in berlin welcome to the program. Now little is important during a pandemic as a countrys Health Care System but like other sections of government they can be subject to Corruption Transparency international has again ranked countries around the world in terms of how corrupt their citizens perceive them to be particularly when it comes to the misuse of public money looking at the Coronavirus Crisis the group says that countries the perform well on the index invest more in health care and are better able to provide universal Health Coverage lets have a look at where that would be topping the list with the least perceived corruption are a few European Countries that weve got australia and new zealand and then in asia weve also got japan hong kong. And singapore among others elsewhere in the world a little further down the list we see countries where a small level of co
That really has been down to currencies. The dollar index is up at the moment, but if you look at it over 24 hours, actually, its down by. 3 ,. 4 percent. One of the main beneficiaries of crown weakness has been strength. Sterling has been propelled about 1. 5 in the last day or thereabouts. The dollar weakness has been felt with the yen also moving to the upside. Theres another reason we are seeing upside on equities in japan. Gold not a major beneficiary, though it was at oneweek highs at one stage after the dollar was sagging earlier on. Thats a look at markets. Lets head over to tom. Tom lets get you up to speed with some of the other first word headlines. The Trump Administration is ramping up tensions with china once again, designating six asnland Media Outlets foreign which it says are controlled by beijing. They include the economic daily, which provides a look at beijing economic news. The Administration Says all six are substantially owned or by atively controlled foreign gov
Good to see you. Cant wait to talk to you about all of those things. What kind of a grade would you give on the direct listing yesterday . I would give it an a. It didnt have the wild volatility or a huge amount of money left on the table that traditional ipos have. I think it was a pretty good day for direct listings. Spencer, good morning, you took zillow public nearly a decade ago if you had to do that again with a company, that is the same, would you do Something Else . I would either do a dreskt listingov or a spac merger. They dont allow the company to leave money on the table we went public at 20 a share. We closed at 37. So we lost a lot of money on the table for an ipo so i think that there is a lot of innovation in the ipo space since a decade ago when zillow went public and i think there is now great alternatives available. Its julia here we look forward to sees what you do with your speak a question for you now that it is a public company. We have seen so many of the Public
This is fun to ask you questions again. It feels like old times. We are back into the normal routine. Your book is less about President Trump and more about you. Its about your time at the white house, but i wanted to ask you you do have some behindthescenes tales, but shortly theres some dirty laundry that you dont reveal. Let me ask how do you choose whats not to include . Guest there are so many books out there that have kind of been negative and the nasty score settling and that is into im as a person. Number two, i wanted people to get a different side into different perspective and frankly after two and a half years in the white house and another year on the campaign of my experience working for the president was a positive one. I loved my job, i liked the people i worked with. With. That doesnt mean we didnt have difficult days and ther and othf moments i would love to walk out for the rest of my life but overall, i really believed in what they were doing, and i enjoyed working
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