Our political machinations then sometimes we are, just watch closely and pick up a copy of the Financial Times or the london times, this is frontpage news every day over there, hard to say how the markets are treating this right now there is a school of thought that says the better joe biden does the worst the markets will react, another one that says if donald trump can come through this without overly picking on joe biden, he could do well himself. Again advice is pretty cheap these days. Sometimes debates do little to change the context of the election and sometimes it can reaffirm opinion, we will be watching that monitoring develops in washington with judge barrett, Amy Coney Barrett on capitol hill and she will be meeting with all the key republican senators including Mitch Mcconnell the Senate Leader and we will see senator tom tandsenator ann, here said d be open to meeting with the president Supreme Court choice at a time in a point before the confirmation hearing and they are
People have not been mobile. What is the main lesson, surprise, or discovery that you personally have taken from the experience in the last eight months or so. Ourn we lost about 80 of business in eight weeks, that we had spent about a decade building. That was quite surprising. What may have been even more surprising what is what happened next. What happens next is people, no matter the circumstances, in the midst of the pandemic, still had the desire to travel. They did not want to get on planes, they were not necessarily traveling for business, they did not want to go to a hotel or crowded tourist district, but they did want to get in a car with a tank of gas and go to a community, and often some of them were getting homes with airbnb. So i think there is just a fundamental desire that people have to travel, to connect, the see the world, and i dont think that anything can stop it, let alone a pandemic. Obviously, people have to do it responsibly, but there is still a very strongwil
One of the most effective. You are about mobility of people and not been mobile. Whats the main lesson or surprise or discovery that you personally have taken from the experience and the last eight months or so . We lost about 80 of our business and eight weeks. We its been about a decade building. That was quiten surprising but the thing that may been more surprising is what happenedis next. What happened next is that people, no matter the circumstances, in the midst of the pandemic still had the desire to travel. They didnt want to get on planes, they were not necessary traveling for business. They didnt want to go to my hotel or they did want to get in the car and go to another community and live in that community and often some of them were getting homes with airbnb. Theres just this fundamental desire that people have to travel, to connect, to see the world and i dont think that anything could stop it let alone a pandemic. People have to do it responsibly but there is still a very
Welcome to bloomberg surveillance. Theres plenty going on in the markets, not withholding everything going on with the Supreme Court, and we are just about 46 or 45 days away from that important u. S. Election. The picture on the market is not great for banks. You can see actually banks were down from 4. 1 . If you look at some of the things we should be watching out for, european stocks are dropping for a third day. Rising virus cases will lead to tougher travel restrictions. Lets get to first word news here in london. Leanne concerns are mounting the u. K. May need a second lockdown to stop the spread of coronavirus. Prime minister Boris Johnson is set to be told today that the nation is at a critical point in the pandemic. There are expectations that local restrictions could be extended into london. President trump is celebrating the tiktok deal, despite it falling short on some of his key demands. The apps chinese owners will still have an 80 stake in the the u. S. Source new jobs.
Travel, i am glad to welcome the. Eo of airbnb, brian thank you so much for joining us. I have questions about your business in the olden times, in the future times. I want to start with one big picture question about all the enterprises that have an affected by the enterprise, yours has to be most affected. You are about mobility, and people have not been mobile. What is the main lesson, surprise, or discovery that you personally have taken from the experience in the last eight months or so. Ourn we lost about 80 of business in eight weeks, that we had spent about a decade building. That was quite surprising. What may have been even more surprising what is what happened next. What happens next is people, no matter the circumstances, in the midst of the pandemic, still had the desire to travel. They did not want to get on planes, they were not necessarily traveling for business, they did not want to go to a hotel or crowded tourist district, but they did want to get in a car with a tan