trend. definitely trending higher. confirmed that the u.s. economy is in a good spot. absolutely. the u.s. is clearly the bright spot in the world. the u.s. economy is in good shape. we have to take into account what is happening in the rest of the world. it will be interesting to see if the effects of the coronavirus eventually come to our shores. something like 70% of industrial production is still shut in china. we don t know when it comes back on. global growth takes a hit if china takes a hit. the markets may be range bound as we get through this. jonathan: journey around the table here in new york is bob michele of j.p. morgan, priya misra of td securities, and matthew hornbach of morgan stanley. great jobs report with a big caveat. all of this data for the month of january predates the scare coming out of china. priya: i think the jobs report is actually not that important. it is always a backward looking indicator. plus, we had this pretty big corona
david: i don t 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? let s talk about your career at bank of america and how you rose up and actually became the ceo. interesting. quite go back to your background. you are from ohio. your father was a chemist? brian: yeah. david: dupont? brian: yeah. david: you were six of eight children. i guess you share a lot. brian: you have to be aggressive getting your share. let s say that. david: ok. you went to brown university. you were the cocaptain of the rugby team. it is a tough sport. i assume that is not as tough as banking. brian: there is nothing more powerful but i was never in their and that was one of the rules are played on the team. it is a fantastic teamwork game. were all 15 game players participate fully. david
Stifle from the strength of swiss franc. And the reverse takeover in the British Assets in a 1. 3 billion pound deal. Good morning, everyone. Another episode of Worldwide Exchange. Good morning to you, seema . Yeah very good how about you . A lot happening in the gold market overnight. Absolutely. Lets get to the stop story. The price of gold has slump tide fiveyear low. The precious metal was trading as much as 4 lower after the asian markets posted. That mood with randall resources hit the hardest. Spot gold currently off at 1. 6 . And s p down 10 . Northern star down by 0. 2 . And the chinese selling and triggering stop loss orders. 1 million being traded on that very exchange. Thats after the government said on friday that the gold reserves were up 57 from six years ago, abdomen that was a lot less than people had had anticipated. A lot of factors seem to be weighing on the price of gold right now. You also have the fed indicating that they will raise rates sometime this year in th
Author Michael Lewis. His most recent book is the undoing project a friendship that changed our minds. This is booktv live coverage. Can you hear me . I am hearing echoes. All good . We found out michael is supposed to do a power point presentation, takes half an hour to find the power point presentation. Thank you for being here and the library of congress. Thank you, the chairman of the festival. We will have a little chat, a couple of old friends with 1 million other new acquaintances in the hall. We go way back. Lets Start Talking about you are an art history major at princeton and you go to wall street and do really well. You could have been rich, you know . You could have your own plane this morning. Instead you go into the book business. So you know, it is just an accident, they didnt know each other. This is an opportunity to express all the resentment. This is the undoing project. So the question is why i quit wall street, you knew you wanted i didnt have any plans. And grew u
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