Record earnings in 2017. Joining me today on bloomberg studio 1. 0, Electronic Arts ceo Andrew Wilson. Lets start at the beginning of your time at ea. 2013, the company was struggling financially. The consumerist named you the Worst Company of the year two years in a row, but today, it is different. You have reported record profits. What did you do differently . Andrew i have been in the Company Since 2000. In 2013, they made me ceo. Emily i dont think that is quite true. Andrew somewhere in there is some truth. We had struggled. It wasnt because we were a bad company or made bad games. It is because we lost our focus. We said, what is the most important thing . Who facilitates us to do what we love . Make games. That is the player. We started every conversation for the longest time and continuing today is, is this good for the player . What you discover, it feels like an age ago now, but it is still the forefront of our memory, is there was a bunch of stuff that we were doing they did
Thing but a combination of factors. Housing data was strong. Oil prices went up. New highs for the year. And there seems to be an increase in confidence that higher Interest Rates likely wont hurt stock prices very much, if at all. The Dow Jones Industrial average climbed 213 points to close at 17,706. Nasdaq added 95. And the s p 500 rose 28. Ari thompson has more on todays big gain. Reporter stocks finished strong on the back of a big gain in aprils new home sales and the back of strength in the european markets. The u. S. Markets rallying from the opening bell. This after a new poll showed that britons are less likely to vote to leave the eu in a brexit. New home sales for the month of april rose to their highest levels in eight years. That data along with the news that prices for new homes were very high levels and the news that the luxury home builder Toll Brothers came in with stronger than expected earnings adding fuel to the markets rally. Pacing the gains today, strength in he
Thing but a combination of factors. Housing data was strong. Oil prices went up. New highs for the year. And there seems to be an increase in confidence that higher Interest Rates likely wont hurt stock prices very much, if at all. The Dow Jones Industrial average climbed 213 points to close at 17,706. Nasdaq added 95. And the s p 500 rose 28. Ari thompson has more on todays big gain. Reporter stocks finished strong on the back of a big gain in aprils new home sales and the back of strength in the european markets. The u. S. Markets rallying from the opening bell. This after a new poll showed that britons are less likely to vote to leave the eu in a brexit. New home sales for the month of april rose to their highest levels in eight years. That data along with the news that prices for new homes were very high levels and the news that the luxury home builder Toll Brothers came in with stronger than expected earnings adding fuel to the markets rally. Pacing the gains today, strength in he
Pep guardiola. Sunday sunshine on the way for many parts of the uk full up rain really dragging its heels towards the south east. All the details coming up south east. All the details coming up here on breakfast. Its sunday the 19th ofjuly. Our top story borisjohnson has said he doesnt believe another nationwide lockdown will be needed if theres a second spike of coronavirus this winter. The Prime Minister told the sunday telegraph that he believes any future outbreaks can be dealt with at a local or regional level. Our Political Correspondent nick eardley reports. This nick eardley reports. Wasnt so long ago. National lockdown this wasnt so long ago. National lockdown across the uk. Streets deserted. Things are starting to move again but the economic and social cost of the shutdown will be felt for some time. So the government is desperate to avoid a repeat. Speaking to the sunday telegraph, the Prime Minister co m pa res telegraph, the Prime Minister compares the idea of another Nati
Meeting Prime Minister borisjohnson and foreign secretary dominic raab. Now on bbc news click. This week cleaning up the social network. Getting your mask on. And. Breaking bad with giancarlo esposito. Hey, welcome to click and wear a mask. Thats the advice you are given, just do it, its not a problem. Hey, welcome to click and wear a mask. Thats the advice you are given, just do it, its not a problem. In fact in some part of the world it is just the norm anyway. So do it. Hey, lara. Hello. I hope you have been bending the metal bit over your nose, now i know about it seems really obvious. Absolutely right and i didnt know that, until recently, and it does help it to sit in place so it is very useful information. It does help but it still doesnt fit perfectly although i may have a solution for that later in the programme. It has been a busy week in the world of tech. The uk government has decided to remove all of huaweis sg kit from the country by 2027. This is a decision with politica