Public service by americas Cable Television companies and is brought to you today by your cable or satellite provider. Peter this week if the communicators we want to introduce you to bob quinn, the Senior Vice President for the at t corporation. Mr. Quinn, that is a lot of title. What does it entail . Mr. Quinn at at t that would entail i run the regulatory shop for the state and federal operations. We do business in 50 states. We do business with state commissions across the country. I also run the Public Policy organization and i run both the state and federal legislative efforts that we have in the united states. We also have international interest. When we acquired direct tv, we acquired a kind of ongoing said like video business in latin america based on recent investments. Become very large wireless providers in mexico. We have our operations in europe where on an enterprise acis it serves for the most part its corporate customers and they do business all across the world. We ha
In 1979, cspan was created as a Public Service by americas Cable Television companies and is brought to you today by your cable or satellite provider. Host and this week on the communicators we want to introduce you to bob quinn, Senior Executive Vice President for external and legislative affairs for the at t corporation. Mr. Quinn, thats a lot of title. What does it entail . [laughter] guest well, at at t that would entail i run the regulatory shop for both the state and federal operations. You know, we do business in 50 states, so we have interactionings with state interactions with state commissions across the country where we have wireline operations, those interactions are pretty significant i also run the Public Policy organization, and i run both the tate and the federal legislative the state and the federal legislative efforts that we have in the United States. We also have international interests, as you are probably aware when we acquired directv, we acquired an ongoing sate
Federal operations and we do business in 50 states, so we have interactions with commissions across the country. We have those interactions that are pretty significant. I also run a Public Policy organization, and i run both at the state and federal efforts. We also have International Interest as you are probably yoy aware when we acquired directv, we acquired an ongoing satellite business. It is by a large wireless provider in mexico and we have a satellite business in mexico. We have an enterprise basis and for the most part it is corporate customers and they do business across the world so we have barely significant interests in europe, asia as well as latin america and mexico. When it comes to capitol hill and washington would you be called a lobbyist i dont qualify under the standards placed in congress and its over capitol hill every day. But i direct the efforts. Before we introduce dave, what is one of the biggest issues at t is working on when it comes to capitol hill . We hav
Issue or the big opportunity we have seen is it turns out that janet yellen is as good at job boning the markets as greenspan ever was, without being quite as opaque. And to me, that, you know theres great comfort. Because we took away some of the speculative behavior in my world, particularly related to the unicorns and the Venture Capital side of the business. And as i look forward into the year, i still think theres a tremendous amount of uncertainty. So i expect a lot of chop. But theres no question that by deflating some of those crazy asset valuations that we saw in the private market, the tech sector, at least, looks better than it did when i left. Roger, you credit janet yellen with taking some of the air out of that system . Oh, definitely. I mean, the way i look at this, there are any number of reasons why people could have looked at what was going on in the tech world, particularly on the private side and said, hey, wait a minute, this is crazy. And i think when yellen said,
Important. This will show less productivity and how do we get the growth that we need . It is friday. Not a whole lot in our earnings. John kerry is in kabul. He will have already met with afghanistans two president ial candidates. His plate is pretty full right now. Has that job ever been more difficult . Has anyone ever had a worse couple of months . That is a great question. Has it ever been more complex than what we are seeing . Check. A complex data it is historic and correlated. Are locked up. Equities down. Negative eight. The euro is one thing not moving. Crude oil is elevated over the last 24 hours. Near 98. The mix is at 16. 66 without question. The yen is one of the great things. 101. 78 on the japanese yen. There is the german bond yield. A 104 a 1. 04. Up six advancing dollars. The german two year went into negative territory. 0. 003 . Are paying people to take their money in germany. Brent crude was 104. Up nicely over the last few hours. Bond yield, stunning at 3. 19 . s