David i dont 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 . You have now had to follow bill gates and steve ballmer, two legendary figures. Did you feel at that time you were really ready for the job following those legends . Or were you saying i could do a better job than they did . Satya the best advice i got from both bill and steve i think helped me a lot. Because theyre clear message was, dont try to be like us. Dont even bother to sort of say, oh, i am seceeding these people. Just be your own. In fact, i remember very distinctly, even during the interview process the board was conducting they asked me, do you want to be the ceo . And i said, only if you want me to be the ceo. The feedback i got was that people who want to be ceos are like, i want to be ceo. I said,
President trump calling on congress for 1. 5 trillion bill to help fix the country crumbling infrastructure tomorrows report, apple gets a downgrade, disappointing iphone demand and the s p 500 the worst day since may of last year despite the sell off though. Almost, six decades heading into the trading section of the month, each 5. 5. Nasdaq is up 7 for the month. 14 record s p 500 closes is the most since 1955. I have to go back, thats seven years. I heard the speech last night, not only the president , hes literally taking credit for the stock market and hesdone lot to make it so that this rally makes sense. You look at the boeing quarter today. You everyone is skeptical and some of them is antitrump. Come on, this economy is thnot that good. You look at the electricity number, they dont lie and you come back and say listen, what do you want how for real do you want it to be what do you need to see . A 6 gdp number . It is real you can make an argument that it is reflected in stock
Alright. David i dont 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 . You have now had to follow bill gates and steve ballmer, two legendary figures. Did you feel at that time you were really ready for the job following those legends . Or were you saying i could do a better job than they did . Satya the best advice i got from both bill and steve i think helped me a lot. Because theyre clear message was, dont try to be like us. Dont even bother to sort of say, oh, i am seceeding these people. Just be your own. In fact, i remember very distinctly, even during the interview process the board was conducting they asked me, do you want to be the ceo . And i said, only if you want me to be the ceo. The feedback i got was that people who want to be ceos are like, i want to be ceo
Saying they will do something in health care, Something Big. Canadas minister of Foreign Affairs sees cautious optimism. I think a winwinwin outcome can be achieved. The worlds most Viable Companies report earnings. We have not done a deal in 3. 5 years, but this one was too good to pass up. We have shown we have what it takes. Probablyk there has not been as good a time to be in banking in the three main economic blocks. It is all straight ahead on bloomberg best. Hello and welcome. This is bloomberg best. The mostly review of important Business News, analysis, and interviews from bloomberg television. Withy, investors watched interest as canada, mexico, and the u. S. Concluded their sixth round of negotiations over nafta. U. S. Trade representative robert light highs are struck a chord of optimism, saying the latest round of nafta negotiations wrap up today. They made progress, but we are still not friends. Contentious issues remain. The u. S. Trade representative, while more upbeat
For the next hour or so have the china open, we will look at how the Asian Pacific market continues to digest. A quick check and where we are when china opens up. Have a look at my charts here for you the index futures, we are looking at 850 a. M. Here. See the west end china traded here. We are up about two and a half percent. If that is any indicator of how the open will look, it will pop up here on the index. That will get up and running in about 25 minutes from now. Haidi chinese investors coming back to a trading environment world that looks a lot better than when they left it. Chinese newter the year holiday. Trying to play catchup in terms of those lows we saw supported hong kong and the midst of that selloff trade a pretty bereft day when it comes to asia, plenty of time and attention for investors to focus on this as they really saw indications of the central bank that was increasingly confident also a pickup when it comes to tightening the rent tight. Its take a look ahead. W