A crime . Jason all of that and more. But first, our top story this week. Natos 70th turned out to be less like a Birthday Party and more like a thanksgiving dinner for a big, dysfunctional family. Carol thats right. Not all of them got along, a few snide remarks were made, but in the end, everyone seemed to accept that theyre stuck with each other. Thats according to marc champion, who covered the summit outside london. He joins us now. Lets talk about nato. What a week it was. Marc it was. I mean, the buildup was pretty extraordinary. This was supposed to be just a celebration. It wasnt a real summit. It wasnt a full summit. They do that every two to three years. This one they felt they had to do because it was the 70th. They kept it really short because they specifically didnt want to create a big target for unscripted problems with president trump, which theyve had before. So, and then all of a sudden, in the weeks before, you had the french president , macron, coming out and talki
California utility pg e said to be close to finalizing terms for a 13. 5 billion dollar payout to victims of wildfires sparked by defective equipment. Youre told it would pay half in cash and the rest in stock in the reorganized company, although no final agreements have been reached. Pg e shares rallied strongly on the news but are still down more than 50 this year. The owners of the new york mets are in talks to sell up to 80 of the major league franchise. Were told a deal would be valued at 2. 6 billion and set a path for billionaire steve cohen to take complete control after five years. Hes already an investor in the mets and has a net worth of more than 9 billion. Shery markets open in tokyo and seoul at the top of the hour. Sophie stocks are set to rebound after closing at a low. U. S. Futures little changed. Checking in on the end, Holding Steady while weakening to a twoweek low yesterday, snapping a fourday advance. They opened lower but could gain a 30year option come and. Whe
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 . David people say running an airline is not an easy thing to do. You have weather to deal with, Energy Prices to deal with, lots of employees and so forth, but you grew up in a family of nine children, so what is easier . Growing up in a family of nine children or running an airline . [laughter] ed running an airline, certainly. Our family was great. I am the oldest of nine. I was sharing with david earlier that when i was five years old, we had six kids in the house, so nine kids sharing three bedrooms. One and a half baths. My dad was a dentist and had his practice inside our house. My mom worked for him. David wasnt that busy a practice at times, i guess . Ed he must have had some gaps in his schedule. The int
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 . David people say running an airline is not an easy thing to do. You have weather to deal with, energy prices, employees and so forth, but you grew up in a family of nine children, so what is easier . A family of nine children or running an airline . [laughter] ed running an airline, certainly. Our family was great. I am the oldest of nine. When i was five years old, we had six kids in the house, nine kids sharing three bedrooms. 1. 5 baths. My dad was a dentist and had his practice inside our house. My mom worked for him. David was he busy . Ed he must have had some gaps in his schedule. Growing up, i didnt get on an airplane until i was 25. David really . Ed we could not afford it. Too many of us and it was not
Carol and we hit the red carpet to celebrate the bloomberg 50. It is our annual list of those people whose 2019 measurable accomplishments stand out. Jason all of that still ahead. But first off, the worlds biggest ipo. We are talking saudi aramco. Shares surge to a market value of 2 trillion. That magic 2 trillion come at that peak. Carol a culmination of a fouryear effort from the kingdom. Our correspondent is in london to talk about this. A lot of questions. Now it is publicly traded and it it is an ipo, a publicly held company, but it is only a small 1. 5 that is out there in the public in terms of the company. Nini it is. The ipo has not turned out the way they expected it to happen. If you remember back to 2016 when saudi arabia initially announced plans for the ipo, the plan was to sell as much as 5 of the company. More importantly, what we have to look at is what was the purpose of the ipo. The ipo was seen as a means of diversifying saudi arabia away from its oildependent comp