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 are clearly one of the worlds most Successful Technology investors and one of the worlds most successful businessmen. Let me start by asking you about a fund you are now raising, the vision fund. It is supposed to be a fund of 100 billion . Masayoshi yes. David that would be the biggest fund ever raised. So, when you told people you were going to raise a 100 billion fund, did they tell you were a little bit crazy . Masayoshi some people said. [laughter] david you had a meeting with the matter was the deputy crown prince of saudi arabia, who is now the crown prince of saudi arabia. As i understand the story, you went in and in one hour convinced him to invest 45 billion. Masayoshi no, no, it is not true. Dav
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 are clearly one of the worlds most Successful Technology investors and one of the worlds most successful businessmen. Let me start by asking you about a fund you are now raising, the vision fund. It is supposed to be a fund of 100 billion . Masayoshi yes. David that would be the biggest fund ever raised. So, when you told people you were going to raise a 100 billion fund, did they tell you were a little bit crazy . Masayoshi some people said. [laughter] david you had a meeting with the matter was the deputy crown prince of saudi arabia, who is now the crown prince of saudi arabia. As i understand the story, you went in and in one hour convinced him to invest 45 billion. Masayoshi no, no, it is not true. David ok. [laughter] masayoshi 45 minutes, 45
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U. S. Equity futures have been indicated higher after the markets were down yesterday. The first time in seven sessions that the dow and nasdaq were down this morning a rebound from that these were modest declines yesterday and this morning s p futures indicated up by three. The nasdaq indicated up by 2. 5 overnight in asia, we have seen some gains in some asian markets. The nikkei up by a half percent. How many winning streaks is that 16 in a row that weve seen for the nikkei now trading at 21,805. Hang seng closed down bay half p percentage point in europe, as you look at some of the early trading, you will see green arrows across the board. Modest advances. Ftse up by 0. 4 . The cac is up by a quarter percentage point the dax up by 0. 2 look at crude oil prices looks like crude this morning is up wti up by 444 ce cents, brent u 57 cents. News out of Chinas Communist Party congress, members confirm president xi jinpings status as the most powerful leader since mao by writing his name
Because the heart is stronger later in the day. So lets begin. I think that is an important story for us all to read. Lets chat through all of these. With me is amrita sen, chief oil analyst at energy aspects. Wonderful to see you, many thanks for coming in. Lets start with el pais. Deadline day coming up with regards to this catalonian crisis. What do you make of it all . Today is such an important day, because the parliament in barcelona will vote whether to go for independence, and in madrid they will vote whether to trigger 155, because that will take powers, finances, police, media from catalonia. It is going to be intense. I think the key is they are trying, some parts of both parties are trying to as your there is dialogue, but there has still been resista nce dialogue, but there has still been resistance from both sides of that trying to ensure. Resistance from both sides of that trying to ensure. Both sides are intransigent. One way to solve it might have been regional electio