Over much of the past three decades, i have been an investor. The highest calling of mankind, ive often thought, was private equity. [laughter] and then i started interviewing. While i watch your interview, i know how to do some interviews. Ive learned from doing my interviews how leaders make it to the top. Jeff i asked him how much he wanted. He said 250. I said, fine. I didnt negotiate with him. I did no due diligence. David i have something i would like to sell. And how they stay there. You dont feel inadequate now because being only the second wealthiest man in the world, is that right . [laughter] vasant narashimhan is the ceo of novartis, a major swissbased Pharmaceutical Company. He was educated at Harvard Medical School but chose not to Practice Medicine. He chose to go into the pharmaceutical industry and is leading the transformation of novartis to one of the most important pharmaceutical companies in the world. I had a chance to sit down with him in new york to talk about t
On cspan 2. Maine senator Susan Collins talked about the provisions that need changing in the bill before she can commit. She spoke about infrastructure spending, immigration. Held by the Christian Science monitor. This is an hour. Making her second appearance and native of caribou, maine and comes from a family of public servants. Her mom chaired the board of the university of maine system and her dad was a state senator. After graduating from college, our guest followed in her parents footsteps and landed a job. She stayed on the hill and filling in staff jobs for the next 17 years. In 199 , just two years after losing governor, she was legitimated to four terms and ended the biographical portion of the program. Let me note we have a special home from the monitors service. And on the ground rules. We are on the record here. Please no live blogging or tweeting or no filing of any time and listen to what our guest says. There is no embargo when the session ends promptly at 9 30. To hel
Against the dollar. The bitcoin bounce. The cryptocurrency surges more than 7 as trading starts on the worlds biggest futures exchange. Are we heading for another new year selloff . Matt were less than a halfhour away from the european open. Lets take a look at how the equity Index Futures are doing with no comment from the on the bitcoin news. You see futures down a third of down. 2 . We saw big gains for futures earlier, so if we have red arrows across the board on futures, that is interesting considering how strong they were this morning about 10 minutes ago. How it is interesting things are starting to turn around, because friday we saw be s p 500 trading up by. 9 . The nikkei overnight is up. Matt i am going to say that those futures were somehow incorrect. I still see strong gains on my bloomberg. The dax futures are up. 8 . I am going to say those should have been green arrows. Guy always believe the bloomberg i think of the message from this. That is the takeaway. 9 . P 500, up
For now at least britains kyle edmund crashes out of the Australian Open. And coming up in the sport on bbc news, more on the womens Australian Open final line up. World number one simona halep takes on world number two caroline wozniacki. Good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. Theres been a sharp rise in recorded crime in england and wales. It rose by 14 last year, with even bigger increases in knife crime, robbery and sex offences, and the number of cases of murder and manslaughter is the highest for almost a decade. However the crime survey separate figures based on peoples individual experiences show that crime has actually fallen. Our Home Affairs Correspondent tom symonds has this report. Knife crime can in an instant take, ruin and change the lives of young people, like these students at coventry college. So this morning they are being given it straight. Their choices in life are what matter. He said i didnt mean to kill him, that wasnt my intention, ijust kill him,
Good morning. Im joe and i want to welcome everyone here in our Conference Room and everyone watching through electronic means to a Conference Today addressing the general and very specific question also of stabilizing the Health Insurance market under the Affordable Care act and in particular a proposal made by a group of eight governors. We will actually be following the panel. You may wonder why we have the governor speaking after us. The answer is travel considerations. Fortunately although this panel is not obligated to confine their remarks to the governors proposal the governors did put out a letter last week that is really quite easy to summarize. Ill summarize the major points so everyone has a basic grounding in what is governors are talking about and to some extend what the panel will be talk about as well. So they identify really three categories of actions that could be taken, immediate federal actions to stabilize the markets and then other types of reforms that address c