Still waiting for the French Market and the German Market to really get into their stride perhaps this morning. he british pound up around 0. 3 as we hone in on december 12. The Options Market is currently adjusting itself around that kind of timing. The dollar index is down by around 01 . 1 . s look at 0. Lets get a look at the sector perspective. And the outer space, what is good for one company doing m a might be bad for another. Financials looks to be an area of red, as does health care. A couple of areas of green coming through their but essentially read in both of those, as is staples. Utilities and staples looks to be fairly green. That looks a bit defensive on of what we are seeing here from sectors. One of the sectors we have focused in on a lot is the auto sector of course. The vw share price is trading higher, up by 1. 9 . There was no change in revenue on margin guidance from vw. Weve been speaking to the vw ceo, that is frank witter, about the cut to the forecast. Frank ma
David well, people wouldnt recognize me if my tie was fixed. I dont consider myself a journalist and nobody 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 . For about 20 years or so, youve been the wealthiest man in the world. But because youve given away so much money recently, jeff bezos became wealthier. Do you think if you had stayed in college and gotten your College Degree \[laughter] david i mean, you dont feel inadequate now because youre the second wealthiest man in the world. Is that right . Bill no, i mean t a sign that i havent given the money away fast enough to drop out of the top 10 and the markets been strong. \[applause] david the market has been strong. Microsoft is up 35 this year. So to what do you attribute that . Bill the company is doing super well. We have a great c. E. O. The whole dream of th
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Bill i havent given the money away fast enough to drop out of the top 10. Microsoft is up 35 this year. To what do you attribute that . Bill the company is doing well. We have a great ceo great ceo. The importance of software has really come true. The five most valuable companies are Technology Companies. 1 6 of my time at microsoft. Said the biggest mistake you made professionally was that microsoft should have the entry technology. In the field of doing operating systems for personal computers. Were very popular. We were doing windows mobile. We missed being the dominant mobile operator by a tiny amount. This is the biggest mistake i made in terms of something that was clearly within our skill set. We were clearly the company that should have achieved that. We didnt. Motorola designed to go to android. Design to go to android. Host today, youre the only company over a trillion dollars. How much better could you have been . [laughter] bill market cap is only an indirect thing. Way it