Merge with essilor in a 53 billion deal. It is 8 00 a. M. Across the emirates. I am yousef gamal eldin. Shery i am shery ahn in hong kong. Welcome to Bloomberg Markets middle east. Risk off sentiment, everyone crowding the dollar again with the index up. 4 and the japanese yen strengthening for a session. Secutive a different story for the british pound after breaching that 1. 20 level for the First Time Since the flash crash. That happened during asian trading, so we have to keep an eye on that british currency. Yousef it is dead center in focus. That is what we can say. The british pound and the beating it got off reports that theresa may is seeking to leave the single Currency Union there to regain control of the borders for britain. This is the chart that puts it into perspective. This is a story that goes back to june 2016, every time theresa may spoke, the pound lower. Vote, then theresa may takes power, then their reaction to the speech in october, reports they will seek a hard
Other areas. I sat down with eric schmidt in new york at the new York Economic Club for a wideranging conversation. Here is that dialogue. Let me begin with a couple of questions. When you went to google, they said to you, we need an adult in the room. [laughter] because it was a good day for you. Eric it was a good day for me. It is an honor to be here. Thank you very much for inviting me, and charlie, thank you for doing this as well. Larry and sergey decided they needed someone to sort of run things, and they had spent 16 months interviewing people, and they make them do things. To become ceo, you have to go skiing with them, or you have to go to burning man with them. And very few people met the test, apparently. But i was fortunate enough. I told them i would not spend the weekend with them, but we made a list of things to do. Charlie 10 years as ceo. What was the most wonderful thing . For you, for the company as you see it . Eric my world is full of beautiful ideas that are not
In medicine, biology, and many other areas. We were at the new York Economic Club for a wideranging conversation. Let me begin with a couple of questions. , theyou went to google said to you, we need an adult in the room. [laughter] because it was a good day for you. Eric it was a good day for me. It is an honor to be here. Thank you for inviting me. They had decided that they anded someone to run things have spent 16 months interviewing people and made them do things. Ceo, you had to go skiing with them or go to burning man with them. And very few people met the test, apparently. To them i wasnt going charlie 10 years as ceo. What was the most wonderful thing . My world is full of Brilliant Ideas that are not monetize a bowl in the sense that people have amazing ideas. In order to build a company of that success my google or r,cebook or cooper, or ube you need to have a significant change in the way the revenue will come in. We invented targeted advertising which is really much better
World. Rose we conclude with Larry Kellerman and Peter Corsell of twenty First Centuryh started my pill grammage in the electric Utility Industry way back when when i started edison company, a industry i have grown up with, an industry i believe has been very transformational since its very founding, well over a century ago. And my belief and my colleague peters belief is that there are technological changes that are occurring in the ecosystem of electric power generation, production and use that makes the utility even more relevant in todays world than it has been in its entire history. Rose eric schmidt on the future of technology, Larry Kellerman and Peter Corsell on the future of regulated utilities, next. Funding for charlie rose is provided by the following and by bloomberg, a provider of multimedia news and Information Services worldwide. Captioning sponsored by Rose Communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. Rose eric schmidt has been at the center
World. Rose we conclude with Larry Kellerman and Peter Corsell of twenty First Centuryh started my pill grammage in the electric Utility Industry way back when when i started edison company, a industry i have grown up with, an industry i believe has been very transformational since its very founding, well over a century ago. And my belief and my colleague peters belief is that there are technological changes that are occurring in the ecosystem of electric power generation, production and use that makes the utility even more relevant in todays world than it has been in its entire history. Rose eric schmidt on the future of technology, Larry Kellerman and Peter Corsell on the future of regulated utilities, next. Funding for charlie rose is provided by the following and by bloomberg, a provider of multimedia news and Information Services worldwide. Captioning sponsored by Rose Communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. Rose eric schmidt has been at the center