Surveillance: World Economic Forum in Davos Kicks Off
Bloomberg Surveillance
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3.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 22 January 2019
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Laura Cha, Hong Kong Exchange Chair, says there's a lot the Chinese government can do in opening up the financial market. Mohammed Barkindo, OPEC Secretary General, says the Organization is transparent as a fishbowl. Arne Sorenson, Marriott International CEO, thinks Democrats and Republicans ought to arrive at a consensus on immigration. Amin Nasser, Saudi Aramco CEO, says the company is in discussions to acquire 70% of SABIC. George Osborne, London Evening Standard Editor and Former Chancellor of the Exchequer, thinks it's not acceptable for the U.K. to leave the EU without a deal.
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| 0:57.0 | The weather is beautiful here and of us at the meetings of the World Economic Forum |
| 1:08.1 | the theme Globalization 4.0 may be pushed aside by the news slow, yes Brexit, yes the shutdown, but also global |
| 1:15.2 | slowdown. All of this wrapping around conversations on China and again as we said |
| 1:20.6 | earlier it could be a one or two hour conversation with Laura Cha. |
| 1:24.8 | She's Hong Kong Exchange Chair, working in finance years with Pillsbury, among other law firms. |
| 1:31.8 | But far more, she is Chia of the University of Wisconsin at |
| 1:36.2 | Madison. |
| 1:37.2 | What was it like your first day in Madison? |
| 1:41.4 | I was coming from Hong Kong and going and this was in the late 60s I'm betraying my age |
| 1:49.3 | It was the days of the Vietnam protests. |
| 1:52.7 | So I was thrown right into there and interesting, interesting, exciting and this is a really |
| 1:59.4 | introduction to the United States. It was a politics of the time and mr. Kissinger |
| 2:04.9 | and mr. Nixon the right to that in all if you could have a cocktail right now at the |
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