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Welcome to the Views Room, a podcast from Reuters' Breaking Views. I'm Jennifer Sabat.

This week, we are diving into the valuations of two of the most

intriguing companies in the world, Lyft and Saudi oil giant Aramco. Ride-sharing firm Lyft has been

all over the map since it went public last week. The valuation is now settled down to about

$30 billion. It was one of the most hyped IPOs in, I guess, several years. People have been

really looking forward to this thing. And partially, it has something to say about Uber, which is

its rival coming up soon. So in the studio to kind of work this out for us, we have Rob Searin.

Thanks for coming in. You're welcome. And of course, Anthony Curry, you're going to be on the other side of the

mic, answering questions instead of posing them. Floviating as ever. Okay. So this thing is gone

all over the place. It's gyrating, popped when it first debuted, and now it's down. What is it down? Tell us the number. So when it first debuted and now it's down.

What is it down?

Tell us the number.

So when it went public at 72 went up to about 80 something, 84, 87, yeah.

So it's up about 20% or so.

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