guillaume: it is a challenge.means more complexity when you export from the eu to london, it is more complicated. we reacted in the best way. we made a life of our clients easier. we play on the fact we have auction rooms in london, paris, milan, and altogether europe has been very strong and positive. taylor: you say 30% of buyers are new. 31% of new buyers are millennials. what is the new young crowd telling you? guillaume: they are telling us many things. they are interested in the cutting edge chart, contemporary art. they drove us to change the profile ourselves. we invented a new way of segmenting ourselves and creating a new category to address these new demands. they are telling us that they want to see a more diverse art market with new artists. more female auctioneers, which is good news also. being inward looking in a typically conservative industry. caroline: when you begin in the 1700s, that is something to stand for. we talked a lot about the -- auction, such a landmark sale. drew everyone's attentio

thank you so much for joining us, guillaume menuet.till ahead, blackstone president john gray tells bloomberg, he expects inflation to persist for some time. we have more conversation on the rise in prices, next. this is bloomberg. ♪ matt: this is bloomberg markets. i'm matt miller. unilever warning today that costs for raw materials, shampoo, detergent, ice cream, etc. are increasing at the feist test pace in more than a decade, forcing the company to scaled-back profitability goals for this year. that is bad news for investors. also bringing about some inflation as they pass it along in prices. sonali basak spoke earlier with the president and ceo of blackstone, jon gray, about his concerns on inflation. >> we are definitely seeing signs of inflation out there. commodity prices have moved up, so that is impacting cost. we are seeing it in wages, particularly in areas like hospitality and leisure, where finding workers is difficult. compensation is going up. we are also seeing it on the high-end, like in technology. as you look at ear

one of them, 100 or so cases of this rare syndrome, guillaume barre.hould say 100 out of 112 million doses of the johnson & johnson vaccine that have been administered. what do you expect to come out of the meeting? >> i suspect what will come out of the meeting is you have this side effect which occurs in roughly 1 per 128,000 of those vaccinated. it is a neurological problem that generally is self-resolving but can be severe. nonetheless, the vaccine's benefits outweigh the risks. i think what would be interesting to see is whether or not the virus, sars-cov-2 and the disease, covid-19, is associated with the disease. we found out that the -- but when you look at people, for example, and this was done with sort of sports folks at the big ten conference, everybody who had covid had a cardiac mri to see whether they had evidence of mayo mayocarditis, and it was roughly more common than those who got it associated with vaccine. so to avoid the vaccine does not necessarily that you are avoiding this rare problem. >> all right. again, 100 cases out of 12.

i'm a little leary because of the cardiomie yop thy, the guillaume barret. the blood clots.ment is worse than the disease for the kids. my wife is i legitimacied nurse and you see a lot of health care people are skeptical. if you're 30, 40, 50 or older, if you're older than 50 and haven't gotten the vaccine you're playing with fire. you about you should listen to your doctor. because pre-existing conditions are where most of these people who died did pass on. they had other co-morbidities. and your doctor knows that better than you do. i can tell my patients that. dr. fauci is kind of an administrator now. tell people to talk to their doctor. don't listen to democrats or republicans or newscasters. >> well, listen, it's always good advice to listen to your doctor about these things. and the rest of us should be trying to give them the right information. and i think you're basically doing that tonight. so doctor, thank you. and you're always welcome here to talk about what matters on this network. okay? congressman scott desjarlais, be well. and we'll be right back. it's the