you talk about the kkr deal and it seems to have the backing of mario draghi.at extent are regulatory factors going to play into this dealmaking. you have to look at a sector by sector, presumably. >> national interests become really important, as well. the security of utility networks, the gas networks that everyone has had problem with. these are things people are going to be very concerned about. however, you can also argue that it is good for companies to come into your country, help support your infrastructure building, and you will see governments supporting that, i feel. the big companies getting taken out by foreign interests will come under increasing regulatory scrutiny this year and the u.k. being outside of europe now has its own rules and approach. it is one of the most attractive areas for people to do m&a transactions and it will probably see an increase in regulation in the u.k., trying to control the size and type and what businesses then in do up in overseas control. we have even seen it recently where a minor comes under regulatory scrutiny.

and kkr's henry mcveigh gives us his take on the volatility and skt sectors he is watching we have 15 selloff again. we're in the closing bell "market zone." today we have ally chief market strategy lindsey bell here along with the ceo and ladies, welcome. we'll kick it off with the broader market stocks getting hurt today again on the back of rising omicron fears. the dow is off 700 points. a broad selloff. every sector is lower. this is the fifth down day in the last six sessions. the nasdaq is in on the selloff. down 1.25% doing better than the s&p 500 which is down 1.3% you know, the strategy has been buy the dip recently on covid-19 variant concerns even on some fed tightening concerns is there any reason to think this time is different >> no. i mean, i am in the buy the dip camp right here. you're starting to see the pressure on the market over the last several days. we're starting to he soot economic impact that omicron can have on the economy. and so because of that, because you have companies, because you have local governments, state governments, talking about implementing n

kkr has given co-ceos incentive packages that could leave them with more than $1 billion in stock ifcoming years. regulatory filings show the pair would have to stay for five years to receive the full payout, which would also require kkr to grow 80% from its current level. sbi holdings secured in a-shares to give it effective control over shinsei bank. the online brokerage will hold a 48% stake in shinsei. the japanese lender drop its earlier plan to block sbo's unsolicited takeover bid which was launched in september. rishaad: we have an avalanche of central-bank decisions this week, something like 22 of them taking place around the world today, including the federal reserve. will they be announcing perhaps increasing the tapering of bond purchases? we have also got the u.k. will they move on the cost of borrowing? big debate there. and turkey. strange interpretations of conventional monetary policy. russia is in the mix, we have just been talking about that. switzerland and japan -- no change expected in japan for the time being, but there is talk of taper there, as well. juliette:

yesterday that the government is looking at protecting some of the sensitive parts of this business as kkr lines up, $1.2 billion bid that is broadly welcomed by mario draghi, some stateside $4.1 billion, facing lawsuits in the u.s. they do have additional capital on the back of the reassurance deal, gains of 2% for allianz. let's get your bloomberg business flash with leigh-ann gerrans. leigh-ann: good morning and thank you. didi global has begun preparations to withdraw from u.s. stock exchanges and will start work on the hong kong share sales. bloomberg reported last week that chinese regulators had asked didi's topic ticket is to devise a plan to delist in the u.s. over concerns over data security. sources say it aims to file for a hong kong listing around. march now, u.s. antitrust officials have sued for blocking videos of a $44 -- $44 billion takeover in the semiconductor market. the ftc says it is acting to prevent a chip company from siphoning the innovation's finesse generation technology. the u.k. based arm is owned by softbank and licenses its technology to hundreds of companie

aim co., an investment firm in alberta that actually holds our cmp police retirement funds, and by kkre equity firm in the united states as well. amy: and what are you demanding right now? molly: we are demanding that coastal gas line get off our territory and that the government's come to the table with wet'suwet'en in respecting our title to the territories. this is a larger issue that could have easily been resolved if implementation of ou title was recognized, if our government system was recognized. instead, the government is choosing to take direction from a private corporation to come in and destroy our lands and our waters, and they are using mitarized rcmp against unarmed indigenous women in removing us from the territory. one of the conditions of my release was that i am restrict it from accessing my territory. coastal gas wanted to ban me from my territory entirely which is a violation of law. they successfully banned my husband from our territory, other than to come directly to and from our home, which prevents us from hunting, fishing, doing anything on our territory, gett

. >> i remember reading a great book, "barbarians at the gate" about kkr's takeover of nabisco at the time, the biggest deal ever at the time there was a line in the book where henry kravitz was saying why do a small deal, same amount of work as a big deal and you can make the same amount of money. apparently people listened the number of mega deals, over $5 billion is 29 more this year than the next biggest year it's crazy >> when you look at it, and you look at 2020 versus 2021 omega deals, it went from 54 to 99, so quite a jump we define mega deal as greater than $5 billion. the interesting trend underlying that, the not so quite mega deal so a deal from 500 million up to 5 billion, those increased substantially, they used to be between four and 500 a year and there were 800 this year the reason for that, for some companies a mega deal is not within reach or the competition for that asset is too great. so you see them piecing together smaller, although quite substancive -- substantive deals, so we saw a lot more activity in that space this year. >> interest rates should matter, mon

and kkr has given its co-ceos incentive packages if they meet all their targets in the coming years.y would have to wait five years to receive the full payouts. next, global kathleen counting down to the start of trade in tokyo and seoul. japan, data is due. big reports in the next 30 minutes starting with the boj's sentiment survey. expected is weak sentiment in manufacturing. also a sense of how exports are going to look for japan. industrial production, and financial services. sbi holdings has enough shares to take control over shinsei bank. we will also get data over the first 10 days of december. the government is likely to freeze electricity and gas charges in the first half of 2022. president moon jae-in is in australia for a meeting with a student prime ministers scott morrison. paul: staying with korea, one of the country's biggest conglomerates is jumping into the metaverse. it is investing heavily in crypto and it once every portfolio company to have a metaverse presence. let's bring in our seoul bureau chief. peter, this seems out of character for these big south korean c

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