Every city worth its salt needs a money honey (or two) to keep the daily discussion on finance going. In London, that's Bloomberg TV's Francine Lacqua's job.
Lacqua, an editor-at-large, hosts "On the Move with Francine Lacqua," which hits the airwaves across Europe when the market opens. That means, naturally, that she's covers everything from the French and Italian elections to Davos to G20 meetings.
Lacqua also hosts, "Eye to Eye," a special series where she sits down with businessmen and top CEOs on London's Eye.
You know, usual anchor stuff.
My alarm goes off at 4am. I sneak out to the bathroom to get dressed so I don’t wake anyone up. By 4:25am I’m in a cab on my way to work. I can’t even bring myself to show you a picture of this time in the morning. The coffee machine at Bloomberg greets me with fondness – I get my standard double espresso.
It’s now 5:05 and I LOVE my producer. She sent me Twinkies from the States. We share them amongst the team. There’s an unwritten rule that we save the *last Twinkie* for a bad day.
From 5:10am to 7:56am it’s a marathon. 5:40am: Conference call with my team in New York 5:55am: Read the papers, catch up on twitter (@flacqua) 6:15am: Full make-up +hair 7am: Annoy Guy Johnson when he arrives at work. He thinks I’m intense. 7:15am: Conference call for the show with Guy 7:38am: Tease my shows.
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