Linette Lopez of Business Insider spent a day with Tom Keene, the host of “Bloomberg Surveillance” on Bloomberg Television to find out what it’s like putting the show together each day.
Lopez writes, “Since 2002 Tom Keene has been a fixture in Bloomberg news. He does Bloomberg Surveillance on the radio (with Ken Prewitt), he writes columns, and every day at noon he takes Surveillance to TV to discuss topics that are really moving markets.
“Now he’s known all over global Wall Street for his sharp insight, and of course, his bow tie collection (they’re Hermes, by the way, and he has too many to count).
“‘The team invented the process.’ Keene told Business Insider. ‘We know what we do, and it’s all about the guests… I am the luckiest guy on Wall Street… There’s never been a day where I felt like I had a job.’
“But it is a job, one that the entire industry notices. Keene works incredibly hard like everyone else on Wall Street — 70 to 75 hours a week starting at 4:00 a.m. daily in order to stay ahead of the news cycle. He says his work has become all consuming. He’s either reading or working at all times: ‘The first thing I want to know in the morning,’ he said, ‘is where’s the euro/dollar.’
“That could, however, change in a week.
“New cycle aside, though, questions involving ‘where, who, what, and why’ are all part of the most important (and obvious) trait about Keene — his insatiable curiosity. He says it comes from his upbringing in Rochester, New York. His family emphasized an understanding of the liberal arts, especially history, and math.”
