A surprise appointment at the head of ubs. The ceo of ing to take over from Sergio Ermotti. He is known for the Digital Transformation at ing and a eran of the dutch banking banking a comparison to whats been happening here, hamers is a relative outsider to the rarefied world of swiss management. He has climbed the ranks. He was the head of the dutch and belgium banking units. He has been ceo since 2013. What he is known for is leading the Digital Banking push in an effort to win customers and he is also known for cost cutting, and thats what he has been doing, bringing ing back to profitability by reducing costs. Sergio ermotti recently cut the banks financial targets for the second time in as many years. We were reporting that the search for a successor was starting on friday. That news came through. The International Wealth management cohead was widely seen as an eventual contender for the top rule. His run in with his former boss, Tidjane Thiam, apparently dimmed his standings with
The culmination of a fouryear saga. We are live in riyadh. Manus a warm welcome by where we are expecting nejra to cross to react riyadh. It could be the narrative the changes the global perspective. Billion. Ised 25. 6 what they make trillion dollars today . Way, the day alibaba ipo, they racked up 38 . We are all lined up to support the kuwaiti and i would be Sovereign Wealth Fund and there is an army of institutions in saudi arabia. They are mitigate the risk and wanted to go well. It to doting want well. Nejra the saudis are doing everything they can. And in the u. K. , the focus is all on tomorrows election and people erp poll has made the risk of a Hung Parliament alive for markets. Manus its amazing how we have pivoted so quickly. Ipos, have amco look at oil. Peter navarro,om no indication of december tariffs. Are we ready for that risk . Thats the question you have to ask yourself. Dollaryen, is it really a safety valve . Look at dollaryen. Fx pain index is back to zero looking
Lets get into these results from samsung. What was the offer . Not as impressed as the shareholders are. They seem pretty impressed. I think there is a lot of concern they need to be aware of. First of all, the chip business really fell off a cliff. Operating profit really fell a lot. The other thing is the smartphone business had a good quarter. It was the secondhighest sale on record for that division. Incomecompare operating versus a couple of quarters ago, operating profit was a lot lower. Margins a lot worse than it had been in the past. They said themselves this quarter, the fourth quarter, they would see a deterioration, not only in shipments, but also a have bees. What they ship will be the cheaper phones. Not the flagship stuff they had in the first quarter. The cheaper stuff. Those are the landmines investors need to be worried about as we go into the next. Components are weak and their products are week as well. It definitely is downbeat, a column this morning. You sum up by
Of the trade war and turkey agrees to a temporary ceasefire in syria. Pencera jumped as mike said tariffs will be lifted if the truce remains in place. Liveeen im Kathleen Hays in washington, d. C. , at the Imf World Bank annual meeting. In this hour, i will be speaking with the secretary of finance from the philippines and the Bank Indonesia Deputy Governor about the impact of the trade war and more and what policymakers can do about it. Shery first, let us get you started with a check of the markets. We are seeing u. S. Futures unchanged after stocks climbed to an almost a record high in thursdays session. The s p 500 at one point topping 3000. We had health care and real estate leading gains. We had mostly positive Quarterly Earnings results. At the same time, we had more Risk Appetite as we saw that u. K. And the European Union struck a deal. The dow, though, underperforming after ibm disappointed with results. We are now looking forward to more data coming out of asia. Sophie we h
Matt good morning from a very busy berlin. We have a office full of reporters who have been here all night long, like the Lionel Richie song, because the German Climate cabinet has been meeting since yesterday and has not been able to come to a decision on the possibility of a carbon tax or extension of the cap and trade system, and has not come to a conclusion about what environmental kinds of environmental package that could be in the tens of billions of euros ity wants to present. Nejra it will be interesting to see what that includes, and if Angela Merkel disappoints. She was criticized when she was environmental minister. It is the number one concern of german voters, and as far as what we could get, there are questions over some kind of extension of the emissions trading scheme, may be moving that to other sectors, and if there could be a carbon tax. All this could affect a number of companies, including airlines and also a lot of transport companies, matt. So what do you think m