Not used to. Usually the Car Companies have been beating estimates, but it is still a gain, at first the 45th , which omit consecutive month of yearover year sales increases for chrysler. They started at a low bar during the bankruptcy, it has come roaring back under the leadership of Sergio Marchionne. Yesterday we talked about the deal he clinched, purchasing the rest of chrysler from a union group with a lot of chryslers own cash. A real coup for Sergio Marchionne yesterday. Of 6 . E have a gain the 45th consecutive month of sales gains. The best december sales chrysler have seen in six years, better than they have done since 2008. 9 . Year sales are up about the strongest annual sales growth since 2007. Marchionne isgio a self subscribed corporate fixer. We will have figures out from ford, gm, what do you expect . Ford is expected to post sales growth of about 4. 3 in december. Gm is expected to be 1. 5 . More interestingly, we are expecting all three u. S. Usemakers, and i will u.
Get the notice midday yesterday that it is moving again. What happened . Another 24 hours and the reason, according to the administration, is the sheer crush, the volume they were getting on the website yesterday and they want to make sure those people had the opportunity to enroll. It was a record day yesterday, one million visitors to health care. Gov, people to sign up for obama care that would be effective january 1. That is the critical deadline they are facing. This extra 24 hours as giving those people the chance to enroll. Some of the people were told by email that it is too busy, come back and visit them a little bit. They did this is to give people the opportunity to sign up to boost those numbers they are still way behind where they should be in the president said it is clear their numbers will go up. The republicans are criticizing this extension . Surprise the fact that the Obama Administration keeps moving the goalposts and they were asking u and Kathleen Sibelius if they
Good morning, everybody. Welcome to the pulse live from bloombergs European Headquarters in london. Im guy johnson. Francine is off today. She is in italy. She will be back tomorrow. The markets are surging. We have seen a positive reaction in stocks to the news out of the Federal Reserve last night. We are up nicely across the board. Some markets up well over 1. 5 . London up nearly 1 . Gold has been under pressure. That has certainly been the story of the morning. Lets show you what is going on some of the other asset classes. Gold at 1205. Well deal with the Foreign Exchange markets later on. The yen certainly fascinating. Lets get details of what we lernt last night. Seems like we could be in for a positive taper, a dovish taper, a bullish taper. Hans nichols joins us. He spent years in washington covering all kinds of things there. What do we get . We get that ben bernanke finally hit one out of the park. His last atbat. We have a slow taper. He has finally convinced markets that
Bitcoin industry . Is it the beginning of the end . New revelations emerge around the nsa. Is reporting the u. S. Agency worked with britains surveillance counterpart to intercept and , evenyahoo webcam images from users who are not suspected of doing any wrong doing. The Program Dated from 2008 to 2010. 1. 8 million users were targeted in a sixmonth period alone. Yahoo is saying they were outraged, not were they aware of nor would we condone this reported activity. Shows like walking dead kee Ping Networks alive. We will talk with Jon Erlichman. First, our lead. Its empire bylt selling ads on its search engine. Theres hardly a business and technology the company is not changing. One of its newest businesses is google cyber, highSpeed Internet in your home that leaves competitors in the dust. Were taking an indepth look at google fiber. The only other place other than kansas city where the service is already online. This town . Ogle pick it already had fiber. The. Comft over from 30 wh
Hello. Welcome to countdown. Im mark barton. Bloomberg reporters are standing by across the world ready to deliver the stories that will drive your day. Onberlin with the latest ukraine. Paul allen from sydney ahead of the g 20 meeting. In the studio, Jonathan Ferro has the details on it or leave thousand job cuts rbs is planning and managed tranny will usmanus cranny will bring the earnings from gucci. Helped by higher earnings in its property, and or casualty divisions. Those are the biggest. Net income increasing to 4. 48 billion euros. 4. 74ngs have missed the billion euro analysts had expected in surveys. Axa is also investing 6 billion euros in fastgrowing nations like china, colombia as the sluggish economy ways on european insurer revenue. Yes, profitability has risen at axa, the secondbiggest insurer in europe. Evenue up by 2 it was exactly that, 81 euro cents. We will be speaking to the man himself, the head of axa. Dont miss that exclusive interview. A deadly week of violenc