From Bloomberg European headquarters. I am francine lacqua. Guy johnson is off today. Also coming up, how to survive an avalanche. We speak to the pro snowboarder who had the technology to save her life. And its chief executive tells us why. Now lets get a quick market check. This is what we are seeing. We did start the day on a high. For the moment, we are down from the days highs, but still gaining weight three percent. Heading the stoxx 600 for its third consecutive weekly advancement. O is the one to watch out for. This is the french autoparts maker that posted earnings that beat analyst estimates. A very quick look at fx. We are looking out for the g2 0 this weekend. Janet yellen arrives tomorrow morning for the talks. In ukraine, the president has agreed to plan to resolve the political crisis that has caused chaos in the country for weeks. An accord will be assigned in about an hour. David tweed has been following the story from berlin. First of all, give us the latest. Just tha
We have the pmi and the manufacturing numbers coming in. The markets have an estimate. Likewise, the services have quite a significant missed here. For 49. 4 and is you are looking at manufacturing. Lets have a look at the eurodollar and see the clear mrs. Ok. Lets leave it there. Lets talk about the fed. They are running away from Forward Guidance as we know it. Thathe clear takeaway is quantitative easing is on autopilot. It is an interesting discussion and how quickly will they hike . A minority. Im not saying they are. They are talking about it. Who . Two out of 17. We have a recipe. The pmi is a mess. Forou ever wanted a recipe lower growth, we have one. That is what we have. Look down in the south of europe, likewise in spain. Two big reasons. The fed minutes say that tapering is on autopilot and the tapering will go 10 billion every single month. And theerns are ongoing pmi data is a big disappointment. Is telling us one thing and the pmi is telling us something else. Pmi. Opped
We have a dish for you. As we been says of ice cream. That is all ahead on much money. On lunch money. Effective july 1, alan elected to retire. As president and ceo and member of our board. Our board of directors met and elected mark to fill those same shoes. Applause all around for employees. At the company for 25 years and is young for a ceo at a major carmaker. Collects the first order of business is to have a great transition over the next couple of months. Continues to stay relentlessly focused on our plan and bringing more great products and innovations were talk top quality. Any not plan to make changes because it is the Strongest Team and we will continue to grow in the same direction, and it is very excitingexciting to grow a busid everyone is energized around that area that. He led ford through a tumultuous. Tumultuous time. Moneylosing company and then he lost another 34 million. Mulally eventually returned for profitability over the past five years. Mark and this team have
Casting their votes this a poll that lasts five weeks. Reporter im jon in mumbai. Its day one of the general election. The process will go on five weeks in the worlds biggest democracy. The initial break through in the hunt for the missing plane. What appears to be signals from the black box recorders. Im focussing on the business side of the big election in the world. Its clear the economy is concerned for voters. Roofing continuing to fall in value. Consumer prices dont rise. Well take a look at which candidate has the answers to those tough business challenges. Hello and welcome to the program. Oscar pistorius has taken the stand for the first time in his murder trial. Lets go live to my colleague. Reporter here in pretoria, the dramatic moment so many have been waiting for came just under an hour ago. The first witness, a pathologist, wrapped up evidence. Quickly without warning oscar himself took the stand. The defenses second witness about to be questioned by the lead defense cou
And more. Welcome to and the professors here and the director of the instituted the World Health Organization center on Global Health law. I am really delighted to introduce two amazing people, we are old friends, we worked together for so many years. I will be brief because he has to be back at the white house and run the covid response. Sitting next to me is julie, the former director of the center for Disease Control and prevention and has worked at the cdc in many capacities. She is currently the chief executive officer of the foundation for the National Institute of health. Ashish jha also needs no introduction. He was there when covid exploded in west africa, the head of the Harvard Aids Institute and at the school of Public Health and is now the white house coordinator of the covid 19 response. When im going to do is begin with a very big question and in the middle we will go into things that are important. Subvariants, therapeutic vaccines, funding. Let me start with this quest