Welcome back. You are watching the pulse live from bloombergs European Headquarters. Were near london. Im guy johnson. It is the second act in athens today. The Greek Parliament voted again on a president ial candidate put forward by the Prime Minister. Lets go to athens to get the latest. Marcus joins us now from there. Walk us through what the latest is in terms of expectations for this vote in an hours time . Can it get close to the 180 needs third round . Morning, guy. The challenge for him today is very big. 180 is the magic number, which is what he will need next week. Today people will be looking to see how close he can get to that. Around 170. If he can hit 170, he would be looking lot better than he was looking at the end of the first round when he got 160, which was on the low end of expectations. 170 is kind of the minimum people think with a big final push maybe he might get there in the third round. Overall, though, he needs to sway one of the smaller parties. He made an o
Imports plunged almost 20 on falling Commodity Prices and week domestic demand. Hello. Welcome to countdown. Also coming up today, australias Prime Minister with a threat to his leadership. Will it be tougher for tony abbott to address his countrys weakest economy in a generation . We start with our bloomberg exclusive this morning. The governor of the central bank of russia has told this channel that russia will not inflate its way out of the financial crisis. In her first ever interview with an International Broadcaster, Elvira Nabiullina told Ryan Chilcote the bank is unlikely to reverse last months surprise rate cut. Inflation is set to slow, having accelerated its fastest in almost seven years. Ryan is here now. Fascinating conversation. We started with the ruble. I asked if one of the worlds worst performing currencys last year, if we can expect more collapses. There is talk of that. She said, no. Have a listen. We are not expecting any massive decrease in the rubles Exchange Rat
The man who led the country into the euro warnings a snap election could cause disaster. This scenario without controversies, without the social and economic disaster. Jamie dimons jpmorgan reportedly needs over 20 billion of Additional Capital to comply with new rules unveiled by the fed. But the bank says it is well capitalized and will deliver strong returns for shareholders. Youre watching worldwide exchange, bringing you Business News from around the globe. Welcome to the show. So, seema, the last couple of days, theres been a terrific off sentiment, but i think its interesting to point out what happened in the u. S. It opened down yesterday. Europe was down 2 , china was down 5 . But the fact that it rallied throughout the day i think is a bullish signal for the u. S. Equity market in the shortterm. It shows a little weakness when people are willing to step in and buy again, whatever their reasons are. Stocks were able to come off the lows of the day, but we should point out that
Moment of truth. John kerry arrived in geneva its unclear how long the secretary of state or the iranian negotiators will stale there. The u. S. Is threatening to pull out if theres no agreement. Irans participation depends on what the u. S. Decides to do. Irans foreign minister seemed to downplay the differences. Translation the main disagreement is a psychological difference. Some western countries specifically the United States and some parties inside america feel that sanctions are an asset for them. Talks on Irans Nuclear programme missed two deadlines. The u. S. Says a further extension will not make sense without a basis for continuing negotiations. Rosalind jordan is at the talks in geneva, and joins us by phone. Is the white house posturing or does it seem willing to walk away . Well, we heard from the secretary of state john kerry on saturday while we were in london for other diplomatic meetings is that president obama believes that enough time has been provided with the upco
Im guy johnson. And i am anna edwards. We had to the world pizza championship to find out how to. Ake the Perfect Pizza pie definitely thin, always thin. Then versus mosquito. Physicists taking on the worlds deadliest bug. Huge qeith that seems to be the overriding factor. Let us not forget that greece thesuccessfully reentered debt markets after years in exile. Toela merkel is jetting in athens for talks with the greek minister. Our european editor joins us now. David, what a difference 18 months makes. Last time Angela Merkel was there she saw herself in an ss uniform. They were burning effigies. What kind of reception was to get this time around . It was incredible last time. We have some pictures of that trip, of the crowd, last time as well. Our member being in a taxi and hearing this dj just blasting Angela Merkel, calling her a nazi, saying that germany was trying to invade greece again. It is not like she is more popular there now, but i dont think you see anything like that so