Welcome to countdown. Im caroline hyde. Im manus cranny. Coming up, another deal deadlock. Diplomats gave differing accounts on what is needed to reach an agreement before the selfimposed deadline. Campaigning for the u. K. General elections officially kicks off today. Prime minister David Cameron is expect it to visit the queen of buckingham palace. Anna edwards has the story. Really it begins without pomp with the pomp ceremony. Yes. The official start. The official start of campaigning. This is in the financial times. This is the advert the labour party has taken out. The threat of an eu exit. Really trying to rehabilitate the image of the labour party with the Business Community on capping energy prices. There is some work to be done to rehabilitate the image. Beyond that, we have that other details to show you what were going to hear a little bit later on. A vote on the eu would be a recipe for two years of uncertainty here there is the europe focus. That could play well with some
Mark welcome to countdown. Caroline im caroline hyde. Manus one system is testing to eliminate all traffic accidents. We take a sneak peek at the driverless cars. Stick around for that. Caroline breaking news it is a deal. Express will be offered by fedex. It is offering a third premium at 3. 3 in terms of the premium of the sharepoint which is six euros. They are offering eight euros per ordinary share. It is a really interesting deal because it is over two years ago we saw that are for that offer trying to snap up tnt express. That deal unraveled because regulators got involved. They felt they would not be enough competition in next day delivery because it would be owned by ups and dhl. Seemingly, maybe fedex will be able to increase its prevalence in europe. It is a key area of growth for them. They say profitability, they want to boosted by 1. 7 billion. It is part of fred smiths plan to boost profits. Expansion in europe. By buying up tnt express, table be able to do they will be
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Stump me with my mystery guest. My producers. We will see if they can do so. But first, headlines from carol massar. Pimm, thank you so much. The big headline today was the continued drop in u. S. Stocks. The s p 500 losing more than one percent. The index now at a three week low that has erased the benchmark game for the entire year. Coke Industries Run by the Koch Brothers and Goldman Sachs are group deal with flint from cvc capital partners. The deal may be announced as early as this week. And consumer borrowing in the United States rising more than forecast in the month of february. The 16. 5 billion dollar credit exceeded all estimates in a Bloomberg Survey of economists. Pimm, those are some of the top hedlines at this hour. Back over to you. Mergers and acquisitions. Over 400 billion so far this year in the United States. Today, five deals each worth more than 1 billion an ounce today. One of them involves a group that agreed to acquire alabama gas from energen. About 1. 3 billi
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