Welcome to countdown, i am mark orton martin. Mark barton. Bloomberg reporters are standing by to deliver the stories that will drive you they your day. Ryan chilcote is indiana. Na. Indiana ihn vien and Olivia Sterns is in Trafalgar Square in london be read lets get to the aching numbers for to the breaking numbers. This is the spanish Clothing Store that owns a zahra. Zara. S not the 11 drop we were anticipating, but lower than last year. Sales have missed analysts estimates. Sales up less than expected. The local currency stores, sales up 11 . They are saying this is largely to do with current see. They have been trying to push out in country such as brazil, china, russia. Offsetting the sluggish sales in the home territory, that being spain. But weaker foreign countries, especially russia, have been tracking on sales and profitability. See that profit up to 406 million euros. Again, slightly lower than it was last year. We will be looking at what the outlook is. The Second Quarter
I matt miller. Im matt miller. Im Cristina Alesci. Perfect timing for us worked out pretty well. Certainly did. Breaking news on the economy. A key gauge coming up. Mike mckee in the news with the headline. This will be a good news stories as well for the markets today. The isam report for the month of april comes in at 54. 9, more than expected and up from last point seven. The economy and manufacturing continuing to get together from the freeze we saw this past winter. Thanks so much, mike. I want to get straight to the big news out of order this morning. Ford officially confirmed what we have known for a long time, mark fields will be the next eeo. Here he is at his News Conference earlier this morning. Aboutm very passionate product and i share built by the vision on leading the industry through innovation, because it is exciting and it is great for our customers. Is the product and innovation that first brought me to fort hood five years ago. Before wef years introduced the taurus
The book is about the four Koch Brothers. A lot of people associate the Koch Brothers. Frederick koch is the oldest and this is really the tale of a historic industrial dynasty. They have a fascinating business story. They have a really riveting family story as well. What got you interested in it . I thought in the 2010, 2011 time frame you see charles koch a caricature of who these guys were. And once i started to peel back the layers of that a little bit look into their family background i said, wow, this is a really politics may be thats the least interesting thing about this family. In my mind i see them in the mold of the rockefellers and the carnegies in the sense that their legacy will extend in so many ways beyond our lifetime. Or they all alive . Yes. I want to show the cover of the book and ask you a little bit about each one of the four. As we look at the book cover we see fred who is 80yearold born august 6, 1933. What you can say . He was the eldest and not interested in t
Frederick coke is the oldest and this is really the tale of a historic industrial dynasty. I thought in the 2010, 2011 time frame you see charles coke a caricature of who these guys were. And once i started to peel back the layers of that a little bit look into their family background i said, wow, this is a really politics may be thats the least interesting thing about this family. In my mind i see them in the mold of the rocker fellers and the carnegies in the sense that their legacy will extend in so many ways beyond our lifetime. Are they alive . Yes. I want to show the cover of the book and ask you a little bit about each one of the four. An as we look at the book cover we see fred who is 80yearold born august 6, 1933. What you can say . He was the eldest and not interested in the family business. He has been a patron of the arts and he spent a lot of his life rehabilitating a series Historic Homes around the world including this former wall worth mention and he was kind enough to
Situation, and i have talked about malloy because i think the governor and his staff have repeatedly tried to distort what is going on in the state. We will talk more about that tonight. I think that is a lack of truthfulness that discredits a leader. I think ethics is extremely important because if the citizens dont believe that their government is serving their interests and representing them well and that there are deals being done, money is being spent for insiders to dictate policy and that the government isnt serving the interests of ordinary, everyday citizens, that lack of Public Confidence compromises somebody possibility to lead. Both are absolutely essential. I dont recall the governor saying he thought i did not tell the truth. I have questions for the governor ethically. I think they will be important issues to the campaign. Let me remind everybody there are three of us on the stage and only one of us has violated the law in connecticut with respect to elections and paid a