Hello. Welcome to countdown. Im mark barton. Im anna edwards. Im manus cranny. Coming up, the new head of luxury of a watch business. 6 00 in london. Lets get straight to breaking news. They are saying the net loss is forecast at 170 billion yen. The focus goes to the forecast the company is making for the full year. It has been reduced to 170 bil lion yen. Things moving in the right focus there. A lot of focus also on how the image sensors business has been performing. Those are the headlines coming out of sony. Give us some details. Good to see you. Hi, anna. The net loss forecast narrowing. 170 billion yen. Actually beating analyst asked miss estimates. Analysts have been pretty optimistic about sony this time around. Analysts recommendations are putting the stock at this is just a preliminary outlook for sony. Theyre counting system was disrupted at the company some studio. There is key data like smartphone tvs that people have been waiting for come especially the smartphone busine
To the pulse. The greek fiscal odyssey moves on to germany today. Graces finance minister will meet the ecb president in frankfurt today. Lets get to our international correspondent, hans nichols in germany. What kind of a reception is he going to receive in frankfurt . Who is going to be the first dimension tbills . I guess varoufakis has to mention tbills because he has to figure out some way to finance. This entire longerterm payoff deal in maybe april or may, or even june, hinges on their ability to get some sort of bridge financing from the ecb. So far, theres been no indication that they are willing to give that bridge financing. They might need anywhere from 10 billion is one number in terms of raising the ceiling. The ft is reporting that the ecb is unlikely to raise that ceiling. Importantly, here in germany, my colleagues reported that Angela Merkels government is thinking about playing the long game to wait until april or may. Listen to what merkel had to say yesterday when
Car maker shift into overdrive. Is a bromance brewing in brussels . He received a warm welcome from the european president amist word he will try to convince him to try to increase the countrys bailout. Youre watching Worldwide Exchange. Bringing you Business News from around the globe. And were just getting the euro zone composite pmi for january. This is 52. 7. It was forecast at 52. 3. This follows the numbers. The competition pmi was 52. 6. We had in the last 15 minutes or so data as well. Italy beat france beat and germany slightly below expectations. The euro dollar off session lows 1. 146. The overall euro zone private sector growing at the fastest pace in six months in january. Firms slashing their rate. January services pmi at 52. 1. The euro dollar trading at 1. 14. Interesting to see the reverse trade over the past couplel of months. Alexis is at the moment meeting with commissioner president. The Financial Times is reporting he will ask him for a technical extension of the
The first of three storms knocking at our door. Here is a look at live doppler 7hd. And the steady rain that is moving in will make for a very soggy morning commute. Good evening. Im dan ashley. And im ama dates. Finally the wet weather has arrived. Here is a live look from our exploratorium camera. Sand yaw patel is here sandhya patel is here. Sandhya, just what we need. Exactly what we need. This pattern is shaping up to be a wet one for the rest of the week. Let me show you live doppler 7hd and we will talk about what is going on right now. A lot of moisture up in the clouds. Not all of this is reaching the ground. Our radar is tracking and some sprinkles are moving across the north bay here. Also across the east bay. I will take you in closer around richmond and uh orinda getting light returns. As you take a look at the moisture band, really what im watching is this area right here. Thats what is coming in for your morning commute. As you look at our computer animation, just to giv
The first of three storms knocking at our door. Here is a look at live doppler 7hd. And the steady rain that is moving in will make for a very soggy morning commute. Good evening. Im dan ashley. And im ama dates. Finally the wet weather has arrived. Here is a live look from our exploratorium camera. Sand yaw patel is here sandhya patel is here. Sandhya, just what we need. Exactly what we need. This pattern is shaping up to be a wet one for the rest of the week. Let me show you live doppler 7hd and we will talk about what is going on right now. A lot of moisture up in the clouds. Not all of this is reaching the ground. Our radar is tracking and some sprinkles are moving across the north bay here. Also across the east bay. I will take you in closer around richmond and uh orinda getting light returns. As you take a look at the moisture band, really what im watching is this area right here. Thats what is coming in for your morning commute. As you look at our computer animation, just to giv