Tourist spot. Images show scenes of chaos. Please close off the center of barcelona and told people to stay home. With ourthe phone reporter from madrid. Officials are trying to piece together what happened. What can you tell us . We are getting mixed messages. What has been officially said is there is one person dead and about 30 have been injured. A lot of reports are coming out that the number could be closer to 13. What happened if there is a promenade that runs from the beach. It is a key place for tourists so it is crowded 24 7. Is ais summertime so it peak tourist season. The van went straight at people, hit and killed a few, and at least two people escaped. There is a report that one has two arrested and one or others are in a restaurant nearby and maybe negotiating with police. Arelet police in spain calling this a terror attack. Our people are people claiming responsibility . Rodrigo we dont have confirmation of that. The Spanish Government is careful with the word terrorist
Tourist spot. Images show scenes of chaos. Please close off the center of barcelona and told people to stay home. With ourthe phone reporter from madrid. Officials are trying to piece together what happened. What can you tell us . We are getting mixed messages. What has been officially said is there is one person dead and about 30 have been injured. A lot of reports are coming out that the number could be closer to 13. What happened if there is a promenade that runs from the beach. It is a key place for tourists so it is crowded 24 7. Is ais summertime so it peak tourist season. The van went straight at people, hit and killed a few, and at least two people escaped. There is a report that one has two arrested and one or others are in a restaurant nearby and maybe negotiating with police. Arelet police in spain calling this a terror attack. Our people are people claiming responsibility . Rodrigo we dont have confirmation of that. The Spanish Government is careful with the word terrorist
Inauguration late last week. Im very proud of that. Very proud of that. The Business Community and the labor community, you saw that with the labor leaders that came out. One said it was the single greatest meeting i ever had with anybody. Its the highlight of my life. The dow on top of it just hit 20, first time in history. Im very proud of that. Now we have to go up, up, up. We dont want it to stay there. Vice president mike pence tweeting the dow closes above 20,000 for the first time in history. U. S. Economy is being unleashed under President Trump. Lets get you caught up on whats going on. We have a 30 billion pharma deal. Johnson johnson buying actelion for 280 per share in cash after weeks of exclusive talks. We talked about this transaction before. A 23 premium to its Closing Price yesterday. Both companys boards have aprefapref approved that deal. Today is the busiest day of earnings season, 38 companies in the s p 500 reporting results along with three dow components. Before
Anna a warm welcome to bloomberg daybreak europe. Im anna edwards. Manus breaking news, where in the middle of the earnings season. Anna lets go with the french banking sector. Societe generale, coming in above the estimate of 315 million. The other big strategic announcement in the headlines, the plan for an ipo of its car leasing business. The numbers coming in ahead of estimates. And carting including the sale of a croatian unit. Record low Interest Rates. Tougher capital rules. Ofaging to make the most improvements in the french Consumer Banking business that they operate. Iny plan to offer shares their auto Leasing Division this year. We will be bringing you further comments from our conversation with the deputy ceo throughout the day. Worked that coming up shortly. Manus we just had a red headline on commerzbank. ,his will be good news fourthquarter net income, the market had penciled in 173. ,his is the buffer of capital 12. 3 . Provisions for loan losses coming in at 290 millio
By train to speak to commerzbank s ceo. Our cost cuts working for this german lender . Futures are positive for europe. We are in the thick of the corporate earnings season. We will be focusing on those corporate stocks. We have a positive start priced in for equities, castrating starts shortly. The story you need to take away is the dollar continues to remain bid. The euro is on offer. The greek market down by over 2 . Let me show you how the bunds are. The market getting more bid. Bit of aing a little fluff in the market but we are back to where we are in bund yields. The yield is. 296. Lets get a bloomberg first word news update. Societe generale has reported fourthquarter profit that exceeded estimates. Their income were 319 Million Euros to my down 41 from a year earlier but above the 350 million euro analyst estimates. The french lender announced plans for an ipo of its car leasing business. At the same time its deputy ceo told bloomberg why he is not concerned about the socalled