Lee here with activities worth buzzing about. There is much to do and see in sfrangs San Francisco and we like to do it in the cheap. We like to enjoy the arts. Join us for the korean culture festival from 114 00 p. M. And features dance and activities and fun feast of foods. Welcome aboard the Rainbow Warrior this sunday. This vessel is the newest generation of green peace historic fleet and the most environmentally Sail Technology available. Get ready to swing this sunday in the park. A free weekly event at the museum when Golden Gate Park closes to traffic and the dancers take over. You can get a fun lesson at noon and practice with the whole group. Thats the weekly buzz. For more information on any of these events, visit us at good afternoon. Im laurence kornfield chief building inspector with the city of San Franciscos department of building inspection. And this is one of our monthly Brown Bag Lunch meetings which we do every third thursday and the public is invited to come and si
London. Stay with bloomberg. We will hear from the owner of home to alberto cant adore and one of the most innovative voices in professional cycling. And we will be talking to Novak Djokovic the day after he beat Roger Federer to reclaim the number one ranking. That is coming up later on in the program. Frances finance minister has occurred euro area governments to bolster the euro in International Transactions to counteract the dominance of the dollar. This comes after the bank was fined nearly 9 billion in sections violations. We spoke to him and an exclusive interview. We sell ourselves aircraft in dollars. Is that really necessary . I do not think so. Airbus can sell in euros. It would create stability for airbus and air france so that we can avoid this exchange rate. Can the euro be an alternative to the dollar considering that 60 of the Central Banks are in dollars . Can diminish financing costs in our economy by laboring by labeling more and other currencies. This is not a fight
Welcome to countdown. I am caroline hyde. Breaking across the terminal. Do intend to make an offer for vodafone and we were running a story earlier. Talking to regulators about potential takeover with the vodafone off. It is no surprise was that at t has made it clear they are looking across the atlantic to make purchases and they want to expand their market. You have sprint and tmobile really hitting them hard in terms of price and in the united states. They wanted to come to europe and much speculation with the vodafone. Maybe some other European Companies. When of the story first broke at the end of october according to people familiar, bloomberg ran a story. A statement has been released that has quashed speculation that an attempt to make an offer for vodafone. Our International Correspondent has been of the story this morning. Hans, quashing speculation . It looks like the speculation the at t is going to make a bid for vodafone is over and it looks final. That makes them beating
Offices. There are a number of issues that you have to address in washington, National Security issues that come up. It is generally a series of meetings. What has driven us in the last 10 years is the threat of terrorism. That is why we spend the first hour or two everyday addressing terrorism. People ask about how we manage it. Occasionally say, not very well. There are those who think i should not be micromanaging. Management books will tell you that shyou should be on the balcony and of the dance floor. I agree with that generally. The two areas where if you spin attention on that you hope we will not mess up too badly, one of them is terrorism. I have to be knowledgeable to respond to questions that president obama has, as i did for president bush. That means making certain my organization puts me in a position to respond to that. The other area i have not done as good a job is on bringing in information technology. Early on, we were putting in new Case Management system in. I did
Markets now. We get Johnny Mandel on baja see this morning and we are waiting to hear what happens to Alex Rodriguez, we are all over that but of course we started the day at a new alltime high for the dow. Lets check the markets, straight weeks of gains but some losses this morning. Nicole good morning. Absolutely right. We have seen record highs for the dow and the s p, the nasdaq was sitting at 13 year highs but today a mixed market. The nasdaq once again breaking into the green. We had major averages not far off of the unchanged line. Interesting, havent had that clear direction but the trend has been to the upside bit by bit and that is what we continue to see where we had a down day late in the day, stocks broke into the green later in the day. The Dow Jones Industrials are down 40 points, the vix, the fear index is to the upside. The names weighing on the dow today include Energy Shares such as chevron and exxon, that is nothing disney and travelers and the names and coming out