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Beaten in berlin. Angela merkel party is hit hard in Regional Elections as the antiimmigration party siphons off voters. What this this mean for next years federal election . Afterrk steps up security the bombing in chelsea. We will bring you the latest in this story. Caroline we are less than half an hour until the european open. Let us check in with what the future is market is a signaling. Futures market is signaling. Up 200 billion euros. A to mulch was time for trading and so much to build up to this week in terms of the boj and the Federal Reserve. Guy let us talk about last week and what the gmm function is telling us. A great place to start your week. It gives you a heads up both backward looking and forwardlooking. This is last week, friday. The close. Everything sharply down. It will be interesting to see how trading stops. The aussie was up. Canada and new zealand were up. Currencies doing well against the dollar. Finland, and switzerland on the move this morning. Portugal,
Anna we have yearnings earnings to get through. Guy this is not sexist. Let me make that crystalclear. Anna it is a music reference. Guy the Australian Dollar, absolutely searching. Surging. Men at work, this is a reference to the numbers that came out from employment. Anna questions being raised, particularly in the last two months how we can rely on that data. Lets get to the breaking news of germany. Monthe the giants, as the , 2. 4 6 billionns euros is the Fourth Quarter industrial business profit. The estimate was just 2. 3 billion. , up to 3 big headline billion euro Share Buyback over the next 36 months. That was something analysts were looking for going into this. Lets get to hans nichols. He has more of the back story. Pathway ns the last buyback was about 4 billion. Dividendig headline, a increase, they are increasing the dividends to three point 3. 5 euros a share. It was that 320 it was a 320. Overall margins are flat down. This year for the last year it was 11. 3 . That ma
We will look at laserbased technology that can fight terrorism. Haul, low cost long wilner we generic succeed where others have failed will Norwegian Air succeed where others have failed . I will speak to that siemens ceo in frankfurt. I asked him about the failed bid. Serious were you about wanting to buy alstom . Were you trying to throw ge off . From the very beginning, i was very serious. Does that mean you seriously wanted to acquire alstom . We were considering all of our options. We took one step at a time. Outcome as ae the victory or were you disappointed . Looked very hard at it and we came back with a proposal. Deal with the train business still in play . No, i do not think so. It takes a lot of time to make a meaningful outcome. It takes a great partnership. The party is not willing to partner. A train deal is off the table for now. He thinks the bid was well worth his time. Make moreced ge to concessions. Ge is doing with the french government as a 20 stakeholder. I also s
Hello. Welcome to countdown. I am mark barton. It is 6 00 on this thursday morning here in a bloomberg reporters are standing by to deliver the stories that will drive your day. Mario draghi has his conference. Failed bid for alstom. Ryan chilcote has the latest on the truce talks between ukraine and russia. Coming up in just under one earningse, we get since a high retailer went public. We will be the first to talk to jim mccarthy. And then we are joined by the director general of the confederation of british industry. He says that uks continued membership in the eu is vital for its economic future. 9 00, well have kjos. R guest, bjoern draghi speaks. We get the u. S. Report as well. Im joined by manus cranny for more. What are you expecting from draghi after last months extensive measures question mark measures . Clarity. We have moved on. How low will rates go . How long will rates stay low . Issue is the growth economy. How are you going to do it . How are you going to measure the