Climate change. The big talks ahead in paris. First to our lead. For the second time in two years, google is in the u. S. Governments crosshairs. The federal trade commission is looking into whether google restricted competitors access to android. Just last month, i asked the ftc commissioner whether the agency will be taking another look at the company followed the Search Engine investigation. Take a listen as to what she had to say. I was not part of that decisionmaking process. I think it would be highly unusual for the commission to go back and reopened that case. Emily to be clear, i was asking about a different investigation, but i said should the u. S. Government take another look at google . Joining me from washington, bloombergs team leader for financial crimes. What do you make of the commissioners comments . Does this new potential investigation signify a change in attitude by the government towards google . Sarah it was a surprise to everyone to learn that the ftc is taking
Billion euros. I do not know where the figure came from, but they will be readjusting. Do i understand that i cannot buy a diesel vw in america right now . They basically shut it down. Vonnie yes. They have recalled diesel cars. The funny thing is the north american head was speaking last night. Clarification, i learned to etle, my a vw be father had a vw rabbit. There is our clarification on vw. A busy morning. Here are top headlines. Here is vonnie quinn. Vonnie chinas president , jinping arrives in washington. He has defended the way he has handled the chinese economy. He said the Government Intervention was needed to deal with systemic risk. More problems for volkswagen. And face billions in fines repair costs for cheating on federal air pollution tests. The Justice Department is investigating vw for possible criminal violations. That could lead to charges against the company or its employees. The head of vws operations in the u. S. Admits the company screwed up. Ande must fix thos
The nine it states is trending 3. 00 . In november . Is that a live possibility . Francine in the u. K. , that is unlikely. The debate is why would you not wait for the fed first . Tom i barely got any sleep so i am a dead possibility today. There is so much anticipation from tom keene about what mark carney will say. Lets get to the bloomberg first word news. Good morning. It is super tuesday for the bank of england. The minutes of its Monetary Policy meeting will be released. Governor carney will release his final quarterly Inflation Report of the year. The possibility that upon caused the crash of the Russian Airliner is putting a new focus on Airline Security in egypt. There was a Security Breach in may in the airport with a flight started. Government forces are fighting itants linked to you linked to the Islamic State and the region. In russia, the first of the Crash Victims is laid to rest today. All 224 people on board were killed. Survivors trapped in the rubble of a class paki
Here. Bucking the trend of ipos, look at ferrari. Those shares are trading on their first day of trading at the New York Stock Exchange. Luxury automaker also lining the outside of the exchange with all these different models. You can see whether the stock can hold on to these gains as we head into the close. Looks like the most expensive used car lot in the world outside on broad street today. Meanwhile, carl icahn is getting political. Hes launched a 150 million super pac with his own money. Well break down whats behind the billionaires move. And china versus mexico. Henry mcvey in a cnbc exclusive. Hell tell us what he found over there. Very, very instructive. You want to stay tuned. Lets start with this crazy story about valeant pharmaceuticals. Meg has this story about the huge decline. And finally the Company Coming back with a response of some kind. It has been a crazy day for valeant. Lets start by whats been going on. Today there have been some reports into relationships with
On software. You may significant progress toward your 500 Million Software sales goal. What are the chances now you exceed that . Lets just get me making it first. It hasnt been easy, as you know. A lot of people throughout the entire last nine months have been doubting whether i am on the right medicine or not whether im smoking the right thing or Something Like that. And ijust get to the 500 so good about doing so. We are growing and all of the right areas, going growing and recurring revenue. Again, one of those quarters that everything can together as we planned. Emily once you get there, say you have this 500 million sales target, how do you continue to grow . We see making more acquisitions, more software as a Service Company . Know, organically, once we have digested all of the acquisition we have made and we have a pretty strong platform now both in technology, product offerings, as well as the customer base. And the sales force. Inre working very hard really executing. So the