Welcome to bloomberg daybreak europe. Manus we have a stacked lineup for you, a little bit of a nordic flavor and will kick it off. Anna nordic numbers coming through, the bank in stockholm sweden, and theyre waiting with the head or decision. More on that in just a moment. Well get to the secondquarter ofbers, above estimates 18. 8 . The Net Interest Income 1. 18 billion, below the estimate of 1. 21. This,ne was looking for will the domicile stay or go . They now say they will make the final decision in september about the domicile. Now saying it will be a little later. That sweden considered they will consider joint banking unit. Copenhagen also tutoring joining the Banking Union. Finish be a danish or destination . Us in about 15n minutes time. With battling it out oracle and elsewhere. 500 Million Euros is what youre getting with the Share Buyback. Forecast,f revenue they are raising the overall revenue forecast based on the foritional, the full year operating profit will be betwee
I am certainly hoping these receiveelated budgets some of that attention. Francine that was bill gates, talking to manus cranny. This is bloomberg surveillance. We have some great guests who will talk about the markets, Foreign Policy, and the snap elections. First, to your markets. This is where we stand. European shares rising attach. A touch as commodity producers rebound. Metal prices, chinese equities leading asian stocks higher. That index gaming 1. 1 . I want to show you the pound. The vote in parliament a little bit later about snap elections on june 8. The vix index down quite significantly today, at 15. 85. Those are your markets. First, lets get straight to the bloomberg first word news. U. S. Vice president mike pence has called north korea the most dangerous and urgent threat to the peace and security of the asiapacific region. Addressing military personnel on the uss ronald reagan, hence also spoke of the overwhelming response available to protect japan against north kore
Anna a very warm welcome to countdown. I am anna edwards. It is just past 6 00 in the morning on this friday morning. Lets talk about what has been happening with sterling. We heard from mark carney at the bank of england in the latter part of the trading day yesterday, and we can see the effect that had on the pound, not the one highlighted in red. Yes, in fact, the one highlighted in red. There was little bit more stability coming through in the pound in the wake of the big falls we saw last friday. In the wake of that, weve seen a little bit of a recovery or stability in the pound, and that took another leg down as we heard mark carney speak. Saying, brexitr may prompt summer policy easing. Lets check out the msci asiapacific, a decent session the last couple sessions in asia, and today, up by about 0. 5 . Is this based around for bets, more stimulus coming through from the central bank . We will discuss that. Weve got silver in here, and that is up strongly, up 2. 4 , the biggest i
Welcome to the program, everybody. This is countdown live from bloomberg headquarters here in london. It is 6 00 here in london. Let us bring you up to speed. We have data out of china, just to tell you that it has not moved the market all that much. We saw a bit of a bounce in the shenzhen composite, the shanghai not moving that far. Estimates,line with industrials up. That is the macro picture. Keep an eye on a micro level, if you like. It is not very micro, but what could be the biggest brewing deal in history. I have a chart here on the sab miller share price, what a wild ride it has been on during the summer. We saw talk of the potential deal them. Inbev has a deadline to move the number of times. The latest is today, and we have had news over the last 24 hours suggesting that they might get closer to that perhaps removing the regulatory hurdles on the u. S. Business. We will have more from Ryan Chilcote through the program. We are getting numbers from carlsberg. We are of course
Sky and bt pay more than 5 billion pounds for rights to pay the to play the football championship. Hello, welcome to countdown. I am mark barton. Just getting earnings for 2014. 1. 76 oh yen euros. Analysts were estimating 1. 7 4 billion. Narrowly ahead of 1. 7 6 billion euros. Narrowly ahead of estimates. Analysts estimating an increase of 3 . Organic consolidated Revenue Growth is what it is called. That excludes the effects of acquisitions, disposals come and currency swings as well. Operating profit excluding items 3. 1 3 billion. Analysts estimating three point 00 6 billion. Those metrics seem to be ahead of estimates. 3. 00 6 billion. Analysts estimating 3 as well. When it comes to heineken we will be asking the chief executive officer later about how it is doing. We had high levels of rain in europe. It is exposed to russia. Has the performance been better in russia . It will be fascinating to see whether they have improved. Sab miller showed some interest in heineken in septemb