From Bloomberg European headquarters in london. This is what we are talking about. And next close of look at the Goldman Sachs global strategy conference right here in london. Manus cranny is standing by with a quick preview. Manus. We got the european perspective, the japan view, next up, u. S. Investing. In. D just popped it is all about share buyback, dividends. Join me in just under 30 minutes for the goldmans view on the usa. Thank you very much indeed, looking forward to that. The ubs chief executive Sergio Ermotti is denying reports that switzerlands biggest bank will spin off its Investment Banking business. He spoke to bloomberg an exclusive interview and shanghai. Ryan chilcote joins us with all of the details. We had a report saying they are thinking about spinning it off. Now, the ceo has poured cold water all over this. Let me give you the background. Ever since Sergio Ermotti took the helm at ubs, he has been cutting back. Is cutting 10,000 jobs, has closed many of the de
We are live from bloombergs European Headquarters here in london. Hit the road, jack. Alibabas tour continues as jack ipo history. O make airbus delivered its first qatar. A380 to but first, our top story, the battle over scotland anders its final day of campaigning. The three most recent polls show the gap between the two campaigns heightening to four Percentage Points as they make the final push to win over voters. Lets go to the scottish capital now where anna edwards is following the story. Anna, the latest. Thank very much, guy. Those polls you mentioned, we got three polls overnight. They all show the same overall level of support. 52 for the no campaign. For ea percent for the yes campaign. That is the nos coming out ahead. The man whod from runs the poll of polls. He has been running this poll, taking a count of all the latest polling information. He now puts the gap at just two Percentage Points. The nos still just have the lead in his view. We have been taking soundings from
Hello. Welcome to countdown. Im mark barton. And im caroline hyde. Theres a battle of scotlands future. The recent polls show the gap between the two campaigns is tightening to four Percentage Points as they make a final push to win over voters ahead of tomorrows referendum. Lets get to the scottish capital where an edwards is following the story anna edwards is following the story. What is the latest update . Thanks very much. Good morning. Lets reiterate the polling conclusions. No campaignput the ahead, but not by anything that could be described as a comfortable margin. The no camp is at 52 . Yes camp at 48 . All of these polling companies are showing a reduced level of support for the no campaign compared to the last time that they reported. The man who runs the polls has said a number of times that hes putting the gap between no and yes at two Percentage Points. Campaigning for both sides. Air and open letter has been written. Dont let this opportunity slip through our fingers. I
President xi jinping. Day two of a threeday stroist china. These are live images coming through from there at the moment. We do have, of course, arriving here threeday visit, accompanied by a whole gamut of Business Executives from germany as they try to drum up trade between the two countries. Lets look in more detail and get to beijing itself. Stephen engle is there with a closer look at the visit here. Steve . Im looking at it just as you are right here. Shes going to be given full military honor welcome to beijing as the premier hosts her. Met her last night after she flew in, her first stop on the three, almost fourday trip to china. Her seventh trip to china as chancellor since taking over as chancellor in 2005 and trade will be the focus of this visit last night. As i said, she flew in, merkel met with the premier and two, of course 0, exchanged the pleasantries before the cameras about the importance of building mute chur trust and, of course, business. Germany is chinas larges
7 30. Well roll out the reaction as soon as those companies report. We have dupont and United Health. Am i speaking too soon, joe . Im away from my computers . They are . Oh, great. Thats good. I like both of those companies. Ill come over and help. Both of them should be followed. Dupont saying adverse weather conditions reduce First Quarter earnings by an estimated 7 cents. Did you see how many times i think the beige book mentioned weather 131 times. Someone counted the number of times it mentioned weather. Weather is an issue. You know, that was not fair, becky. Im sorry to spring that on you. You were without blame because youre in that shes a vision in white this morning. Im interested im looking, im looking. Ibm, the lowest is that for real . The lowest revenue number . That was a bad number. The lowest revenue number. Didnt we just talk to people. Who was it, bill miller said he expected an uptick because it had been eight quarters in a row it had been lower. I think an activis