Hello. Welcome to countdown. Just gone 6 00 here in london this thursday morning. We have Earnings Releases as well as other things. The companys latest results showed a wider loss in 2013 dan previously thought. Dont miss our exclusive interview with the cfo later this hour. Elians from allianz breaking now. Neils anderson will talk to us after earnings break next hour. They own the biggest container shipping line. Breaking now. Fourth quarter has missed estimates. Analysts estimated 1. 3 one level is above what they had targeted. The actual figure for a operating profit, 10. 1 billion, up over the previous years mine. 4 billion and given some guidance. Operating profit will be between 9. 510. 5 billion. They have raised their dividend to 5. 3 euros per share up from 4. 5 and they will be looking to see whether they are planning share buybacks or will stick with an increasing dividend as well. Those are the early headlines from europes biggest insurer. Speaking to the cfo in about an
Good morning, everybody. Welcome. Youre watching the pulse live from bloombergs European Headquarters here in london. Im guy johnson. Francine lacqua is off today. She will be back soon. What else have we got coming up for you . Well, the brick is back. Were live with legos c. E. O. Look at the amazing turnaround. Cybersecurity heads underground. re going to go inside a mountain larry. Lair. Lets get to our main story first of all. Tensions rising in the ukraine. Kiev is telling moscow to back off. Ryan chilcote is following the latest developments from inside ukraines parliament. Talk to me about the latest developments. Tensions riseing with moscow. Oddly enough, the most recent and Troubling Development has to do not with this parliament but the local parliament in crew yains crimia. A group of about 60 armed men seized the building at about 5 00 a. M. Local time. Acting president just took that job on friday when the ousted president fled. What these men want that seized this build
Lay out his turnaround plan for the business. And wpp weak margins. The ceo says he should have done more in emerging markets. They are our most profitable markets now. I think over the coming years well be more aggressive and if theres one thing i regret about the last ten years, its that we didnt go faster. And a split picture for two of the worlds biggest asset managers, pimco owner allianz suffers. Okay, welcome to the thursday edition of Worldwide Exchange, plenty to get through today. Im looking at the Russian Military exercises down at the ukrainian border, 100,000 troops. Posturing, 150,000. Exactly. Well talk about that. Also on todays show qantas lays out plans to cut jobs and grounds some of its fleet after a disappointing set of numbers. Well get the latest from sydney. As weve been saying the russian flag is raised over the crimea Regional Parliament building. Well be in moscow for the latest. And some positive news from retailers stateside, jcpenney swings to a profit in
Kinds. You can have mallard ducks. There are different flavors of ducks. Corporate said bskyb. Corporate and bskyb. A lot of moving parts. They added 74,000 subscribers. To find competition for bt. Defying analyst. They did have a little bit of profit erosion cuts costs are up. That hurt revenues. As you can see, investors very happy right there, because there were a lot of analysts that were saying for the first time in 15 years, since they basically got in the paytv game, we were going to see a drop in sky tv viewers, and we did not. Bskyb gaining five percent in todays trading session. One of the few stocks that is open. Hans, you are following m a and prints and sprints possible bid for tmobile. They are talking to bankers and want to get their financing lined up to take over tmobile u. S. They need Regulatory Approval. The it if the fcc and in u. S. Department of justice. We will break that down in 10 minutes. Hans, thank you. I am looking forward to that conversation. Manus, we h
We are live from bloombergs headquarters here in london. We have another big interview to bring you with the u. K. Secretary of state for scotland. Support isask why starting to grow for Scottish Independence. That is according to the latest holing. U. S. Budget negotiators have unveiled a agreement to avoid a Government Shutdown. The house will consider the measures. Manus cranny is our markets editor and he has more on this story. Talk us through the details. An imperfect deal, but it is the spirit. They have raised the overall spending limit. They have reduced the deficit. They have done away with nearly 60 billion worth of automatic spending cuts. The military gets a little bit of protection. No tax hikes, that is the message on the republican side. There are revenue increases. Every time you get on a plane, if you are a federal employee, you will be paying more into your pension. Haveryan and patty murray a lot to sell to the house. News washer overnight the approval of the volcke