Qatar and other arab states with anne barnard from the ny times. Qatar is always punting above its weight in the region in a way that really wrangled with saudi arabia which thinks of itself as the leader and doesnt want to have rivals for regional influence. Qatar is always trying to play all sides of every issue. Thats one of the ways that it sort of increased its infliens and survival skills as a small country. Rose also this evening a conversation with Patrick Collison, the c. E. O. And cofounder of stripe. We wanted you to be able to come to a website, enter basic details like you would in signing up for any other service and start charging customers from all around the world some revenue and money and go get paid. That process at that time took weeks in some cases, even months and was very restrictive in terms of the kind of Business Models you could implement. And we con crude with gerard araud, the former french ambassador to the United States. In a sense the message of Emmanue
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Manus you are welcome. This is bloomberg daybreak europe. Our flagship morning show. I am manus cranny in the city of london. Anna edwards is on her way to the Supreme Court on the article 50 rolling. This is philips which has itselfed it divested an organization. The Fourth Quarter adjusted comes in at a billion euros. In line. It is a slip below. A billion euros is what we earned in the Fourth Quarter. It will maintain a dividend of 80 Cents Per Share in line with what the market had anticipated. They still have a shrew a huge the diagnostic business what will happen with it in terms of the u. S. From once to make America Great. Will that force people to buy shares in something other than phillips. Have a conversation with the ceo very shortly. Market, there is one pervasive theme. The dollar is offered. It all comes back to last week donald trump talking in the wall street journal and overnight it treasuryews of the secretary nominee. From time to time an excessively strong dollar,
Snap sevenday winning streaks. Allianz launches a 3 billion euro Share Buyback after posting bumper profits for the fourth quarter. The cfo outlined the Insurance Firms m a plans earlier on the show. If an acquisition fits our business and our future strategy and we ca can do it, we certain look at it. It is not a must for us. Its a further opportunistic thing. Samsung heir jay y. Lee is arrested as part of a corruption probe, sending political shockwaves through south korea and sending shares in the smartphone maker lower. Good morning, everybody. Welcome back. Good morning. Traveling, that beautiful shot in switzerland yesterday. I did bring back chocolate, i think its gone now. I brought it in at 6 00 this morning, gone at 6 05. Trump getting everybody up and going. The dotcom people cant keep up. Being a journalist on trump these days, effectively youre on 24 hours. You get maybe five hours. Head online and look at the key points from this speech, if you havent already. Well talk m