Welcome to countdown. Anna welcome to the program, everybody. 6 00 in the morning here in london. Manus warmer here than in zurich. Anna the to have you back in the studio. 1. 6il Company Giving us billion, after estimates of 3 billion. That looks to be below the estimate. Focus on Capital Expenditure and dividend is always going to be manus i am reading the wrong numbers. You are right. Capital expenditure. Anna talking about maintaining the dividend while offering the option to reinvest, do introduce a script dividend. There was concern in the Analyst Community about to what extent the dividend would be protected this time, and into the rest of the year. We will talk to the ceo about that a little bit later. Manus a significant shift the first to do this. They protected the Dividend Rate this is a first in terms of going into the cash, a form of paper. Let us talk about ing. We have full numbers. They come in the what have we got here . 890 million. So, that is a beat on the headline
Expanding in spain and italy in june. Nicolas sarkozy denies all wrongdoing as he takes to national tv to defend himself against allegations of corruption. And setting the record straight, volkswagen denies reports it will launch a takeover pick for paccar. Announcer youre watching Worldwide Exchange, bringing you Business News from around the globe. Well, a warm welcome again to thursdays Worldwide Exchange. You can see the heat map behind me. A bit of a difference to what weve seen for the last few mornings. A bid to the upside taking the stoxx europe 600 up around 0. 25 this morning. We had a relatively unchanged u. S. Market. They did manage to make new record highs for the dow and the s p yesterday. Adp coming in stronger than expected, the second highest since the beginning of 2011. It is a bit of a catch if you look at the payrolls on average. Gains across the board, as i was mentioning there. 0. 4 for the likes of the french and the german markets. The ftse mib now up around 0.
Federal government pays the full freight. Obviously it is a humanitarian crisis. It is a tremendous problem for the nation to have all these undocumented children. You know, my first concern is the health and safety of these children. And we do have to look at that. I wanted to make sure as soon as they came across the border that we took care of their immediate needs, fed, clothed, housed, took care of any medical attention. Al think it made a lot of sense for maryland to try to bring more. We have taken ten times more per capita than any other state. I just dont think its fair to the taxpayers or to the children really to be bused thousands of miles away from their point of origin to be put into maryland. Its just did not make sense. We have a little bit of a disagreement. We want to take care of the kids, and i think its administration has been too aggressive. Thank you. Moderator oh, that was our bottle. People watching us right now have a genuine concern about their safety. Even t
It is 6 00 here in london. Bloomberg reporters are standing by across the world, ready to deliver the stories that will drive your day. Caroline has the details on the insider who may be taking the helm at microsoft. Hans nichols is environment with different earnings reports from google and amazon. He is also looking at the pricey ads for the super bowl. Hannah kearney has more on the rebound in revenue at lvmh. Ryan chilcote lookahead to a meeting. He tells us why a couple of beers could breathe life into europes industry. John ferro is sizing up competition ahead of bt earnings. Plus, the Lunar New Year kicks off today. We are taking a look at where in the world an estimated 100 million Chinese Tourists are taking their spending power for the weeklong holiday. We talk to the founders of the Hotel Booking site, mr. And mrs. Smith. Com next hour. Microsofts fivemonth long ceo search may finally be coming to an end. The board is said to be making Satya Nadella the new chief. He is the
Guy johnson is off today. This is the pulse. Just getting some breaking news on the final euro zone inflation readings for january. The previous months reading of 0. 7 has been slightly upgraded to 0. 8 . Still well below the ecbs 2 inflation goal. I wonder what this will mean for ecb policy. Lets have a look at eurodollar. We might have a little bit of reaction on that. You can see 1. 3764. It already rose a little bit after some figures from germany. Lets start with the crisis in ukraine. The Nations Capital stood president has been put on the wanted list. Police have issued a search warrant for Viktor Yanukovych. The acting interior minister says yanukovych is a suspected of mass killings of civilians. Ukraine may be on the brink of a debt default. The nations finance minister said it needs 35 billion in financing to stay afloat. S p earlier today. Ukraine if you look back at the history of its independence, there has always been a roller coaster. They are a cyclical economy. Politi