Nejra welcome to bloomberg surveillance. Francine lacqua is in helsinki at the nordic business form. First, lets check in on the markets. European equities turning negative of the stoxx 600. The 10 year yield moves lower after jumping ive basis points yesterday. So a little bit of risk off in terms of equities and yield. But the weaker dollar suggests there might still be optimism out there. Conflicting headlines ahead of the trade talks. Francine lacqua is at the Nordic Business Forum. Do not miss her interview with the ceo and founder of zuckerberg media. Thats coming up just after 9 30 a. M. And later, francine will speak to finlands economic minister just after 9 45 a. M. U. K. Time. Lets get first word news. To force kurdish militants away from the region, turkey has launched a military incursion into syria. Four years them and kara for ankara has fought and says it will not allow the kurdish protostate on the border. When asked what President Trump would do if turkey wiped out th
Shinzo abe a blow to shinzo abe. There is uncertainty about whether japan can reduce its deficit and boost growth. He has helped to make his economic policies the focus of the campaign. Brendan . In Hong Kong Police are battling prodemocracy protesters that have occupied the citys admiralty district. Police used water hoses and pepper spray to push back protesters. Trying toters are expand their hold on central hong kong. Is protest leader alex chow. Any movement that can successfully surround the City Government headquarters makes the authorities lose face and gives them a slap in the face. If they want to keep their dignity, they should respond directly to citizens democracy requests. Protesters have demanded that hong kong allow free elections for its next leader. The government is refusing. In d c for the lameduck congress, a lot to do and not much time to do it. Lawmakers are back for the next couple of weeks before a new congress convenes in january. On their list come up with a
Hello. Welcome to countdown. Im mark barton. Bloomberg reporters are standing by across the world ready to deliver the stories that will drive your day. Onberlin with the latest ukraine. Paul allen from sydney ahead of the g 20 meeting. In the studio, Jonathan Ferro has the details on it or leave thousand job cuts rbs is planning and managed tranny will usmanus cranny will bring the earnings from gucci. Helped by higher earnings in its property, and or casualty divisions. Those are the biggest. Net income increasing to 4. 48 billion euros. 4. 74ngs have missed the billion euro analysts had expected in surveys. Axa is also investing 6 billion euros in fastgrowing nations like china, colombia as the sluggish economy ways on european insurer revenue. Yes, profitability has risen at axa, the secondbiggest insurer in europe. Evenue up by 2 it was exactly that, 81 euro cents. We will be speaking to the man himself, the head of axa. Dont miss that exclusive interview. A deadly week of violenc
Welcome back to countdown. I am mark martin. Barton. Welcome to the program. We are getting some news. And recall was announced they are recalling 61 7 million 6. 17les worldwide million vehicles worldwide. They will be recalled in japan america. In north stock is down 3. 7 as we speak. We will bring you more details on that. A big recall by toyota. We will bring you all the big stores that you need to be aware of. In sydneye taken off trading. Woolworths. A few companies called that. Do not get them confused. We will speak to the David Jones Group later on. Accusednited states has russia of using agents to spark unrest and ukrainian authorities have sent troops into the second biggest city of separate tests. How is russia reading the Economic Situation . The kremlin is calling on Russian Companies to delist shares from born exchanges. There are a handful of them. The issue is if they will do that. We have heard from the investment czar. He says it is not mandatory and it is up to the
Promising to create 1000 jobs if the countries leaders back his offer, support his offer for the company. For more on this thread, we are joined by International Correspondent hans nichols. Jeffrey immelt is turning on the charm in france, right . I do not know if you will be served when he sits down in a cafe in paris, but he is doing a the frenchnvincing government this might be in their interest. It has dominated news here and discussion. One of the reasons his bid might be improved is he has made this promise for 1000 jobs, 1000 industrial jobs, betty. You have to look at this in the context of the recent european elections. President aland president Francois Hollandes party was obliterated. They need a victory. They need to show progress. The jobs in the ge takeover of the Energy Business could be a way to show progress. There will because be backlash because of an American Company coming in, but a colleague of mine went into a small town where the happens to and he talked to all