Anna a warm welcome to bloomberg daybreak europe. Im anna edwards. Manus breaking news, where in the middle of the earnings season. Anna lets go with the french banking sector. Societe generale, coming in above the estimate of 315 million. The other big strategic announcement in the headlines, the plan for an ipo of its car leasing business. The numbers coming in ahead of estimates. And carting including the sale of a croatian unit. Record low Interest Rates. Tougher capital rules. Ofaging to make the most improvements in the french Consumer Banking business that they operate. Iny plan to offer shares their auto Leasing Division this year. We will be bringing you further comments from our conversation with the deputy ceo throughout the day. Worked that coming up shortly. Manus we just had a red headline on commerzbank. ,his will be good news fourthquarter net income, the market had penciled in 173. ,his is the buffer of capital 12. 3 . Provisions for loan losses coming in at 290 millio
There are books for sale. I recommend you pick one up and perhaps get a signature on it. With that, i will turn over the introduction of our speaker today. Thank you. Good to be here. Welcome to the seminar. It is wonderful to have them back. He is an alumnus. Spent part of the work on his book here. We are delighted to have them come back with the final product. Let me just say by way of introduction, he is entering director of the East Asia Program at syracuse university, and the former Vice President of the foundation. In that capacity he has done a lot of good work and research and is also a trustee, us china relations. He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College concert with the u. S. Army in vietnam, holds ma and phd degrees from stanford. His book is already been reviewed, and we are very much looking forward to his presentation today. Thank you very much. It is a special privilege to be here. This is where the project started. I wanti want to take this opportunity to not
What kind of sources used. You allude to the fact access in china is difficult these days. What kind of sources did you use . Second question, what do you was the most challenging thing about writing the biography . Putting this book together was a real effective story. You know, there are some of the different pieces to it, different aspects to it. As i mentioned before i was very fortunate to meet three of birches surviving brothers, papers of William Dolan at uc berkeley, papers of the wedemeyer at the hoover institution. The 14th air force archive at montgomery, alabama, Maxwell Air Force base, socially and exciting trip, and exciting find because buried in those materials is a 24, 25 page interview, oral history interview with john birch which was conducted about five months before his death. The Army Air Force historian arranged this interview because of john birch was the first of these field intelligence officers. He had met doolittle. He had led a colorful life, so theres some
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We begin in paris where a longawaited summit has been taking place. Leaders of france, germany, ukraine, and russia have joined for the first highlevel talks since the minsk accords. There have been signs of progress in recent weeks including a breakthrough agreement on that with role of tanks and heavy weaponry from the troubled eastern region. The conflict between Government Forces and russiaback separatists which began in april of last year has claimed the lives of 8000 people and displaced 2 million others. Our International Editor has the latest. Todays summit between the leaders of france, germany, ukraine, and russia was supposed to be about shoring up the minsk agreement signed in february. Looking forward for ways to establish a lasting peace in ukraine. It came a day after russia launched its go it alone airstrikes in syria and it was syria that perhaps was destined to overshadow if not eclipse the summit. In their post summit press conference, Angela Merkel and Francois Holl