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the weather is set to turn much colder in the next few days, siberian air pouring in across the continent and it will reach our shores. we will see some sunshine, but there is a snow as well. join me later and i will have the details. also coming up as president trump tells families and survivors of last week s school shooting that one way to respond is to arm the teachers, we ll be hearing reaction from the influential us gun lobby group the nra. crucial, decisive, momentous, urgent pick any of those words and they would probably apply to what s going on the prime minister s country retreat right now. theresa may is surrounded by her closest ministers at a meeting of the brexit inner cabinet. she wants unity and a common approach to britain s negotiating position with the eu. but those words unity, conservative, and europe very rarely appear in the same sentence. theresa may has a long day ahead of her and already we re being told the meeting could go well into ton ....
welcome to bloomberg daybreak the flagship morning show. anna: let s get to the details. a beat in terms of the first quarter net profit coming in at 1.27 swiss francs. a comfortable beat for ubs. they are saying that well-placed to benefit from any market improvement, but they are saying they have yet to see a sustained increase in client activity. this is something they have been struggling with recently. the rich to amongst put their money to work him a political and economic uncertainty. we ll talk more about that in a moment. we ll bring you the interview with the ceo coming at 6:45 u.k. time. manus cranny is on the ground ready for that. from zodiac this is a supplier in the aerospace sector in france. they are the subjects of a takeover offer. they re putting out numbers this morning. talks continue with the view to completion. yesterday we saw the stock fall as much as six and a half a report thating zodiac will refuse to be bought unless saffron makes a ser ....
told anna. he says barclays is becoming the bank he wants it to be. boosting pressure on north korea, rex tillerson echoes trump s warnings, but says to is ready tona impose further sanctions. is the market paying attention? alphabet beats sales projections in the first quarter and amazon continues its 20-year streak of double-digit revenue growth. will it continue to fuel the nasdaq streak. less than an hour away from the end of the month in trading when it comes to european equities. we start the session on a little firmer footing. the fair value calculations on your bloomberg. .1%s like we are opening up higher. interesting to see how the stock stories perform. let s talk about what is happening more broadly. not a lot of action. let s show you the gmm screen. the is the picture around world. the dollar a little firmer bid. up by .1%. elsewhere, not getting huge moves. equity markets drift and that is the story to take away as well. do we get a sense of direction fro ....
paris climate accord. we will get a view from the chairman at the same peter st. petersburg economic form. theresa may gets lambasted by other party leaders for her decision to skip a televised debate a week away from the election. will it matter to voters or have traders priced in a may majority here question mark we are less than half an hour away from the start of european trading. let s take a look at futures. little change on the dax index urostoxx upu do see er cnd the ftse and cap up ca up. take a look at what we see happening in forex. the aussie dollar is dead, the british pound is bid create after caution data out of china that goes the way of the positive pmi data that we saw yesterday, telling two different tales and the pound we re watching very closely ahead of this u.k. election. also if you take a look at the commodities, you can see that lean hogs are ripping faith might you love your pork here in britain and in germany. 2.5% and we do a c we do s ....
focus, warning that the central bank has limited tolerance for rising prices. cpi data due at 9:30 gmc. francine: and live from the world economic forum in davos, switzerland the future of finance. john cryan joins our debate about the transformation of the industry, do any moment. and in european banking, we will be speaking to the credit suisse ceo. don t miss that exclusive interview at 9:15 u.k. time. stealssident xi jingping the spotlight, with his first speech ever at the forum. let s get back to the world economic forum in davos, with bloomberg s tom keene and his panel on the future of finance. tom: if you don t make it every 90 days, the world falls apart. we have a panelist to provides us with a terrific historical committedwho has been to acquiring for the united states of america different pieces of our heritage and history and possibly understands the 1930 s like no one in the room, and certainly a political moment we are in worldwide. finally, we have a pa ....