there is bouygues up 2.7% on the open. let s talk to ryan. royal dutch shell, these are the guys that started the profit war at the start of the year. they smashed expectations. for 5ts were looking billion. investors very pleased. it will be interesting to hear what the boss has to say on his conference call. everybody wants to hear about russia. a very sizable interest in russia. one reason why van burton was meeting with putin, kissing the ring if i might say. we heard president putin yesterday warning that there could be retaliatory moves against western interests if they ratchet up their sanctions. he said he may have to look at western energy deals in russia. we can see royal dutch shell up over 3%. alstom we are waiting. i am getting excited about alstom. it was called up 20%. let s have a look at another stock, barclays. everybody is doing it. it is a bad bank. the commodities business, the fixed income business, some u.s. mortgage assets and european lending bo
6:00 a.m. in london this thursday and bloomberg reporters are standing by across the world to deliver the story to drive your day. hans nichols has more on the sprint-t-mobile tie-in. we will get the latest from mia saini and hong kong. tracking bond purchases. in danger? of losing itsdominance in the market dominance?g it s francine lacqua had an exclusive interview with padoan. i do hope we can do better than that. although we cannot say that more exclusively, i think there are good reasons to think that we will have an upside surprise. more of that exclusive interview coming later in the program. let s get more from our international correspondent hans nichols. talk to us about the timing. how far along are they? when my day dob actually announced? actuallyight a deal be announced? thet really depends on regulators. what we have seen according to people familiar with the matter what we are reporting they want to make sure that softbank and sprint have all of th
kinds. you can have mallard ducks. there are different flavors of ducks. corporate said bskyb. corporate and bskyb. a lot of moving parts. they added 74,000 subscribers. to find competition for bt. defying analyst. they did have a little bit of profit erosion cuts costs are up. that hurt revenues. as you can see, investors very happy right there, because there were a lot of analysts that were saying for the first time in 15 years, since they basically got in the pay-tv game, we were going to see a drop in sky tv viewers, and we did not. bskyb gaining five percent in today s trading session. one of the few stocks that is open. hans, you are following m&a and prints and sprint s possible bid for t-mobile. they are talking to bankers and want to get their financing lined up to take over t-mobile u.s. they need regulatory approval. the it if the fcc and in u.s. department of justice. we will break that down in 10 minutes. hans, thank you. i am looking forward to that c
and the release of the fed minutes of the meeting on april 30. let s go to peter cook with the details. at its late april meeting, the fed offered a pretty upbeat assessment of the u.s. economy. it cut its bond buying program by another $10 billion. also signaling that the economy is not yet strong enough to consider raising interest rates. these minutes further reinforce the notion that the fed is not in a hurry to raise rates because it does not see inflation as a major threat right now. that, becauseoted inflation was expected to remain 2%l below the committee s objective and the and implement rate was still above participants estimates of islam the committeeel, did not, at present, face a trade-off between the them ointment and inflation objectives, and an expansion of aggregate demand would result in further progress. there was a discussion still is spelling out even more details. some thought it would be helpful to the rfi their reasoning underlying the language indi
will come to countdown. which just gone 6:00 a.m. in gone 6:00it s just a.m. in london. ready to deliver the stories that will drive your day. ryan chilcote is live that the st. petersburg foreign. mia saini is in hong kong with details of the ipo. jonathan ferro is in the studio to walk us through the latest fed minutes and elliott theine is in tel aviv as purchase of an israeli food company is going to be announced. this hour, a bloomberg first interview with the russian deputy economy minister. that is at 6:30 a.m. london time. will be here to discuss those earnings. and on the move, hearing from the national bank of abu dhabi. it s the biggest gathering of business leaders and this year the most controversial. ryan chilcote joins us from st. petersburg international economic forum. you ve been covering this summit for 20 years, pressure for two decades in the big top line on this is who has decided not to attend. is that a fair way to deliver? i think so. wh