Have a special report on how the u. S. Designer michael kors is beating european brands in their own backyard. Welcome to countdown. It is 6 00 here in london this friday morning. Bloomberg reporters are standing by across the world. Looking ahead to the job stated in the united states. The day is the last day to register as a candidate to run in ukraines election. Caroline hyde has the story about how michael kors is grabbing market share in europe. Lets tell you what is coming up on the program. We will be live in italy, a beautiful views from the lake. Focused on the biggest threats to the Global Economy and what needs to be done. The former chairman of Goldman Sachs Asset Management jim oneill will talk to us. That interview within 15 minutes. We will hear from former ecb board member. Do not miss our exclusive interview with the chairman of ru. It is jobs day in the united states. It is watched by the fed. Our markets editor is here with all of the details. Is it been has it been
Tenyear eeled reacting to a ppi number that did run a bit hot, first rise in a few months and europe in the green at least for now. Our roadmap begins with a cnbc exclusive. With both apple and china mobile ceos, apple shares rising in early trade on the tech giants new deal with china mobile. Bank of america reporting betterthanexpected Fourth Quarter results. And as new ceo mary barr takes the helm, gm expecting pretax profits to rise modestly this year but margins remain flat until 2015 on the back of news that the automaker will pay its first Quarterly Dividend in almost six years. And elon musk taking on the government for the proper term for teslas fixes. First up, though, apple shares rising in the premarket on optimism surrounding the companys deal on china mobile. Tim cook saying it will help bolster sales in the Biggest Smartphone market and china mobiles chairman said the agreement will entail various cooperative ventures and will not be limited to iphones. Cnbc spoke exclus
A lot of selfies. Including one with the shows star, steve bushemi. I to this take think those were only flashes. None of those cameras had any film in them. When you walked the red carpet . Yes. And to get that many people to cooperate, to pretend they were not pretending. Well, they werent, but we did get introduced and they were like because what happened is you were so late because you didnt know where the bridge was, you were so late that all the stars arrived and they all go in last. So we walked through with them. So they were confused. They were like, theres a lot of customers. They thought we might be part of the andrew it served you well in that case. It did. Otherwise we would have been welcome but then you left and i walked the whole premier alone. He was this is what a the mandate. It wasnt a mandate, but theres wing men and theres buddies and i was there. I was there for you. You were there for ten minutes, andrew, and then he left and i sat for a hour at boardwalk empire
Expected to hold steady at 7. 7 . You have a few economists who revised their predictions, moving them higher after yesterdays strong adp report. Forecasters at Goldman Sachs are now expecting a gain of 200,000 jobs. Credit suisse is calling for 185,000 nonfarm payrolls and the u. S. Equity futures are barely budging at this point. Theyre going to wait and see what happens at 8 po been right now, s p futures are unfractionally. This is coming after modest declines yesterday following two strong days of gains. And, of course, the other big economic story were talking about this morning is the fed. The markets were surprised by the minutes from the fomc meetings. The notes showing several policymakers would like to stop the feds Bond Buying Program before the end of the year, citing concerns about Financial Stability and the size of the Balance Sheet. The news prompting some to speculate about an early end to the Central Banks fouryear Stimulus Program and the threat of higher Interest R
Hello, this is todays worldwide exchange, im ross westgate. Im kelly evans. These are your headlines from around the world. Shares of stocks fall after the french bank swings to an alltime low. The ceo says hes optimistic. Im confident we will show a further market share gain. Heineken shares pop after the giant raises its outlook. And peugeot rolls out its recovery plan. And the first 30year bond in years. The test of Market Sentiment ahead of the election. And president obama uses his state of the union speech to urge congress to end the battle over the budget and Work Together to boost the u. S. Economy and help the middle class. Together we have cleared away the rubble of crisis. We can say with renewed confidence that the state of our union is strong. There we go. Who doesnt love to kick off a wednesday morning with the iea Monthly Oil Report . They have lowered their Oil Demand Growth expectations on weaker gdp forecasts. Demand growth, 840,000 barrels a day in 2013. Theyve cut t