the ryder cup tees off in scotland. we re going to look at golf s prop you ready problems. popularity problems. and the battle of the bubble. we had to france to find out why champagne is losing its fizz. press echo is taking over. first, let s talk about the markets. stabilizingcks after a decent selloff yesterday afternoon in europe. let s talk about the action, put it in context. jonathan ferro. it is a dangerous game to look at one section and start to blame a whole different thing. everybody is trying to blame everything. nasdaq, techhe stocks fell off, apple makes up 7% of that index. that stock really feels it. you can explain that one right there. i think we should look at the week. not just the macro stuff. look at some of these companies that are coming out with profit warnings. you have tnt talking about europe and the struggles there. you look at the data from germany. business confidence trending lower. just a story of internal management problems. ,t is a st
europe. good evening to those in asia. good morning to those just waking up in the u.s. we begin with a bloomberg exclusive. have strucksneft oil. it has been complicated by sanctions against russia. ryan chilcote spoke to the ceo, igor sechin. this guy rarely talks. i m fascinated that the time he isides to talk his when he in the arctic. give us a sense of the journey you had to get through to talk to this man. it was a four-hour flight to the north. then we flew out to the sea, we got on a icebreaker, a ship that can break ice. that,led two nights on got another helicopter. thatannot actually drive ship right up to the platform. an extraordinary adventure but one that was really important for igor sechin. a symbolic message. igor sechin believes they have found a massive amount of oil, as many as one billion barrels. it could be more than what the u.s. has in the gulf of mexico. he has a problem, that is u.s. sanctions. they bar exxon from drilling in 10thrctic beyond th
i am guy johnson. what have we got for you? a bloomberg exclusive. we are going to speak to the ceo of accor about the hotel and tourist industry. we are going to talk about french economy as well. tesco launches a new version of this tablet called the huddle. unnecessary distraction for the sampling the struggling supermarket? i have actually got one here. it is wrapped up. this is from tesco s pr. this is christmas morning for me. we are not allowed to unwrap it for another hour. we will see what it looks like. should tesco be investing in that kind of stuff? first, let s talk about jobs day. we are watching the world s most important economic indicator, forecast 250,000 new jobs added on the month. jon ferro is here with more. where does that take us on the path to rate hikes? good question. i am more excited about this number than this box. you want to be here to unwrap it. may be. the quality of the wrapping leaves something to be desired but anyway. , even withw
let s see how we are opening up across the board. germany up 0.3%. ftse, similar. pretty flat in france. it all focuses on central banks. saying, draghi is throwing everything he can despite printing monday in his bedroom. will he get the sign off for full on quantitative easing? we want to see whether that will be in the pipeline. that is what is making people buy stocks. let s have a look at what it is doing to the rest of europe. we have bank of england coming out. the biooe decision. 12:45 is the ecb decision. in the moment, we are seeing british pound pretty flat. 1.5694. let s have a look at the euro. we are getting the euro pushing lower against the dollar on that hope that we will see yet more stimulus. that will be a boost to exporters if we start to see the euro trading lower. at the moment, ftse staying unchanged. 1.23 a seven is where we are at. is where we are at. u.s. jobless claims at 1:30 p.m. today. that will be moving the dollar slightly. let s look at the d
we are going to start in athens. eurogroup president jerome is set to meet greece s new government for the first time later today. it is a story that everybody is watching. we are trying to work out whether there is a mandate. we will talk about that in just a moment. let s talk about sanctions on russia. this is also part and parcel of the greek story at the moment. increasing violence in eastern ukraine. we are watching the story very carefully. there is talk of more individual stories here potentially more visa bans. ryan chilcote is on the ground in brussels. what have you been hearing from the foreign ministers? effectively, what they ve done is kick the can up to their bosses. february 12, the heads of state gather here in brussels. what the foreign ministers did last night was agreed to expand the black list of individuals subject to travel bans and asset freezes and also extend some sanctions that were imposed right after crimea was annexed. those are sanctions ligh