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anna: very good morning, this is bloomberg daybreak: europe. we re live at the economic form in davos. francine lacqua joins us bright and early from davos. francine: good morning. on thef focus will be tariffs that the trump administration has imposed. we are trying to get to the bottom of the chinese allegations. the biggest, the person that makes the most of solar panels is here in davos. later today we will focus on banking. the blackrock vice-chairman will be joining us. we are looking forward to that interview because it is about trade. we haven t all-star panel talking about the future of finance. andprime minister of canada india speak. theresa may and donald trump on friday. anna: it will be a packed lineup. thank you very much. we will return to francine shortly for our first interview. let s get the markets. this is what has been happening over in asia while you have been sleeping. msci asia-pacific, up 0.8%. new highs for these asian equity markets. concer ....
issues a little bit of an for mr. hollande. but get straight to david tweed. this is going to be disappointing news. very disappointing news, particularly after we saw the french economy stalling in the first quarter. it is going to put even more pressure on francois hollande. he is trying to overhaul the economy. he is trying to spur growth. he is trying to bring down the unemployment rate. i will be back in a few minutes to give you the details of why we see this contraction. ok, david. we will get into that breakdown shortly. to allurn our attention things online and property. daily mail. celebrity hunting, house hunting, job hunting, they had assets in it. sales are up 2%. profit also up 16%. that is a nice takeaway. they are trying to manipulate their portfolio. they are disposing of the significant chunk of zoopla, the second-biggest u.k. property search company. some say it might be down, but secondly it is online looking at property. daily mail up 6.3%. we ....
million people, the virus was spreading. at first it seemed like a local problem. a newly identified deadly virus from china. the 45 cases have been reported in china, including two deaths. the chinese city of wuhan locked down. more than 600 infected. and it s spreading fast. fear it could spread further. it was over there, in china, where frankly they ve had a lot of outbreaks over the years. china has reported 136 cases of the bird flu. emergence of the h10 and 8 strain follows that of the fatal h7 and 9 strain last year. the authorities are closing poultry markets in guangdong. china s desperate bid to control the latest bird flu virus. but this was no bird flu and the world soon began to take notice. st. mary s hospital in london has a long and storied history fighting disease. penicillin was discovered here in 1928. it revolutionized medicine. today, researchers here from imperial college are working for another radical breakthrough. i think we ....
more than 600 infected. and it s spreading fast. fear it could spread further. it was over there, in china, where frankly they ve had a lot of outbreaks over the years. china has reported 136 cases of the bird flu. emergence of the h10 and 8 strain follows that of the fatal h7 and 9 strain last year. the authorities are closing poultry markets in guangdong. china s desperate bid to control the latest bird flu virus. but this was no bird flu and the world soon began to take notice. st. mary s hospital in london has a long and storied history fighting disease. penicillin was discovered here in 1928. it revolutionized medicine. today, researchers here from imperial college are working for another radical breakthrough. i think we will see technology that completely changes the way vaccines are being made, and covid-19 is allowing us to try this technology. back in january, professor robin shattock was watching the news coming out of china with growing concer ....
reporter: that reassured wall street, but just hours later, president trump turned up the heat yet again, announcing $100 billion in additional tariffs against china. enter today, the treasury secretary there is the potential of a trade war. and let me just be clear, it is not a trade war. the president wants reciprocal trade. reporter: so, what now? well, just last month, the president himself said the united states had been treated so badly for so long on trade that, quote, trade wars are good and easy to win. does the president think that trade wars are easy to win? is that still his view? i think the president feels like if he is in charge of those negotiations, absolutely. and jon karl joins us from the white house tonight, and jon, the president s top economic adviser calls the tariffs just a proposed idea, but you re not hearing that kind of language from the president himself. reporter: well, tom, it is true that tariffs have not gone into effect yet. the p ....