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Good morning. You are watching the pulse. We are here in london. Im guy johnson. Francine is not here today. Fed up, frustrated, and fighting back. That is the line we are going with this morning. French unemployment is at a record high but the big as companies have launched a pr bonanza to hopefully restore the nations reputation as a good place to do business. French]lled [speaking which we think roughly translates as bank on france. Caroline connan has the details. Who is there, what are they talking about . As,ou can translate that lets bank on france. It is all about boosting the image of france when the French Economy has barely grown and is expected to grow by 0. 4 this year. Some comments a few months ago from the ceo, saying that france was finished. The idea here is to fight against these kind of comments, against what they call french bashing. The economy minister had a conference yesterday. We got a very bad unemployme ....
We are live from davos. Im guy johnson. This is Francine Lacqua. We are having a small technical issue with her might. We are going to fix that soon. I will just hold this one here and make sure that we are both heard. It is hard to chat with just one microphone. Weve got a big two hours. It was interesting. I really enjoyed our interview with the governor of banco italian. The ecb delivered yesterday. The euro is going down. He was pretty confident. He says theres more to come. We have a mandate and we are going to do it. What youve seen is a continuation this morning of what has been going on with the eurodollar downtrend. We are down at 1. 12 now. Im waiting for i think hes pretty pleased. And the man everybody wants to meet. This is an incredible couple of hours. It will be great to get mr. Kurodas idea on the ecb. That changed the game for him a little bit. Cracks this is the man we want to me, the head of the boj, a man wit ....
That reaches although it to the former french president nicolas sarkozy. Thank you for joining us on france 24. 3 start in sevastopol, where russian flags are reportedly flying at the entrance to the ukraine Navy Headquarters in the following earlier reports that said prorussian forces had stared at storm the navy hq. The situation has escalated from a political conflict to a military one. On tuesday, the First Ukrainian soldier was killed in the region, and as our all of her fairy reports, the Prime Minister says russia is to blame. On tuesday, ukrainian soldier became the First Casualty of the crimean conflict. The man was reportedly shot dead during a standoff between ukrainian troops and unknown forces at the base that locals say they saw masked men storm th ....
We are live from bloombergs headquarters here in london. We have another big interview to bring you with the u. K. Secretary of state for scotland. Support isask why starting to grow for Scottish Independence. That is according to the latest holing. U. S. Budget negotiators have unveiled a agreement to avoid a Government Shutdown. The house will consider the measures. Manus cranny is our markets editor and he has more on this story. Talk us through the details. An imperfect deal, but it is the spirit. They have raised the overall spending limit. They have reduced the deficit. They have done away with nearly 60 billion worth of automatic spending cuts. The military gets a little bit of protection. No tax hikes, that is the message on the republican side. There are revenue increases. Every time you get on a plane, if you are a federal employee, you will be paying mo ....
London. Stay with bloomberg. We will hear from the owner of home to alberto cant adore and one of the most innovative voices in professional cycling. And we will be talking to Novak Djokovic the day after he beat Roger Federer to reclaim the number one ranking. That is coming up later on in the program. Frances finance minister has occurred euro area governments to bolster the euro in International Transactions to counteract the dominance of the dollar. This comes after the bank was fined nearly 9 billion in sections violations. We spoke to him and an exclusive interview. We sell ourselves aircraft in dollars. Is that really necessary . I do not think so. Airbus can sell in euros. It would create stability for airbus and air france so that we can avoid this exchange rate. Can the euro be an alternative to the ....