Pay a price for its actions in ukraine. That comes as u. S. President obama blames moscow for the crisis. Welcome to countdown. Get to our top story this morning. Our exclusive interview with the german finance minister wolfgang schauble. European central bank has run out of ways to help the eurozone. With bloomberg at the Business Leaders conference. Is sayingrio draghi again and again is what is needed is reform. It is not for the ecb to implement. There is a government. We agreed. Monetary policy can only buy time. Problems asderlying a matter of fiscal policy in this globalized economy. We have the competitiveness. If you look at whats going on , its veryal economy important that we all know in to do this we have again and again to enhance competitiveness. If we are complacent even in continueif we do not to enhance our competitiveness, we will lose. Should the ecb do more to fight inflation . I do not think they have the instruments to fight inflation, to be frank. Interest rates
Welcome. You are watching the pulse. We are live from bloombergs European Headquarters in london. Lets get straight into our top stories. Telefonica raising the stakes. The company has lifted its bid for vivendis gvt units. That counters an offer from Telecom Italia. This is getting very incestuous. It is a battle for one of brazils fastestgrowing broad brand providers. Caroline hyde is here to answer our questions. Why is it so important . It is all about brazil. It is the Fastest Growing in brazil. It is a young, growing community in brazil who all want access to the internet. You want data, videos, facebook. This is a tantalizing asset owned by vivendi. They want to clock into that expansion. Both telefonica and Telecom Italia already have friends. They want to become more present. And want to merge with gvt gain more dominance while at home their domestic revenues have been easing off. Putting it politely. Of course, we are not using these two. We are going for whatsapp to send our
Welcome to countdown. It is just 6 00 here in london. Hong kong police are using to takedownnd makeshift barricades. It comes off to the hong kong ceo warned he was losing patience with the demonstrators. We are joined live a from the protest site. Give us the latest. As you can see behind me, traffic is flowing in both directions. This is something we have not seen for 17 days since the protests started. The protesters had blocked off of this road. This is one of the main thoroughfares leaving in and out of the financial district. About three hours ago, the police came in. Bambootesters erected barricades to reinforce steel ones. The police had to move some of those barriers as protesters spent most of yesterday reinforcing the ones they had. Police took them down pretty quickly. Right now, the road opened up maybe 10 minutes ago. The truck is picking up garbage all along the road. There are still hundreds of suree here trying to make that protesters do not come back onto the road to
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