i am manus cranny. coming up on the pulse, we ll be speaking to the former a tie in finance minister and the bank of italy director general emeritus the british co simon: money emeritus fabrizzio saccomoni. angela merkel warned that the clock is ticking. time is running out. where emphasizing the social cause they need to be made. and on to resolve the situation as it is. manus: let us get to our team. guy johnson in athens. once nichols in brussels. hans nichols and brussels. guy, let us go to you. it is about the banks. european central banks is holding europeans bank is holding firm on what they loaned to the banks so far. guy: paul will give you the details of what is happening. the banking system remained shut. this economy is grinding to a halt. the agency said about depression . that is what it feels like at the moment. businesses are shutting up. they cannot get more credit. npl s were already bad. they are going through the roof at the moment. the greek taggi
bill ackman taking 5.5 in mondalez. those subscribers worries that originated with disney. a trio of stocks tesla, green mountain and fitbit, hit hard. our top stories are mondalez shares spiking. bill ackman disclosing that $5.5 billion shake in cadbury. they welcome pershing square as investors and will continue to focus on executing our strategy as we look at another sector where mass sick consolidation is the play. we have been through airlines and health care. now, it is food. we can remember that nelson felts has a 2.9% stake. i have to turn to you, david, with more than 10% being held by you. i have to expect that. that s got to be the expectation in terms of the play for ackman jim. you and i have talked behind the scenes about what it was going to be. i have been chasing this for some time as many have. i have probably put on alert more bankers than we know about. i thought, what could it be what could it be? i don t think any of us would have expected it w
in its gardens we begin tonight with word of anti-terror operations taking place in paris and brussels. police say they have stopped an advanced plot. a man police called a high-level terror operation custody in a parisian suburb. six people, part of a probe, say they are searching for not one, but two surviving suspects. al jazeera reports on the widening investigation. how many attackers were involved in the brussels bombing. c c.t.v. showed three at the airport. two dead, one on the run. but belgium state media says there may have been two people involved - a suicide bomber and another man that may be at large. as the man hunt widens, serious questions are asked of the intelligence services. the background of airport bomber should have rung bells, brahim was involved in robbery in brussels, shooting police with a kalashnikov. in september 2010 he was sentenced to prison. in october 2014, he was released on parole and absconded. the first indication of isil affiliat
san francisco, the information founder of lesson, guys. apple is the big story, after the bell, analysis is going to be out, and a lot of people are liking to hear that they are going to have down year, and a lot of people don t want to go into the paper with expectations so high, but this is the opposite. well, talk about negative sentiment of a company with $50 billion in revenue. but we have seen the device, it is a device with huge sales and hard to repeat. but people are ultimately talking about there is going to be a new phone or the device or the car or the tv or something. and jessica, we often hear the ceos of the smaller tech companies try to invoke the law of larger numbers, and so with the recent law of numbers, how much does it apply to apple and the earnings each quarter? it absolutely does. this is the same story every quarter whars is going to be happening to the iphones sales, and the long de-klining growth, and it is going to raise the question of what
i am alix steel. we are one day closer to the weekend. it is time for the news feed. another sign the legal market is getting stronger first-time claims for unemployment benefits hit and eight-year low and the number of people receiving jobless benefits fell last week. a clash of the tech titans over books. google is teaming up with barnes & noble to take on amazon shoppers will be able to get same-day delivery of books ordered through barnes & noble delivered by google shopping express. mexico has approved final roles in the opening of the industry final rules in the opening of the oil industry which will open up for companies such as exxon mobil and royal dutch shell. by all accounts, the bank of america ceo brian moynihan just lost a battle with the u.s. government on how much will cost to settle claims on toxic mortgage bonds. bfar a tentative agreement, would pay at least $16 billion. bill cohan is our contributing editor with us from skype to talk about eric hol