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Anna good morning, everyone. This is bloomberg daybreak europe. Breaking headlines from switzerland. Newing authorization of a Share Buyback program. The backward looking numbers netting. This comes in ahead of estimates. This is a year where we have heard from many of the insurance the backward lookingcompanies py natural disasters including forest fires in california and earthquakes and mexico. The only positive from the business perspective from all of that for the insurance sector is willthere is hope this lead to falling prices. That is one thing we are watching out for when we hear lead to falling prices. From swiss re. Regarding softbank, they have confirmed that they do have some interest in it. It is trying to turn it into a technology investor. It wants to purchase as much as a third of the swiss re business. They say they are in discussion softbank on a potential minority investment. We will continue to watch those headl ....
Welcome to countdown. Im anna edwards. Ryan and i am ryan chilcote. Anna we have numbers on the swiss wealth manager. The distant profit before tax is 128 million swiss francs. Here is the key number. 1. 4 million. Ryan 284 billion swiss franc second of april. Anna the big story around this business is around m a in both senses of the word really of whether anyone would be arrested in buying this business wednesday settled there outstanding issues and indeed what they might be interested by. Ryan indeed. They are about when billion dollars worth of cash they could deploy. We are seeing holds on acquisitions. Definitely something we will be speaking with the ceo. Anna lets talk but u. S. Equity markets. Fascinating moves. The great takes opening up in a limited fashion this morning. Seems the equity markets are trying to move on from that story. Anna ryan a remarkable story. Looks like investors have moved on. Anna 100 of the s p 500 reported this weeks earnings very much a focus. Lets ....
Europe and the u. S. Anne good morning and welcome to bloomberg daybreak europe, our flagship morning show from london. Im anna edwards. Manus im manus cranny. The markets took a bit of a punching last week. Investors must 868 billion, the worst week this year. Put the two together, the Bloomberg Barclays aggregate bond index, and they lost 681 billion, anna. If you look at the losses here, the question is, was it an opportunity . The japanese scooped up u. S. Treasury bonds. They came in size and plenty. We have the bond yields at the bottom of your screen and 10 year Government Bond yields are rising in the u. S. And kuroda is there. Anne the biggest weekly combined lost since the start of this year, a landmark week. Lets put up that risk radar and show you where the equity markets are. The asian session, moving higher. We have decent data out of china. Global stocks a ....
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