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Welcome to the pulse live from bloombergs European Headquarters in london. I am Francine Lacqua. Guy johnson is off today. Thats get straight to my big interview with philip green, the owner of top shop which has hundreds of stores around the world. Now he wants to expand the brand even further. The Biggest InternationalFlagship Store in new york city. When we put our flag down in the middle of 5th avenue, there is no leaving. It is a commitment. We have to get it right. Our flag store bills Flagship Stores, we try to do something unique. It will probably be slightly more difficult. There are certain things we are not allowed to do. You move a light bulb and they want to come and see you. And we ....
Buses are packed. The strikes are about modernizeation of the tube. Transport for london is trying to update and get rid of ticket offices but with the modernize modernizeation comes the opportunity to impact business. Waking up at 4k a. M. Has good watch out what mario draghi will do. A lot of Brokerage Companies expected to cut rates before march. Will we get a rate cut snl that is the question. Watch out for p. M. I. Services. Well get italian, french and germany. P. M. I. s are are important services. We have a little bit of disappointing news in the last couple of weeks. Were watching the tech world and this data. What else are we watching . The data is very important. Were expecting them to come out with big numbers. Europe is where the big story is. R. B. S. , Deutsche Bank looking for a rate cut now. My big question is that japanese rebound yesterday, does it carr ....
Hello. Welcome to countdown. Just gone 6 00 here in london this thursday morning. We have Earnings Releases as well as other things. The companys latest results showed a wider loss in 2013 dan previously thought. Dont miss our exclusive interview with the cfo later this hour. Elians from allianz breaking now. Neils anderson will talk to us after earnings break next hour. They own the biggest container shipping line. Breaking now. Fourth quarter has missed estimates. Analysts estimated 1. 3 one level is above what they had targeted. The actual figure for a operating profit, 10. 1 billion, up over the previous years mine. 4 billion and given some guidance. Operating profit will be between 9. 510. 5 billion. They have raised their dividend to 5. 3 euros per share up from 4. 5 and they will be looking to see whether they are planning share buybacks or will stick with an increasing dividend as well. Those are the early headlines fro ....
Im guy johnson. And i am francine lacqua. Coming up, a bloomberg exclusive. We speak with the South African finance minister as a nation sets to go to the holes. The army in ukraine has become an operation to retake ovyansk. Pressure is reporting that two helicopters have been shut down and one pilot killed. Down and oneshot pilot killed. Heather, can you give us the latest on the situation, visavis the offensive . Day. Re protests on labor the situation here has become increasingly tense, as you mentioned. There was an antiterrorist operation by Ukrainian Forces to slovyansk. We have had two statements, one from the interior ministry saying this operation started about 4 30 a. M. Today. They have circled the town, taking control of nine roadblocks as interior minister and the head of the National Guard and the defense ....
Kinds. You can have mallard ducks. There are different flavors of ducks. Corporate said bskyb. Corporate and bskyb. A lot of moving parts. They added 74,000 subscribers. To find competition for bt. Defying analyst. They did have a little bit of profit erosion cuts costs are up. That hurt revenues. As you can see, investors very happy right there, because there were a lot of analysts that were saying for the first time in 15 years, since they basically got in the paytv game, we were going to see a drop in sky tv viewers, and we did not. Bskyb gaining five percent in todays trading session. One of the few stocks that is open. Hans, you are following m a and prints and sprints possible bid for tmobile. They are talking to bankers and want to get their financing lined up to take over tmobile u. S. They need Regulatory Approval. The it if the fcc and in u. S. Department of justice. We will break that down in 10 minutes. Hans, than ....