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Speaker 1: Bloomberg Audio Studios, podcasts, radio news.

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Speaker 2: The Stock Movers report, your roundup of companies making moves

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Speaker 2: in the stock market, harnessing the power of Bloomberg Data.

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Speaker 3: Let's tickle up now at some stocks on the move

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Speaker 3: today in Europe. I'm Stephen Carroll and I'm joined by

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Speaker 3: Bloomberg's Breaking News editor Louise Moon.

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Speaker 4: Luise, good morning.

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Speaker 3: Let's start with HSBC, then Europe's largest bank, appointing Brendan

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Speaker 3: Nelson as its next chair to replace Mark Tucker.

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Speaker 1: Indeed, yeah, so Brendan Nelson. He's been in an interim

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Speaker 1: position since October. That's after, as you say, Mark Tucker left.

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Speaker 1: He he had been chaired four much of the last decade.

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Speaker 1: He was very hands on and he left over the

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Speaker 1: summer or the end of summer to be the chair

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Speaker 1: of AIA, the insurer. So I've chosen Brendan Nelson to

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Speaker 1: replace him. As I say, he's been in the interim position.

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Speaker 1: He joined the board in twenty twenty three, but aside

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Speaker 1: from that he spent most of his career at KPMG.

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Speaker 1: So in terms of the UK, he's well known in

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Speaker 1: UK boardrooms, but he's being seen as quite a surprise

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Speaker 1: choice and a bit of a safe pair of hands

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Speaker 1: in a way. The surprise being that first he's kind

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Speaker 1: of indicated that he wouldn't expect to serve a long

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Speaker 1: term and that was echoed by the CEO yesterday. You

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Speaker 1: know that Nelson doesn't want to do the full six

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Speaker 1: to nine years, so potentially a short tenure for him.

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Speaker 1: And then also in terms of it being a surprise,

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Speaker 1: HBC have had a long process of trying to find

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Speaker 1: a chairman. There's been lots of kind of high profile

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Speaker 1: external candidates that have been named in various reports, you know,

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Speaker 1: people including the likes of George Osborne, the former UK Chancellor.

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Speaker 1: So the choice of Brendan Nelson kind of suggests that

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Speaker 1: they couldn't find a good external candidate. He also doesn't

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Speaker 1: have at least publicly much experience or any experience in Asia,

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Speaker 1: and obviously it comes as HSBC is overhauling itself and

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Speaker 1: kind of grappling with the tensions that are ongoing between

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Speaker 1: the US and China. That will be quite a key

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Speaker 1: thing to his role to navigate all that volatility. So

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Speaker 1: a bit of a surprise pick there, and yeah, it's

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Speaker 1: been seeing a bit of a safe pick just to

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Speaker 1: stick with the interim.

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Speaker 3: Interesting to see the shares in HSPC gennero one percent

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Speaker 3: this morning. Let's turn to Sainsbury's next, the Qatari Sovereign

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Speaker 3: Wealth Fund selling a large steak in the supermarket chain.

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Speaker 4: Indeed, so the Quitari is Sovereign Wealth fund.

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Speaker 1: They've been Sainsbury's largest shareholder for a long time. They

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Speaker 1: first invested in twenty in two thousand and seven. That

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Speaker 1: was one of their first investments in the UK. But

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Speaker 1: they've sold down now about eighty four just under eighty

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Speaker 1: four million shares, so that's worth two hundred and sixty.

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Speaker 4: Six million pounds.

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Speaker 1: So it brings their their almost two decade run as

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Speaker 1: the biggest sholder to an end. So now Sainsbury's biggest

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Speaker 1: shaholder will be the investment fund that's run by the

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Speaker 1: Czech billionaire Daniel Kratinski, so he will now be Sainsbury's

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Speaker 1: largest shareholder. Interesting, So since Katar have invested, Sainsbury's shares

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Speaker 1: have fallen about forty five percent. They've kind of struggled

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Speaker 1: to reshape their business as the competition heats up in.

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Speaker 4: The grocery space.

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Speaker 1: They have been doing a bit better recently, shared so

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Speaker 1: far this year risen about nineteen percent. They're tapping into

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Speaker 1: kind of cashtrup consumers wanting promotions, wanting loyalty cards, so

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Speaker 1: Bloomberg Intelligence. They're saying this morning that that sales growth

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Speaker 1: has kind of allowed that sharehold exit and they would

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Speaker 1: expect the wealth fund to sell down more of their

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Speaker 1: state to sell down the remaining stake. So an interesting one.

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Speaker 1: Sainsbury's falling on the news this morning.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, down three point nine percent at the moment, and

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Speaker 3: the latest move in a different direction from Intertext the

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Speaker 3: owner of Zara of eight percent in Spain.

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Speaker 1: Indeed a better day for Zara, so end of Techsara's owner, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: shares soaring the most in five years. That's after their

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Speaker 1: sales figures fought November, so sales accelerated, revenue up about

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Speaker 1: almost eleven percent.

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Speaker 4: Is being seen as kind of a bit of a relief.

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Speaker 1: They've had a spell of slightly lackluster sales, so it's

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Speaker 1: kind of easing investor concerns of it losing steam. Their

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Speaker 1: expansion has cooled quite a lot from their post pandemic

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Speaker 1: heart as they've been dealing with a whole host of things,

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Speaker 1: including trade frictions softer to consumer demand. But the figures

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Speaker 1: this morning are pointing to a bit of resilience despite

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Speaker 1: you know, there's still relatively weak consumer sentiment, but.

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Speaker 4: Showing some resilience.

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Speaker 1: It's coming out above their peers on the back of

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Speaker 1: a vast number of reasons, you know, including they've got

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Speaker 1: a relatively agile supply chain. The designs are seen as

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Speaker 1: being very on trend that kind of thing, so anlessa

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Speaker 1: pointing to that, pointing to their strong margins, their strong

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Speaker 1: cash flow, and they're expecting upward revisions on the back

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Speaker 1: of this.

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Speaker 4: So, as you say, shares accelerating on the back.

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