Speaker 1: This is Bloomberg day Baker for this Tuesday, the twenty
Speaker 1: fourth of January in London. Coming up this hour, leguard
Speaker 1: on Guard, the ECB president, says the bank will stay
Speaker 1: the course on inflation searching for competition, the US Justice
Speaker 1: Department prepares to sue Google over its digital ad dominance.
Speaker 1: In a tweet, elon Must tells a jury he had
Speaker 1: the funding needed to take Tessler private and twenty eighteen
Speaker 1: regulator role reversal, low tax loons and putting the OH
Speaker 1: in O N s. Those are the stories we're looking
Speaker 1: at in today's papers. I'm James Wilcock. Plus Apple takes
Speaker 1: hand eye coordination to the next level with a three
Speaker 1: thousand dollar mixed reality headset. That's all straight ahead on
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Speaker 1: Good morning, I'm Stephen Carroll and I'm Caroline Hecker. Here
Speaker 1: are the stories that we're following today. ECB President Christine
Speaker 1: Legarde says the bank will do everything necessary to return
Speaker 1: inflation to its two percent goal. In a speech in Germany,
Speaker 1: Laguard pointed to more significant interest rate increases in coming meetings.
Speaker 1: That view is supported by JP Morgan's CEIO for Fixed
Speaker 1: Income Ian Steely, who told Bloomberg's Jonathan Pharaoh that the
Speaker 1: Central Bank has a way to go on rate hikes.
Speaker 1: We were in a world where they were hiking rates
Speaker 1: to deal with inflation. Now inflation is coming or likely
Speaker 1: to come off because what's happening in energy prices that
Speaker 1: should be good for the economy. Growth was supposed. We're
Speaker 1: supposed to be in recession in Europe at the moment,
Speaker 1: and we're not. So are the e C began and
Speaker 1: maybe have to go slower but further as they try
Speaker 1: to battle it. Does the ECB hike more than the Fed?
Speaker 1: In yes, Steele's comment that add to the unfolding debate
Speaker 1: over whether a slowdown in the pace of rate heights
Speaker 1: is appropriate as inflation dips from all time highs. The
Speaker 1: US Justice Department is poised to sue Google over the
Speaker 1: search giants dominance and the digital advertising market. Bloomberg sources
Speaker 1: say the case is expected to be filed in a
Speaker 1: federal court before the end of the week. That also
Speaker 1: will mark the Justice Department's second monopoly case against parent
Speaker 1: company Alphabet. Google has said the market for online advertising
Speaker 1: it's crowded and competitive. During his second day on the
Speaker 1: stand in his security food trial, Elon Musk has defended
Speaker 1: his tweet about taking Tesla private with more his Bloomberg's
Speaker 1: head Baxter, the Crush of Tasham only shuttered around a
Speaker 1: deal with a Shoudy public investment fund. He said he
Speaker 1: had had a handshake agreement in getting help going private,
Speaker 1: but then they began to back pedal on the arrangement
Speaker 1: after his goal private tweet. He also said he had
Speaker 1: support from Larry La Shan as well as two other
Speaker 1: investment firms. Musco also noted the wording of the text
Speaker 1: that he was contemplating taking the company private. He's back
Speaker 1: on the stand today in San Francisco. I'm at Baxter
Speaker 1: Bloomberg Daybreak Europe for his plans to cut around three thousand,
Speaker 1: two hundred jobs across Europe, with the majority concentrated in Germany.
Speaker 1: The cuts effect roles in development and administrative areas. It
Speaker 1: follows workforce reductions in the US has forward slashers costs
Speaker 1: in a shift towards electric vehicles and apples. Long anticipated
Speaker 1: mixed reality headset would attempt to create a three D
Speaker 1: version of the iPhones operating system. So also say that
Speaker 1: it would include eye and hand tracking systems that could
Speaker 1: set the technology apart from rival products. Bloombergs Apple correspondent
Speaker 1: Mark German explains how it works. Where you control the
Speaker 1: device is you can just look at something, whether you
Speaker 1: want to launch an app, whether you want to swipe
Speaker 1: through a list or toggle a setting, look at it
Speaker 1: and then you pinch your thumb and your index finger
Speaker 1: together when you're looking at it to launch it. Just
Speaker 1: like on a touch screen you tap what you want
Speaker 1: or on a mouse you point the cursor toward it
Speaker 1: and then you click. This is you look and tap
Speaker 1: your fingers together. So pretty nifty, Mark German. There well,
Speaker 1: he says. The roughly three thousand dollar device will be
Speaker 1: out later this year. It will probably be called Reality Probe. Well.
Speaker 1: Here in the UK, Prime Minister Ishi soon Ac has
Speaker 1: ordered a probe into Conservative Party Chairman of Deans and
Speaker 1: how he's tax affairs. So how he says he was
Speaker 1: careless with his tax affairs following a report that he
Speaker 1: paid a five million pound bill to Revenue and Customs.
Speaker 1: Labor Leader Kir Starmer condemned the lack of ethics. So
Speaker 1: how we can't stay as Tory Party chair. The very
Speaker 1: idea he can be discussing and negotiating his own tax
Speaker 1: affairs with the body that he's supposed to be running.
Speaker 1: Everybody knows it's wrong. Labor Leader Kir Starmer, there he
Speaker 1: will be questioning the Prime Minister tomorrow. The PMS announced
Speaker 1: probe follows allegations about financial impropriety among the Conservative Party
Speaker 1: that have undermined the Prime Minister has planed to run
Speaker 1: an administration beyond reproach. Okay, those are a few of
Speaker 1: our top stories for you this morning. Listen. I've pulled
Speaker 1: out of one of the kind of piles of most
Speaker 1: interesting stories I've read this morning, Barkley's warning that there's
Speaker 1: a real risk of greenwashing. We've talked so much over
Speaker 1: the last couple of years around E s G. They
Speaker 1: say that actually there's a real clash emerging market countries
Speaker 1: want debt relief, they want to explore that sometimes that's
Speaker 1: being tied to commitments to preserve nature. Barkley's have done
Speaker 1: a lot of work and some research into this. They say,
Speaker 1: actually the amount of money that goes towards this nature
Speaker 1: conservation goals in those deals is often a small fraction
Speaker 1: of the transaction size, so we should be really quite wary.
Speaker 1: I think that's quite interesting that the E s G
Speaker 1: is getting a lot of the sort of light what
Speaker 1: has been seen as a win win. Actually their wide
Speaker 1: could be green washing. No interesting stuff on my list
Speaker 1: of interesting stories today is that the reopening of China's
Speaker 1: borders could help the UK economy because of the tourists
Speaker 1: coming here to spend more money. This is according to
Speaker 1: apparently Yes point to percentage points of GDP could be
Speaker 1: added to growth in three This is according to Credit
Speaker 1: Suite Stars that Chinese tourists and stronger UK exports could
Speaker 1: help things when it comes to China's reopening her helping
Speaker 1: the UK. My god, well, I did see the photographs
Speaker 1: actually of Chinese tourist returning to Tie Beaches for the
Speaker 1: Lunar New Year holiday, so yeah it is. I mean
Speaker 1: that that Chinese tourism business is worth so much money,
Speaker 1: okay up next regulator role reverse or low tax loons
Speaker 1: and putting the oh in O and s now. The
Speaker 1: paper review on blue Bird Daybreak Europe. The news you
Speaker 1: need to know from today's papers FLO makes James Walcok
Speaker 1: joins US now with the details. James the former Chancellor
Speaker 1: and deems the Harwi is on the front pages today
Speaker 1: mainly because Rishi Sunaka is now ordered a probe into
Speaker 1: his tax affairs. The FT says that Zahari is fighting
Speaker 1: for his political life. The Mirror headline the only way
Speaker 1: is ethics. But that aside, James, you're interested in some
Speaker 1: other FT stories, and in particular the UK beginning post
Speaker 1: Brexit review of the EU's investor fund regulation. This is
Speaker 1: quite interesting, exactly, Kathy. You emphasize that just perfectly because
Speaker 1: for a long time this story has been the other
Speaker 1: way around. It's been sort of the EU looking at
Speaker 1: the UK's financial stability. But so part of the Brexit
Speaker 1: deal was that EU based funds can continue to use
Speaker 1: these kind of passports into the sort of the UK's
Speaker 1: market until five and you get holds actually two trillion
Speaker 1: pounds in cash and EU offshore financial center. So this
Speaker 1: isn't a small amount, and that's predominantly Island and Luxembourg. Now.
Speaker 1: During the pension fund meltdown last September, the ft and
Speaker 1: this piece, it was predominantly pension fund vehicles based in
Speaker 1: Ireland and Luxembourg that were the ones that the Bank
Speaker 1: of England were bailing out. So now UK watchdogs are
Speaker 1: writing to the EU counterpart to say, so what are
Speaker 1: your safeguards and as their regulations diverge. It turns out
Speaker 1: that bank from the Governor Andrew Bailey last week Todd
Speaker 1: MPs that he wasn't that impressed and he doesn't think
Speaker 1: these things are going to improve because the EU say
Speaker 1: they can't change their regulations until five, which is when
Speaker 1: they're getting a mandate, which is also when these passports
Speaker 1: run out. So increasingly the UK is now looking at
Speaker 1: these kind of large amounts of money in Europe and
Speaker 1: saying we're not sure this is good for our financial stability. Okay.
Speaker 1: In the Times, William Hague is writing a piece there
Speaker 1: and he's warning watch out Rishi Sunac Low tax loons
Speaker 1: are circling. It's quite something, Stephen, when a former leader
Speaker 1: of the Conservative Party is calling his own MPs loons um.
Speaker 1: So William hag doesn't name this MP, but is corking
Speaker 1: about a recent meeting Rishi Sunac had with his own backbench.
Speaker 1: Is what he's saying, you all understand I can't do
Speaker 1: tax cuts. And one reporters saying I do want tax
Speaker 1: cuts and I'm not an idiot. Well, William Hagan is
Speaker 1: politely saying you are an idiot, and it's a Tory
Speaker 1: calling for public spending. This is unusual arguments, so I
Speaker 1: think it's worth pointing out in the papers. He's saying
Speaker 1: that defense does not need a small amount of money
Speaker 1: if you look at Ukraine. He says, we also need
Speaker 1: green substidutes to combat what's happening in the US, and
Speaker 1: ultimately central banks might be underestimating inflation. We don't know.
Speaker 1: And the quieteying mini budget was a sure fire way
Speaker 1: of saying, actually, trying to have a tax reduction during
Speaker 1: a period of high interest rates and inflation doesn't work.
Speaker 1: So he sums us up by saying that Pete voters
Speaker 1: want economic competence from the Tories, not just tax cuts.
Speaker 1: There is more to politics than just offering a sort
Speaker 1: of a short term incentive. Yeah, I mean on the
Speaker 1: other hand, one can have a bit of sympathy for
Speaker 1: the MP. The MP understands that with the cost of
Speaker 1: living crisis, his own constituents are watching their tax bills
Speaker 1: rise and that's a stress point, isn't it. And that's
Speaker 1: the debate that they're going to have over the next year.
Speaker 1: And the challenges you face are trying to hold these
Speaker 1: two wings together. Yeah, absolutely, you're stuck on the times.
Speaker 1: Though this morning changed because there's another story, but this
Speaker 1: time about the n S, the Office for National Statistics
Speaker 1: and what's going on. I couldn't get away from this one,
Speaker 1: so long story short. Obviously, there has published a lot
Speaker 1: of data and most of it is very accurate. But
Speaker 1: in productivity, the idea that the amount of output per
Speaker 1: hour you work with a focus on productivity because after
Speaker 1: the working from home revolution, now for the pandemic, we're
Speaker 1: really quite interested in how the UK performed. And to
Speaker 1: put it bluntly, the n S had to release a
Speaker 1: correction to their figures because they had added up two
Speaker 1: years worth of growth into one. So from last year's productivity,
Speaker 1: we went from being the best bar Japan in the
Speaker 1: G seven to the worst bar France. It's a complete reversal,
Speaker 1: and it is highlighting that Britain's productivity chronic productivity problem
Speaker 1: which we've talked about private and public section investment. It's
Speaker 1: not a question of oh, what have we learned from
Speaker 1: the pandemic and more, Oh that's not so great. So
Speaker 1: the technology has not helped particularly. Yeah, very interesting, Okay,
Speaker 1: James Wilcock, thank you very much for that review of
Speaker 1: the newspapers this morning. Let's dig into the latest commentary
Speaker 1: from the European Central Bank now, Christine Laguard pointing to
Speaker 1: more significant interest rate rises as they, in her words,
Speaker 1: stay the course to bring inflation back down to the
Speaker 1: two percent target. This, of course, I had of next
Speaker 1: week's ECB meeting. Markets are expecting the bank to raise
Speaker 1: rates by another fifty basis points are ECB reporter at
Speaker 1: Yana Rando joins us now for a more good morning
Speaker 1: to you, Yana. How clear, then, have the signals been
Speaker 1: from the ECB president in this latest speech. I think
Speaker 1: she couldn't have been any clearer. Um she said, and
Speaker 1: it was very specific, um that staying the course is
Speaker 1: the policy mantra for the ECB for the time to come.
Speaker 1: And that means if there had been any doubts about
Speaker 1: another half point high coming up in February. Those outs
Speaker 1: are now dispelled. There weren't then many, I have to say,
Speaker 1: because she was already very specific in December. But we
Speaker 1: have seen um, some diverging opinions I would say, over
Speaker 1: the past couple of days and UM, and she put
Speaker 1: her foot down and said for now, this is what
Speaker 1: we're going to do. And that was that was certainly
Speaker 1: very forceful. Yeah, okay, so very forceful. But the issue
Speaker 1: is about, um, you know, getting unanimity or or at
Speaker 1: least getting agreement a course. UM. The e c B
Speaker 1: is often seen more difficult than for the fair. How
Speaker 1: does her position compared to other Governing Council members that
Speaker 1: we've heard from, Janna, I think for February there all
Speaker 1: of them are pretty much on on message and and
Speaker 1: everybody expects another half point hike. UM. The more interesting
Speaker 1: debate is going to be March, when no forecasts are available.
Speaker 1: And of course we have seen quite quite a few
Speaker 1: developments since the last round in December. UM that suggests
Speaker 1: that the inflation outlook might have actually improved a little bit.
Speaker 1: Gas prices have come down, UM, inflation itself has slowed
Speaker 1: quite a bit. And UH that of course, UH takes
Speaker 1: pressure out of out of wage discussions. UM. So there
Speaker 1: is there is a bit of hope that the forecast
Speaker 1: will look a look a lot better and UM, you know,
Speaker 1: with that, with that prospect came UH quite a diverging
Speaker 1: view of opinion. We've heard from from the likes of
Speaker 1: Robert Holtzman in class not UM sitting very much on
Speaker 1: the hawkish side of the governing council UM, pushing for
Speaker 1: for several more UM half point hikes UM in the
Speaker 1: in the first half of the year. And that of
Speaker 1: course contrasts very clearly with comments from from Nazovisco or
Speaker 1: Janis Donadas, um, you know, from from Italy and Greece respectively,
Speaker 1: UH that argued for graduality UM, saying we need to
Speaker 1: be more gradual, we need to take into account what
Speaker 1: we've already done. UM. And and they also brought up
Speaker 1: the the idea of you know, UM, maybe now is
Speaker 1: not not the time to hike too much and and
Speaker 1: go into into restrictive territory too much. UM. So there
Speaker 1: is a difference of opinion out there. UM. We're not
Speaker 1: going to get much clarity, I'm afraid um in the
Speaker 1: next couple of weeks, because ultimately the ECB says it
Speaker 1: is data dependent. It will look at the numbers, it
Speaker 1: will look at the forecast, and then it will take
Speaker 1: its decision. And March is unfortunately still quite a while away. Okay,
Speaker 1: And and of course we have you know that those
Speaker 1: p M I datas out later as well. What are
Speaker 1: the data points that we should be kind of keeping
Speaker 1: a very close eye on that would feed into the
Speaker 1: U E c B S thinking, yeah, so the p
Speaker 1: M E s are going to be an interesting one
Speaker 1: to watch, um, mainly because for the Eurozone we are
Speaker 1: expecting all economists, I should say, are expecting return to
Speaker 1: growth in the services sector and um that that would
Speaker 1: be certainly good news. UM. What what I like to
Speaker 1: look at for the p M I s are the
Speaker 1: forward looking indicators, UM, the order intake um uh, export orders.
Speaker 1: That might tell us a little bit about demand in
Speaker 1: China and how that is going to um uh you know,
Speaker 1: boost boost the economy. And then of course, of course
Speaker 1: the price and indicators are going to be interesting, UM,
Speaker 1: how much are companies adjusting their prices? Um, we've seen
Speaker 1: a slowdown and producer prices and other indicators UM in
Speaker 1: important prices of course. UM. So it's going to be
Speaker 1: interesting to watch whether whether they're UM that will feed
Speaker 1: through UM and and maybe ease pressures a little bit.
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