alan higgins stays with us on the program.we have a host of big an exclusive interviews for you today. we were talking to the international transport association and the bank of finland's board member. anna: coming up, we get a look into the health of the banking in be with the ceo of amro.- anb this is bloomberg. ♪ anna: it is just gone 6:15 in london. juliette saly standing by with a business flash. juliette. you.tte: manus, thank sorry aramco plans to sign deals with at least tenuous companies when president trump -- according to two people familiar with the matter, they include halliburton. aramco and for halliburton declined to comment. ge did not immediately return phone and messages seeking comment. apple plans to announce an itste to his lap -- laptop development. according to people familiar with the matter, they are planning three new laptops and a move that could help offset new competition from microsoft as well as the cunning ipad sales. apple declined to comment. that is your bloomberg business flash. anna, manus

alex higgins -- alan he and stays with us.aylor riggs has the latest list of >> vladimir putin is in france where he is eating with president emmanuel macron. senatorjust hours after john mccain called him a bigger threat than the islamic state. the german chancellor angela merkel says that the european union and the u.s. must remain partners despite their differences. merkel told a conference that strong relations with the u.s. are of great importance. she signals that in a donald trump era, europe must shape its own destiny. president trump call germany's trade surplus very bad and blasted nato allies for not spending enough on defense. arrest took place on the south coast of england, hundreds of miles south of manchester. none of the suspects have been charged or identified. they are being held on suspicion of violating a terrorist act. the president has reasserted control over the national congress. he survived a revolt by some of the party's most senior leaders. they rejected the option of resuming -- removing zuma at the

also joined aside from teddy and alan we have the tesla reporter tim higgins. at this market here. it was rather dovish today. in the markets took it we are slightly higher now. i wouldn't say were jumping for joy. we had been negative all day. i think the market is pretty much showing what they expected to hear. there was nothing and that seems months away. for the moment. they are back in the front seat of the car. in the economy kind of bumps along they are advancing the interest rates. he mentioned the federal reserve they wrote in their statement that they do see a slight slowing and economic growth but the auto sales the march jobs report which was a bad miss. is that just a few shaky pieces of data or something more. are you seen any change in the trading flows on the floor there. in the past couple of weeks. after the big bump on monday and tuesday last week. even though it continues to make a few records almost every day. there was slim to no chance that they would raise rates today. i think like you said earlier. it's really all about earnings and ear