we are a european company alcatel and an american company lucent.e extremely strong in the u.s. we are extremely strong in asia. we are very strong in europe as well. we intend to play everywhere. do -- intend to [indiscernible] , to be a real leader in this industry. [indiscernible] the only fact that we have been partnershipsnce -- with intel on months i. this really shows you how really are and how winning we are. >> michel combes, that is fighting talk. thank you very much indeed. chief executive of alcatel lucent really pitching his words. it is all about innovation now. back to you. >> caroline, thank you so much for that interview. samsung unveiled its hotly anticipated galaxy s5 at the mobile world congress. there is speculation the device will have a fingerprint scanner and a 16 megapixel camera. as samsung gets more high tech, it is forging stronger ties with google. the companies have agreed to share patents. sam grobart has more. together tonding fight a common foe happens all the time. game of thrones, house of cards. that enemy mine mo

and the bank of england but we have a lot of figures from a lot of companies as well 378 alcatel-lucentone of the biggest gainers in france and volvo also one that we're watching. this is the picture for the urrencies. this is what mark carney has to do. reflect the strength of the u.k. economy without suggesting that interest rates are about to go up. will he do that today? euro/dollar 1.3526. these are the top headlines. japan's prime minister abe is considering the biggest change to his country's military engagement rules since world war ii. he said japan needs to be able to come to the aid of its llies. u.s. law enforcement officials are warning russia-bound airlines to beware of bombs packed in toothpaste tubes. officials did not say what sparked the warning. security at sochi is tight in response to threats of terrorist strikes. rouha ninch accused iran tv of trying to plock his message to the nation. he said they were obstructing his discussion with the people. who ispute centered on would put countries to the president. we're watching the central bank policy decisions. we'll hav

most recently the alcatel-lucent mergers. that one has been a very difficult one.nculty there making the kinds of rapid changes in employment technology employers like to make. you can't do that under french law. >> i believe there are tax evasion probes against linkedin and google right now and france. the messages we are friendlier than we were before. >> good luck with that. >> we will continue to follow franÇoise world -- francois hollande and figure out exactly what french restaurant they will be dining at. i'm hungry. the future of american cities -- is it the jetsons? according to a new install -- a new intel study, the driverless decade may be upon us. 44% of people desire to live in a driverless city. >> so many avenues in new york really pedestrian -- reducing the number of cars just by taking the roadway. city full ofss driverless cars or no cars at all? i want to bring in the intel futurist from new york. what do you mean by a driverless city? >> we ask people what's the world you would like to see? 44% of americans are really interested in seeing a com

jdsu -- >> whoa, whoa, whoa, alcatel-lucent is eating somebody's lunch?yes. >> that's impossible. >> they are monga cisco. you know, for cisco. identify don i don't like the quarter at all and john chambers has an attitude on that call of basically, hey, everything's good here, don't worry about it. and the amen chorus from the analyst i find to be exasperating, oh, more than ever it's about the bottom. you've got to like it. weakness, you know, hey, listen, good opportunity here, puts and takes. holy cow, i mean, they're talking about a company that was a great growth company and it's not anymore. >> i do wonder in terms of activism with cisco one has to given how active activists have been when it comes to technology in particular. the company has -- this was -- i haven't looked at this latest quarter, jim, $37 billion in net cash and securities that represented about 36% of its assets, 32% of its market value. couple that with what seems to be underperforming businesses some frustration in certain quarters at least right here at this desk. where's some

the first one i want to point out is alcatel lucent up over 9% here, surging despite posting a net lossbillion euros last year. that's after a write-down in its mobile business. speaking first to cnbc, the ceo said his plan for the company to be cash flow positive remains on track. >> it should be noticed that the country still is only about 15% of the total revenue, but it's going double digits. so we see a lot of good signs, i think, which position us well for 2014. >> okay. well, i think we just gave you the lowdown there from the ceo of -- i apologize. investors unimpressed with dassault systems. you heard there from the ceo saying that the company was still seeing growth, though, in emerging markets. now, another one i want to point out to you is that daimler, the shares there up over 3.8%. they posted a 45% surge in the fourth quarter boosted by higher margins in its luxury car division, mercedes benz. stay tuned because the daimler chairman will be speaking first to cnbc at 11:25 cet. the company says it will continue to cut costs to offset demand in the year ahead. >>> finally,

alcat alcatel, lucent for two years.n on its reredundancies as well. one stock that isn't doing well today is credit suisse. that's partly because it's missed expectations as a result of the office here in new york. they are now provisioning an additional $570 million for potential sec investigations into whether they illegally tried to get americans to evade tax here and, of course, all those questions over the mortgage assets, as well. here's what the ceo told our colleagues in europe. >> we did take some litigation provisions in the fourth quarter though, some for mortgages and some for the s.e.c. aspect of the cross border/u.s. issue which we're working towards a resolution on. clearly those did bring the bottom line performance but represent continuing progress towards working through a number of these historical issues. >> in the meantime, the bank of england met today. no changes there. >> always, market moving. interesting to hear what mark carney has to say. >>> with more on the u.s. market, strong over sea, str

. >> what are you talking about alcatel and lucent?tanley downgrades and tomorrow it's cisco, what will they say tomorrow? we don't know. >> it's been a tough ride for a long time. lennar? >> the issue with lennar, it is downgraded and we're out of inventory and prices are going up for housing and it starts to cool housing and prices go up and not a lot of inventory, look out. >> no "mad" tonight we got curling. >> curling is very interesting. >> curling is great. and you get to relax a little bit. >> i actually did. i went out to dinner for the first time in ages. i went to bryant park and i ate lunch by myself. i couldn't get into chipotle. >> i'll see you tomorrow right here. we've got janet yellen coming up right after this. [ intercom ] demolition drivers, to your marks. go! [ male announcer ] it's chaos out there. but the m-class sees in your blind spot... ♪ pulls you back into your lane... ♪ even brakes all by itself. it's almost like it couldn't crash... even if it tried. the 2014 m-class. ♪ tdd#: 1-888-648-602121 tjust waiting