. >>> china's fourth quarter gdp beatsest pe esest beats expecta >>> carrefour shares trade higher as fourth quarter sales offset the forecast cuts. >>> and apple says it will contribute 3$350 billion to the u.s. economy over the next five years, and pay some $38 billion in repatriation taxes. >>> good morning, everybody. it is thursday, we had another record breaking session in the u.s. with all three major indices making gains of more than 1% during the session let's look at the picture in europe and see how things are trading there. we're off to a good start as well not as strong as we were about an hour ago, but still trading positive on the day, up 1% or so, that's a far cry from the plus 1% gains we saw across all three major indices in the u.s the nikkei coming off its 26-year high, down 0.4% in the session. let's switch to european indices. ftse is lagging a bit, down 0.2% this is while the macron and may meeting is taking place. we'll get there shortly. willem is there. cac cac is in the green, and xetra dax leading the charge it's a big day for germany there's the bundesbank

carrefour has also announced that it will partner with the chinese internet giant tencent. patron in a deal worth around $5 billion as it looks to expand in the us and cash in the growing taste for the mexican spirit. sales of tequila have been climbing in recent years, while other alcohols like vodka and brandy have fallen in popularity. the deal will make barcardi the second largest spirit company in the united states. the uk's competition regulator has ruled that fox's proposed takeover of sky is not in the public interest. it says the deal would give the murdoch family too much control over news providers in the uk. andrew walker is following the story for us. andrew, we were waiting for this ruling, won't we? it is an interesting one, and they say it is not in the public interest? the competition and markets authority looked at this proposed takeover. 0ne basis was broadcasting standards, and it was happy with the implication standards. but on the question of media plurality, it was not. it takes the view that the murdoch family would have access to about 30% of the uk

we heard that tencent, alibaba's rival, signed a partnership with car carrefour. so they're trying to gain a larger presence in traditional retail >> and alibaba in china invested with sunop retail, the biggest retailer in all of china carrefour has a big presence there. much more so than walmart. clearly a move we have seen with amazon >> all about amazon. all following its trend. >>> coming up on "worldwide exchange," uk finance minister philip hammond on the pound. we'll hear what he just said in davos. as we head to break, a check on european equities, mixed at this moment as we await the ecb policy meeting the dax down 26% orwi eha wl be right back and actually improves memory. the secret is an ingredient originally discovered... in jellyfish. in clinical trials, prevagen has been shown to improve short-term memory. prevagen. the name to remember. >>> welcome back we heard from treasury secretary mnuchin earlier in the show in terms of his comments on the dollar geoff cutmore has been speaking to uk chancellor philip hammond as well about how the economy in t

first quarter sales and says the current quarter is strong and then there is french retail giant carrefours, increase investment in e-commerce china's ten sent announcing a partner ship with carrefour to compete with the traditional retail space back to you. >> seema, thank you very much for that >>> watching shares of apple today. the company announcing release dates for that delayed home pod. preorders start this friday. the unit begins shipping on february 9 compared to the competition, looking at a four year lag versus amazon which first launched the echo smart speaker on november 6 of 2014. this is going to be interesting as the race has a new entranlt >> apple has to worry about putting out a phone every year which amazon is not doing. a phone that makes a the love money. interesting to me apple first talked about the home pod back last summer. said they were going to deliver it for the holidays. finally delivering it beginning of february. still two key features of home pod that are not going to be in it the stereo where you can put two together and deliver a stereo sound. and other

to of that taking carrefour its highest since august. upgraded toing, outperform at rbc.evenue for stockrising 8%, pushing to almost a two-year high. finally, sky trading at its highest since december 2016. it has been downgraded for hold -- to hold and the markets authority dealing a little setback potentially to its 21st century fox's planned takeover of sky. we are hearing it would give rupert murdoch too much control over the media and is not in the public interest. nevertheless, investors shrugging that off, perhaps not seeing that provisional finding from the cma as much of a threat to a final deal. guy: thank you very much. next, are we heading for another financial crisis? we will be live in davos with tom keene and he will pose that includingo a panel jes staley. that is next. this is bloomberg. ♪ guy: good morning, we are 47 minutes into the equity market session this morning. our stock of the hour is easyjet. definitely up this morning. of metrics.ber basically, the share price up by 5.88%. the average volume versus the 20 day average. we are trading nearly 700

carrefour has also announced that it will partner with the chinese internet giant tencent.itte. real madrid, holding the top spot for 11 years, came in second. barcelona in third. the 20 richest football clu b barcelona in third. the 20 richest football club saw their combined revenue rise to a record £7 billion last year. dogs and cats were well taken care last year. dogs and cats were well ta ken care off last year. dogs and cats were well taken care off over christmas, if the results from pets at home are anything to go by... like—for—like revenue rose by 7.2% in the three months to january, sales up 6.8%, services like grooming and vets were up services like grooming and vets were up by services like grooming and vets were up by 10%. there is a dog there, camouflaged somewhere. it is a pet! lets put these the board for you... big falls in the bookies yesterday as yesterday as far as shares were concerned. they are back up again today. sky shares up 2.4% on the day, despite a provisional ruling that the deal cannot go ahead. investors do think that it will eventually go