welcome to the show. >> thank you. >> you allowed the eads -- rather, the eads is back in the tankerompetition. you don't have the danger of having to negotiate a contract with boeing. what are some of the things you had to tell eads to get them back into the race as well as answering the lingering accusation that this entire competition is tilted toward boeing. >> of course it is in program selection so i can't give you specifics. we didn't have to do anything. the approach, the building and dr. carter, in particular, and the secretary have taken, allowed any credible competitor to compete for the programs. so of the 372 requirements that we laid out, we didn't change a single one of them. i don't think it was so much the department changing their course as it was just realizing that the competition tends to work and that particular company decided to compete. >> and giving the assurance effectively this is a straight down the middle honest competition. >> absolutely. i don't recall a more transparent major competition than this one. we didn't change anything. in terms of the requir

eads is off 0.9% right now. now over to saijal for a quick view on the asian markets. >> japan's nikkei falling more than 1.8%. sparking a sell-off in a lot of the exporter stocks today. the machinery stocks are getting hit hard on the back of core machinery orders for february. remember hong kong tracks rates there because of the dollar peg. the shanghai composite closing at a weak low, down 0.9% as we see liquidity continue to be drained from that market. it's down about 3% as we see political tensions escalate. on that note, i'll send it over to nicole. >> thanks so much, saijal. speaking of tensions, tiger woods officially returns to the green today with the masters golf tournament, kicking off in augusta, georgia. will he still be the favorite despite the scandals? find out later in the show. >>> welcome back to "worldwide exchange." we are looking at futures here lower across the board. we're feeling the momentum or lack thereof from europe and from asia today. dow futures are down about 45 below fair valu

is moving forward pl the next few quarters will be weak, because the auto industry is weak, and the eads is not as strong with production. >> and of course, those are the main customers, alcoa's. and bottom line, more money to work in alcoa? >> no, not yet. my price targets are higher at $19, and i think that we are seeing much of what we are seeing is baked into the stock. so i would not commit new money into it, but not selling on the news. >> thank you, david silver, injoing us for alcoa. >>> and next up, the ceo of adobe systems and he will tell us what the new creation means for bottom line. >>> and how apple's decision to go flashless is impacting the business. >>> and will you have to shell out more money in the government closes corporate tax loopholes? we have answers. you are watching cnbc, first in business worldwide. (announcer) we're in the energy business. but we're also in the showing-kids- new-worlds business. and the startup-capital- for-barbers business. and the this-won't- hurt-a-bit business. because we don't just work here. we live here. these are our families. and o

very briefly, we've got eads trading lower. the company is back into the race for the refueling air tankers contract and according to the french newspapers, they could team up with general electric. general electric is the owner of this channel. >> okay. stephane, thank you. >> coming up next on "worldwide exchange" with, we continue to look at the goldman saga. it continues with the lawmaker implying the timing of the s.e.c.'s suit was politically motivated. we'll look at the latest developments and implications later on in the show. >> and we're about to get unemployment data in the latest minutes out from the bank of england meeting right after this. >>> welcome to "worldwide exchange." the headlines we're watching here today, here in asia, thailand's central bank keeps interest rates unchange as the country's political tension raises doubts about the country's outlook. >> in europe, we're waiting for british unemployment data minutes from the bank of england. >> in the united states, the hedge fund manager at the center of

to be a trend that continues and making the engineering space as one with a nuclear contract with eads. that project could be extended another four years. more generally on the ftse, it is a more positive picture as we go through the session. >> m&a has been confirmed this morning. >> absolutely. deutsche ban is buying areeva, a travel business, a transportation business. it operates trains and buses, including some of the london, the red iconic london bus network. the shares of the price are 775. a lot of this was priced in already. it's not since the middle of martha we've seen shares trading below the 700 level. they used to be around 540 around the middle of march. so not much of a premium being applied to this. only 10 pence premium compared to yesterday. >> anna, thanks for that. we'll get more on the deutsc deutscheban angle in just a moment. first, carolin, different market reactions? >> mixed market results. let me start with credit suisse, the first european bank to post its first quarter earnings. the results were largely in line with expectation wes a net profit of 271 bill