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next, electrolux ceo jonas samuelson joins us next.s go -- congress slams facebook's libra, is one lawmaker brands it monopoly money. we hear from the top financial chairwoman in the house, maxine waters. this is bloomberg. ♪ matt: you're watching "bloomberg surveillance" i am matt miller in berlin. this up plans maker put operating profit in line with estimates. it highlighted southeast asia as a bright spot, seeing demand was positive. joining us from stockholm to discuss this further is jonas samuelsson, ceo at electrolux. kind of bucking the trend here of bad earnings. you have the positive effects of falling room materials prices. i wonder about your pricing power. can you raise prices further? yes.: we have significant headwinds from both raw materials and tariffs. for the second quarter in a row we have been able to fully offset those headwinds through pricing. on top of that, we have been successful in driving sales, meaning we are selling more of our innovative, higher-margin, featured projec products in the market. that is pu