i'm @louisabojesen. the french for-right candidate, marine le pen is neck and neck with manuel macron to win the first round of presidential elections in france. macron leads the race with 26% of the votes, he will pen has 25.5% of the race. claire is in paris. claire, we're moving ever closer. we continue to see these polls just indicating that what a tight race it is. >> it is a tight race. it is impossible, three weeks ahead of the election, to even guess who is going to win. emanuel macron is pretty criticized these days for his supposedly lack of experience, and also for an economic program that seems costly to his opponents, while marine le pen still has to prove she can get past the glass ceiling which always prevented the national front to get national positions in france so far. so far better understanding the national front and who its voters are, i will be going around some of its strongholds in france next week, starting on monday, with the north of france, near lille, ner the city where she

you can find us on twitter, @carolincnbc or @louisabojesen. loads of you being active. we'll see you in a second. >>> hello. welcome. yes, you're still watching "street signs." i'm carolin roth. >> i'm louisa bojesen. your headlines this morning. super exciting. we have a lot on the agenda. >> let's kick things off with ericsson. double the writedowns. ericsson shares sink after they say restructuring charges will be twice the original forecast. >>> two of tesco's top shareholders urge the british supermarket to drop its booker deal, saying the 3.7 billion pound acquisition is too expensive and badly timed. >>> shares in wolseley hit the top of the stoxx 600 after the building supplier reports a 25% rise in first half profit. >>> with 14 speeches expected this week from members of the federal reserve, investors will be all ears when chair janet yellen takes the stage later today. cnbc has an exclusive interview with the federal reserve vice chairman stanley fischer at 7:30 p.m. cet. >>> good morning. if you're just waking up in the u.s., quick look at u.s. futures. yest

find us on twitter @carolincnbc or @louisabojesen. we'll see you in a second. >>> welcome back to the show. the cia faces what could be the biggest ever leak of its secrets after wikileaks published thousands of documents claiming to show internal communication on the hacking and accesses of information on apple, android and other devices. peter alexander reports on another setback for an intel jensz agen intelligence agency already under fire. >> reporter: wikileaks posting a giant trove of cia documents it claims reveals secret techniques in some of the most common electronic devices. all of it to spy on their owners. nearly 9,000 documents that expose software tools designed to break into iphone or android and bypass secure messaging apps lights whats app and signal. one revealing how to eavesdrop on conversations picked up by internet-connected tvs when they appear to be turned off. even a hack for microsoft windows named after a character in a popular will ferrell movie. nbc news hasn't authenticated the documents and wikileaks i

. >> or @louisabojesen. coming up, the ecb is back in the spotlight amid an improving economic back drop. could political uncertainty affect the central bank's plans? we'll talk about that in a couple of minutes. >>> welcome back. aviva has reported a 12% increase in operating profits last year bolstered by improving performance in its aviva investment unit. >> we'll have a 50% payout ratio. we moved halfway through that range. we had that eps growth on top of that. the other thing for shareholders, we have built a good balance sheet. we'll do something there. give it back and maybe in the form of a buyback, this sort of yield as you say, a buyback looking attractive as well for us. >> merck's net profit more than doubled in the fourth quarter bolstered by growth in the healthcare division. the drugmaker expects stable core earnings this year due to increased competition for prescription drugs. >>> carrefour's operating profits fell by 4% in 2016 coming in shy of estimates. weakness in the french market wher

for those of who are concise, you can find us on twitter, streetsignseurope@cnbc and @louisabojesen. >> and @carolincnbc. >>> still to come, greece resume bailouts talks as the prime minister takes a swipe at banks. that's after this. don't go away. runs on intel? that ride share? you actually rode here on the cloud. did not feel like a cloud... that driverless car? i have seen it all. intel's driving...the future! traffic lights, street lamps. business runs on the cloud... and the cloud runs on intel. ♪ i wonder what the other 2% runs on...(car horn) >>> markets are generally higher today. one stock trading lower is zalando which announced its first move into physical stores. they are acquiring basketball chain kickz and says it expects to invest 200 million euros and create 2,000 jobs this year. the announcement came as they reported a 26% rise in fourth quarter sales and forecast a 5% to 6% ebit margin range. >>> and moncler sales were boosted by strong performance in china, south korea and the u.s. with revenues coming in line with expectations, the luxury outerwear maker propose

we're also on twitter, @louisabojesen. >> or @carolincnbc. tweet us anything chocolate related, auto related. coming up on the show is the uk consumer confidence, is it taking a hit from brexit? we'll find out and preview the budget after this short break. >>> welcome back. you're still watching "street signs." we need to check in on the markets out of asia. sri joins us from singapore. there's an rba no deal, as it were. >> i'm afraid so. yes. so the neutral buyer staying in tact with the bank of australia. banks liking that one. let's face it, they don't have much of a choice. they need to contain this housing bubble. cutting rates would aggravate the situation and tightening would really burst the bubble, and it could be a disorderly collapse that ensues. herein lies the policy problem for the bank of australia. broadly the tone was fairly positive. i think our asian markets did a reasonable job of shrugging off some weakness that came out of the wall street session overnight. but still the clear and present danger lies with the rate envir

. >> @carolincnbc or @louisabojesen. >>> coming up, say cheese. snap makes its much anticipated debut on the new york stock exchange. how did the photo sharing app fair? we'll find out after this short break. news tonight. ways wins. especially in my business. with slow internet from the phone company, you can't keep up. you're stuck, watching spinning wheels and progress bars until someone else scoops your story. switch to comcast business. with high-speed internet up to 10 gigabits per second. you wouldn't pick a slow race car. then why settle for slow internet? comcast business. built for speed. built for business. >>> hi everybody. welcome back to "street signs." we have to talk about this hugely anticipated tech ipo. shares of snap popping in the company's initial public offering on the new york stock exchange finishing the day 44% higher at $24.48 per share. recall that snap opened the day trading at $24, its closing price values the company at more than $28 billion, roughly in line with the valuation of target and marriott. according to cnb

or you can tweet us directly @carolincnbc or -- >> @louisabojesen. >> had you had a pessimistic view 24 days ago you would have lost out on a thousand points in the dow. >> lord rothschild said he made money by not buying at the bottom or selling at the top but by taking profits. >>> coming up, will investors snap up shares of snap? as they prepare to make their public debut on the nyc today. we'll be back in a couple minutes. >>> welcome back. you're still watching "street signs" on cnbc. snap will be making its public debut today on the new york stock exchange. the company behind the social media app, snapchat, pricing its ipo above its target range of $17 per share. looking to raise $3.4 billion. leslie picker has the details. >> snap officially decided to price its ipo at $17 a share. 200 million shares being offered by the company and previous venture backers as well as the founders, $3.4 billion offering size is more than twice the amount that tech ipos raised in the u.s. all of last year. pricing discussions took place yesterday afternoon at morgan stanley's offices in new yor