relief is coming for unilever. >> thank you very much. we are four minutes into the session and the german bond market is fascinating. there is one tiny basis point left on the nine-year. i will let you know about that. i want to take you to greece. they said the debt burden is unsustainable and it will come as a surprise. meanwhile, it now carries the debt and wolfgang told bloomberg that the belt program will not be extended without concessions. >> the program was extended twice and runs through june 30. if it wants to avail itself, the solution needs to be found by june 30. >> the deadline is the 30 of june. >> let's get the angle from germany. hans nichols is in berlin. what can we take away from wolfgang and what he has to say. nothing has really changed. he is not offering concessions and greece is not blinking. >> you have seen the government all but destroyed the efforts and the improvements the previous government had started. here is the important thing about the interview, he is publicly contradicting the idea advocated by the

a quitcritical question, one of the ways to get on store shelves would be to sell to unilever. that is not unrealistic. ben & jerry's sold to unilever. secondly you do have investors who are going to want a return. are they expecting that return based on you're going to sell to some large food corporation, or that you're going to grow this thing from the ground up until you are a large food corporation? >> yeah, you know we've been really careful. we're lucky to have people like martin bennioff invest in us. one of the wealthiest people in asia, kosla, co-founders of facebook. they know that this is -- the goal is to be a permanent thing to have an indelible mark on the world, and that's what they want. and openly if unilever called me right after this and said we want to acquire you for $2.5 billion, i would say thanks. and i would say, you know that's not our path. and part of the reason is listen. i'm a zealot about this. this is infused right in my dna, in my team's dna who's watching this. we're doing this because this is an opportunity for us to have a massive shift, and

i would rather be in unilever.the other side of the trade. >> they've got the beauty care assets. they've got a big sale coming up there. i think first round bids were due yesterday on that. that's moving along. >> beauty down four. >> they'll get a big number when they sell that thing. >> looking for low single-digit organic growth. organic growth is ugly. it's minus two volume. procter is a great company. unilever is in the driver's seat because all the fabulous trading partners crush us. >> been following qualcomm since they announced that plan to buyback. they did buy back some during the quarter. jana with a $2 billion position advocating for a close look at the idea of splitting the company into two and even saying buy back more stock more quickly or buy back more quickly. they reported earnings last night, not a great reception. they are finding competitive challenges. we talked a lot about samsung. incertainly producing their own chip set instead of using qualcomm. it's the modem. apple goes with its own pa

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that would actually lead to currency values you know changing a bit. >> a turn around at unilever.hares rise to the top of the ftse 100 after q-1 sales are above expectations. >> but sab blames the strong green back for lackluster results while the rival sees sales slow due to weak demand in it's u.k. home market. >> welcome everyone. let's take a look at european markets on this thursday morning. we were higher in yesterday's trade. that was the big message from the meeting with mario draghi. right now here we're looking at some red across the screen. the xetra dax down .5% and the cac 40 and ftse mib trading down but right now just fractionally on the day. oil continues to be a big story. we saw a debt cap bounce in yesterday's trade. oil surged after a lower than expected build in u.s. inventories. that gave energy stocks a big push to the upside but we're looking at prices lower on the day. wti at 55.90 down .9%. >> let's have a quick look at greek bond yields elevated with the shape of the curve inverted even further than usual. you can see 18.2%. the 10-year at 12.7%. this up

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that was one of many factories, bethlehem steel, bethlehem ship yard, unilever western electric automotivents, none of that exists anymore. so it's easy to look across the aisle and say -- or across the city and say, look at these poor neighborhoods, why don't people just work harder? well, people depending on your educational level, only have certain options. and the educational system is failing in part because why? because the manufacturing base has gone away. which reduces tax incomes and so forth. so the opportunity my grandmother had, i don't see that here today, and i don't think that people in these neighborhoods who are working-class people, and some of the neighborhoods that have been featured on television where the local people are working hard every day, community organizers et cetera. you've seen them on television. it's not any failing of theirs. eventually you need jobs. >> folks that sell concessions at camden are they out of luck today? >> no, i think that would be an unfair result. we need to do something that would make people whole. it's an extraordinary situation that

. >> there is unilever and the consumer products company. says it is starting to see more tailwind than headwind and markets. there is underlying growth and estimates of underlying pricing growth of 1.9%. the revenue is 12 point billion euros. the early indication is very much positive from you are. they see the priority. it has been a dip in sales growth. it weakened in emerging markets in china with big retailers running down inventory results. as a result of all that, it is splitting the u.s. and european spread operations this year. let news of the tailwind rather than the headwind should be something for investors to hang onto today. >> a pickup. >> wolfgang tells us he does not see a deal. it does not mean they will leave the euro. the greek government commits to aid. >> greece remains part of europe and whatever happens, it remains part of the european union and, if it stays in the eurozone they crave's conditions for it. primarily, it is a decision of the government. if they want support, we will give them support. it is within the f

what happened with unilever in terms of currency fluctuations?phen: here you have the second impact. the first impact is translational. what you are seeing across europe is a lot of exporters who compete with companies based in dollar areas suddenly being given a competitive advantage. what we are hoping will result from that, given that you have credit recovering, is that those exporters will view an opportunity to reinvest in their business and start to invest in growing their competitiveness. francine: where do you see the biggest deal, stephen? we talked about the financials, the oil makers, the impact of fx. if you are a european investor where should i park my money? stephen: our view is that if you are a long earning investor, you save a little cash for a rainy day. broadly speaking, we think that over the year, there's enough good news coming out of europe that markets can progress higher. valuation over the short term is a slight concern. earnings are so depressed. we think there's every reason to expect those earnings well start to grow

everyone knows they're going through a very difficult time but a lot of the international brands like unilever are looking quite good particularly for u.k. based investors. where you want to be as internationally spread as possible. >> does sterling you bounce after the election. >> i'm not sure that will happen. one of the things we find strange is the pound has done so well against the euro. there's the income differential and higher interest rates we have but it does mean that there will be more uncertainty here where as possibly in europe they will kick the can down the road for another two or three months. the euro might be stronger against the pound. >> thank you for joining us. carolyn, back to you. >> thank you so much for that and it is april 23rd. the day scholars acknowledge as william shakespeare's birthday though no one knows which day he was born but in honor of shakespiershakes shakespears birthday we're asking how will he decline the climate. join the conversation here on worldwide exchange. send us your favorite shakespeare quotes. the one i like go wisely and slowly. those th