as unilever has shown until now.ne: but you must be disappointed that not more ceos think like you? ceo's think like you? paul: well, you should not sit here and get frustrated by the attitudes of others or the speed with which things move. you should just continue to focus on bringing the right people together, creating these tipping points, and moving these barriers. sometimes, yes, you would think, "why can we move faster?" or "why aren't more people doing this?" but who am i to judge? the better thing is to show that we can have a business model where we actually do well, but also do good for our shareholders and all the other stakeholders. and the more we do that, we see other people enroll. and the role of a ceo has quite drastically changed, actually, over the last few years. one of these reasons that you see short tenure of ceo's, which is now 4.5 years for the fortune companies, is really because a lot of the ceo's are not equipped for the challenges of today's world. so you cannot -- francine: which are wha

unilever is ranked as one of the top companies in the world to work for.cts are used by two billion of us, every day. in the final part of my conversation with paul polman, we discuss leadership. paul: leaders, to me, are not related to a level in the company or a title. for example, the medical community that immediately went to west africa at the risk of their own lives to fight ebola, those are real leaders to me. i work a lot with the blind and deaf, people who put themselves 24 hours to the availability of these people with disabilities at pittance compensation. those are real leaders to me. the teachers in schools. and often, in fact, the teachers, the nurses, these people who are real leaders that positively impact others, are undervalued, strangely enough. so, to me, a leader is not just because we happen to have this job. i also think a leader is not necessarily only somebody who leads from the front. a good leader in today's world probably leads more from the back than the front, like a shepherd does with his sheep. ultimately, i hope they say fo

unilever up 2.7%. he is putting off some pretty good numbers and worrying about the future and volatility. guy: asia had an interesting reaction in china. the fourth quarter gdp number coming out of china, missing expectations we saw a lot of buying coming through in the latter part of trade. the shanghai composite closing back above that 3000 point level which means it is now officially not in bear market territory. you can see a lot of that buying is really coming through in the last 90 minutes of trade after the lunch break. again the speculation we have seen state-based funds picking up heavily beaten stocks on these expectations that could be more stimulus coming through with that fourth quarter gdp number, the weakest since 2009. elsewhere, we did see a pretty good finish for regional stocks but it was a really choppy day of trade. the regional benchmark index in and out of negative and positive territory about nine times today. nikkei 225 closing higher about 6/10 of 1%. it was on that cost of t

company like unilever is globally diverse in 190 countries. if you went on the swings you might lose on the roundabouts. good results.w the way we manage cost when growth is lower, you have to step up your cost as one of the initiatives we are going to roll out is zero base -- with theear choices categories we are going to invest in. continuous looking at organizational redesign. leveraging our shared services better. these are the big buckets that we should expect improvements on top of what we are continuing to see. anna: one of the areas we have seen such volatility is china. does the story around the stock market and concerns about the global growth story and china, they dominate the news headlines -- do you see those transit reflected in the day-to-day business you are doing in china? inl: first, to put it perspective, china for unilever is 4% of her turnover. there are many other markets we have to deal with, but yes, the chinese economy is going to a change. from a production-based economy. and that changed has caused some friction, cer

we will hear from the ceo of unilever.rds, if you're wondering where she is, she has hot tailed it down there. him about these results. you can see that as 7:50 london time. how your markets are trading this morning it you've got futures indicated at 1.3% higher in london. you are looking at the dax opening up 1.4%. this is a reprieve from the trolledurgers that have across these markets as commodities got demolished, oils got demolished. the dividend is safe. out to take a look at the bottom of your screen. , they are bund market trading lower at the moment. let's bring those up. down 19 takes. yen, money coming out of the yen. let's see where the mood of the markets take us. let's get up to speed with first word news. caroline hyde has all you need to know. caroline: china's official growth figures came in below expectations. edp rising at 618%. the world's second -- rising at 6.8%. the world's second economy rising slowest since 1990. brent crude continues to trade near a 12 year low did this after i ran issued an order

the main driver for unilever is two things. a strong innovation standing here in the middle of one of our stores that most of our products have had strong innovations and in the emerging markets market development. emerging markets are up 7.5% despite the things you read in the newspapers. >> you do mention the head winds. which of these is most worrying to you? >> well, obviously the instability. we all have to worry about and the other one, the big income dispersion it's not good to us if the economy only goes to rich people. so the markets are actually going down and you are in a phenomenon now that you might in some countries show economic growth but that you actually see the growth of the market slipping away from you. it becomes a very polarized environment. we have to be worried about the currencies that we have seen which will continue and that's really a reflection of the capital outflow, the low commodity prices and frankly the lack of structural reform in many of the markets. brazils, the indonesias and to some exten

in just over five years since becoming ceo, paul polman has tied unilever's core strategy to having ae impact on the environment. in an exclusive interview, i speak with him about sustainability, cop 21, and what it takes to be a good leader. thank you so much for speaking to bloomberg. there is a lot of talk about sustainability? what is your biggest hope for sdg?

in just over five years since becoming ceo, paul polman has tied unilever's core strategy to having aon the environment. in an exclusive interview, i speak with him about sustainability, cop 21, and what it takes to be a good leader. thank you so much for speaking to bloomberg. there is a lot of talk about sustainability.

despite unilever's warnings. >> she's there. nina, thanks a lot. >> all right.e warming relations between washington and tehran. and the worries from opponents of the nuclear deal. >> of particular concern to some is that iran's regional rivals may pursue nuclear weapons themselves in the face of an emboldened tehran. wolf blitzer sat down with the u.s. secretary of state and had a conversation with him about thasf(t&háhp &hc% saudis have not been ruling out the possibility given their concern about this nuclear deal with iran, they could go forward and buy, maybe buy a nuclear bomb maybe from pakistan. you've heard those concerns. >> sure, but you can't just buy a bomb. >> why not? they have a lot of money. >> there's all kinds of consequenc consequences. i 9strmean, there are huge implications with that. and saudi arabia knows, i believe, that that's not going to make them safer. for is it going to be easy. the things iran went through, they would be subject to with respect to inspection and so forth. >> bob levinson, the former fbi agent, contractor for the c

i want to show you what happened and is happening to shares of unilever. 2 billion consumers around theorld use its products, daily. that is a lot of product and a lot of consumers. 2.6%, beating estimates. soap, ice cream, hellmann's, linkedin, you know -- lipton- lifting t, tea, you know them all. who a lot ofe people paid attention to was the bank of england director and his comments. mark: the pound is down to its lowest level since 2009. mark carney basically said now was not the time to raise interest rates. he cited the world being weak and set u.k. growth is slowed. the oil price collapse, inflation had fallen further and will remain very low for longer. he made those comments on the day that consumer prices on a headline basis rose by .2%, a far cry from the medium-term goal of 2%. by 1.4%, creeping up and as we know from governor carney's interview with our very , hisditor in chief preferred inflation gauge right now is the core inflation measure, so that is ticking up at the headline rate because of lower oil prices. one factor is keeping it way off the bank of england's targ

unilever had a good quarter. gm at 5%, that's interesting. interesting.erizon at plus five. >> plus five. >> but those are conservative. i went through bank of america's quarter closely, that's a good quarter. >> the last i looked, verizon and the ability of customers to pay their buiills is not impact by china or by the fall in oil prices i think verizon should be up 5% now. >> bank of america, better than expected profit helped by lower expenses. morgan stanley beats, the cfo once again, markets are going to do what markets are going to do. >> morgan stanley i heard bad things about trading. they weren't true. the stock could go back to 30 without a problem. baltic freight, 3.63, still very low. in a really good market, bank of america would never have gotten to below its $15.68 book value. in a really good market, morgan stanley would have never fallen back to these 2013 levels. it's such a vastly improved bank. a great wealth management business. but i struggle to say you need rate hikes for those to go higher. if you get rate hikes, people will sell

we have a norm us pricing power with unilever. benefit of that focus.. we are outgrowing the market. profitability increased. we have a consistency. it has been a tough year. leading in a second-year consistent growth. brendan: tracy alloway is with us. what i kept on hearing was unilever is in bed with the emerging arc it consumer demand. tracy: i don't think you are misinterpreting that. that is worrying. cory: they have seen some strong growth in the last year. you wonder what that's going to mean it going forward. he is talking about acceleration of growth. brendan: he did not bring up india, which is an amazing bright spot. tracy: india is getting very competitive now. i wonder how much room they have to grow. brendan: it was just a year and a half ago that they were talking about selling to brazil, this great amazing growth market. not so much. tracy: my favorite is a story is june of last year when they sold century long bonds to investors. and it's been downhill since then. we saw a lot of investors who clamored for bonds. brendan: oil was where

unilever down 5%. deutsche, society generale, axa, everything down 3%, 4% over there.he u.s., normally we would lead on the down side with energy stocks. tech has been notably weak as well. that's because of ibm, and the weakness there. energy down 3.5%. materials, consumer discretionary, industrials, the whole board down 1% to 3%. >> one of the most frustrate thing for 2016 is the search for a successful strategy. the important thing is if you look at sectors, look at areas of the world, nothing works. so the s&p 500 is down 8%. everything is down 8%. eafea widely watched index is down 8%. all world index a basket of all the stocks in the world, down 8.5%. if you take the u.s. out of it and throw everything else in the world into it, that's down 9%. sector by geographic region is not working. people wanted to argue value versus growth, that's not working. value is energy, autos, financials. growth is tech stocks and healthcare. they outperformed for a number of years. that's not working. one of the only strategies that i've seen has worked is high volatility versus lo

the new flavor isn't associated with ben and jerry's, the company, which is now owned by unilever. this is brand new. >> i was going to have an ice cream party this weekend. now i found out i can't. i can't get the ice cream. kind of a good little marketing gimmick without actually selling it. we have a regional bank deal just crossing the wires. huntington and first merit entering in an agreement to combine. first merit will merge into huntington in a stock and cash transaction worth $3.4 billion. here to talk about the deal and what's going on in the heartland, the chairman, president, and ceo of huntington bank shares. good morning to you, stephen. thanks for joining us. >> good morning, andrew. >> speak to us about what a deal like this means, but make it more broad, if you can, about what it means to the banking industry and what's going on in this country right now. >> well, there are two great ohio banks, both 150 years or more that are coming together. for us, it really helps our distribution and complements all of our business lines. it's a hand-in-glove fit. they do exact

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