vittorio colao sat down with our colleagues to discuss the company's progress.job is not to forecast the stock price. my job is to make sure we are doing better and better. for the first time, we start to see real appreciation in the customer kpi's. we see higher loyalty. yes, i think i can be optimistic about vodafone performance, but i would not comment at this time. reporter: it appears that you are given to a european recovery. the bits are in place if the recovery gains traction. the problem is it hasn't. where does that leave you? attorio: we are geared to plan -- we are going to upgrade completely our infrastructure, and fixed. the recovery in europe is gradual. it is slow. but it is happening. we see more enterprise. we see more export. we see more travel. all of these are good indicators there will be continued recovery. the recovery may not be explosive, and that is why vodafone is very paced in our investment. thing is tot continue to have an investment and believe and to have more service and more productivity being taken up. break,r: if there was a

the vodafone ceo, vittorio colao , i'm not going to spoil it because we have a big interview coming uporite segment of the day. the battle of the charts. who is in love with germany's dax? find out today, betty. and very, very quickly -- david cameron has listed his demands to the eu. he wants to renegotiate written's relationship. -- written's relationship. the european closing seconds away. stay with us. -- britain's relationship. ♪ betty: welcome back to bloomberg markets. it is 11:30 a.m. here in new 4:30 p.m. in london where markets are finishing the day. i want to go to mark barton. mark. mark: china data and the prospects of a december you rate december rate hike. the european close starts right now. betty: we are going to take you from new york to london and beyond in the next half hour. mark, kick things off for us. looks like the markets are settling. the investors are focused on disappointing chinese inflation data. disappointing for the 42nd month, quite an impressive losing streak. the markets. have a look at portugal, betty. we could, in the next hour, here