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This is Bloomberg surveillance. Good morning it is. at Bloomberg at 830 this morning. That's the big economic indicator tomorrow of course

jobs day everybody watching that. In the meantime we are keeping on top of

earnings Alibaba. Fourth quarter revenue there beat analysts estimates China's

biggest e-commerce company selling more

advertising, sales up 39% to 24.2 billion u.n. That's 3.7 billion dollars

for those of you without a currency calculator in your hand

23.2 was the forecast so better than expected they were down on a per share

basis though. The biggest buyer of sour real estate in Europe that's Cerberus

this is that uh... they'll be disposing of non-performing loans from the region's

banks and governments

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