Earnings. Disney, groupon, potbelly. I have never been in one. The sandwiches are keller. Killer. They are not exactly the healthiest. Road trip. Lets do a road trip right now. Equities, bonds, currencies, commodities. Futures, 3. Euro is weaker. To 98. 43 four nymex crude. On to the next screen. The vix. The ruble i am watching carefully. 35. 79. That is a weaker ruble over the next few days. Lets go to the ruble a look at the putin litmus paper. Here is the angst. Weaker ruble. Then they do better. They reverse. 80 of the better news. In other words, your dollar buys more rubles. Strengthening dollar, weakening ruble. That is a big deal. Of troops. G we have not been talking about it. We have been talking about the middle east. Gaza, iraq. That brings us to our front page. The newspapers and the webpages. Lets give you an update. A 72 hour ceasefire begins in gaza. This is the latest attempt after four weeks of fighting. Israel has pulled out all of its troops because it has complete
Rebels. [ chanting ] andals World Leaders lead to the g20 summits. Protesters march in the streets of brisbane its been a difficult often bitter relationship for years with each country accusing the other of harbouring rebel fighters and undermining stability, afghan president ashraf ghani has been holding talks with pakistans Prime Minister nawaz sharif in islamabad. Its Ashraf Ghanis First Official visit to pakistan since taking office. Scott heidler joins us life. Both leaders have been speaking with the media, and both are at pains to reassure each other that they were supportive. Indeed. The afghan president summed it up by saying 13 years of mistrust was removed by a couple of days of talks. That shows the progress they have made. The pakistani Prime Minister reassuring his count part that it is important. He stressed settlement should be afghan led and owned. Pakistan is ready to play any role it can to bring peace to afghanistan. However, the changes are great. Everybody knows
Plus telefonica should could raise funds for its rod ban unit , more than 10 billion. It has said to be coming up with its own offer. We will bring you all the details. I want to get back 12 main story, burger kings acquisition of tim hortons. Buffett will get a preferred stake in the roughly 10 billion company. It appears to be a good move for buffet and burger king but what about for shareholders . Erik schatzker joins me now. You could almost smell this happening yesterday because of the involvement of one of Warren Buffetts favorite private equity groups. The resilient billionaire who will have a 51 stake in the combined burger king and tim hortons. I was going to say conspired. Why would i say that . Our nerd last year. You are right, you could almost smell this coming. Lets talk about what it is buffett is doing. , he isn what we know now getting a 3 million preferred stake in the new company. What is that mean . They are senior to the company but junior to debt. Because of the f
Sanctions against moscow despite reported push back from the greek government. Russias finance minister says cnbc his country could consider giving Financial Aid. You cant ignore some of the countries that raised this issue. Prices for the euro zone due in the next hour. European markets on the flat line ahead of that data. Flying west and snapping up a 10 stake of iag as they look to strengthen commercial ties. Youre watching Worldwide Exchange. Bringing you Business News from around the globe. Welcome to the show. Breaking news from italy, some long awaited positive news. Inflation has fallen. December jobless to 12. 9 . Thats the lowest since august. Novembers reading was 13. 4 . 0. 5 for the month of december has come to 12. 9 . Lets look at the youth number. Italys december youth Unemployment Rate falling to 42 . So not as big of a drop as some were expethctexpecting. Youth unemployment which has been a big concern for italy and one of the reasons for implementing the labor market
Right now im going to yield the floor, as they say in the senate, to our distinguished guest speakers, bob kerrey and jack danforth, who together spent more than 30 years i guess in the United States senate and served as governor, for bob kerrey, and attorney general, for dan for jack danforth. I will yield the floor force much time as you may consume. Great. Well first off its great to be with jack again. And let me try to be relatively brief, ive been out of the senate for 13 years, but the first most important question for the American People to ask and answer is do we have a problem . Because if you dont think theres a problem, particularly the candidates, and especially the press its just the candidate, is there a problem . Because if you dont think theres a problem, why pose any solution . One of the challenges we have, happen to think we do have a big problem and that its a demographic problem. It wasnt caught by liberals or conservatives. You cant blame it on anybody. Its demog