Im guy johnson. Francine and im francine lacqua. We are getting breaking data out of germany. The figure for current assessment, pretty much in line. If you look at Business Climate current assessment, they are less. Guy 106. 8. The median forecast 107. 7. Slightly on the light side. Interesting thing is why german industry feels that it needs to be less optimistic during it i guess there are still ongoing issues with russia. Francine greece. It just finished so there were all these ongoing situations with the negotiations in greece and that huge deal with russia. That would kind of explain it. Guy 113. 28 is where the currency is trading. The u. S. Dollar down by about 0. 5 . Francine after fridays dramatic deal in brussels, greeces Prime Minister has just a few hours left to submit reforms. Guy we have every angle on this story covered. Joining us from berlin, our international correspondent, hans nichols. From the dread, charles. From athens, Erik Schatzker. Hans, lets talk to you f
I am not making political statements. Olivia a number of republicans backing to give more power to the feds. Greece is counting on the European Central bank. They country must make a payment to the imf in march. The ecb owes greece more than 2 billion from a bond selling program. He says the ecb should hand the money to the imf. This is not borrow money. It is our money. Our normal payment to the ecb. Why not have the two institutions find it amongst themselves a way of transferring these funding. Investors are showing confidence in the new greek reform proposal. Almost 800 million returned to greece Bank Accounts. In ukraine, the ceasefire may be taking hold. No attacks by prorussian rebels overnight. The country has another problem. They are losing more than 50 against the u. S. Dollar this year. The central bank imposed a ban on foreign currency but lifted it yesterday. Two suspects were planning to go to syria and join a terror group. Two of the men are from uzbekistan and the othe
Money. Why not simply find it amongst themselves a way to transfer this funding . Betty investors are showing confidence in the reform plan. Almost 8 million done thomas a hundred Million Dollars return to the banks on tuesday. A truce was supposed to start 11 days ago but ukraine says separatists violated it repeatedly. Ukraines currency has fallen more than 50 against the dollar this year. A ban was lifted late yesterday. It is now up to the house to stop the partial shutdown of Homeland Security. The senate struck a deal on the 40 billion budget for the department. They will attempt to block president obamas executive order on immigration. He spoke about that in a town hall meeting in miami. What we said to republicans is instead of trying to hold hostage funding for the department of Homeland Security which is so important for our national security, fund that and let us get on with passing Immigration Reform. Betty some House Republicans say they will not back the senate plan. Home
As the drugstore posted earnings that Beat Estimates and also beat projections. In washington, a new report from Network Security firm a Network Security firm shows that have been hit by hackers stealing their information from citigroup to target to neiman marcus. We have more on the impact of these data breaches. I bring in a former defense yang and bloombergs are we any safer than we were in the past . Of thisig the focus report is marginally improved. This is from old cases, from the hundreds of clients, and this is before we actually learned of theheartbleed bug, this is leak in Security Systems that were meant to protect us from cyber threats, like hear tbleed. But the findings in the mandiant report show the landscape of the threat and the threat challenges and have been made all the more evident by heartbleed. Overall, companies are discovering this faster than before, it took them two weeks less than in 2012. Hackers were still hanging out 229 daysks of victims, last year befor
Plus, an actress, bridget moynahan. She tells us how living below the poverty line can change ones perspective. My producers will once again try to stop me over the next hour, but first, lets get headlines from my radio cohost carol massar. Thanks so much, pimm. After the close of trading, herbalife raising its forecast. Topdown estimates. Plus, they halted their dividends. The stock is higher in afterhours trading. And Buffalo Wild Wings out with results, a company reporting their earnings exceeding estimates, higher in the after hours of trading, and there is a lot of backlash over donald sterling. Companies, including Virgin America and carmax, ended their sponsorship of the team after a after a after alleged racist comments attributed to sterling. Thank you very much, carol massar. And another delay in the keystone xl pipeline, and we have t. Boone pickens. Erik schatzker and Stephanie Ruhle are standing by at the milken global conference in los angeles. Thank you. As you just said