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The russians with something that they know cant happen for two, three years is, may be counterproductive and, my reaction as an Energy Person is to say that the russian reaction would be, if that is the best youve got, then we have nothing to worry about. Thank you all for your testimony. I once again, thank you. Mr. Chow, let me follow up on that for a moment if i might. And that is you mentioned that any solution with lng in regards to ukraine would be midterm, longterm solutions, not short term. Can you just review with us what we should be doing in the short term . N russia has a doubleedged sword here. They can absolutely imply different pressure on ukraine by either raising price or, or cuttinger off but, its a very profitable source of income for russia. And of course a lot of the energy goes through the pipelines to other countries. However, ukraine needs to make itself more independent and have alternative sources and use less energy which is an area that i think the imf is ve
Response. You just said that there was unanimity on unconventional measures, but several exponents of the ecb have also said these will not be imminent. Whereas the ores said the the others said the sooner the better. So what is the message youre going to deliver to them later today when you meet them . Well, i can im, obviously, on the same page as my chief economist, right . So the sooner the betters good. But, you know, we have an ongoing dialogue with the european authorities, and we highly respect the judgment of the central bank. They have a fingers on the pulse of european economies, and we were very encouraged to see the latest Board Meeting and Subsequent Press conference that they are envisaging any tools to respond to the situation. And i think its going to be a question of timing now. But we are encouraged. Good, thank you. Yes, maam. Good morning, mrs. Lagarde. Good morning. [laughter] im from mexico. The question is about the imf. What will happen after [inaudible] increa
Ukraine says 16,000 Southern Forces control the region. This morning president putin says though peaceful, force remains an option. He says russia has no plans to make crimea a part of russia. New this morning, secretary of state john kerry arrives in kiev in ukraine to discuss Financial Assistance for the nation. And washington sends a message to moscow suspending the plan to trade investment talks with russia. First, Global Markets making a comeback today. U. S. Stocks took a big hit yesterday including the dow which suffered a triple digit loss. Lets bring in in Christine Romans. What is behind the bounceback . How do markets look now . Markets look good now for u. S. Stocks. Whats behind the bounce back is the fact president putin ended the military exercises in russia. When that happened and the president gave his press conference about four to five hours ago and said that he was not going to an ex crimea, you saw the highs reached in stock futures. Dow up 165, nasdaq up as well.
difficult to replace because they can t warships through the bosporus at a time aboard, do the mantra convention it s tricky. enforces, and that s very significant achievement because it opens up the western black sea for ukraine to export grain, hugely important for their fiscal situation and for countries like egypt whose food security depends on it. but no, i d like to see these limits lifted as well. it s i have considerable admiration for the way the administration led the western world, nato and others in the wake of the invasion, kept it all together avoided putin driving a wedge between europe and in north america are between eastern and western europe. and so forth. but these delays on certain decisions i think have really been somewhat unconscionable. the delay on the m1 tanks which delayed the leah par decision by germany, the delay on a atacms, a delay on western aircraft. inevitably, we always say yes. and i wish we were just get to yes, a lot sooner than has been