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Would be a good start. Lets get to our road map and start things off with the markets. Extending yesterdays losses, disappointing Economic News and air strikes in syria are setting the tone for the morning trading. Also weighing on the market, the Obama Administration makes its move to counter inversions. The rising trend of American Companies leaving for lower taxes. Shares of takeover targets such as medtronic, shire and abbey are moving this morning. We may be getting closer to two large transactions. Allergan is in advanced talks to make its own deal to defend off valiant alachemann. Alachemann is already redding to sue. Yesterday nasdaq posting its worst sessions since july 31st. Dip ing dipping to a 2014 low. China rose slightly. You have the u. S. And arab allies launching attacks against islamic militants in syria. President obama due to make a statement on the u. S. Strategy against isis later this morning. Coming up at 11 00 a. M. Eastern, becky quick is going to interview fo
Hello. Welcome to countdown. All. Y good morning to you Vladimir Putin addressing russia today amid the collapse of its currency and a deepening economic crisis. The ruble has rallied since hitting its lowest ever after the central bank step in to say it will help Companies Meet their debt obligations and foreign currencies. Theeaders weighing in on ruble issue. The russian crisis is on the agenda. Obama. President barack will not be helping putins case either. He is said to sign a bill pushing further sanctions on the russian economy. What are his options as he heads onto the world stage this morning . Bloombergs Ryan Chilcote reports. Extraordinaryn several days for russians. Since Vladimir Putin last weighed in on the currency, the ruble has been in freefall down at one point a full 30 since he last spoke. Far from hiding, this commercial advertising putins annual has conference suggests the russian president is ready to take the ruble and the world on. Expect a robust defense of sy
Learned a really ugly lesson in over 10 years ago now. So you have to be able to do that. Thank you. Mr. Chairman, i yield back. Mr. Cooper. Hes not here. Ms. Graham. First, thank you very much for being here this morning. Detached a bit on other terrorist groups in the region. Could you please provide an update on hezbollah . Thank you. You guys can talk. I mean hezbollah is an iranian backed group. They are, i believe were still designating them as a terrorist organization, our state department. Hezbollah is deeply involved in syria. They are fighting in syria members of hezbollah are fighting and they are actually leading and doing some of these sort of what i would call sort of special operations Type Training of some of the syrian forces. Hezbollah is involved in yemen. Hezbollah certainly involved in lebanon and some of the disruption of things in that particular country. And hezbollah is involved in iraq as well. So members of hezbollah are in fact inside iraq fighting with what
And president obama and netanyahu clashing over Irans Nuclear ambitions ahead of netanyahus highly criticized speech happening today to congress. Youre watching Worldwide Exchange. Bringing you Business News from around the globe. Hi everyone im seema mody live from barcelona and its all about the survival of the fittest. We have coming up on the show ceo of blackberry, john chen talking about how he plans to keep the Company Relevant as it shifts focus from hardware to software. Plus the cofounder of htc joining me in around 30 minutes to talk about the latest Flagship Smartphone and the move into Virtual Reality hardware. Where will the next google or facebook come from . Europe . Ill be getting more from phillipe. Youre watching Worldwide Exchange. Bringing you Business News from around the globe. Hi everybody. Officially good morning. Welcome to two hours we have together. We have a lot going on. We do indeed. Good to be back on the show. Lots of coverage coming. Were manning the f