We begin in paris where a longawaited summit has been taking place. Leaders of france, germany, ukraine, and russia have joined for the first highlevel talks since the minsk accords. There have been signs of progress in recent weeks including a breakthrough agreement on that with role of tanks and heavy weaponry from the troubled eastern region. The conflict between Government Forces and russiaback separatists which began in april of last year has claimed the lives of 8000 people and displaced 2 million others. Our International Editor has the latest. Todays summit between the leaders of france, germany, ukraine, and russia was supposed to be about shoring up the minsk agreement signed in february. Looking forward for ways to establish a lasting peace in ukraine. It came a day after russia launched its go it alone airstrikes in syria and it was syria that perhaps was destined to overshadow if not eclipse the summit. In their post summit press conference, Angela Merkel and Francois Holl
Joining us for part of the hour, henry bloget, founder and ceo. Its great to have you. First up, the long rumored deal finally official. Pfizer and allergan announcing. But more importantly, the new combination will allow pfizer to relocate its headquarters in ireland, which has a much lower Corporate Tax rate than the United States. Heres pfizers ceo ian reed on the deal just last hour on squawk on the street. This is a great deal for america. It allows us to continue to sustain an investment of approximately 9 billion mainly spent in the United States. We have 40,000 combined employees in the United States. So i think its, you know, its a great deal, im very happy to be announcing this deal. I know you have a lot of thoughts on this deal, but the fact that headquarters will now be in ireland, is that just a formality in your opinion . Of course its a formality. The way we decide where companies are based is absurd. Most companies are based in delaware in the United States. Its just a
Liners but hes a chaos candidate and he would be a chaos president. He would not be the commander and chief we need to keep our country safe. Congressional leaders and white house agree funding the government until september and avoiding a shutdown. Good morning, everyone. It is day two of the fomc meeting and were counting you down to one of the most highly anticipated market events. Ahead of that lets go through one of the asset classes. What were seeing is a tiny bit of vying but not too much. Cac 40 up by. 5 . Only a little bit of under performance and this follows a sharp rise in yesterdays trading session. They jumped by roughly 3 . Were seeing quite a bit of volatility on this side of the pond too. U. S. Futures are indicating a higher start to the trading session. A little bit more positive than an hour ago. The nasdaq, s p and dow jones up by. 3 each. This is after session highs in yesterdays trading session but still racking up nice gains around 0. 9 . All s p 500 sectors in
Silence for the french. We are hearing they plan to memorialize the oneweek anniversary in a unique way, by marking the occasion with an outpouring of noise and light. The french say noise and light, no silence. We take you live to paris where today the death toll has risen to 130 after another person died from wounds. And we have learned that two of the People Killed that night in the paris concert hall worked for the fourth biggest advertising and pr firm in the world. In this hour the ceo shares his emotional story in a fox business exclusive on what he said to the children of his fallen colleagues. And is today ease attack in todays attack in mali a sign this is way bigger than isis . Wall street seemingly unfazed by the global terror. Stocks continue to jump, and the s p is one hour away from closing out one of the best weeks in all of 2015. We have the vw scandal widening as we speak, and the stock of your favorite teenagers Clothing Store is skyrocketing. Were less than an hour
Accusing the Obama Administration of illegally blocking the keystone xl pipeline. Should trade guilds trump washingtons attempt to combat Climate Change . We will speak with lori wallach. Then to north korea. This act is a profoundly destabilizing for Regional Security and seriously undermines International Nonproliferation efforts. I condemn it unequivocally. Amy the International Community condemns north korea for conducting its Fourth Nuclear test, though the u. S. Says north korea failed to conduct a Hydrogen Bomb test as claimed. We will get the latest and also talk about Nuclear Politics worldwide. Then to the fort dix five. It gives us all hope, my family, me, my brothers. I have been taking care of my family since 15, taking care of six nieces and nephews, my mother, my father, my three brothers in prison. It has been hard, but that is not the hard part. The hardest part is having three innocent brothers in prison for no reason at all. Amy three muslim brothers from new jersey