The 11 state voting on supertuesday and alaska six days away. Jtb the fidelity account, 595 delegates in the jackpot, the biggest pride is texas, for a big chunk, 155 delegates in texas up for grabs but more importantly the senator ted cruzs home state, if ted cruz cannot win texas experts are saying he will likely have to give up his bid for the presidency. Marco rubio and john kasich face a similar three way from florida and ohio and their primaries, political panels, the gop race could be over before march madness has started. The wall street ornament is on, Dow Jones Industrials down 15 points after having been lowered by 265. It is a mix up as the markets try to beam to the green. Jawboning over the phrase ends toying with the american markets and your money as we speak. Former state department official, fox news middle east terror experts walid phares live to tell you if america is less safe for 30 oil and how iran is holding the leash right now for our market. That start the cou
More on that exclusive interview to come. Manus you are welcome to countdown. Anna a warm welcome to the program. It has just gone 6 00. Lets talk about the oil price. We are back up at 41. Both wti and brent equal with each other right now. Not often that you see that. No differential. Anna late last night, we had a member of opec talking about his expectations about the oil price, something moderate, but not high. That is even if iran does not agree to enjoy the growing group of companies that have agreed to implement some kind of production freeze. 15 out of the 16 nations are coming together in delhi doha. We do have a chart. This is Oil Production. U. S. Daily Oil Production is just coming lower. This is part of the strategy that opec would say. Wti is trading in the opposite direction. This is about many consequences. Have a look at this. Up for not had the ruble a wild. It has gone from being the most tortured soul of a currency to one with reprieve. You have a shift around the
A meeting between president obama and raul castro. The president is expected to urge castro to seize the opportunity to improve u. S. Cuba relations by expanding human rights and Economic Opportunities. For the second time since friday, north korea has conducted Ballistic Missile tests in the sea of japan. Officials say kim jonguns regime launched five short range missiles today. Earlier this month, the United Nations Security Council enacted sanctions to punish korea for another Missile Launch as well as a nuclear test. The German Government says it took in 2 million refugees last year. A 49 increase compared to 2014. Of those 2 million, 860,000 have moved to other countries. Angela merkel has resisted measures to control migration such as putting a constraint on the number of refugees. ,lobal news, 24 hours a day powered by 2400 journalists in more than 150 news bureaus around the world. Im pimm fox. Matt thank you very much. Good morning. Take a look at markets in europe. The dax ha
There is nothing wrong with them. David co and they have the capacity to borrow. Vonnie yes, and lets make it clear. They are the third to have cut this. Jonathan this as brent climbs to be fourmonth high. Lets check in on the markets. Futures are positive ahead of the open. The ftse up around two points, there is a story on the luxury goods in there. If you switch up the board quickly, the dollaryen, a sevenday losing streak. Can we break that . Up. 5 inflation as a 15 month high. And april it skews the number a little bit. We will get to that. There it is on the screen. 7 and brent crude making a fourmonth high. We have lots of news to get to. Lets get to david with the first word news. Both menosecutors say involved in the brussels bombings were involved in renting apartment. 16 victims died in the attack 16d suicide bombers killed others at the airport. Forces in syria are working on the strategic Hilltop Village. The area has been held by groups opposed to the government since 201
Now we kickoff the weekend with a report on required reading for College Freshman. If we dont have enough people go out and find some. [inaudible conversations] welcome to the National Association of scholars. I am peter wyatt wood, president of the National Association of scholars. In 2009, a young man heading on vacation in mexico picked up and unusually heavy book for his beach reading, and 800 page tome of the life of an 18thcentury immigrant. 50 pages or so into the book the story took possession of the 29yearold. Would emerge from his reading of Alexander Hamilton is now the hottest ticket on broadway, the hiphop musical hamilton. Broadways play is widely noted for many things including its exact fidelity to historical facts. Each bowl must not be Light Reading and the right beach book can kick off a lot of things. As it happens one of the top five most common readings for College Freshman last year was also a book about the obstacles overcome by an immigrant, the considerably sh