The highest level in nearly three years although german numbers are weaker than expected. And wheels down. President obama arrives in the netherlands with emergency g7 talks in ukraine set to shadow a Nuclear Summit. This as natos Top Commander warns about military buildup on the ukrainian border. Plus, hours after shooting down a syrian war plane, the turkish Prime Minister vows to crush his political enemies rallying crowds cheer as he also steps up the bid to block twitter. Youre watching Worldwide Exchange bringing you Business News from around the globe. Very good morning to you, particularly if you are just joining us in the United States. Welcome, its a Global Trading week here on cnbc. We saw last week the dow was up 1. 5 . The nasdaq up. 70 . Futures concerned, we are taking higher. The Dow Jones Industrial is higher as the nasdaq futures are 9 points above value. We saw ftse down a little bit last week. This morning weve been reacting really to the various pmis weve had comin
Leaf . Will syria into the uranian Nuclear Standoff the Nuclear Standoff . The hour begins in the newsroom. These are the headlines. Failing to ci two i, russia disagrees with france that a u. N. Report fails to prove syria used chemical weapons last month. A gunman who killed 12 people in Washington Navy yard on monday as identified as a navy contractor. Stage one complete, after a 19 hour operation, the wreck of the Costa Concordia is turned up right. First, a day after a u. N. Report confirmed that chemical weapons were used in damascus last month, a visit by French Foreign minister to moscow has highlighted sharp divisions over who used them. Rents, which pushed which pushed for military action, france said it was the Syrian Regime and wants Russian Support for a stronger yuan resolution. Moscow says it is likely the rebels are to blame. Despite the smiles for his russian opposite number, on tuesday he failed to make moscow shift its stance on syria. On monday a report by u. N. Ins
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Announcement just a short time ago that the European Union has agreed to some tough new sanctions. As you know, this has been something that the white house and the president have been pushing for weeks already and that theyve been reluctant to do. And the reason simply is the economy, the impact it woufz on the european economy. So whats changed the equation . It was the downing of Malaysian Air flight 17. Its important to look at the timeline of this to give you some perspective, toure. It was 12 days ago the u. S. Unilaterally decided on some additional sanctions, very targeted sanctions, that like the ones were seeing today. They hope will have maximum impact on russia, minimal impact on the u. S. Economy, but then the very next day the downing of that flight began a new impetus for russia, which is far more invested, countries that have much greater interest and hence the reluctance to take some significant action. We know that last night there was a Video Conference call that inc
Presumably to do business with him and then this man doug band says there is a lot of money involved. This is a million, somewhere between 1 million and 5 million involved that the Clinton Foundation is going to receive, right . Yes. The name of the man is mr. Chagoury a billionaire. He gave between 1 million to 5 million to the Clinton Foundation. Gave to the Clinton Global Initiative which is also part of the foundation. The Clinton Foundations top operative doug band communicates with the clinton top aide at the state department he wants to talk with someone the top guy about lebanon. He says he is important to us. Which translates to most normal people as is he important to us because is he a big donor to us. And so people raise the issue as why is it that mrs. Clinton who promised to stay out of Clinton Foundation business almost immediately the Clinton Foundation, her top aides are trying to take care of a clinton donor. If you read some of these emails it, sounds like this doug