At 2. 664 and europe is back to work and largely mixed. Our road map, the jobs number, payrolls above consensus. The Unemployment Rate dives to the 5. 5 year low. Watch the participation, rate, wages, more americans drop out of the work force in april. Pfizer raising its bid to try to buy astrazeneca. Astrazeneca says a few hours later no thank you. Astrazeneca shares trading below the offer price. Pfizer may need to raise a bit more. Were going to have a lot more. Upbeat morning for internet stocks. Linkedin, open table, expedia beat. A miss for chevron, profit dropping 27 on lower production. J. Crew going budget friendly. Can cheaper sweaters boost sales without diluting the brand . First up, though, lets tackle the jobs number, 288. The Unemployment Rate at 6. 3 , thats the lowest since 2008. People are wondering how this is possible, though, with the labor force decline like we had, jim. 62. 8 is the lowest since december of 2013. Yeah. Look, these are hard to rationalize. The 6.
Contracts in foreign countries, and they would have affects like places in this town in ohio, but what the town in ohio does and how they chart their Economic Future its something you have to do forever. You have to have a strategy. Whiffs governor, i suppose he spent more time on Economic Development than anything else. The mississippi debta was the second part of the time after the indian reservations. There was a county in southeast arkansas, with two towns about the same size. One of them had 12 unemployment rate. The other had a 4 unemployment rate. Same socioeconomic incentive because there were all these gogetters in the 4 town that just kept redefining the mission and kept finding new possibilities and kept trying to make those possibilities. Since you lost all those jobs. Became very worried in my second term that the empowerment zones and all that stuff was great. Harlem got an empowerment zone, and their unemployment was 24 when i took office an 8 . Detroit got an empowermen
Cable satellite corp. 2014] news from ukraine this morning forces loyal to ukraines interim government battled prorussian militiamen today in the eastern ukrainian city of soviansk and four troops were killed and 30 wounded. Broke out asghting the Ukrainian Government moved to regain control in the eastern part of the country. Couple of ukraine related events to tell you about our Coverage Today includes the center for strategic and International Studies hosting a discussion on the ongoing tensions including the role of nato in the conflict. That is coming up at 1 30 p. M. Eastern here on cspan at 3 p. M. , state department, treasury, and Defense Department officials will testify for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on the russian intervention in ukraine live on cspan three at 3 p. M. Eastern. Bring our viewers up to date on whats happening this week on capitol hill. I am joined by Christina Marcos. It mourned to you guest good morning. Host start with the house expected to come
Importance to all of us and this is the basis for our very close Economic Cooperation as well. The transatlantic economic the whole 15ure on million jobs on that side of the atlantic. It is indispensable. German companies alone a great in more than 600,000 jobs over haveand American Companies created 800,000 jobs as of now. The u. S. Chamber of commerce is an eloquent testament to these very close integrations of our tool economic areas. The world has changed incredibly. You have more of a political and theomic weight of economies, the overall framework of the g 20. The Global Financial and economic crisis as greatly impaired progress and growth in the countries which has a lasting impact. Globally, we see a tightening of growth which is something we are very pleased to. Of imf is excepting growth 3. 6 and next year to 3. 9 . Reason for usbe a to be complacent. In europe and the United States, just as other industrialized countries, we are still facing very grave challenges. Public r t
Thank you, mr. President. President , the situation in ukraine has. It in the past few hours. Launched forces have have continued to seize public buildings and cities in Eastern Ukraine. The Prosecutors Office is even occupied by the militants. They killed the two crew members. The osce military observers are still illegally obtained detained. We are deeply concerned by all these developments which further deteriorate the delicate situation in Eastern Ukraine. We strongly condemn the violence and by armed securities call for the appropriate response by the Ukrainian Forces. Put our fullhould support behind the good officials of the secretarygeneral in resolving the crisis in ukraine. Mr. Feldman is going to ukraine. I call on all the Council Members to trust him and to give them the means and the political backing necessary to conduct a meaningful mediation in ukraine and the region. Of any other Council Members on the crisis will not solve the ukrainian conflict. A dialogue that only