Estimates. Assad a shakeup. The arab states nuking fires his economic officials one week after taking the throne. Hello, welcome to countdown. Also coming up, super bowl sunday. Can Kim Kardashian help advertisers score a touchdown during americas biggest sporting event of the year . The newly elected greek Prime Minister is promising no surprises as he goes facetoface with european officials for the first time. He assured Martin Schultz that greece will not make any unexpected moves regarding its finances. That sent the stock market in athens for a rebound after lunging to lows not seen since the peak of the debt crisis. Hans nichols is in berlin with more on the story. Ring us up to speed. Yesterday were niceties. Today the negotiations affectively began. Mr. Schultz said he expects common ground. He came out of the meeting not overly positive but maybe realistic. He expects there to be clashes. For negotiations to be affective he needs for them to be mutually beneficial. He needs mo
We are waiting for that to open. China the market has shaken up the contraction, the worst in two years. A wave of european manufacturing. Greek remarks trying to women them elves off a drug addiction in terms of trying to wean themselves all of a drug addiction in terms of cash. Individual names who wouldve thought that tarmac and cemented would be so interesting. Paying 6. 5 billion euros for lafage. Issuing Share Capital they are introducing some new debt a use a little bit of cash. The market the likes it. They like what do they are hearing. Lafurge is up 0. 6 . We will see where it goes. A couple of other individual stocks we are keeping an eye on. We had julius baer, and the ceo interview and he talked about euro swiss having 105 to 110 would not to be bad. Ryan air is dying and that was the bestperforming Airline Stock in 2014. You have the buyback and secondhalf profit as a postal a loss of the year before. They are saying their affairs and dropped. Said to have profit as oppos
Million bill out between friends, russia, and ukraine france, russia and ukraine. There is a draft proposal and they are having an agreement but does it mean that will not be able to sign something. Yeah, absolutely. They have been there for 60 hours, i have lost count. The leaders of germany and france, what we understand has taken place is that came up with a document that the russians presented to the prorussian rebels who were in the building but not part of the talks because ukraine will not talk to it and they rejected it. The eu said that start of its meeting with all 28 heads of state will be delayed so the talks can continue. In terms of the process, i put the bits together, the financial package critical to establishing a baseline for the economy. You needed to get back in and build a deal. How do the 2 bits fit together . It is important, the timing. What they were hoping was to have a ceasefire but i do not think the german chancellor and french president wouldve went in th
And, Credit Suisse beats analyst estimates. We will be speaking to the lenders chief executive in zurich. Hello. Welcome to countdown. A warm welcome to the program this morning. It is a big day for bank earnings. Credit suisse just reported earnings for its Fourth Quarter in 2014. It is proposing a dividend and investors can choose whether to receive it in shares or cash. The banks net income beat analyst estimates at 921 million swiss francs against an estimate of 869 million for the Fourth Quarter. Be sure to stay tuned. We will be hearing from brady dougan on those numbers. Thats coming up just about an hour from now. Another Bank Reporting earnings. Societe generale is reporting fourthquarter earnings for last year. It is frances number two. Profits missed estimates. Revenue in its core consumer markets falling while its capital buffer shrank as well. You income rising to 511 Million Euros from 191 Million Euros a year earlier. Net income has increased but it has missed the 505 to
Defiant and says there is no way back, and he cannot condemn the people to more pain. Russia indicates president Vladimir Putin is headed for peace talks in minsk today and a deal to negotiate a ceasefire is likely. Meanwhile officials a ringling over the degree of autonomy to give rebelheld eastern regions after nearly 10 months of fighting. French president for his wall lined and german chancellor Angela Merkel spoke earlier today and said they hope to attend a summit. President obama spoke on tuesday and hope to reaffirm ukraines territorial integrity. Brendan president obama is set to ask the congress of a for formal authorization to battle Islamic State. He wants the use of enduring Ground Forces and engagement would be limited to three years. Lawmakers of both parties are skeptical to the approach of fighting extremist militants. A bill drafted by the House Armed Services chairman would allow the credit on to spend 1 billion to help ukraines military. It would supply logistics an