Crimea has held a referendum on the session, overwhelming majority in favor of joining russia. Washington says the vote is illegal and has threatened sanctions. Vote, 95. 5 of the ballots are counted. This is quite controversial because it does violate International Law and the ukrainian constitution. , 220 thousandpact Russian Troops on the border. The eu and the u. S. Are threatening sanctions on russia. Crimeas leader will look like today to join russia. Hat may lead to a boycott the wall street journal russia is pulling u. S. Treasury bills out of the u. S. Because of concerns about the sanctions. Three times the record before. This crimea vote, hugely controversial. What is the reaction from the west . Obama telling Vladimir Putin he will never accept this crimean vote, ever. Merkel has been quite vocal about this. Listencain speaking to what he has to say. Russia is a gas station masquerading as a country. Nation that is really only dependent upon oil and gas for their economy. E
It lost out on a fighter jet deal in the euae. Russian president Vladimir Putin has reportedly freed the jailed typhoon khodorkovsky after a ten years in prison. Announcer youre watching Worldwide Exchange, bringing you Business News from around the globe. Were into the last Worldwide Exchange of the week. Plenty to get through on the program. Next, its two days after tapering and the ripples are still being felt across asset markets. Well measure the fallout. Its been well look at key drivers for the Global Property market. And the battle for control of italys Biggest Telecom continues as shareholders vote on whether to replace the Telecom Italias board. If thats not enough, gold is down after the feds taper announceme announcement, but should you be buying the dip . After a big fall this year of over 25 , well get analyst opinions in around 40 minutes. And if you have any thoughts, comments, queries or questions or anything else you want to say, email us, worldwide cnbc. Com. First,
New zealand this morning expanding in early asian trading. It is down 1 . 20 is your level there. We are also counting down to the opening of japan and korea. Closed one25 last point nine percent down at the 15 391 level. Is going toe it drop precipitously below that 15 thousand mark. That is according to futures trading in chicago. That is continuing to see the most inter the endgame four months. Investors very sensitive at the moment. We are poised for a rocky session in asia to start off the week. Most indications are pointing to a selloff across the region. David dingus is here to tell us why these red arrows continue to dollar yen. This highlights the flight to safety. There is a flight to safety in currency and sovereign bonds. Onyou look at what happened wall street on friday, it does give an indication that theres going to be blood in the streets in asia today. It will not be a pleasant session. Have the fomc decision coming up. You have possible contraction in chinese manufact
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According to people with knowledge of the matter. The ceo is in San Francisco. We are learning more about the tense relationship between Tech Companies and the nsa. The government threatens to find yahoo 250,000 today if it did not turn over user data. This happened in 2008. We will look at what changed since then. To the lead story. The biggest iphone appears to be off to a hot start. The device is on backorder and is not expected to ship for three or four weeks. The data phone is scheduled to hit stores. People vented on twitter. One tweeted not everyone having problems but with the issues, is it a supply couple more are they trying to drum up demand . What do you think, is this marketing or do they have supply issues . Every single time they come out with a phone this happens. I will go with this is probably the way they want it to play out. It is great to have two or three week backlogs. It would be a disaster if it were two or three months. To say there is so much demand you have