We cannot isolate russia. We can push them toward china. Its not in our interest. Our coalition on ukraine is canada because they have a Large Population and elections coming up and japan because theyre japan. I like canada and japan, theyre great countries, but its not a goalings. Charlie we conclude with ram guha, his book india at the gandhi. If someone oppressed you before gandhi, you ask him to treat you like a human being or bash him. Gandhi invented an alternative. Collective solidarity, express to nonviolent action. University, worldwide. The second thing and important thing why i think hes such a great figure is the ability to forge relations between rival religious groups hindu, muslim, christian, jew. Charlie a look at the world as it is and what it might be when we continue. Captioning sponsored by Rose Communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. Charlie Jessica Mathews is here. She is president of the Carnegie Endowment for international peace.
Deliver theama will commencement address at west point 11 00 today. We may get some indications about Foreign Policy. He was speaking about the military pullout of afghanistan. Ian bremer will join us as well. Lets do a data check. It just goes higher. The 10 year yield is 2. 49, a euro, hydrocarbons are elevated as well and the vxx is the complacency, gold has gone south. We spent some time looking at gold yesterday. Critical support is 1219 per ounce. Is a big theme for us today this is the vxx rolling over. We are through one standard deviation and in a zone of complacency. This is the lowest we have seen in a long time. Thats why the banks are having trouble trading. We will talk about this today, the complacency out there in the markets. We have looked at the front pages adam johnson . We will start once again in europe where ges jeff imelt met with the french president france francois hopllande. Alstom makes tgv. Just talking about queens this morning . Area ofis somewhat your me
Headquarters in london. I am mark barton. And i am Olivia Sterns. We begin in ukraine. Lets get straight to ryan chilcote. Ighting continues to rage both sides stepping up their attack. Ryan is in kiev with the latest read it looks like the country is seeing some of the deadliest violence and the crisis began. What is the latest you are hearing on the ground . Good morning. The Ukrainian Government says they are going to push on with the fighting in the east of the country. The death toll from yesterdays battles stands at 40. All of those on the rebel side. It includes russian nationals. You will remember that several dozen russian fighters came from russia itself into eastern and identified themselves as chess champ chechaners volunteers. If they were, they were there on their own private business. Clearly, this is becoming a very messy affair. Lots of collateral damage. An additional 31 people injured. , which the Ukrainian Government did capture, was also damaged, so it remains clos
Very quiet. Yeah. And followed by the Rate Decision at 2 00. No press conference today, right . No. No change expected. But they might change a wording. Well get geeky on it. Earnings before the bell, he is in that deal potentially. And hess is in that deal. Whole food and yelp. President obama speaking. Did you make note on the fed coverage. Betty and i will speak with Alan Greenspan. Ive not some tough questions ith him. Let me do a quick data check here. Looking at stocks, bonds, currencies and commodities. We fluttered around 1966 on s p futures. He euro, 133 handle. On to the next screen. In the vb6 pop yesterday, vix, pop yesterday, further lattening. All in all, a weaker ruble given the new sanction. One of our theme today. And yen is weaker as well. Lets go look at Vladimir Putins world. This is the volatility of the ruble. And weve redone that year with a weaker ruble in the last one, two, three days. This is the market voting on the sanctions. And particularly that impact on
Driven by a big jolt. Who is that . Who what is that . Head of europes central bank and today in frankfort, he took steps that electrified markets in europe and for a time here in the United States. He slashed Interest Rates to fresh record lows, nearly zero percent and announced some federal researchlike bond buying stimulus measures to boost the struggling economy, but the droggy jolt faded. Unemployment claims and private play roles were weaker than expected. The dow down eight and nasdaq lower by ten and s p off by three. The dollar rose as the eros fell to a oneyear low dipping below 1. 30 for the first time in a year. Despite the sell off on wall street. The stock markets are hovering near historic highs. The American Economy is growing, and the u. S. Federal reserve is not only pulling back from the stimulus measures, but talking about raising Interest Rates. In europe, things are different. The central bank there is trying to avoid a recession and pumping money into the Financi