Was 0. 004inary number february. Of inflation. We have a decrease of. 1 . For those numbers. Youve seen the german numbers out yesterday. I think this is going to be a big focus this morning. Information for europe is the magic number. Futures pointed a little bit higher through the morning. Opens. E the we havent a bit of a higher open. Pretty much dead flat. My focus today is over in fx. Higher on those german retail numbers. Better than expected. We are a little bit low on spanish cpi at 9 00, 10 00 rather, we get the cpi number. Than january and december. We see the trends here. We are not getting weak inflation in italy and spain, were getting it in germany as well. If that number disappoints, there will be more pressure on the ecb to act. The euro dollar may get excited. Bank is likely to keep trimming asset purchases, even as it monitors recent weaknesses in u. S. Data. Part of that softness may in the weeks and months ahead, my colleagues and i will be attentive to signals the
Welcome, you are watching the pulse. I am guy johnson. Francine is off today. She will be back next week. Inditexp this hour, fashions a tax loophole. We begin with our main subject of the morning. The situation in the ukraine is developing quickly. Isted president yanukovych holding a press Conference Today from russia. The u. S. Government tries to pull together International Funding to avoid a default. Lets go to kiev and our reporter there, ryan chilcote. Walk us through what has been happening in the south of the country in the crimea this morning. It is certainly seizing headlines. I am at the Ukrainian Central Bank with the Prime Minister and the head of central bank are giving a joint briefing about the state of the countrys finances. The Prime Minister left early. I did have a quick conversation with him, one on one, and they are studying the situation in the crimea. Theyre trying to figure out who these people are. What were talking about is that at five 00 this morning, anot
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Borders liberia. Its one of the poorest country in the world, guinea is. And that is a stark thing when you have some of the most impressive untapped Natural Resources in the world. But guinea got independence from france in 1958. And then they started essentially a long cycle of suffering under dictators who ruled for life and who took a long time to die. Their first leader took power upon independence in 1958. He stayed in power from 1958 until he died in 1984. 26 years later. Then as soon as they were rid of him, they got another dictator in 1984. And he held on for 24 years. Until he died too in 2008. But for all the problems that guinea has had as a country, for all that all the challenges it has struggled through, guineas Natural Resources have not really been a help thus far. Yes, they do have the Worlds Largest untapped deposits of iron ore but that has not necessarily turned out to be a good thing for them. Mostly what it has turned out to be for them is a scandal and a crime.
Now terror bombmakers have come up with a way to hide explosives in the battery compartments but still have the lap top turned on long enough to get past the screeners. In december, fbi experts report that they tested different layers of explosive configurations to see how difficult it would be for airport screeners to detect them. The test found that the machine had a far more difficult time detecting these types of now bombs, anderson. And theres new information about how terrorists are perfecting their skills . Reporter theres a number of things going on here tonight, anderson. There is information that these terror groups have been able to gaining some access to airport screening equipment. What does that do for them . It allows them to basic test a device that they fab date and see how far they can go to get it past airport screening, now this was part, part of what led to the ban of several weeks ago of carrying Consumer Electronics and lap top like components on airports because