Approach. How about some first word news from vonnie quinn. President obama urging turkey and russia to put aside their disagreements and focus on defeating the Islamic State. The president met with turkeys later today. The diplomatic crisis arrested after turkey shot down the russian war plan last week. Its threatening to undermine president obamas efforts to expand the Usled Coalition fighting Islamic State. Now, than 90 minutes from the president will hold a News Conference in paris. You can watch that right here on bloomberg tv beginning at 8 25 eastern. Commonsn, the house of is excited to vote tomorrow on Islamic State. Cameronnister david called the vote, he wants british warplanes to begin bombing Islamic State forces in syria. This led to a split in the opposition labor party. Opposes theader attack. Other Senior Labor Party members are in favor. And the u. S. Is making it tougher to enter the country. The government adding new screening requirements to program that lets peopl
Continues. Bayer will buy america consumer over the counter business for 14. 2 billion. Also the two companies are establishing a have a teemgic collaboration in cardiovascular diseases. And this will vowill involve me paying 2 billion to bayer. But again, the big headline here is the 14. 2 billion deal for mercks over the counter consumer business. Why is there so much deal making going on in pharmaceuticals . This has been incredible. Weve seen a swap from glaxo and novartis. This is a way for companies to hone in on what theyre good at. Were hearing a lot of pharmaceutical companies saying they need scale, they need to cut costs and they want to be number one or two in positions where theyre playing. So areas where theyre a little bit smaller, were seeing these asset swaps. And now of course this is all set against the backdrop of pfizer making its 106 billion bid for astrazeneca which is eclipsing Everything Else going on in the industry. But this is a big deal for merck and one it
Hello. Youre watching todays worldwide exchange. Im ross westgate. And im kelly evans. Japan is facing a 255 million euro loss for philips. Cutting a key Interest Rate by 25 basis point is the bank of india. And the boj is keeping tune rate until theres a significant drop in unloimt. And ahead of todays parliamentary hearing, italys economic mip sister takes grilli takes center stage. All right. Reunited. Back together. So nice. You know that song . I sang that to you the last time. Weve had a couple of reunions and a series of time spent apart. How are things sthp. They are great here. How was davos . So far, gone, in the distant memory. Dont worry about it for another year. Plenty to worry about today, though. Korea. On todays show, plenty of good stuff coming up. Were going to be in madrid as the Prime Minister is reportedly releasing a plan to relief some of the pain of austerity. Then its south korean steel giant posco reporting Quarterly Earnings today. Well have the latest live
Liz full speed ahead for the big tech names. Ibm having its best day in years and google repay higher. Hello, i am Cheryl Casone. It is the last hour of trading and countdown to the closing bell begins right now. Liz claman is on assignment at the World Economic forum in davos, switzerland where she is real and the biggest names in business starting with the chairman and ceo of etna, talking about Health Care Spending and impact on the fiscal cliff. Wait till you hear what he says about the flu outbreak. And then it is the smart phone revolution. Qualcomm wants to the part of a shift toward value funds, particularly in china and other emerging markets. We will get the inside scoop from qualcomm chairman and ceo paul jacobs. Stocks near the best levels of the day trading at five year highs. Take a look at markets which are trending higher. Are you tired of seeing stocks go up . Look at the dow, higher by 77 points and nasdaq by 17 antaeus and the higher by three points. We will take you
Build a haystack. Thanks, rachel. Isabel wilkerson will get the first word tonight on what happens in charlottesville and the president s reaction to it. There is new reporting on the trump russia investigation tonight. The Washington Post reports on emails sent within the Trump Campaign, including one trying to arrange a meeting between candidate donald trump and Vladimir Putin. But first, to what happened this weekend. We dont know the number. The United States is i have good at compiling statistics, but there are some big holes in the statistical picture of life in america. So we dont know what number Heather Heyer is. She is the person most recently murdered in the United States for taking a stand against White Supremacy. White supremacists have been murdering people for taking a stand against them for hundreds of years. We dont know the number of slaves that they murdered. We dont know the number of free white people who were too sympathetic to slaves who they murdered. White supr