Leaders such as Angela Merkel and french president francois hollande. Im pleased to have david cohan at the first time at the table. Its said you know as much about sanctions as anybody in the obama administration. Give me the sense of what you have learned about how to make them work. How effective they are, what you have to have. Once you have applied them and taken them off, is it difficult to put them back on . David sanctions can be enormously effective if we have a couple of key elements. One is a linkage between what the sanctions are trying to achieve and overall u. S. Government policy. We bring to bear all of what the u. S. Government is trying to do to affect a policy objective. The second is that we have as much international buyin and cooperation as possible. Our sanctions are much more effective when we have our partners around the world working with us. The third key element is a very clear objective. I think the sanctions against iran are a good example of that, where w
Both down by 0. 75 . Chinas february exports dropped by more than 35 in u. S. Dollar terms. Imports there fell by nearly 14 . Of course, were watching Oil Prices Today too. Crude was up by 5. 5 yesterday. Its up 45 from februarys low. Right now its down by 1 , but wti still sitting above 37. 50. Scott . All right. Speaking of oil, the Goldman Sachs Commodities Team out with a new report today. That title, the three rs. The goldman team suggests those factors have driven a prema chur surge in Commodity Prices that is not sustainable. The firm is maintaining its bearish view on gold. It keeps its nearterm copper price target of 4500. As for iron ore, goldman predicts a rally will likely prove temporary, so its maintaining its end of year target of 35. And on oil, goldmans nearterm view is for a trendless market with substantial volatility between 40 per barrel and 20 a barrel. That firm has a bullish end of year view on energy, saying oil will likely rebalance this year and create a deaf
Announcer from nbc news World Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening. From our election headquarters on the eve of super tuesday, one of the biggest days yet in the president ial contest, in an election season filled with headshaking moments, spray tans, the kkk and ear piece malfunctions are among the topics driving the conversation about the republican race. Outside of texas, donald trump seems poised to score some very big wins in tomorrows primary contest despite some conflicting and curious answers to a question thats left him exposed over very sensitive racial ground. Nbcs katy tur starts our coverage tonight. Reporter tensions high in radford, virginia. Secret service body slamming a time photographer who tried to leave the campaign mandated press pen. Trump on edge, too. This morning bla his refusal to condemn the kkk and david duke in a cnn interview on a bad earpiece. Im sitting in a house in florida with a very bad earpiece that the
Sanctions, frankly, combined with what happened in the overall oil markets, which had a real impact on russias economy, caused putin and his crew to think harder about what they were doing. Rose and we continue with hassan sheik mohamud, president of somalia. Somalia is just in the corner by establishing state institutions in place, by defeating the scornlg of the terrorism that was in control for a long time, and now they are revitalizing the energy of the society, its resources, its agriculture, there are beautiful opportunities. Rose we conclude with Radhika Jones and time magazines list of the worlds 100 most influential people. There is a way where you have the same 90 people year after year, but we really want to keep it fresh because we want it to feel like a snapshot of the moment, and so we take a lot of pride in making sure that every year the list has a new kind of energy. Rose the c. I. A. , somalia and times 100 list, when we continue. Rose funding for charlie rose has bee
Sanctions, frankly, combined with what happened in the overall oil markets, which had a real impact on russias economy, caused putin and his crew to think harder about what they were doing. Rose and we continue with hassan sheik mohamud, president of somalia. Somalia is just in the corner by establishing state institutions in place, by defeating the scornlg of the terrorism that was in control for a long time, and now they are revitalizing the energy of the society, its resources, its agriculture, there are beautiful opportunities. Rose we conclude with Radhika Jones and time magazines list of the worlds 100 most influential people. There is a way where you have the same 90 people year after year, but we really want to keep it fresh because we want it to feel like a snapshot of the moment, and so we take a lot of pride in making sure that every year the list has a new kind of energy. Rose the c. I. A. , somalia and times 100 list, when we continue. Rose funding for charlie rose has bee