Good morning. You are watching the polls. I am guy johnson. Lets get to our top story. The governing Council Meets today. Will they generate new policies . We are joined by david powell and jonathan ferro. I like the policies. It seems that we will have to wait. You listen to what the Vice President says down, if you are expecting quantitative easing, they may talk about it in q1. He likes a surprise. Not go early . We were talking about this over a coffee and we said that he is not a controversial man. He says something and it probably means that he talked to the rest of the executive board. We had the interview and he withthat they will help the metrics they are looking at tech watch the Balance Sheet. That is a hope at this stage. Are these three that have done nothing to boost the credit extension. We are smoking focusing on this and we are waiting to see if there is any progress in reaching the goal. If not, it would be timely to pull a trigger. They are going to downgrade the num
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Ecb president. He suggests the eurozone economy is likely to remain stagnant and the central bank stands ready to act. T speaking of Central Banks, here at home, the fed is launching a review of how it oversees the major banks. The review comes after a series of critical reports. The fed is asking its Inspector General to help with the probe. Andrew. Weve got stocks to watch this morning. A lot of stuff moving. Gamestop earnings and revenue falling well short of estimates. The company blaming the late relief to be assassins creed unity game and slowing Video Game Software sales. Joseph kernens family always usually havent been big on that. But i read through the Analyst Report trying to figure out what happened. And there was worry that it was in digital, but its older software. Also, believe it or not, the west coast port situation is part of the forecast. The kernen family has no, no. Its strange that the west coast Court Situation would affect things. And they also use games. Also,
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Nuclear deal with iran. He blasted republican senators for sending a letter to irans government. John kerry i have never heard of nor even heard of it proposed anything comparable to this. If i had, i can guarantee you know matter the issue, i would have rejected it. Cory he said republicans are flat wrong in saying congress can modify any iran agreement. The imf approved to 17. 5 billion in aid for ukraine. Christine lagarde said the authorities have showed a commitment to reform. The economy has been devastated because of the conflict with prorussian rebels. There is more money for wall street bonuses, rising 3 according to estimates from the comptroller. The average bond 172,000. The Banking Industry added jobs the First Time Since 2011 even as revenue fell. A major outage hits apples itunes today, starting about 2 00 a. M. In cupertino, california. Users were unable to download apps or log into their accounts. The cause is unknown. Apple shut the store down on monday during its sma