Holiday weekend, the controversial movie earning 18 million with the bulk of it coming from digital downloads. Youre watching Worldwide Exchange. Bringing you Business News from around the globe. Now the Vice President of indonesia has been giving a briefing in the last few minutes related to the missing airasia jet. He said that earlier reports that came about two hours ago of an australian plane sighting debris. The Vice President of indonesia says they cannot confirm whether it was spotted in the search zone for the missing jet. The search is not easy with the bad weather that is present currently at sea and fishermen have been asked to participate in the search for the jet. Well go out to martin who is live at singapores airport with the latest. Martin . Reporter hello, folks. The Vice President of indonesia was speaking on television as we speak saying the search has been widened and hes trying to get indonesian fishermen to get involved in the search. The first point you raised t
And the fall in oil weighing on siemens earnings but the ceo expects benefits from cheaper cool. Emerging economies in india will massively benefit with a much lesser oil price bill and that will go straight to the infrastructure build up. And facebook and a number of other social media sites suffer a global outage with Hacking Group lizard squad claiming credit for the attack. Youre watching Worldwide Exchange. Bringing you Business News from around the globe. Blizzard conditions shutdown new york city and much of the u. S. Effecting millions of americans but it may not live up to the hype as one of the worst ever. Forecasters said it could dump 1 to 3 feet of snow from new york to boston but now downgraded the totals. Still high winds prompted several days to ban cars on the road and halt public transit. More than 4500 flights are cancelled today but its business as usual for the markets. You know, when we talk about the impact that this will have on new york city, this is new york c
Time since 2002. We break that data in under 30 minutes times. Lets look at stocks. They rally after the u. K. Supermarket oust. German rival metro beating expectations on its consumer electronic division. Youre watching Worldwide Exchange. Bringing you Business News from around the globe. All right. Oil continues to dominate the investigator discussion. Oil taking another leg down with wti and brent both slumping around 2 . Near a six year row. The iranian president delivered a fresh warning saying the dramatic drop in prices not only hurts iran but other producers including saudi arabia and kuwait. They defended the decision saying prices would stabilize at profitable levels. He also said the organization had no plans to meet before the next scheduled meeting in june. You can take a look at shares right now of oil trading down about 3 in todays trade. Indeed and the dramatic sell off comes as china reported record crude imports next month. China also posted a better than forecast ris
City. The city has been relatively desolate. The only people out there are the people plowing the sidewalks at this point. We walked over ourselves this morning. Didnt get hit with anything much but the ban on cars in new york city still is accurate. Ill wait until the posts in other places start making fun of the weather people because its still a very serious storm. May be loss of life somewhere. In fact if you take a look at some of the pictures in new england its a different story. Wow this is a picture of philadelphia. There could be more to come. Still falling there. You look at i looked at my radar thing on activitiescuweather. Its moving northeast and most of it is there. In the northeast region up in new england bracing for 3 feet as snow. They have been getting as much as 4 inches an hour. With the hurricane forced winds causing wide out conditions. Its been a huge issue with coastal flooding too. I was just reading that theyre talking about storm surges of about 7 feet with
Our lawmakers to advance your providential purposes. May they think your thoughts striving always to do your will. Lord, lead them together to find solutions to the problems that beset our nation and world. Calm their fears and strengthen their faith, as you use them to accomplish your will. Let your peace guard their hearts. We pray in your strong name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance to the flag. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Mr. Mcconnell mr. President . The president pro tempore the majority leader. Mr. Mcconnell today the senate is continuing to consider s. 1 a bill to approve the keystone x. L. Pipeline. Chairman murkowski and senator cantwell are here this morning to manage debate and there are several amendments pending. Well begin voting on those and any other amendments in the queue s