Corporate funding is provided by mutual of america designing customized individual and Group Retirement products. Thats why we are your retirement company. Additional support is provided by and by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. From the tisch wnet studios in Lincoln Center in new york hari sreenivasan. Sreenivasan good evening and thanks for joining us. We begin with late breaking developments in the middle east. Isis fighters have taken control of ramadi and iraqi forces have fled. A spokesman for the governor of Anbar Province says, the city has fallen. Ramadi is now the first Major Urban Center seized by insurgents in iraq since isis launched attacks there last year, this despite continuous air strikes by the u. S. And its allies. The battle reportedly claimed the lives of some 500 civilians and soldiers just in the past two days. Meanwhile in syria, Officials Say Islamic State militants have been pu
And with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. And. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Ifill the nations Third Largest bank, citigroup, announced big job cuts as it continues to scale back in the wake of the financial crisis. The 11,000 employees to be laid off worldwide, make up about 4 of the companys workforce. More than 6,000 of those jobs are in consumer banking. The move comes less than two months since a shakeup at citi ousting former c. E. O. , vikram pandit. He was succeeded by michael corbat. The bank nearly collapsed during the crisis and ultimately received bailouts totaling 45 billion, money that citi has since repaid. Roben farzhad has long watched the changes at citi for Bloomberg Businessweek and joins us again tonight. Roben, welcome. Today we heard that stocks soared on the news of these layoffs. What does that tell us about what was
And with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. And. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Ifill the nations Third Largest bank, citigroup, announced big job cuts as it continues to scale back in the wake of the financial crisis. The 11,000 employees to be laid off worldwide, make up about 4 of the companys workforce. More than 6,000 of those jobs are in consumer banking. The move comes less than two months since a shakeup at citi ousting former c. E. O. , vikram pandit. He was succeeded by michael corbat. The bank nearly collapsed during the crisis and ultimately received bailouts totaling 45 billion, money that citi has since repaid. Roben farzhad has long watched the changes at citi for Bloomberg Businessweek and joins us again tonight. Roben, welcome. Today we heard that stocks soared on the news of these layoffs. What does that tell us about what was
Many of them dying because Ocean Temperatures are rising and the waters are more acidic. I remember seeing fields of elk horn coral that you couldnt see through it and you couldnt see beyond it and those same areas are dead you know 99 dead. Ifill and we close with a remembrance of jazz great dave brubeck who died today, one day shy of his 92nd birthday. Woodruff thats all ahead on tonights newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. And. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Ifill the nations Third Largest bank, citigroup, announced big job cuts as it continues to scale back in the wake of the financial crisis. The 11,000 employees to be laid off worldwide, make up about 4 of the companys workforce. More than 6,000 of those jobs are in consumer banking. The move comes less than two mont
The white house as facebook takes on government surveillance. How can he employs these surveillance programs . Plus, president putin and president obama that allowed over those sanctions. Are we entering a new cold war . Tit for tat. Matt miller here with me on this friday afternoon. We are just getting started. Friday. Yes, i have been waiting for this day all week. You know . You and everyone else. I wonder if the president feels like that. I guess this continues to be intense for him. Yeah, he is working tree 65. I bet putin feels little pressure out. I bet he is feeling good. He just took over the country. Thenot even cost him olympics. I want to talk about nike. Yesterday they looked pretty good. Now they are pulling back sharply. It has to do with currency. We heard comments from the cfo that currencies continue to be a head went as he sees the dollar to luck. Nike gets a lot of its profit abroad. That has been dicey. The shares have been going down. That will continue to be a pr