Into the white house we look at his plans to improve the us economy. And the latest Growth Figures in china will be scrutinised under worries of a potential trade war. Hello and welcome to Asia Business report. The big day is finally here. Dan norton ups inauguration and the many he is a controversial person to move into the white house and there is a lot of uncertainty as to how presidency will impact the economy. This was the moment democrats hoped would put that in check after financial crisis that led to the worst us recession since the great depression, president obama and the American People were eager to see regulations that would put limits on bad behaviour and prevent us taxpayers from ever having to bail out the banks again. But republicans have been attacking dog frank since its inception saying it has gone too far. Now they are in power, scaling back some of those rules is finally in reach. Bank lending has been impeded. We have practically zero Interest Rate yet gross dome
Makers. The debate begins right here on bloomberg, we will talk to various people ahead of Mario Draghis decision. It has just gone 6 00, the stage is set in frankfurt and expectations are so high. The Financial Savvy will be glued to their smartphones telephones and televisions as mario draghi will probably set up a qe plan. The ecb is not the only central bank coping with deflationary forces. High drama from india to canada and many places in between the mario draghi Takes Center Stage today. He does. It is all anybody is talking about. Everybody will be glued to what exactly mario draghi has to say a little bit later on. Plenty of central bankers are here. Plenty of finance ministers. We walked around yesterday and it was amazing we asked them, who is the most wanted man at davos, and they said it is a ghost of mario draghi. He is not here but he usually comes and this is what everyone is talking about. It will make a difference to everyone here. Angela merkel is here as well which
Of that somehow. It came across the bottom. It says yellen will do all she is capable of. I saw that, too. I read into that deeper. Apparently that was her swearing in speech. She swore as she said it . I will do anything i can do during her swearing in . The first one i saw that i said, what . And then i said, okay, okay. During her swearing in, okay. Like i promise to up hold the law type of thing. This ukraine thing, not getting settled. The crimea unanimous vote to join parliament. This is the same parliament all those guys that didnt have insignias on their uniform. This is the parliament that those guys herded together. Right. Whats going to be interesting is this idea of a referendum taking a vote to the people, which i think is supposed to happen in nine days. Although the new Ukrainian Government is saying, no way, thats an illegal referendum. You cant just decide to do that. But theyll probably vote to they kind of are russians, arent they . Anyway, the s p is actually up now
Makes this wild life expert so upset. You said once i would happily eat the last panda on earth if you could spend the money on worth while. In all seriousness, why did you say that . Rock center gets under way. Good evening. Welcome to rock center. The first glimpse americans ever got of Oscar Pistorius was on this broadcast in the runup to the summer Olympic Games in london. We aired what became the defining profile of him reported by Mary Carrillo of nbc sports who traveled to south africa and got to know this unusual olympic athlete. Well, fast forward to this past week. His name and image are everywhere. His beautiful girlfriend is dead and now his future turns on whether his version of his story is believed. Tonight for us, mary cavio has traveled back to south africa to find out more about the woman whose death is at the center of this story. Oscar pistorius says that 29yearold girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp was the love of his life. She was also about to be a reality show star in t
Thats all for this edition of dateline friday. Join us again for dateline sunday at 7 00, 6 00 central. Im lester holt. Thank you for watching. Rock center with Brian Williams starts right now. Ladies and gentlemen, this is the National Broadcasting company. Tonight on rock center, hes the olympic hero turned killer as the world focuses on Oscar Pistorius. Tonight from south africa, Mary Carrillo gives us an unprecedented look at Reeva Steenkamp, his girlfriend, from the people who knew her best. She would never come to you with a problem. It was always you to her with the problem. Was there anyone in your family that oscar meant to do this to reeva . Also tonight, the chinese computer hackers reaching into American Computers and its feared american society. Tonight for the first time one insider relives the attack that hit his company. Do you remember your reaction . My eyes bulged. Yeah. This is really bad. Also tonight, did the u. S. Marine corps abandon a group of marines and milit