Decision. More importantly, the ecb, they will be issuing their statement a. M. Ecision at 7 45 a. M 7 45 this morning. Cut expect druggie to rate. Draghi to cut rates. We will have Michelle Meyer with us as we see this decision and press conference. Anything goes even what we have seen overseas with the markets. In the meantime, back here in the u. S. , the parade of earnings continues before the bell. Aetna, gm, 20th century fox, and aol. We will pay close attention to aol, because the ceo of the company, tim armstrong, will be on later with us. After the bell, news corporation, linkedin. The olympic guys begin today in sochi. One guy is trading three lightbulbs for a doorknob in his room. Data check. Equities, bonds, currencies and commodities. One screen today. Futures are up nine points. The yield is back up, a good sign. Calming the market at 2. 67. Your wreck euro goes nowhere. Here is what i am looking at ahead of tomorrows jobs report, dollaryen. Weaker yen over the recent mon
Are the top stories we will be covering for you. Also coming up in the program, french president Francois Hollande is across the pond visiting with rich Prime Minister David Cameron. The two leaders are discussing a host of issues. We will walk you through what is expected. An Australian Authorities green light a project to dump dredged sediment near the Great Barrier reef. Scientists warn that the plan could have detrimental effects on the wildlife. That, we had to geneva where syrian peace talks are wrapping up this friday. The two warring factions walking away from the negotiations with little to show for it. The key will remains for president Bashar Alassad and both sides are sticking to their positions. John joined us. They ended with nothing concrete. This was largely expected. The mediator is still frustrated there was no agreement on humanitarian access. I was workingheem over the weekend to gain access to the deceased city of homs. Unfortunately, that access has not occurred.
Ceo tim cook has said i realize how much i realize how much ive benefited from the sacrifice of others. If i can bring comfort to anyone who feels alone or inspire people to insist on the quality, it is worth the tradeoff with my own privacy. You can read all of tim cooks remarks in the new issue of Bloomberg Businessweek, on stands now. We have got much more. The dollar against most major currencies a day after the fed closes its door on easy money. The Bond Buying Program is designed to boost the economy. Janet yellen and crew decided the economy did not need as much help. Still, theyve committed to keeping Interest Rates low for a considerable time. President obama says that quarantines and travel bans. This part of ebola. Wont stop the spread of ebola. Until we stop this outbreak in west africa, we may continue to see individual cases in america in the weeks and months ahead, because that is the nature of todays world. We cannot hermetically seal ourselves off. Showdown in maine be
Ukraine. David tweed is in brussels for the European Union held an emergency meeting. Ryan chilcote is an key of where voters will decide 10 days whether to join russia. We will get to all of you in just a moment, but first, short time ago, president obama spoke from the Briefing Room in the white house about the situation in ukraine. Several ofpoken to our closest friends around the world and i am pleased our International Unity is on display at this important moment. Togethere have moved to announce substantial assistance for the government in key of and today in brussels, our allies took sin of took similar steps. Im confident we are moving forward together, united in our determination to oppose actions that violate international law. Ryan chilcote joins us now from kiev with the late details. Good evening. Evening, mark. Earlier today, the Crimean Parliament voted to secede from ukraine and join russia. They will now put that decision to the people of crimea in a referendum schedul
We will talk with at ts cfo. Qwest talks broke off. We will ask the chairman about the merger. Market makersng here on bloomberg television. Qwest right now, breaking house and housing data. Qwest this is a genuine surprise. Sales coming in way lower than expected. We are talking about a terrible month of march for new home sales. This thing home sales, you will recall earlier this week, they came in better than expected. 14. 5 . Ped 1445 we have not seen seen a month this that since july 2013. You have to go back that far to see a month this that. We have not seen a decline like this i think, since then as well. Not immediately clear what the explanation for this is. We know there was bad weather and we know people were holding off purchases. If that were the case, we would for seen terrible numbers existing home sales as well. We did not. I am at a loss. Qwest people are selling. We will give you updates throughout the show. We will bring in mike mckee to dissect it. To the, we will