Welcome to countdown. London on thisin wednesday morning. Also coming up today, cell phones made from diamonds are closer than you think. We meet the company developing it. Ity entertainment announced will release its new film the interview tomorrow in a number of theaters across america. Sony entertainment chief executive said we are excited our movie will be in a number of theaters on Christmas Day. We are continuing our efforts to secure more platforms and more movie reachesis the largest possible audience. The two best friends stared each other in the eye. They knew this might be the end of the long row. Smaller chains are willing to screen the film, despite threats of filings from cyberattacks. The show very much goes on. 300, we understand, will be airing it as of Christmas Day. Whenhad to diverge course these threats of attacks started to leak out by the cyber bigckers and suddenly the four pulled out. We understand that a coalition of independent theaters signed a petition and
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Good morning. Welcome to Worldwide Exchange. We have two hours together. Right now on the wires, we are just looking at the ecodata hitting. And just a note from my producer, my wire has just gone down, so we are looking at the german Business Climate falling for the month of august. Revisions to july indices are seen as well, but the Expectations Index coming in at 101. 7 for the month of august. The Consensus Forecast was for 102. So the Expectations Index a little bit light. They are stating no revisions to the july indices. And again, the Expectations Index coming in just slightly light. Current conditions, 111. 1. Which means that were also looking at that particular reading being a bit light as well. Not by much, but we are still seeing a bit of a drop there. Lets talk a little bit about the markets. We are seeing the euro dollar at 1. 31, just shy of where we have been the last few sessions. Down the line we are at the hag hague. Good morning this morning, how are you . Good mor
Investors back on further bank stimulus. Policymakers pledge practice fiscal policy in the year ahead. We are live in warsaw where the foreign minister says prolonged sanctions in russia are worth the pain for regional security. We are willing to put up with the sanctions because we think that the issue of borders in europe is more important. Announcer youre watching worldwide exchange, bringing you Business News from around the globe. And welcome to the show. Seema, sharp selloff in europe yesterday when we heard mario draghi being less mimted to 2015. Its incredible just to see yesterday how much focus was on draghi. Markets were interpreting what he meant when he made those comments about further easing, whether it will actually happen. At the same time, i wonder if investorses shouldnt just sit back and not focus on whether bond buying will happen. He tempered expectations. He used words like i will intend to expand the Balance Sheet, i will expect to expand the Balance Sheet rathe
Quarter gdp, personal income and spending, new home sales and consumer sentiment. On wednesday, weekly jobless claims will get here a day early because of the holiday. A big part of the story on the markets and the economy, oil with the latest lumberg survey showing gas prices dropping to the lowest level since may of 2009. The National Average for a gallon of regular unleaded is at 2. 47. And andrew, welcome back. Thank you, becky. It sounds like Nothing Happened last week. It was kind of boring . What happened to the market in cuba . And russia. And then the whole i dont know, i feel like a lot happened. Anyway, well tell you what is going on in corporate news. The price over a new hepatitis c drug expressing its largest plan is now going to be offered for treatment with patients that have the most common form of the virus. Starting in january it will exclude drugs from gilead and Johnson Johnson. Meg terrell is going to join us with that story next half hour. And ocwens executive ch