Charge a Police Officer in the killing of an unarmed teenager. We will be live on the ground in ferguson. Welcome to countdown. It is 6 00 here in london on this Tuesday Morning. Not going to rush. That is the message from one of the key figures as the European Central bank speaking exclusively to bloomberg. He says the ecb will look at all the options to try to stimulate europes economies by buying new assets. He told Francine Lacqua that asset purchases would be up for discussion at the banks december meeting. We are ready to do more if needed. We will be watching the situation extremely carefully. We have been discussing it and there is unanimous agreement in the council that there will be situations where we would have to do more. The market interpretation is now you feel more comfortable doing more than you did weeks ago. Is that fair . I think we do remain dependent on the data. We have to watch the economy wey carefully and understand are not going to rush to a new decision with
Sharply lower than what had been expected in april. Also lowering its growth forecast for 2015. The main reason, according to the International Monetary fund, geopolitical risks. They cite risks coming out of the middle east and coming out of the tensions between russia and ukraine. On the up side, the imf revised the u. S. Outlook higher. Growth for the United States set to be 3. 5 for the second half of 2014. 3. 8 in 2015, but the u. S. Is certainly a bright spot in what is otherwise a down beat picture. Europe, japan and the emerging markets all taken lower. Of the emerging markets, i thought it was interesting that brazil was actually cut in terms of the growth forecast the most. Some quotes to highlight from the International Monetary report, mediocre is the word. We heard this from lagarde last week. It sets the tone between finance ministers. Theyll be gathering in washington. Theyll be there to discuss the new mediocre which is what the imf is calling it. Flag warnings about th
Year are being replaced. I think a very geopolitical issue, russia and the sanctions are probably a preimminent one. French president hollande scrambling to avoid a new crisis with the new proreform government amid criticism that his Economic Policy res quote unquote absurd. And amazon outmaneuvering google and yahoo . The 1 billion deal being its largest acquisition to date. Youre watching Worldwide Exchange, bringing you Business News from around the globe. Hi, everybody. Good morning. Glass youre with us. We have a lot to talk about over the next few hours. Ukraines president poroshenko has called for elections to happen at the end of october. The announcement was largely expected after the Government Coalition collapsed back in july. The ukrainian leader saying he hopes the vote will clear out the old guard. Meanwhile, fighting continues around downtsk. The Ukrainian Army said it intercepted ten tanks and two Armored Vehicles disguised as rebel forces. Moscow has denied these claim
We will take you live to washington dc. Danica rejects the takeover bid from pfizer. We will be taking a look at the health care industry. Big Food Companies are behind the big rise in childhood obesity. Welcome to a very special edition of Market Makers. Not just because katie couric is here. Julie hyman is here. I just came from baltimore, your hometown. I went to the preakness this weekend. There you go. Lets start with the breaking news out of washington dc. Higher in just got the cyber war between the United States and china. Justice department will announce the first criminal charges against members of the Chinese Military for cyber espionage. Phil mattingly is with us. Peter cook as along as well. The Justice Department just unsealed charges against five individuals rectally tied to the chinese Peoples Liberation army. They were targeting multiple industries according to the documents and charges that were filed. Thenuclear industry, solar, companies they were targeting alcoa,ca
Ryanair with shares following suit. Youre watching Worldwide Exchange. Bringing you Business News from around the globe. Hello and a warm welcome to the first Worldwide Exchange of a fresh week here on cnbc. And its a lot of company news this morning. A lot of it is surrounding the activity of capital heights. We kickoff with astrazeneca who sped up their bid to pfizer. A fourth bid from pfizer rejected this morning. Astra said they would take 58 pounds per share. Pfizers offer was 55 pounds a share. Astrazenecas stock was off 14 . There you can see it down 48 pounds. 38 pounds was where we were before we got pfizer on the table. Katherine is here to cover this story. So this was their final bid. We went to 55 over the weekend. A stra supporters came out over the weekend. Where is the idea of them taking 58 pounds . Theres little wiggle room. Ifs as a tra zeneca would take this, there could be a bid. Theres a branch that one can relieve in the current statement and this is the point wh