You are watching the pulse. We are here in london. Tensions between ukraine and russia are at boiling point. Nato top military commanders say russia is sending troops and equipment to ukraine. Sanctions are the focus of a meeting today in brussels. Ryan chilcote has been covering the story. What options do eu and u. S. Officials have . What toare deliberating do next and then we get a final decision from the Foreign Ministers on monday. Choices, one,e expand personal sanctions, the individuals subject to asset freezes. Two, expand the list of Russian Companies facing sanctions. Westernestrict what companies and investors can do on the russian market. It looked like it was going to be option one. Now it looks like options two and three may be in play. I spoke with Ukrainian Foreign minister and he seemed to downplay the idea that these sanctions would be really biting. Is just one point in the whole toolbox. What we need is a clear pressure to keep the escalation on track. Again, sancti
For coverage beginning at 8 00 p. M. Eastern time. Morgan stanley comes up short on Fourth Quarter estimates because of a drop in fixed income trading revenues. Morgan stanley has been shrinking the amount of capital dedicated to its fixed income and commodities division. The imf has made the biggest cut to its Global Growth outlook in three years. The World Economy will now wrote 3. 5 this year down from 3. 8 and i told her. From a sober. From tober. From october. The medium prospects are down. It is squeezing investment. We think this effect is stronger than the price of oil. The one exception and the forecast is the u. S. The fund upgraded its forecast to United States growth to 3. 6 . We might even best market in the world. The numbers are in, 2014 chinese economy grew by the smallest amount in 24 years but it is still at 7. 4 . It would have been worse had the government not added the stimulus efforts like Interest Rate cuts. Those moves help to boost chinese Factory Production an
The top Global Business stories. Another sign of progress in the labor market, u. S. Companies 000 workers last month which is the seventime in the last eight months payrolls have climbed by at least 200,000 according to adp research. The payroll report is a out officially friday and it is expected a gain of 230,000 jobs. Record. Nday set a sales according to Research Firm com score, shoppers spend more than 2 billion online monday. Growth is officially slowing and consumers of and spreading out there shopping two other days during the holidays. On ready for fireworks again capitol hill. This morning, congress will question an executive from the airbag maker who is refusing to issue a nationwide recall. Rejected the recall demand by u. S. Regulators and the airbags are lame for at least four deaths and they have recalled cars only in states with high humidity which is partially blamed for the malfunction. Ralph nader says takata thinks it can get away with defying the government. They
Rules, a vote of 32, expected here, but we had contentions going into the vote. Basically, what they are arguing here is over the future of the internet, whether internet broadband providers will be allow to charge fees to specific websites for faster lanes and faster access to their own customers. Those websites lobbied against it, and broadband providers lobbied for it. In the end, the loss goes to the broadband Provider Companies like comcast, a parent of this network, and Time Warner Cable and others that provide those services. The debate in the room, though guys that framed the debate over the future of the internet. We have a commissioner, speaking against this skeptical this does not lead to more regulations and taxes on the internet saying it threatens the Internet Freedom itself. Take a listen. The internet has become a powerful force for freedom, here and around the world. So it is sad to witness this morning the fccs unproduce dented attempts to replace freedom with governm
In any case, until we see sustained adjustment on the part of inflation, which is consistent with our aim of achieving inflation rates below but close to 2 over the mediumterm. Corey drug he also says they will support greece if bailout talks get back on track. Yemen moves closer to war. The latest violence happened in the Third Largest city. Rebel leaders have called on forces to mobilize for war. Chinas ali baba is looking to israel to improve security. They are investing in jerusalem venture partners, who focus on Cyber Security. Israels government is planning to build a global of four Cyber Security technology. Well, ubers plans to partner with the u. N. To create one million jobs for women turned out to be a nonstarter. The Driver Unions warned the jobs to be dangerous. It deals the latest blow to over ubers image. A Global Transportation company with 80,000 employees we are joined by the north american ceo, mark joseph. Mark, tell us what the firm is. Mark we are a worldwide oper