Good morning, everybody. Welcome to countdown. Im anna edwards. We have eyes on both sides of the atlantic this morning. Researching Angela Merkel this morning and a mythical beast came into my mind. This is a sprawling, huge group. Ceo and reviewing assets to decide which ones. Delivering69, 31 are just 2 . Percent the endet by june, by of 2016, return on capital of at least 15 . Right now its 8 . Leviathan is my image of the day. Focusing little bit on amazon looking at the earnings from the Largest Online retailer. The stock is down heavily afterhours. They are investing heavily in the future of their business. How long will they go along with the heavy Investment Strategy . Watching the ongoing developments, of which there are many, in ukraine. First and foremost, the Prime Minister is going to resign, a bit of a shock. He made the announcement in parliament. He says he cannot get the legislation he needs to get through in the Ruling Coalition has fallen apart so i am resigning. In
Ride, down 1. 5 at 4155. There are ways to win while the markets drop and we will look at the etfs, they kind of go the other way. We are talking about ways to short the emerging markets without taking on too much risk. Its tricky but you can do it. And signs, signs, everywhere a sign as the old song went. We will look beyond the indexes and the data at some other key stats like trucking and shipping activity to get a different view of whats really going on with the u. S. And the global economy. First, though, lets check in with sue at the nyse. Its a very unpleasant day for the bulls once again today. Ty showed you the numbers just a minute ago but lets take a deeper look at the dow intraday. Take a look at that chart. We are off 200 points plus on the Dow Jones Industrial average. That is just a tad off the low of the session. We have been deteriorating throughout the day, really. The transports, i wanted to highlight because they are really getting hammered today. We are now off bet
Lets get back to one of our top stories this morning. Kurdish forces battle sunni militants. Iraqs military situation is deteriorating. Phil mattingly joins us now. How important is a resolution in baghdad to the fight against the Islamic States and the militants . Officialshat u. S. Continue to point to as the only longterm solution. Last night, it looks to have taken a major step back in terms of political resolution. Malakitioned that the president sue for trying to extend and not malaki to be named Prime Minister. Be aware ofgoing to adding more support. It is something president obama highlighted. We can conduct airstrikes, but there will not be an American Military solution to this problem. There will have to be an iraqi solution that america and other allies of support. That cannot happen until you have a legitimate iraqi government. Officials have been clear, behindthescenes, that they would like to see maliki step aside. That has come to the forefront. One of the top state off
Recreational marijuana. Tensions and violence rose today along israels border with the gaza strip. Israeli army released this video of rockets after hamas vows revenge for their deaths. Confessed to the crime. Those confessions come as Israeli Military calls up reservists for the first time in almost two years. Amuds the large escalation of the number and reach of rockets fired from gaza into israel. Nick schifrin, what can you tell us about this escalation on both sides, israelis and palestinians . Michael you laid it out well. These two sides are at their most tenuous point, in the past two years. There is a great fear of higher escalation. Lets look at both sides from the numbers. From gaza we have some 40plus rockets being fired just in the last couple hours into israel. About 12 of those have been intercepted by the iron dome, thats the Missile Defense system that israel has. Dramatic are increase in the number and reach. The distance is about 50 miles frr israel, what israel has
Frankly i and dont know if hell justify democratically elected government that seceded him. Im the few republicans that im one of the few members of he house who do not see things most people e way see it. I think the european friends manipulated us in doing their bidding in ukraine. Would hope we could be a force for peace there rather ukrainians,ming the we should try to find an agreement. Of finding he way the house back in shortly to vote on two feels dealing with energy and tax breaks. The clerk h. R. 4, a bill to make revisions to federal law, to improve the conditions necessary for Economic Growth and job creation and for other purposes. The speaker pro tempore for what purpose does the gentleman from new york seek recognition . Mr. Speaker, i have a motion to recommit at the desk. The speaker pro tempore is the gentleman opposed to the bill . In its current form, i am, yes. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman qualifies. The clerk will report the motion. The clerk instructions