Im so thrilled to get a chance to do the pulse with you. This is fantastic. We have you today on such a big day for the show. It is decision day for the bank. Youll be breaking down what the g7 means. We have a rash of exclusive guests. We have the c. E. O. Of the institute of International Finance. He is going to be joining us shortly. Another live exclusive coming up with ryan. First lets get straight to our top story. The world is watching the e. C. B. In a few hours draghi will deliver run of the most highly anticipated policy decisions in recent times. He ma i may become the first central banker to take rates negative. Last month he hinted that the cut may be on the cards. Comfortable acting next time. But before we want to see the staff projections that will come out in the early june. For more, lets get out to guy johnson, the pulse anchor live outside the e. C. B. s headquarters in frankfurt. Good morning, guy. Good morning to you, olivia. Yes. Expectations incredibly high in a
Decision and economists not forecasting a change. Mike mckee our chief economic correspondent will be focused on the 8 30 a. M. Press conference with mario draghi where there is a lot to talk about. Including the possibility of a fed tabor here and what it could mean for rates rising in europe as well. A lot of Economic Data in the u. S. 7 30 a. M. , challenger job lot job cuts, then initial jobless claims of gdp and then bloomberg and Bloomberg Consumer convert and then factory orders and then 8 30 a. M. Eastern treasury secretary jack lew will outline his 2014 regulatory agenda and discuss wall street Reform Efforts in the buzz word will be the volcker rule. 950 pages. Lets do a 950page data check. Stocks, bonds, currencies, flat footed. Treasury yield elevated. 2. 83 . Of two 97. 57 a barrel. Yields,ds, the the the twoyear has not moved. Gold gets a bit finally today. Alix steel, why did gold get a bid . And perhapsering some Hedge Fund Buying coming in and buying a little bit. Mark
We have to make the cuts now. We cant make up for it later. Reporter southwest rage will dig deep into marylands economy and consider this there are 60 federal agencies located in this state. 17 military installing as and in all of marylands workforce, its made up of 6 of federal workers. What were doing now are selfinflicted wounds. Reporter maryland senator ben cardin huddled with Prince Georges County Business Owners. And i will not be able to add more employees in the workforce. Theyre worried about what 85 billion acrosstheboard federal cuts will do to jobs in this area. And they take affect for any length of time and they having a major drag on our economy. Reporter and he also got an earful about congress itself and with that endless cycle of budget crisis after budget crisis. If i dont meet a deadline, im either in breach of contract or i am disqualified from a procurement. Anyone else . Operate under the guidelines and congress can keep pushing the deadline to the right. Repor
Family and what happens next. But we begin with a Winter Weather alert, a mess in the midwest again. Another blizzard slamming several states. We could soon feel its impact. Thanks for joining us tonight. Im brian bolter. Im shawn yancy. Get ready for some rain and even some flood watches, of course, some Winter Weather advisories, too. Sue palka has the latest information coming into the Weather Center tonight. It looks like this is not going to be a problem for us in the morning, but weve got some rain coming, enough that weve got some flood watches up and there could even be a rumble of thunder tomorrow at the same time we also have Winter Weather advisories off to our west. Its coming from that same storm. Well take another look on radar. This is a huge snowstorm. There is an awful lot of Severe Weather associated with it in addition to big wind, but this is a drought stricken area, so theyre calling that snow white gold even if it has been a lot of work for folks in wichita and ka
Will weaken and a new storm will form close enough to the Atlantic Ocean it pulls in heavy rain and as that transition is taking place maybe even a rumble of thunder for us as the new storm takes over. Heres what you should expect tomorrow. Its mostly a wet evening commute. It may be heavy enough to cause some flooding of small streams and creeks. At 8 a. M. If we see anything, it would be very spotty and a light mix to our west. Our temperature here locally 35, 43 at noon with showers developing and chilly rain at 4 00, temperature 41. More on that forecast and any other rain chances a bit later. A man accused of killing a High School Student is behind bars. 18yearold marckel ross gunned down last september walking to school in capitol heights. 20yearold travon bennett has been charged with the murder. Ross was killed during an attempted robbery. Ross was one of six Prince Georges County students killed this school year. Tonight neighbors and parents gathered to mourn and ask police f