Most powerful drug trafficker in the world. The ukraine president has been impeached. He has fled with suit cases. Interim government has issued an arrest warrant. The protesters arent convinced the revolution is over. Francis is the first pope not to have studied in europe. We begin with the arrest of joaquin guzman, known as el chapo, possibly the most notorious kingpin who has in a restauranted his power since his legendary escape from a Laundry Basket in 2001. What does his arrest really mean for the drug war and for the flow of drugs into the u. S. . His arrest comes just as mexican president enrique was featured on the cover of Time Magazine. Is this really mexicos Osama Bin Laden moment . We are joined from the from the Los Angeles Times who covers Drug Trafficking and immigration, currently writing a book on the heroin surge in the u. S. Good to have you back on the show. You wrote you dont believe in coincidences when it comes to mexican politics. A mexican president is on the
Really make it happen. But quarter after quarter the company has been able to deliver with a surprise when it came to sales for pcs which we know are in decline but perhaps not quite as much decline as wed anticipated particularly on the commercial side on notebooks where they choed real strength. That did help the quarter and on the revenue side, printing went fairly well. They did come ahead on revenues and on profit. One of my favorite notes Morgan Stanley saying they are achieving the impossible keeping expectations low while increasing revenue and cutting costs and investing and so forth and cash as well. Well talk a lot about that with meg in a minute. The futures are up a touch which means the s p could post its first threeweek win streak in three months. Meantime, were keeping our eye on the tenyear yield and overnight in asia the nikkei was almost up 3 as the markets liked the manufacturing data out of the u. S. Yesterday. First up, though, ukraines government said a tentative
The crimean referendum, of course, is this weekend. The roadmap begins with continuing Global Concerns led by china and ukraine. Have the markets looking at a modestly higher open this after the major averages logged their worst day since february 3 period. General motors is firing back that air bag failure in recalled vehicles resulted in more than 300 deaths. Target admitting it did not take immediate action after Security Software originally alerted the company to malicious activity after the data breach. And Mark Zuckerberg calls president obama to complain about the governments surveillance programs. First up, though, thursday, the 13, was bad luck for the bulls as worries about a slowdown in china and rising tension between ukraine and russia helped spark a market selloff. All 30 components finishing in the red. And the s p has fallen to negative territory for the year and the nasdaq posting a decline for the fifth time in six sessions. The s p has only had a yeartodate gain nine
This sign that you are looking at, reads in russian, krimea is russ, they posts these signs all over the city urquidez vein a interim prime minisr. Declaring plaque seaerritory has been a will be a part of ukraine, deposed former president Victor Yanukovich broke his silence, reveals he has fled to russia, sheltering himself from murder charges after riot Police Killed more than 80 ukrainian citizens last week, insist hes is still the leader of ukraine. Yanukovich in statement confirming he asked russia for protect from what he called quote threats of reprisals again he and my fellows, with russian state media conrming that moscow has granted hid request. Yanukovich aounced a press conference from southern russia tomorrow, after the interim government elected a new government and parliament and primeinister today, secretary of state john kerry, seemingly lking back the administrationshreats that have been made over the course of recent days. Despit overwhelming edence that russia is in
The border during the siege. This sign that you are looking at, reads in russian, krimea is russia, they posts these signs all over the city urquidez vein a interim Prime Minister. Declaring plaque sea territory has been and will be a part of ukraine, deposed former president Victor Yanukovich broke his silence, reveals he has fled to russia, sheltering himself from murder charges after riot Police Killed more than 80 ukrainian citizens last week, insist hes is still the leader of ukraine. Yanukovich in statement confirming he asked russia for protect from what he called quote threats of reprisals again he and my fellows, with russian state media confirming that moscow has granted hid request. Yanukovich announced a press conference from southern russia tomorrow, after the interim government elected a new government and parliament and Prime Minister today, secretary of state john kerry, seemingly walking back the administrations threats that have been made over the course of recent day