Ftse 100, italy, spain, all up. Looking at crude. Wti sitting at 50. 91. Lets get to that microsoft story. It is the top corporate story. Shares of the tech giant popping on better than expected quarterly results. The big driver, the cloud. The shares of the microsoft product doubling in the most recent quarter. The stock hitting an alltime high in afterhours trading breaking through a level hit at the peak of the tech bubble back in 1999. Its going to close in on a half trillion dollars again. Its great day to have ballmer on. He took a lot of flack for not turning it into something it wasnt. In hindsight, now that we have the benefit of hindsight, he kept that thing moving along. Increasing revenue. Maybe the share price didnt go all the way back. Got pretty rich himself. How much does he have left . I expect him well have him for an hour. I expect him to be in a really good mood today. Because of the stock price. Very few of us get like 4 billion richer on wake up in the morning. I
We have to choke off their ability to bring in new fighters, because, we have taken tens of thousands of their fighters off the battlefield, but if new ones are still coming in, then they continue to maintain a strangle hold. Deirdre retired Navy Captain Chuck Nash with me now, captain, what do you make of the fact that president obama needs to be pressed on his counterterrorism strategy. We know he is . Paris, but what do you make of this strategy . Well counterterrorism strategy is something that weve been doing for some time, we tried several raids into syria to rescue hostages. Some of those were successful, some were not. But weve been running counterterrorism operations. The steps it up in iraq and putting from what i heard in early reports up to 200 special operations people to assist the iraqi forces, we have already put in special ops guys to help the kurds, that will help air power become more effective. But why havent we been doing that all along, that is the question that i
The jordanians have limited capabilities. They have been helpful. The area of desert is vast. It requires a lot of capabilities, strengths. Where we have questions elsewhere, it was a political motive. We said we do not see that beyond the call of duty to protect iraq from jihadist. That is what we are talking about. Ok. Yes, sir. Ambassador, the main problem between the Iraqi Government and krg is article 140. A week ago, it was said [indiscernible] so, what is your understanding of that statement . Ok. Yes, sir. Please. Youve talked about how isis is this transnational threat and how it cant be solved in just one country. Do you believe any military action against isis needs to include some form of action in syria as well as iraq . Ok. Another. Yes. Please . Good morning. I have a couple of questions. The first one is, where is the european role in all of this, and if you see a role in all of the conflict going on right now, what would you like it to be . The second question is, what
Mario draghi hinted that largescale quantitative easing may be the way because of the risk of deflation. Bond yields are falling in italy and spain as a result. Former new york governor mario cuomo died yesterday of heart failure. He was 82 years old. He was elected governor three times and he had a memorable speech at the 1984 democratic and that this convention and many thought of him and higher office. Many believe the wagon train will not make it to the frontier unless some of the old, some of the young, some of the week are left behind by the side of the trail. From that, he was considered a likely president ial candidate twice but decided against running. Once he declined a plane took him to New Hampshire to take into the New Hampshire primary. Bad weather is slowing down the search for wreckage embodies in the air asia crash. Search crews in the java sea are using sonar and ping locators to find the blackbox and flight recorders and 30 bodies have been found so far. For the seco
And the french government says it is honorable and they should get on to growth. Weve been having manufacturing pmi data out this morning from the likes of france, germany and italy all disappointing. 4 4 it was forecast at 50. 8 and its come in at 50. 6. So a little less than was expected. 50. 6 is that number. A fourmonth low with the manufacturing number and as far as the french numbers, too. Indeed. And that is contrasting to ireland. Slightly lower than the number did come in at 53. 8 marking 13 months of growth. The german number, as we touched on 50. 2 versus 49. 5. I suppose the interesting thing about this is its no longer that simple call strong call weak periphery. Theres a lot of divergence and it makes it hard to know what the right course of action is. I believe its really simple. Europe is struggling. There is no growth in europe. Its a very easy decision to make i think, snars qe is concerned in europe. Look at disinflation inflation, arguably, some of that is needed. E