Triple a credit rating. I will focus on those things that got us this far. Economic development, striving for excellence in education and making sure we are delivering Good Government at a taxpayer value. Thank you. Live now to the executive chair of the ford motor company, he is here in washington to talk about the future of the transportation industry, bill ford will be interviewed by david, live in cspan2. And then became the ceo in 2003 which he did until 2006, he is currently the executive chairman of ford. Ford is a company that his great grandfather henry ford started in 1903 and has a market value of roughly 49 billion and revenue last year 199,000 employees and net income last year 7. 2 billion. Bill is active not only in helps to run ford, but also in activities in detroit area. Hes a hockey player and a black belt in Marshall Arts martial arts and he has been active to reinvent and renovate detroit and try today make it a much more habitable place and active in many activiti
High school, the accident that sent two dozen people to the high school. I walked down the aisle of any supermarket in the country and you will see how much of the food that is part of our diet is grown in california. Reporter you dont have to be a california farmer to feel the pain from the worst drought in the States History and walk down the aisle of your local supermarket. Search and rescue crews from Nine Countries including the u. S. Are scoring the South China Sea and looking for the jet that vanished between malaysia and vietnam and it has been more than two days since Malaysia Airlines 370 went missing with 239 people on board. It was supposed to be a routine flight from kuala lumpur to beijing and whereabouts still unknown and no block box signal since it disappeared and debris found off the tip of vietnam does not belong to that plane, 34 planes and 40 ships are part of the widening search and an american patrol and u. S. Navy helicopter are in the gulf of thailand and the c
As far as earnings go, Urban Outfitters reports at 4 00 p. M. Brunomaker moleskin cucina lee cucinelli he makes those fancy coats . I dont wear them but maybe scarlet fu. All the wicked fancy guys. And wicked expensive. Wicked. A boston thing. Lets do a data check. Stocks, bonds, currencies, commodities and futures flat, 10 year yield turning off the better than good jobs report. The euro, 1. 3877, higher through friday and through australia this morning. Nymex crude goes nowhere. Foreign exchange, the yen, desperateally getting into weakness and the ruble stays stubbornly week for mr. Putin. , a decline. Again, off of china. How about a chart from the bloomberg terminal . China boom, and we collapse. A classic rollover. A lower highs and lower lows. Not good. Leland miller will join us this morning. He has been dead on on the slowdown in china. Really looking forward to the conversation. What a busy weekend . We scoured the papers. Scarlet fu gets us started with a difficult story. Ni
Germanys chancellor Angela Merkel speaking out calling crimeas referendum on joining russia illegal. Lets get to jim maceda of nbc news in moscow. We are looking at all the different ramifications and details. And one of them, jim, is the lock that russia has on energy in ukraine and the west would have to there eticly make up for that if they dont go with russia. So now we are looking at the details, and once again, a lot of it is about money when it comes right down to it. Reporter its about money, its about energy, and right now its about president Putin Holding all of the cards, joe. Were only six days away from the referendum you referred to in your lead. Taking place in crimea. But with those international monitors now prevented for the third time from entering the peninsula over the weekend, theres no reason to doubt that the final result will be a vote in favor of seceding from ukraine and becoming part of russia. Those russian or prorussian, if you will, troops continue to con
Stocks in the ukraine in the call between Angela Merkel and the president. This following pro and antirussian ral lies in kiev. And the biggest banana producer. Chiquita is merging to create a billiondollar fruit giant. Youre watching Worldwide Exchange. Bringing you Business News from around the globe. Hello and welcome to the first Worldwide Exchange of the week. And for those of you in the u. S. And asia, for the next three weeks, youll only be seeing one hour of the good stuff as the u. S. Has now switched to daylight savings. You used to be able to see the twohour program, but good morning to everybody in north america if you are just joining us. Well start your Global Trading week. The leading story today is the continuing search for clues on the disappearance of malaysia air flight 370. In the last few minutes, the vietnamese rescue Team Investigating reports of a yellow object floating out at sea have said it is not a plane life raft. This is investigators that still have not f