The s p is fairly flat, up by 1 10 of 1 . 1 . We are keeping a firm eye on brussels. European leaders are at work again. They just started there may meeting to decide to leave the European Council and european commission, and by extension, the European Central bank. The current head of the imf is being talked about seriously as a contender to take over from mario draghi. Lets get the latest from maria. The main meeting has started after a series of side meetings. What we know on account of how much information we have at this point . Maria in terms of official information, we have nothing. It is speculation swirling around. Weve spoken to a number of diplomats who say Christine Lagarde is being considered to her crate replace mario draghi. She was now the name of the running yesterday, but appears to be now the frontrunner. Conditionality, if Angela Merkel manages to get her defense minister to become the next commission president. Surprise. She was not on the list. The good thing, it
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Important is in terms of how do you support really standg up or evaluating real life use cases or proof of concepts or pilots if you will and thats what we see other countries doing is getting these systems up and running to learn from them as quickly as possible. That takes infrastructure support. That takes things the government is best equipped to help execute and manage. I think thats another big area where we would really welcome the support of these agencies. So when youre talking about infrastructure, were planning smart cities. We need to be thinking five years ahead, ten years ahead in terms of the ability for us to have Smart Devices and the like. Exactly. The Vehicle Infrastructure piece of it the markings on the roadways, basically equipping the infrastructure to be ready. If were talking about large investments we should be looking into that. Federal and state. I think ann harbor is a good example. They have come together to create a test bed on the campus grounds. You wer
The Worlds Largest Electronics Show in las vegas. Sony using this time to address the cyber attack. I am very proud of all the employees and partners we work with, as well who stood up against some of the extortionist efforts of the criminals that attacked Sony Pictures and its employees. Announcer youre watching Worldwide Exchange, bricking you Business News from around the globe. Just want to get i up to speed on some data that just broke. Eurozone composite pmi coming out at 51. 4 versus 51. 9. That was the expectation versus what we got in november, which was 51. 1. Again, the december composite coming out at 511. 6. We have had the numbers out of the individual countries. Spain came first. That was a good reading, 54. 3 in euro, came up a little bit off the back of that. We then see that sharp selloff as you can see in the euro off the back of the italian number which was 49. 4 against a forecast of 51. 7. Since then weve had french and german numbers. France was 51. 6 against the
Hours ago. Lets take a listen to what he had to say. Theres no reason they should be together at this point. In our opinion of fact, i think it would be helped by a Management Team that is separate and can go their own way, and i think the multiple would go up dramatically, and also the health of the company would be better. Ebay, not surprisingly, not too happy about this idea, saying in a statement that they have thought about this in depth and concluded that the company and its shareholders are best served by the current Strategic Direction of the company and does not believe that breaking up the company is the best icahn icahn way to maximize shareholder value. Has also icahn has also nominated to of his own employees to ebays board. I want to bring in cory johnson, our editor at large. Can icahn really get what he wants . He says he is willing to wait 3, 4, 5 years to make this happen. He is not alone in wanting this. Its interesting, not least because he has got the headquarters