Economy. The aussie dollar weekend after a week unemployment date in january. 8000 jobs lost. The forecast had been for a gain. Was the worstbs since 2013. The government is struggling to support growth. Those of the headlines from Bloomberg News powered like 2400 journalists in 150 bureaus around the world. We have breaking news from malaysia. Ourth quarter growth is up gdp rising 4. 5 on year. A rise of 4. 1 following a gain of 4. 7 in the previous quarter. Lets look at the market and how they are reacting. Emily im emily chang. This is bloomberg west. Coming up apple ups the ante in , the encryption debate, telling the fbi to back off. They rejected a judges order to break into the iphone of one of the San Bernardino shooters. Who wins in the standoff . Tmobile beats estimates again, closing in on at t and verizon. How do they do it . We will find out. And google digs deeper into grocery delivery. We will see how long startups can compete in this business. Emily first, to the lead,
Welcome to countdown. I am mark barton. Here in london. Also coming up on todays show if you beat me beat you . You have to give it back. I mean, you are pretty good. You think . I realize you are a legend, but ready . Go Stephanie Ruhle takes on the fastest man in the world, usain bolt. Hask Prime Minister samaras a Second Chance to rally among lawmakers in the choice of president. Thatnap general election could see the end of austerity and up party take power. It is triggering volatility in the market. The benchmark stock down over 12 . Investors are weighing the risk of the greek austerity and getting voted out of the government. Elliott gotkine in athens for round one. Good morning. Have you booked your ticket for round three . Not yet, mark. Ism suggesting that samaras man electedget his for president. He still needs to hundred votes out of the 300 lawmakers in parliament. He only got 160. He only requires 180 out of 300 votes and he has a fighting chance of getting his man ushere
Welcome to countdown. Obama says he is ready to walk away from a nuclear deal with iran if it does not meet his conditions. We will bring you the latest on the talks. Plus the reaction in tel aviv. Lets start with europe. Stimulus and greece. Mario draghi launches his fight against inflation in the eurozone with an Unprecedented Program of qe. The ecb begins its Asset Purchase Program amounting to 60 billion euros a month. The greek finance minister said if the countrys creditors make requests that are not acceptable to the government the greek people might be asked to decide on how to break the deadlock. The Prime Minister signaled the referendum option could be on the table. Lets bring in david powell. He joins us bright and early this monday morning. Good morning to you, david. Lets talk about the start of qe. We have been talking about it for years, it seems. Other Central Banks enacted it years ago. Can it live up to expectations . We saw the reaction in the markets after the anno
He is going to tell us how he plans to double the size was 4 billion business within the next five years. The company the Just Announced a partnership with google next. We are on the strategy on the way. We want to get you down to d. C. The report card on the economic districts. 2 fed our chief washington correspondent is with us now with more. After thatew days disappointing jobs report, the suggests we may still have reason to continue to taper their bond buying. Reports from the 12 districts suggest Economic Activity continued to expand across most regions and sectors. Two thirds noted an increase in hiring. Nine districts said that the economy was growing at a moderate pace. Conditions improved over the. The outlook across the districts was genuinely generally positive. They said the outlook was positive, with most reports setting expectations of more of the same. Real estate continued to improve, although if you districts did report some slow growth in sales. Most noted there was
Volatility index, the visx. A developing story in ottawa, canada, where parliament has been locked down after a soldier has been shot nearby at the. Ations war memorial one soldier and one shooting suspect are dead. Bloombergs Ottawa Bureau chief joins me on the phone with the. Atest on what is a very sleepy government town. Ottawa is a very sleepy government town. The Downtown Core is totally locked down. You have police with Automated Machine guns taking position everywhere. Withinre shootings parliament, not just at the war memorial. War memorial is about a couple hundred meters away from Parliament Hill. Gunman shot down one of the soldiers, more ceremonial type soldier. There were two soldiers in front of the war memorial. One of them was shot and killed. There was also an incident in the parliament. We are not sure it is the same kind man who just walked up to parliament and got into the building. Was right in the vicinity of where the government caucus was meeting with the Prime