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Assignment this week. Who is taking her place today . Contestant is bill cohen. Theing me out at all hours, bloomberg contributing editor, welcome. Great to have you here. I am no replacement for stephanie, but i will try. I know you will. The top stories out of business and finance, let us begin with oil prices. The lowest level in 12 years, brent crude is at its lowest level. Also already facing the highest capital surcharge under International Rules and the bank may have to than 20 billion in...

We proceed from crisis to crisis and this is how we prove it. I have no doubt that in the next few days and he notion of an ultimatum is going to be withdrawn. Terms of a bailout are too tough according to the greek government. The current agreement expires at the end of this month. In texas, a federal judge has temporarily halted president obamas executive orders on illegal immigration. Texas and 25 other states sued the federal government. The Justice Department will appeal. Proposed rules fro...

This is one of those situations where everybody is all over the map. Some say this makes more republicans likely to back down and get a cover mice on department of Homeland Security funding. Some say it is less. What say you . I say more. I think the republicans in the house and elsewhere under a lot of pressure. This gives them a decent opportunity to back down given the white house has Legal Immigration thing on hold. You are going with the rational fallacy. The fallacious reasoning in thinkin...

Stephanie i am stephanie ruhle. We misseed y we missed you. Erik a vacation. I will not go so far to say i deserved it, but i enjoyed it. Stephanie getting the top business stories of the morning. Greece. Talks over the greek bailout have broken down. Germanys commerzbank says theres a 50 greece will leave the euro. Greece is refusing to meet european demands that it requests an extension of the current Bailout Program. Here is greeces finance minister. Yanis varoufakis in the history of the Eur...

Real estate portfolio worth as much as 30 billion to blackstone and wells fargo according to a person with knowledge of the matter. An agreement could be reached as soon as tomorrow. The firm says credit sius may shut down the government that and for next date foreignexchange business and put the securitization up for sale to an american competitor. Deutsche bank says credit suites may scale back their fixed income business in emerging markets. John paulson has merger strategy gains 10 this year...

Good morning everybody on this thursday here in new york city. Youre watching Market Makers on bloomberg television. Im Erik Schatzker. Stephanie im stephanie ruhle. I am british sure Monica Lewinsky is not my favorite anything i am sure Monica Lewinsky is not my favorite anything. Not my favorite intern or dress owner or mistress. Maybe my favorite beret wea rer . No. Wholesale inventories for february are out and who better to break down those numbers than scarlet fu . Scarlet we have an incre...

We are live on the salt conference in las vegas. I am Erik Schatzker. Stephanie i am Stephanie Ruhle. Day two and we had an extraordinary run already. We will be speaking with the one and only jim cahanos. Leon cooperman at 11 00 and john burbank at 11 30. You better sit down, strapping and dont go anywhere. Erik that is one heck of a lineup. Lets start with a bulletin. Stephanie Erik Schatzker in vegas, a whole other level. Erik top business stories of the morning. Alibaba has a new ceo, daniel...

I am filling in for Erik Schatzker today. He is off today. You know why . We are breaking economic news. November existing home sales are officially out. Our economics editor, Michael Mckee, it is at his desk cranking away with the headlines. That news and we do not know why. Right now we see existing home sales fell on the month by 4. 3 . The worst performance of the year. A lot of people may attribute this, and it is a good that it is through to the fed that pushed morgan rach up Mortgage Rate...

European union. I have spoken with seven of the Foreign Ministers myself this morning. What is clear is that there is not the appetite to imposing economic sanctions or to target any of russias Business Leaders in that list. That is something that many people have speculated on going into this meeting. They are not there yet. The goal of the sanctions is to discourage president Vladimir Putin from annexing crimea but that crimean set voted to join russia but russia does not need to follow throug...

Of the claims. They decided it was going to be about 42 million so nasdaqs going to pay finra, finra will doll out in the uny. We dont have a timetable but im told it will be in the next couple weeks. We dont have a breakdown into what firms will get what amount. I dont have that yet. I think that will be available state of the union. Were working on it. Bob pisani, thank you so much. Ty, up to you. Sue, the markets are roaring, soaring, anything but boring. We have found warning signs. We will ...