Snapping a sevenmonth losing streak. Deal maker, russia selling an 11 billion stake in its Largest Oil Producer to glencore and the Sovereign Wealth Fund. The russian president went on national tv to tout the deal as one of the largest acquisitions in the oil and gas sector in the world and in the world in 2016. Thats what you need to know at this hour. Lets turn back to our main story, the upcoming ecb decision. We turn to our Bloomberg Team in europe, with our colleague, matt miller. Looking rather cold over there. And paul gorton, who leads the coverage overall of the western European Central banks, in a somewhat warmer situation. Matt, lets go to you. What do we need year from the ecb and mario draghi today . Matt what we want to hear, david by the way, its great to hear your voice is that there will be an extension of the Quantitative Easing Program. The consensus is six months past the march deadline and about 80 billion euros a month, a continuation essentially of the program as