correspondent alex mahela bij from toronto and steve let's start with you on which reported earnings the other day they beat expectations that it seems largely based upon some really huge holiday sales right. yeah they had they had a much better than expected fourth quarter report they beat on earnings per share coming in at six dollars and four cents the street was expecting five sixty eight they beat on revenue coming in seventy two point four billion dollars the street was expecting seventy one point nine and on sales sales rose nineteen percent which sounds really good you got to remember though that quarter to quarter that's the lowest quarterly increase though since the first quarter of two thousand and fifteen web services soared forty five percent and really their advertising business is really skyrocketing and taking off actually taking business away from google in large numbers they grew ninety five percent year over year from four and a half billion to about ten billion which seems like a little more than that ninety five percent but those are the numbers so that's very en

later canada is good sitter if it's wild way or the highway for the chinese tech giant archy's alex mahela dishes on the ground the dryness is this just how they could be booted out of the great white north all that in our sights but first we had right to some headlines let's go. a darkening forecast for the euro zone economy leads or global report as the european commission downgrades their growth forecast for the year earlier today the european commissioner for economic and financial affairs here must go be announced the downward revision of projected growth for this year to one point three percent one point three percent down from a previous prognostication last fall of one point nine percent for growth and twenty one thousand for the entire euro zone the new forecast also shows europe's biggest economy germany with a larger drop now growth projected at one point one percent nearly half from the previous agreed it did one point nine percent growth the familiar trans-atlantic trans-pacific and cross-channel trade disputes were cited as the familiar factors in the revision alongside the m

plus candidate is considering if it were while way or the highway for the chinese text i argued alex mahelawhich is on the road to want to discuss how they could be booted out of the great white north as you go to break here is a hero of these numbers the closing bell there was a sell off today in new york city will be back in a flat. in pennsylvania. doesn't look good to you. but. you know if putin said suddenly that oh if we recognize nancy pelosi has the president and i stay say we're not going to talk with donald trump the world of the you know how rage but of course the u.s. has a stereo exceptionalism and that no law plies to them and so they can do whatever they want but by essential banks find gold as they are they are now coming to the conclusion that america has lost its mind and then when they run out of gold to buy i guarantee you they're going to start fishing around them but what market. system must. and there's a number. can as you cut out all of them ok if the. author anonymous to narrow it all without a battle they have made over the past they have a good large that are goi

plus canada is considering if it's a while way or the highway for the chinese text giant archive alex mahelawhich is on the ground to want to discuss how they could be booted out of the great white north as we go to break here is a hero of the numbers the closing bell there was a sell off today in new york city we'll be back in a flash. when you look back true. problems between the last kovi. its continuum of this treaty is coming to an end. because of the lack of interest. both sides both in washington. most people think to stand out in this business you need to be the first one on top of the story or the person with the loudest voice of the biggest raid in truth to stand down the news business you just need as the right questions and demand the right answers. questions. this is a stick out from the open water bottle found in the stomach of the fish the brand is part of the coca-cola company which sells millions of bottles of soda every day the idea was that let's tell consumers they're the bad ones they're the litter bugs are throwing us away industry should be blamed for all this waste th

industrials are doing way better than anyone expected alex mahela which instead. walberg joined us to talk about it and the recent earnings in about the first seeable future for the sector plus host of the big picture hollowing corp will help us consider the collapse of digital media advertising and we go to break here the numbers at the closing bell we will be back in a flash. u.s. veterans who come back from war often told those same stories. were going after the people who were killing civilians they were not interested in the well being of their own soldiers and their already several generations of them so i just got this memo from the search for answers officers we're going to attack and destroy the government in seven countries in five years americans pay for the wars with them money others. lives if we were willing to go into harm's way and willing to risk being killed for a war surely we can risk some discomfort and easiness for. the millennium i think are trying to restore the rights of individuals rights of humans in the face of this dystopian nightmare

industrials are doing the wave better than anyone expected alex mahela bitch and steve walsh talked about recent earnings and the perceivable future and later we consider the collapse of digital media advertising with most of the big picture here is our dear merica calling cook all that directly ahead but first let's get some headlines let's go. the international impact of the united states sanctions on venezuela leads our globe report today as the u.s. tightens the screws as we've reported earlier this week the trump administration impose new sanctions on venezuela this time targeting the state oil company petroleum state venezuela or p.t. vs a freezing up an estimated seven billion dollars worth of venezuelan assets in the u.s. remarkably the u.s. state department revealed this week that it had given their attempted appointee as venezuelan president control of state currency reserves held in the federal reserve bank of new york among the many p.d. vs say creditors who may be hit by. the sanctions on p.b.s. say is rawson after the russian state owned oil company rosneft has lent p.b.s. a

later candidates could sideris if it wild way or the highway for the chinese tech giant parties alex mahela dishes on the ground as ronald says assess how they could be booted out of the great white north all that in our sights but first we had right to some headlines let's go. a darkening forecast for the eurozone economy leads our global report as a european commission downgrades their growth forecast for the year earlier today the european commissioner for economic and financial affairs here must go be announced the downward revision of projected growth for this year to one point three percent one point three percent down from the previous prognostication last fall of one point nine percent for growth in twenty one thousand for the entire eurozone the new forecast also shows europe's biggest economy germany with a larger drop now growth projected at one point one percent nearly half from the previous have predicted one point nine percent growth the familiar transatlantic transpacific and cross-channel trade disputes were cited as the familiar factors in the revision alongside the multipl

trade and to analyze what kind of global impact of move may have we are now joined by the able alex mahela but she joins us from toronto able alex what kind of progress are we seeing that has brought this kind of optimism to the negotiations. well you have a vice premier coming to town to washington with his team in there talking with the trumpet his folks and when you see the momentum that you've talked about basically just the atmosphere in the room you can see that things are moving forward to hopefully in the right direction but who better to tell you how it went that donald trump himself here's a couple of tweets from donald trump and i think this will kind of break down exactly what down went down during these meetings mr trump says i'm pleased to report that the u.s. has made substantial progress in our trade talks with china and important structural issues including intellectual property protection technology transfer agriculture services currency and many other issues as a result of these very next week's productive talks i will be delaying the u.s. increase in tariffs now schedul

industrials are doing the wave better than anyone expected alex mahela bitch and steve bould heard talk about recent earnings and the for seeable future and later we consider the collapse of digital media advertising with most of the big picture here is our dear merica call and cook all that directly ahead but first let's get some headlines let's go. to the international impact of the united states sanctions on going as way a lead to our global report today as the u.s. tightens the screws at. we've reported earlier this week the trump administration impose new sanctions on venezuela this time targeting the state oil company petroleum state venezuela or say freezing up an estimated seven billion dollars worth of venezuelan assets in the u.s. remarkably the u.s. state department revealed this week that it had given their attempted appointee as venezuela.

weather international trade conditions impact output and the bottom line why is this important argues alex mahela pages in toronto with more hey alex thank you for a look at this for us let's start with the domestic front here in the u.s. it's not growing as much as we used to what's going on. i think that pretty much flatlined in the market when you think of the midwest in the states or even the perris up here in canada you think we can do it so little staples that you think you know kind of keep our agriculture industry go and but things have changed in the past years and there's been a drop here check out this chart to give you a little bit of an idea so this winter we see things we're looking at the u.s. department of agriculture numbers they show about thirty one point three million acres down four percent year over year some blame weather conditions and you know they call during seeding season which is and september if you get wet conditions that's bad for we farmers and sometimes just pull back on the scene things are just not going right also the cold weather we've had that polar vortex s

industrials are doing way better than anyone expected alex mahela veteran steve bould talked about recent earnings in the first seeable future and later we consider the collapse of digital media ever.

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correspondent alex mahela bitch a welcome to you both as always see bonus start with you i mean this was such a great get arlington virginia is the other one that got it just a couple blocks mile and a half or so away from where we sit in d.c. but queens was going to get a big deal that decision must be disappointing for a lot of those in new york who work to bring the thing home right. absolutely and you mentioned seventy percent support from the public they wanted the headquarters here and you know governor mary governor a cuomo andrew cuomo of new york state and mayor bill de blasio of new york city work together now they're political enemies and they don't like each other but they worked together to get this deal done and they got the deal done and then of course they face a lot of pushback from city council and others who said well we weren't involved but you know cuomo has called this when last friday's report came out the washington post saying that amazon might pull out he said if they do that it's going to be political malpractise on the part of those politicians that drove