i'm julia chatterley. >>> markets stabilized and sentiment improves after nervous trade yesterday. this as putin orders his troops back to base. u.s. secretary of state john kerry touches down in kiev later today. >>> negotiations with the imf are under way as ukraine seeks to shore up its finances. ukraine's prime ministers are in a dire state. >> we need to quickly design and implement the austerity program. >>> in corporate new, glencore xstrata beats forecasts. >>> and president obama focuses his attention back on domestic issues as he prepares to unveil his fiscal 2016 budget plan today at 11:30 eastern. >> announcer: you're watching "worldwide exchange," bringing you business news from around the globe. >>> welcome to "worldwide exchange." a very different picture behind me compared with the start of the show in yesterday's session. 9/1 greens to red these morning taking the stoxx europe 600 up 1 is.2%. as you can see, the picture very volatile this morning. what we have heard is that russian troops

i'm julia chatterley. these are your headlines from around the world. the fed could scrap its unemployment threshold as janet yellen prepares to wrap up its two-day meeting. we could see a rate hike this year. >>> china's central bank tells cnbc it's not an emergency talk to bail out a struggling property developer amid hundreds of millions of solid debt. >>> oracle shares drop in after hours as they miss expectations. currency fluctuations hit numbers. >>> investors like the number of inditech's numbers. >> announcer: you're watching "worldwide exchange," bringing you business news from around the globe. >>> if you're just tuning in, thanks for joining us here on the show. i'm going to give you a look at ohio the u.s. markets are faring here on "worldwide exchange" ahead of the open today. gains in yesterday's session adding to the gains that we saw in wednesday's. and we're seeing dow futures indicating higher by around 3 points. same story for the nasdaq and for the s&p 500 relatively unchanged as far a

i'm julia chatterley. these are your headlines from around the world. shares in moscow off by nearly 10% as the country's central bank hikes rates by 150 basis points. >>> european markets under pressure following lot losses in japan overnight. u.s. futures pointing to a lower open on wall street. >>> in the next hour, european foreign ministers meet to discuss how to react to russia's premier. moscow, brussels with all the latest developments. >>> and in two hours' time, warren joins cnbc for an exclusive interview to discuss a record year for berkshire hathaway. get involved by #askwarren. >> announcer: you're watching "worldwide exchange," bringing you business news from around the globe. >>> well, the crisis in the ukraine and russia's involvement, the total dominating factor for markets this morning. you can see in the last few minutes, stronger pmi from germany and from france. but the market is still in negative territory this morning. let me give you a look at how the individual markets are perform

i'm julia chatterley. these are your headlines around the world. the u.s. and russia come face-to-face as john kerry gears up to meet the foreign russian minister in paris. >>> china is set for an ambitious target at 7.5% gdp this year, defying expect ages of lower forecasts. this is the national people's congress gets under way in beijing. >>> standard chartered shares jump despite posting a drop unanimousul profit. the lender says its current performance momentum is better dhan last year. the lender slashes its fwoenus pool by 15%. >>> and today's u.s. adp report could show hiring in the u.s. sector slowed last month. this as winter weather continues to have the job growth. >> you're watching "worldwide exchange," bringing you business news from around the globe. >>> more cautious sentiment as far as the european markets are concerned this morning, despite ongoing signs of improvement of dialogue as far as the ukrainian/russia situation is concerned. pretty evenly split on the stoxx europe 600 this morning. you did see a contraction as far as the french s

i'm julia chatterley. these are your headlines from around the world. fed could scrap its unemployment threshold as janet yellen prepares to wrap up its two-day meeting. we could see a rate hike this year. >>> china's central bank tells cnbc it's not an emergency talk to bail out a struggling property developer amid hundreds of millions of solid debt. >>> oracle shares drop in

julia chatterley is in brussels where the ukraine situation is set to dominate the agenda for today'seeting of the eu leaders. as mentioned, nbc's jim maceda is with us out of moscow. julia, let's head to you first with the eu minister's meeting and at the same time you have russia moving ahead to further absorb crimea. what can the eu leaders actually do? >> well, louise, i think it's interesting the comments of lang la merkel suggesting they're going to show they're ready to step up the sanctions should the situation worsen. as it stands right now, it looks like they're going to give up the situation with crimea and stick with the sanctions that they have. yes, they could add more people to the list of 21 names right now for travel visa bans and asset freezes. but all that is going from russia's research ridicule them and they're trying to name the people closer to putin. perhaps that will have more effect. right now, it seems there's very little conviction here to step up those sanctions unless the situation worsens right now. on an association agreement as far as the situation is

julia chatterley of course is covering the story in brussels. and let's get back to the top story. nobody is afraid of rush i can't's reaction to sanctions. that is the message this morning as eu leaders gather for the second day of their in brussels. this after the white house in brussels extended sanctions on russia to target close allies of vladimir putin. although the russian foreign minister has slammed the measures as irrational. barack obama warns the threat of further military action by moscow could lead to its isolation from the international community. >> we've been working closely with our european partners to develop more severe actions that could be taken if russia continues to escalate the situation. as part of that process, i signed a new executive order today that gives us the authority to impose sanctions not just on individuals, but on key sectors of the russian economy. this is not our preferred outcome. and these sanctions would not only have a significant impact on the russian economy, but could also be disruptive to the global economy. however, russia must kno

julia chatterley joins us now with brussels on this story. good morning to you. >> good morning. this is all a sense of urgency here for the eu leaders in brussels. i just spoke to the lithuanian president. this as -- from the former soviet block. and their president said to me that russia today is unpredictable and it's dangerous. and they're trying to reshape their boundaries. and quite frankly, europe aren't taking this seriously enough. what kind of sanctions are we looking at? a symbolic embargo on arms, suspending trade talks. how much does vladimir putin really care about these things? not at all. why aren't we talking about more stringent sanctions? because europe is reliance on russian independent energy. a third of our gas comes from russia. and the bottom line here is it's actually easitory give money to the ukraine than it is to hit russia where it hurts. in the last few minutes, actually, here the game has changed again. the crimean parliament over in the ukraine has voted to join the russian federation. what does that mean for the eu powers as far as russia is conce