steve sedgwick joins us live from london. what is at stake here for google? i remember the microsoft antitrust cases from a few decades ago. >> yeah one thing is for sure they drag on and on when it comes to europe. google has been under investigation for a long time. the fact is google is so successful it has 90% of search in europe. so what is at stake could be a multibillion dollar fine and a way it has to do business would change as well and that would be detrimental to profits as well. it's a so-called state of objections that will be published today. >>> china has had a great growth rate, 7%. but that's slow for china, that's falling from 7.3% in 2014. some of the sub sector data, they missed on retail sales, missed on industrial output and fixed asset investment. that was its lowest level in 15 years. >> and steve, an interest. ing story at the cross section of business and sports. the average salary for an nfl player, that's our football is $2 million. new study claims a big portion of the players end up going bankrupt. what do we know that could be c

cnbc's steve sedgwick joins us live from london. steve, new numbers came out yesterday on february on job openings. what do they tell us about the economy and how they could affect the markets? >> amy, really good to speak with you today. they tell us it is still very patchy out there. we could say on the good news front that new job openings are at a 14-year high. that is great news but there are a couple of subsectors that are more disparitying. quips rate fell the number of people who are willing to quit at the high that is the more job opportunities there are out there. so, it's still a very low level and lagging from previous recoveries from big downticks in the economy. another figure which is important is the hiring rate. that's only at 3.5% and that should be a lot better by this stage of the growth story and the fact that we've got a 5.5% handle on the overall unemployment rate. now, got a massive deal on the oil sector. on this side of the atlantic could affect energy stocks in the u.s. royal dutch shell, which has big asse