Nikkei down onethird of one percent. Shanghai composite up a quarter of 1 and congress honing trading was close bus because of a typhoon that threatened the island. Up slightly right now 50. 65. Stock to watch today microsoft. Cloudcomputing business is kicking in high grear. Lauren in sports rogers scorches Chicago Bears. Are you awake . Nicole we are. Welcome to fbn am, first look at morning markets, breaking news and what to expect for the day ahead. Lauren British American tobacco offering to buy reynolds america. The value is 93 billion. Offer represents a 20 premium over reynolds Closing Price yesterday and deal brings camel, new port and shares of American Tobacco both higher as you can see in the premarket. Nicole also breaking this morning a day after the final president ial debate, donald trump explaining what he meant when he said he might not except accept a election result. I would accept a legal election result and i will challenge in the case of a questionable result. Nicole this comes after bipartisan criticism and republican senator john mccain he didnt like the outcome of 2008 race but that he still conceded the seat without reluctance. Lauren third most watched debate in history. It was moderated by fox news Chris Wallace and in las vegas, two of the three most watched debates in president ial history occurred during this election cycle. First debate, that set a record 84 Million Viewers tuning in the 1980 debate. That is now in second place. Nicole well, donald trump and Hillary Clinton at the annual Al Smith Dinner right here in new york city. A day after the intense debate, the two president ial nominees did shake hands last night after trading some jokes at the charity event. Michelle gives a speech and everyone loves it, its fantastic. My wife melania gives the exact same speech. [laughter] and people get on her case and i dont get it. I took a break from my rigorous nap schedule to be here and as you heard, its a treat for all of you too because usually i charge a lot for speeches like this. [laughter] nicole you could see our own beautiful Maria Bartiromo sitting right behind the podium. At one point trump drew boos from the crowd when talked about clinton being corrupt. We learned so much from wikileaks, hillary believes its vital to deceive the people by having one Public Policy and a totally different policy in private. I dont know who theyre angry at hillary, you or i. Nicole clinton plans to visit ohio but certainly seemed like a lot of fun. Lauren i would have loved to be in that room. Wikileaks released emails from john podesta. Details from peter barns. One top clinton aide huma raises questions about donations and Hillary Clintons role in them. An event in morocco was set up and months before she announced campaign per president not while she was secretary of state to be clear, she announced the morocco conference in september 2014 for may of 2015 but in january 2015 four months before she announced campaign for president , her aides raised questions to abidan. The agreement was her participation. If hrc, thats Hillary Rodham clinton was not part of it, the meeting was a nonstarter. Cgi wasnt pushing a meeting in morocco and wasnt first choice. This was hrcs idea. Our office approached moroccans and they 100 believe they doing this at her request. The king committed approximately 12 million both for the endowment and to support the meeting. It will break a lot of china to back out now. Abidan went to say she created this mess and she knows. Secretary event ended up not going to the event, her husband did. No comment yet from the Clinton Campaign or foundation. Back to you in new york. Lauren peter barns, thank you. Nicole will face espionage charge according to court files. Martin was arrested in august but the kept was kept until seal until earlier this month. He spent decades stealing records. Martins attorney declined to comment but he said in the past that his client is a patriotic american who has served his country. Lauren philippines president announcing the country is separating from the United States where he is seeking closer ties with china. The state department is looking for more information. We are going to be seeking an explanation of exactly what the president meant from separation from the u. S. We are not clear to us exactly what that all means in ramifications. Lauren state Department Spokesperson the philippines trade minister says the country will maybe taken trade and economic ties with the u. S. Nicole lets get you caught up in the Global Market action overnight we have been watching, a lot of action in asia, there was an earthquake in japan, typhoon in hong kong that closed the hang seng and markets and the schools and the like there. Hong kong, hang sing closed, nikkei in japan down onethird of one percent. Korea kospis down onethird of one percent. Lauren all of those stocks are moving, major averages relatively flat this morning. The ftse unchanged. The cac if paris not even one point. Nicole dow futures are down 59. S p futures are down 7. We have earnings from ge, mcdonalds, just to name a few. Lauren lets check on commodities, oil holding 50 a barrel. 50. 61, down two pennieses. Gold is down a dollar. Nicole yesterday we spoke about the ecm meeting and we said they werent going to do till december. Thats exactly what happened. The European Central bank wont do anything until december. The yen is higher against the greenback. Lets heck out the yield on the tenyear treasury, 1. 74 . Nicole microsoft a stock to watch stocks trading at an alltime high. Cloud business doubled in the first quarter. Microsoft ranked second in selling data storage. The Companies Shares have doubled as shift focus to mobile cloud commuting rather than pcs, Stuart Varney, i hope hes listening. Thats one of his favorite stars. Lauren thats very true. Earnings are expected to rise from a year ago for the Third Straight quarter. The recent growth comes despite massive downsizing by the industrial giants. Then you have honeywell, lowered the top end of 2016 sales and profit forecast earlier this month due in part for fewer shipments of Business Jets and mcdonalds reported in the morning, expected to report lower of thirdquarter sales because more people are cooking meals at home and the allday breakfast is a year old now and they need Something Else to give them some growth. Nicole here is a look at the headline in wall street journal. Dragged economic growth. Some officials are warning that a heightened emphasis by banking regulators and officials may be constraining global growth. Plummeting newspaper ad revenue for worst decline since recession, publishers are cutting cost and restructuring, global spending on newspaper print ads expected to sink 8. 7 this year. Its increasingly luck lucr lucrative. Lauren coming up are claims for voter fraud real . The biggest vulnerabilities that while its illegal for noncitizens to register and vote, its really an honor system. Lauren peter ducey has the story. A down day today. Dow futures down 57, s p futures down 6, nasdaq futures down 7. Lets take a look at oil prices, trading above 50, fractionally lower, youre watching fbn am, first look at morning markets and breaking news nicole its friday. Come on, get up. Its 5 15 a. M. In new york. Lets get you caught up on whats happening now. Huge take other in the tobacco industry. British American Tobacco wants full control of Reynolds American. 47billion to buy the piece of the company that it doesnt already own. The deal will bring new port, tent, all the cigarettes and would create the worlds biggest, largest Tobacco Company listed. Hillary clinton and donald trump finally shook hands. Right here in new york. Its a traditional roast where the candidates trade jokes about one another but at one point trump was jeered when it crossed. Shares did rally 6 after hours after the company anouned that the Cloud Business is booming. That brings the to be to an alltime high. Rank second now only to amazon in that business. Lets check in on u. S. Stock market futures this morning. We are seeing some down arrows. S p futures down 6. Lauren, thats whats happening now. Lauren thanks, nicole. First the most used word is rigged. Donald trump says its happening. Hillary clinton and many others say it doesnt happen or at least not in great number. Peter ducey takes a fair and balance look at this election. If donald trump loses election in 19 days he says it would be dirty trick by democrats at polling places. She had 1. 8 Million People who are dead, registered to vote and some of them vote. One was a republican and after death became a democrat. Some experts say they are not dead people they worry about its people that vote before becoming citizens. One of the biggest is illegals that vote. Sent undercover officers to polling places to try to vote as vote or dead people or felons and it worked about 97 of the time according to report by the National Review. Illegal inperson voting appears to be far more rare. A Loyola Law School study looked at 1 billion cast in 2014 and found inperson fraud just 31 times. If you look statistically it is more likely that a person in the United States will be struck by lights than that we will experience inperson voter fraud at the polls on election day. Much bigger problem of mail ballots but the Trump Campaign still wants to mobilize supporters to monitor polling places on november 8th. You can ask the board how many republicans, how many democrats, how many independents, keep a running track of it. You just watch whats going on. Pennsylvania as secretary of state said theres nothing to worry about. Its at any level from city to entire state is without merit. The worrisome trump critiques nicole aron rogers torches Chicago Bears and the rest of chicago is waking up. Its contagious. When you start hitting it is contagious. Nicole we will find out more in the highlights. It might be all of those National Anthem protests. We will have the stories for you. We are seeing up arrows for the week. Materials have been a great sector this week. S p futures down 6. Youre watching fbn am, first look at morning markets and breaking news. Guess what guys, i switched to sprint. Sprint . Im hearing good things about the network. 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For years met life has published showing the best weight for your height and set aside 4 million for Health Education schools. I didnt know met life was that concerned about health. Get met, it pays. Lauren remember that, after more than three decades met life is cutting ties with charlie brown, snoopy and the rest of the peanuts gang. Peanuts character were brought in over 30 years ago to help bring the company a more friendly image. Well, met life makeover will come with this new logo and tag line which is met life navigating life together and the blimp, theyre not doing those either. Remember them . Nicole changes. Lets take a look at the latest from the world of supports. Chicago cubs are one win away from world series. Tworun homer, 11 tie, 84 victory over Los Angeles Dodgers after struggling offensive in the series the cubs scored 18 runs in the last two games putting them within reach. Dodgers now turn to Clayton Kershaw to avoid elimination in game six and that will be on saturday. In football Chicago Bears are running out of quarterback not only did they lose last night to Green Bay Packers 2610, quarterback broke his arm, he was injured as he attempt today pass in the second quarter. Cutler is out with a bad thumb. Team is to 16 start. Another Domestic Violence case, josh brown admitted abusing his former wife in 2015. Prosecutors are not filing charges because the woman will not testify. Brown will not be with the team for its game on sunday. Officials say they are reviewing lauren and then theres this, a new poll find the nfl ratings are dropping because of National Anthem protest. According to poll, 40 of those surveyed were turned off by the protests as Colin Kaepernick and other athletes refused to stand. 29 they are watching but they are watching fewer games this season. Kaepernick has been taking a knee during National Anthem since preseason in protest against Police Brutality and racial inequality in the United States. Nicole coming up the president ial candidates trade punch lines instead of counterpunches. Hillary accidentally bumped into me and she very civilly said pardon me. Getting through the three debates with donald has to count as a miracle. [laughter] nicole we will hear more of oneliners, thats coming up. The stock to watch today certainly could be microsoft because shares are jumping 5 after some surprising gain in Cloud Business. Lets check in on u. S. Stock market futures this morning. We have some down arrows. Down futures down 63. We are seeing s p futures down 7. Youre watching fbn am, first look at morning markets and breaking news. Sfx road noise sfx tires screeching sfx horn honking daughter daddy we dont say words like that just let your love flow like a Mountain Stream and let your love grow nicole breaking news this morning, a 47 billiondollar deal in the tobacco industry. British American Tobacco offers to buy Reynolds American to bring together cent, worlds biggest Tobacco Company. Good morning, im nicole petallides. Lauren hi, nicole, tborng, everybody. Im lauren simonetti. Not punches just the punch loins. Nicole good thing. Honeywell and mcdonalds all due out this morning. Dow futures down 12, s p futures down 7. Lauren in asia japanese stocks edging lower. Nikkei down. 3 and in china up. 2 . Hong kong trading closed because of typhoon that threatened the island. Oil prices fell but Still Holding about 50 a barrel. Right now, in fact, at 50. 71. Lauren stock to watch is microsoft. Shares are soaring after Cloud Computing business is kicking it into high gear. Nicole in sports chicago cubs finally waking up. Lauren cant wait. Friday october 21st. Welcome to fbn am, first look at morning markets, breaking news and what to expect for the day ahead. Nicole breaking news this morning, British American tobacco offering to buy Reynolds American in a 47 billiondollar cash and stock deal. They want to buy 58 of reynolds it does not already own and 93 billion. The offer representing 20 premium over reynolds Closing Price on thursday. The deal brings together lucky, palm. It is looking 54. 50, 54. 95. That higher and youre seeing British American tobacco, thats also higher, 118. 13. Closer to 120 to 121 this morning. Lauren donald trump explaining what he meant when he said me might not accept the election results. Of course, i would accept a clear election result but i would also reserve my right to contest or file a legal challenge in the case of a questionable result. Lauren this comes after bipartisan criticism senator john mccain he didnt like the outcome but he conceded the seat without reluctance. Nicole wednesday nights faceoff to become the third most watched debate ever. That means two of the three most watched president ial debates in history occurred during this election cycle. Take a look. The first debate between donald trump and Hillary Clinton set a record 84 Million Viewers. Well in the number two spot in 1980 debate between carter and Ronald Reagan second place and the third one the third trumpclinton debate. Lauren theyre at the Al Smith Dinner last night. That was the day after the intense debate, the two president ial nominees they did shake hands after tradinjokes at the charity event. Michelle obama gives a speech and everyone loves it. Its fantastic. My wife melania gives the exact same speech and people get on her case and i dont get it. I took a break from my rigorous nap schedule to be here and as youve already heard, its a treat for all of you too because usually i charge a lot for speeches like this. [laughter] lauren right behind Hillary Clinton on the left you can see Maria Bartiromo in the white gloves and red dress, so she will probably in her show talk about that event last night. Also i want to tell you that at one point last night trump got booed when he talked about Hillary Clinton being corrupt. Weve learned so much from wikileaks, for example, hillary believes its vital to deceive the people by vague one Public Policy and a totally different policy in private. Thats okay. I dont know who theyre angry at hillary you or i. Lauren trump is scheduled to campaign in North Carolina and pennsylvania today. Hillary clinton plans to visit ohio. Nicole wikileaks released more emails from Campaign Manager john podesta. One purported email from top clinton aide raises new questions about foreign donations to the Clinton Foundation, its Clinton Global Initiative and Hillary Clintons role in them. In event in morocco was set up a year and a half after she left the state department and months before she announced campaign for president and not while secretary of state to be clear. She announced the morocco conference for may of 2015. But in january 2015, four months before she announced her campaign for president , her aides raised questions about it to abidan. The condition upon which the moroccans agreed to host the meeting was her participation. If hrc, thats Hillary Rodham clinton was not part of it, the meeting was nonstarter. Cgi, Global Initiative also wasnt pushing for a meeting in morocco. It wasnt the first choice. This was hrcs idea. Our office approaches moroccans and they believe they are doing this at her request. The king has committed approximately 12 million both for the endowment and to support the meeting. It will break a lot of china to back out now. She created this mess and she knows it. Sect ray clinton ended up not going to the event, her husband did. No comment yet from the Clinton Campaign or the Clinton Foundation barks to you in new york. Lauren president obama is trying to defend his troubled healthcare law in florida. The president comparing obamacare to a starter home that she claims can be improved over time but he says replacing the Affordable Care act would only make matters worse. Repealing the Affordable Care act will not work. Thats a bad idea. [applause] that will not that will not solve the problem because right off the bat repeal would take away health care from 20 Million People. Lauren instead the president is encouraging lawmakers to run to help states where theres little or no Competition Among the private insurers, concerns to remain about sharply rising costs, some of the big insurers pull out of the marketplaces. We need Proven Solutions that can deliver affordable solution. It doesnt work for consumers or hospitals or plans or specially hardworking taxpayers. Lauren next obamacare Enrollment Period starts november 1st. Nicole former nsa contractor accused of stealing information will face espionage charges. Martin was arrested in august but the case was kept under seal until earlier this month. Federal prosecutors say martin spent decades stealing the records which include top secret information about military operations. Martins attorney decline today comment but he said in the past that his client is a patriotic american who has served his country. Lauren rodrigo announcing that hes separating from the United States. The u. S. State Department Says its looking for more information. We are going to be seeking an explanation of exactly what the president meant when he talked about separation from the u. S. Its not clear exactly what that means in all ramifications. Lauren state Department Spokesperson that the u. S. Remains rock solid in commitment to mutual defense treaty that it does have with fill pins, the trade minister ss that country will maintain trade and economic ties with the u. S. Nicole lets get you caught up in the Global Market action overnight. The shanghai composite up. Nikkei is down onethird of one percent. Hong kong hang seng, that is closed because of a typhoon and all schools are closed, everything is closed in hong kong and koreas kospi down onethird of one percent. Lauren ftse in london up 9 points, cac in paris down 1, the dax in germany down 7. Dow futures are down 53, s p futures down 1. Lauren this is how oil is trading this morning. 50. 76. Gold down three dollars. Nicole i know our own Stuart Varney watches the show. Microsoft stock is trading at an alltime high and hes a share hoeder and many of you are as well. Cloud business doubled in first quarter. Microsoft now ranked second to amazon in selling data storage. Company shoir have doubled since august 2013 as shift to mobiling Cloud Computing rather than pcs. Lauren General Electric also stk to watch. Honeywell also reports this morning. The air space parts supplier lower to a in part to fewer shipments of Business Jets and we are going hear from mcdonalds. The World Largest fastfood chain expect today pose low e Third Quarter sales because more people getting cheaper groceries are making their own food at company. Mcdonalds reported weak Quarterly Sales in july, allday breakfast is a year old now and they need Something Else to jumpstart them. Nicole is voter fraud for real, experts say, yes, they are and its not just dead people. While its illegal for noncitizens to register and vote, its really an honor system. Nicole fox news peter has that story. Lets check u. S. Stock market futures. Down two weeks, still higher for the week but this morning dow futures are down 51. S p futures are down 6. Lets check in on oil. Dropped 2 yesterday but has been hoovering around. Up 18 cents. Youre watching fbn am, first look at morning markets and breaking news just like the people who own them, every business is different. But every one of those businesses will need legal help as they age and grow. Whether it be help starting your business, vendor contracts or employment agreements. Legalzooms network of attorneys can help you every step of the way so you can focus on what you do. Well handle the legal stuff that comes up along the way. Lauren 5 45 a. M. In the east. A potential takeover in the tobacco industry. British tobacco wants full control of Reynolds American and offering 47 billion to buy the piece of the company it does not already own. Deal would bring today new port, cent and create the worlds biggest listed Tobacco Company. Well, Hillary Clinton and donald trump they finally shook hands. The moment came at the al smith fundraiser in new york. A traditional roast where the candidates trade jokes about one another but at one point jump was jeered when his speech crossed into personal attacks on Hillary Clinton. As for investors, in microsoft theyre enjoying the view from the clouds, shares ralling 6 after Cloud Business is booming. That brings the stock to alltime high. The last time we saw that was back in 1999 microsoft is betting big on data story storage and its paying off. Lets show you how stock market futures are trading this morning. All down putting gains in jeopardy. Nicole the most used word in election cycle, rigged. Donald trump says its already happening. Hillary clinton and many others says it just doesnt happen or at least not in great numbers. Foxs peter ducey looks at fairness in the election. If donald trump loses the election in 19 days he says will be dirty tricks by democrats in polling places. She had 1. 8 Million People that are dead that are registered to vote and some of them vote. One was a republican and after death became a democrat. Some experts say its not dead people they worry about most its people voting before they became citizens. One of the biggest vulnerabilities also is the fact that while its illegal for noncitizens to register and vote, its really an honor system. Back in 2013 the department of investigations sent under cover officers to polling places to try to vote as either dead people or felons and it worked about 97 of the time according to report by the National Review but aside from undercover officers illegal inperson voting appears to be far more rare. A Loyola Law School study looks at one billion casts and found inperson fraud just 31 times. If you look statistically its more likely that a person in the United States will be struck by lighting than experience inperson voter fraud at the poll on election day. A much bigger problem is improperly mailed ballots. But the Trump Campaign still wants to mobilize supporters to monitor polling places in person in swing states for any sign of funny business on november 8th. You can ask the board how many republicans, how many democrats, how many independents, keep a running track of it. You just watch whats going on. Pennsylvanias secretary of state says theres nothing to worry about. To imply that fraud is ramping at any level from the precinct to an entire city or state is without merit. The worrisome trump critics have some stay home because they dont want to risk getting hassled by someone watching the goal by helping trump win. Nicole interesting, peter ducey, thank you so much. Lauren in sports rogers torches the Chicago Bears and the chicago cubs are finally waking up. Its contagious, when you start hitting it its contagious. We will have highlights. Its friday, you have to pour yourself a big glass of wine while you still can, why there might be a wine shortage . We will tell you about it. Down day so far. Dow down 40. S p down 5. Youre watching fbn am, first look at morning markets and breaking news. Theres no one road out there. No one surface. No one speed. No one way of driving on each and every road. But there is one car that can conquer them all, the mercedesbenz cclass. Five driving modes let you customize the steering, shift points, and suspension to fit the mood youre in. And the road youre on. The 2016 cclass. Lease the c300 for 369 a month at your local mercedesbenz dealer. Why is the met life representing weighing us . I didnt know met life was that concerned about health. Get met, it pays. Nicole good grief, you wont be seeing snoopy cracking up. Met life says its rebranding after the companys recent announcement that it will spin off most Life Insurance business to focus on corporate clients. Peanut characters were brought in 30 years ago to help bring the company a more friendly image. Take a look at, here is a met life makeover. Met life navigating life together. Lauren lets take a look at the latest in sports, chicago cubs are one win away from their first world series since 1945. Addison russell tworun homer snapping a 1 to 1 tie lifting the cubs to 84 win over la dodgers after struggling offensive in the series, the cubs scored 18 runs putting them within reach of the national league. The dodgers now turn to Clayton Kershaw to avoid elimination in game six that is saturday. In football the Chicago Bears running out of quarterbacks not only did they lose last night to Green Bay Packers 2610 quarterback broke his arm. He was injured as he attempted a pass in second quarter, cutler is already out with a bad thumb. The team is down to a one and six start. Well, the and a half is investigating another Domestic Violence case. This time police have released emails in which josh brown of the new york giants admitted abusing his former wife in 2015. Prosecutorses say they are not filing charges because the woman will not testify. Brown will not with the team with game on sunday. Officials say they are reviewing browns future. Nicole new poll finds nfl ratings are dropping because of thationnal anthem protest. According to yahoo poll, 40 of those survey say they were turned off by the protests, Colin Kaepernick and other athletes refuse today stand for the National Anthem. 29 say they are watching few e games this season. Kaepernick has been taking a knee since the preseason in the protest against Police Brutality and racial inequality. Lauren dont be surprised if the cost of wine starts to go up. Theres a small possibility that that happens because Wine Production across the globe is down 5 from last year. Thats according to International Organization of vine and whine, Severe Weather like floods and drought and frost hurting this years grape crop. Alpa was cut sharply in france and south america but the quality of 2016 vintage should not suffer. Italy remain it is worlds top producer for the second year in a row. Nicole millennials are drinking for wine. Lauren they are. First take a look at u. S. Stock market futures which are lower this morning. Down 42. Also lows at the morning, though. S p futures down 4. Youre watching fbn am. Lauren its been an exciting week with the debate and everything else. Thank you so much for joining us this week and hanging in there for everything that happened. I mean, late night. Nicole no doubt. We had two weeks of selling off. We will see what happens today and we are going to toss it over to Maria Bartiromo who looked absolutely es question sit beautiful last night. Lauren i loved the white gloves, maria. Maria happy friday, everybody. Thank you so much for joining us. Im Maria Bartiromo, it is friday october 21st, top stories right now 6 00 a. M. In the east coast. Both campaigns on the campaign trail. Whether i would agree in advance to concede the results on Election Night if for some reason we should lose and that was unprecedented question. There had been numerous cases