London. I have a chart here of the shanghai composite index from the last three days. It shows the weakness coming from the asian session. Around this china story. Industrial output is below estimates. All of that initially got the market thinking that maybe the Chinese Government will give more stimulus. But that be a good thing . We are now seeing some weakness coming through. It is moving a little bit lower, the shanghai composite. Lets put that into context. What does that mean for the rest of the asian trading day. Lets get to asia. A precipitous drop here. You showed the charge. Here it is again. Here is the shanghai composite. Check this out. A 3 drop and it has played out over the morning. Over two hours this point. We started the day higher on the shanghai composite and in hong kong which was at one point leading gains across the asiapacific. As investors noted the latest industrial output figure, what we realized is that this picture in china is not as strong as some may thin
To where they want to get. Lets rattle through some of tuesdays other top sports stories wasps director of rugby is stepping down for an undisclosed period. Their form has been patchy in recent months ninth in the premiership, out of europe. Lee blackett will replace him as interim head coach. Kyren wilson made his second career 1 4 7 break as he beat jackson page in the opening round of the welsh open snooker. His maximum came in the very first frame. Ronnie osullivan took little over an hour to book his place in the second round four 50 plus breaks in a 4 1 win over zhang jiankang. Mark allen and ricky walden also won today. Its been a difficult few months for uk athletics, dealing with senior resignations and criticism over their handling of the Alberto Salazar scandal the former coach of mo farah, found guilty of doping violations. Well, uk sport, who oversee governance and investment of sports in the country, have now launched its own review into athletics governing body. Our spor
0 that show just how horribly mitt romney s doing in ohio. you know what? i was saying last week there are 45 days. there aren t really 45 days left. they ve got to turn this thing around or they lose. this is what jason riley wrote in the wall street journal yesterday. media blame game. this from a conservative publication, by the way, extreme right-wing trolls. the wall street journal. just like the wall street journal s been warning mitt romney s campaign for a month now that he d better do something or else he s going to lose. since pulling even in the polls after the paul ryan pick and the gop convention last month, the romney campaign has stumbled repeatedly. yet mr. romney, who is losing by five or more points in iowa, colorado, wisconsin, michigan, ohio, florida and virginia, sees blue skies ahead. asked how he intended to turn his campaign around, mr. romney told 60 minutes, well, it doesn t need a turnaround. and romney surrogates were out over the weekend blaming th
diplomatic juggalos. an incredible opportunity for our president not just to address the world community but for some high-level president-on-prez action. the white houseays has nons h a private meetings with world leaders. oh. well. probably protocol. this is not the time for one-on-one meetings with other world leaders. our research sho it s been 20 yrs srent beo ee and not met one on one with a foreign leader. oh. well, i gue if the world leads would like to meet with him persally, they can just done eianlihet aignd tak us good morning. it s wednesday, september 26th. welcome to morning joe. it s another good day here on the set. it is a great day on the set. with us on set because w say so. yeah. it really is. t ea everyone s in good shape today. we have msnbc and time magazine senior political analyst mark halperin with us. good morning. hello. congratulations. huge! is heilman out of the ditch yet? he s doi well we re both very happy. h
discourse are very important and that they should be done away from cameras and pollsters. fourth, there should be an expedited process. everybody i think has t finally, a commission within the political cover though necessary to pass up plan. any plan that realistically tackles which ever challenge we choose to buy off with the commission will involve difficult choices spending cuts, tax increases, probably both. probably large. no area will be exempt from consideration, and probably reform. there is no political party that is not understandably concerned about their political future that can do this on the run. any collaborative process involves every individual to bring the total package while acknowledging it may not have been the first choice. i wish we did not need to have this commission. a share that view with my colleagues. we all wish that we could just do it. we need to start immediately with the bipartisan announcement that would soon be facing in a bipartisan