Reporting before the bell tomorrow, all facing very different headwinds. Speaking of headwinds, dom chu has the numbers. I think i am a headwind sometimes for these markets. But we started off with a solidly positive day, and now you can see were mixed at best. Ill start with the largest cap kind of broader s p 500, which sits at 4354, down about three points. Thats not much, considering the fact that we were up 19 points at one point during the highs of the decision. And then down nine towards the low. So were tilting towards that lower end of the trading range so far today. The dow down about 0. 1 of 1 . And the nasdaq still in the green, by only a quarter of 1 , 13,591. One key area of focus is oil and gas. The middle east war between israel and hamas and now hezbollah perhaps creating some waves in lebanon is starting to put a bid to oil prices. Theyre pulling back just a little bit in trading so far today. You can see some of the crude futures down about 1 right there. The Energy
American the how it welcome to the program. In the us, the house of represent representatives rather has voted to remove republicans. Baker, Kevin Mccarthy, after lawmakers from his own party, turned against him. The office of speaker of the house of the United States house of representatives is here by declared vacant, a coughing and good the old for a conservative wing of his Republican Party at the weekend. When he worked with democrats to pass a stop, got funding measure to of the government shut down. How dried lawmakers were led by mccarthys main rival met gates had launched the bid to ask to, and mccarthy says he will not seek re election as House Speaker and he attacked democrats for siding with republican outlaws, who instigated the removal. But my fear is the institution sell to them because you cant do the job. Different 8 people. You have 94 percent of or 96 percent of your entire conference. But a people can partner with the whole other side. How do you and for them to mak
In their homes. Cbss Astrid Martinez starts us off tonight from new york. Astrid, good evening. Reporter good evening, jericka. And although it weakened the remnants of ophelia still impacting the east coast. Nearly 9 Million People are under coastal flooding alerts. Tonight, tens of thousands of people along the east coast are still without power. After dealing with 24 hours of destructive winds, heavy rain and severe flooding. In virginia a state of emergency was declared. Overnight in North Carolina roads were submerged. More than 40 Car Accidents reported in raleigh. The most serious, when a tree fell on this car. The driver crashed, now hospitalized with a head injury. In greenville a small pitbull terrier found tied to a fence was rescued just in time from rising waters. Another dramatic rescue in cape lookout. A helicopter lighting the way for the coast guard to rescue five people, including three children stranded on a 38foot catamaran. Parts of maryland seeing extended periods
Its too bad we dont have anything to talk about today. [laughter] that is the understatement of the century. Why dont we start by talking about Harvey Weinstein because that is the story that everybody is talking about right now and every day a new atrocity occurs yesterday o or the day before, whenever it was, three more people came forward with the idea that he had raped them. This has been going on for years and years. There were eight settlements against him and obviously everyone in the company knew about it. I gather how she could possibly not have heard about this but how do you think this happened . How was this allowed to go on and on and never have anybody speak out until now . Guest as a society and a culture, we protect the harassers. Host but why . Guest that is the 20 milliondollar question, why. Is it because we are protecting a person in power those are the top reasons. I get so much credit to the women who were able to tell their stories. Thereve been eight settlements
Moving into the thick of things as we move into these markets opening up in the next hour or so. In the asiapacific, it is friday. Lets get a sense of how we have done so far this week. Looking at one of our functions on the bloomberg terminal, a flow of the money into and out of different etfs around the world. Over thehe net flows next week or so. The u. S. Has obviously seen a fairly topsyturvy ride and where we are. Getting weakness come through earlier on in the japanese currency. ,he yen solvency also there reacting or perhaps getting offered up on the back of the gdp numbers coming out of japan. That inbe talking about a few moments. We are looking ahead to the data coming out of the chinese mainland. Around this time tomorrow, the all important inflation. Ppi numbers coming out, so it is. Airly big lots of guests coming on the show to tackle these topics, including bitcoin. 30 minutes away. Thats on the open up markets here in hong kong. Sophie is tracking all the market moves