bret: breaking tonight, president biden says he has taken america from economic crisis to economic resurgence. the president talked about what he called unprecedented investments in his bipartisan infrastructure law to a group in boston today. americans are still focused on the economy and specifically record inflation that more than half say is has caused financial hardship for their household. white house correspondent jacqui heinrich starts us off tonight from the north lawn. good evening, jacqui. good evening, bret. officials here won t say if inflation has peaked yet. tomorrow we will see the numbers which could give us clues about how aggressive the fed might be in their next set of rate hikes. for now the president is out defending his spending that his critics say contributed to the problem. we re going to be spending a lot of money. president biden hit the trood argue he is spending taxpayer dollars where it s needed like 62 million at boston s airport inte
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Breaking overnight, the iranian president and foreign minister of iran killed in a Helicopter Crash. Lets get to correspondent Richard Engel with more. Reporter we just got word a few hours ago that the helicopter carrying the president of iran, raisi and the foreign minister and others crashed. There was a search and rescue operation where they did not find any survivors in the crash debris. This delegation of three helicopters and one went down carrying the president after he left the border area of iran and azerbaijan in foggy conditions. I have spoken with u. S. Officials who say the cause was foul weather. Iran, lots of speculation on social media, eiran is not pointing fingers at israel or the United States. This does create a few leadership issues or potential succession crisis for the Supreme Leader in iran. The president in iran doesnt call the shots. He carries out the policy of the Supreme Leader. President raisi was not exactly tapped. It is more hidden politics in iran. He
Ceo at 11 15 cet. Donald trump heads to detroit as white house hopefuls trade barbs in the second president ial debate hosted by fox business eu trade commissioner tells cnbc that tie was china are onesided after the visit to beijing as the eu questions its future relationship. Translator indeed our trade relationship is imbalanced we are running a trade deficit close to 400 billion euro. One of my points in the different meetings was the need for more economic imbalancing and reciprocity. Warm welcome to street signs. We will kick it off with the fresh inflation data from germany. We have data from the state of hesse. Cpi is up 0. 3 in the month of is september that is an acceleration from 0. 2 logged in august. We have 4. 7 inflation that is down from where we were in august at 6 . Deceleration from august in the month of september earlier this morning, excuse me, a couple of minutes ago, the German Institute forecast at 2. 6 in 2024 a steep drop off forecast from the german economic
Heading our way in an hour and crude inventories not long after that new record at the open but the selloff for tech stocks continues to weigh on the nasdaq and s p. Jack ma, the push to brick and mortar and why jeff bezos struggled in the Chinese Market. A turning point for snap, a key 2018 outlook upgrade shares are up in the premarket. Futures are pointing to a higher open after the record setting day for the dow and s p offset by the sell offin Technology Microsoft and amazon had the biggest impact on the nasdaq and optimism surrounding tax reform. We did manage to get the vote in the house to go to conference with a little bit of drama last night. Jim, you said the reversal yesterday, doesnt bode well well, look, i was doing my show and you posted a little squib about reversal and i did not realize how serious reversal was obviously its more serious for the but i find reversals catch people out of position when youre out of position, you scramble and start reaching for things you