Storm threatening the gulf coast. And on the campaign trail, Vice President pence and Kamala Harris facing off in their first and only debate, the highlights next on this thursday, october 8, and this is worldwide exchange. Who is playing asia . Yes, spin eoff. They always surprise me with the music. I would fall from grace anyway, good morning, good ev afternoon. Welcome from wherever in the world that you are watching. Thanks for joining us. And weve almost made it, folks. Stock markets may make you money today. The dow coming off its best day since midjuly with a more than 500 point gain on the dow. The s p and nasdaq also coming off more than 1 gains and other good signs it is the transports gaining another 2. 5 yesterday, an alltime record high and overall, the dow is less than 5 from its alltime high, s p about 6 to go and nasdaq also about 6 from its record high as we claw back from those market declines a couple months ago. Around the world, stocks in asia hitting one month hig
The model 5 new as elon musk does a huge stock split, five to one. And when does 20 equal 80 . It is your morning riddle. It has to do with bonds and yields were going to show it to you coming up in your rbi on this wednesday, august 12th and this is Worldwide Exchange right here on cnbc. Well, good morning, good afternoon, good evening and welcome from wherever in the world you are watching im Brian Sullivan the rbi is really interesting today. It maybe, just maybe shows you how price sensitive allamerican borrowers really are thats coming up well get that a bit later on in the show right now lets get to the market futures are back on the rebound. Up another 250 deja vu all over again thats where we were yesterday higher across the board. Today many technicians might say an important day because we had that huge reversal in the final hour of trading. The s p 500 which at one point was within half a percentage point of the interday alltime high closing lower Major Technology leading th
The George Washington institute for data, democracy and politics is hosting this forum. Live coverage on cspan2. Today we tackle another grade disinformation harm, election disinformation. We will have two very important panels. Offers will focus on foreign interference. The second panel will zero in on democratic integrity and Voter Suppression. These are vitally important themes. They are both areas of urgent and serious challenge threatening civil discourse and our democracy itself. We have to understand them, find ways to stop them, all apple for by social media. In between our panel will hear from stacey abrams, founder of fair fight 2020 and will describe the realities she is experienced and she is trying to confront. Were hosting is a series of forms impala with workshops hosted by the center for International Governance innovation on disinformation come online governments exploit domestic and International Governance. Our series is held in cooperation with members of the Intern
Its been a month since the death of george floyd in custody and policing in the United States could be on the brink of a major change the house of representatives is debating a democratic legislation that reduces Legal Protections for offices and would make it easier to prosecute police it will also ban chokeholds and change the criteria for using lethal force. Exactly one month ago george floyd spoke his final words i cant breathe and change the course of history since then here if it day americans from every walk of life and corner of the country have been marching protesting and demanding that this moment of National Agony become one of a National Action today with the georgia floyd just just in policing act the house is honoring his life and the lives of all killed by Police Brutality and pledging never again on wednesday a republican bill on Police Reform was rejected democrats say the proposal just didnt go far enough floyds death in may spot nationwide protests with demonstrator
Are watching this morning, snow already falling in parts of carolinas and georgia, up to 6inches could blanket southern part of virginia region and eastern North Carolina, drivers are being warned about extremely dangerous Road Conditions this morning. Onto coronavirus this morning, the number of cases appear to be falling as death toll is now topping 2,020, 2200. The passengers quarantine have tested positive for coronavirus. New infections in china have fallen this week but new cases are being counted and they have a new way of counting the cases, the virus claiming 2,248 lives with at least 76,000 individual cases confirmed across the world. 27 countries affected by the deadly path of coronavirus. 11 americans meanwhile cruise ship tested positive, i will be speaking with two passengers, one of whom is infected. Maria roger stone learns fate, roger stone sentenced to 40 months, far less than 9 months originally sought, career prosecutors, the attorney general and the president. And