Al qaeda leaders as they plotted the 9 11 attacks. An afghan official says omar died two to three years ago across the border in pakistan. The taliban says the group will release a statement shortly. Congress will question pentagon officials today about that iran nuclear deal. A Senate Committee want to know how the agreement could affect the military balance in the middle east. Yesterday, secretary of state john kerry test of ride before a house committee. All makers from both parties sounded skeptical about irans promise not to build atomic weapons. Matt microsofts new operating system windows 10 was released at midnight. It sparked a surge of computer buying but that is unlikely this time. Still, microsoft Vice President told bloomberg that this launch is very important. This is a pretty significant launch for anybody who uses pcs and wants to get things done with technology. We have had big window launches that have brought in things like enabling the internet to happen. I think wi
Coming to you live from bloombergs asian headquarters in hong kong. Checking in on markets in asia this morning to new zealand, we have the Second Quarter jobs numbers out with the Unemployment Rate coming in line with estimates at 5. 9 . Stocks currently rising 2 10 of 1 . 6536. Olding at we are counting down to the openings of australia, japan and south korea. Japan seeing downward trend. Down 2 10 of a percent. Futures now pointing to a slightly higher open. The dollar yen at 124. 35. We will stick with the markets with some relief for commodities and oil came back from a sixmonth low. That was not enough to lift equities in the u. S. Su keenan been tracking the action on wall street. Su we definitely salw oil rebound. We also saw stocks slide and th at was as you had to focus on earnings which continues. Results were negative. That stock got hit by about 10 . The real focus though has been on apple whose shares have been down since it reported earnings more than one week ago. It wa
And jack lew. Brendan it is like the president and harry reid. They are all members of the same party. It is more who is responsible for the party. Tom i want to know about the german parliament. As move on to top headlines. He was vonnie quinn. Vonnie good morning for you later today the Federal Reserve is releasing minutes from last month policy makers meeting. Investors are waiting to see whether there is a consensus that september is the right time for the first Interest Rate increase in nine years. More than 75 of the economists surveyed say the fed will raise race will raise rates. The annan has devalued vietnam has devalued its currency for the third time this year. The government wants to make sure that exports continue to grow. Biggest trade its partner for at least eight years. Lawmakers in germany appear ready to back a third greek bailout. Angela merkel lobbied members of the lower house of the german parliament, trying to keep members from voting against the 95 billion aid
Volatility is up 10 alone. The tenyear is sitting at 2. 036 . Were seeing if it gets to that key 2 or even below. Thats a very key level. As for wti, crude is down by 3 , currently hitting shy of 40 even. Gold is a winner. A little bit of a safe haven, currently sitting at 1159. Well bring you more on the gains weve been seeing recently in gold and the dollar is lower today. That is also helping gold. Who would have thunk that the tenyear note would have been right there at 2 and crude might dip into the 30s this summer . Im tyler math sin. Mandy drury here as well. Lets get right to the nyse and bob pisani. We had a very modest attempt at a rally mid morning and its basically failed. Were sitting at the lows pour the day. The s p 500, a bit of aa surprise at the open. We got down about ten points. Suddenly we were much weaker. Heavy selling at the open. Many people thought this was probably european sellers that were unhappy with what was going on over there as well. We attempt add br
Diverted due to the shooting clearly a developing story well keep a close eye on. The first trading day of october. We just finished the Third Quarter which was positive basically for Asset Classes across the board, stocks, bonds, commodities as well. S p and nasdaq closing at record highs on friday. Here on monday were setting up for potentially a positive session with the dow up 20 points s p 500 higher by around 2 points as well technology the standout in the Third Quarter gaining around 8 . Switching focus to bonds where yields have been on the rise, lets take a look at where the ten year yield has been trading at at 2. 35 feet on friday economic data. Thats the jobs report the question is whether the fed will raise rates before years end. Markets are all closed for holidays gains for japan and also for australia for the month last month. Japan was up, hong kong and shanghai down. European trade is up for the most part apart from the spanish index which is down because of those cla