List of allegations. 17 hostages including the firemen we saw escaping during the day. Three dead now. It was initially two, but a third died at hospital, including the gunman himself. The commissioner describes him as a lone gunman. There were no explosives. There were all of these rumors floating around on twitter that the gunman put out himself saying there were two palms on the premises and two bombs throughout the rest of the city. There were no explosives found. The most important question the commissioner answered was why the police chose to go in at 2 00 a. M. With all guns blazing and he said the answer was because they had seen, they had heard gunshots coming from and died rid from inside. As soon as they heard those gunshots, they initiated their emergency plan and went in. What we saw, all those explosions were not from their. There. They were in fact stun guns from the police. And some more details emerging about the gunman today. He was an iranian born refugee. It seems h
1 00 p. M. , the bond market i believe at 2 00 p. M. We are poised at what would seem a higher open. Were not going to get a lot of hours of trading in. As in for the 10year note yield, lets take a look and see where we are. There it is. 27. 66. And well go to the map in europe where i can never figure out the geography. You know the boot is italy. I know the boot is italy and i can pick up russia. Our road map here back in the United States starts with what else, retail. Millions of shoppers, yes, millions hitting the stores for black friday. Well go live to say how sales are going. Brian . The markets are open today for an abbreviated trading session and we are poised to open at record highs again, which will be about the 40th time this year. I guess you guys could say that here on squawk on the street. The nasdaq finishing wednesdays session at a 13year high, kayla. And thin trading today on a shortened trading day. And also bitcoin keeps on surging, topping 1,200 earlier today, doe
10year note. We hear that miners are dragging down the ftse. Data from china was showing a slowdown in Services Sector growth. In germany, manufacturing orders below expectations, falling in august. That was the second consecutive month that we saw them. That surprised me. Lets get to our road map. Schultz is urging fellow ceos to turn up the heat. And jcpenney said its seeing signs of a turn around or that its strategy is working. And the long goodbye. Were going to read you excerpts from Steve Ballmers letter. Its a goodbye now. The Government Shutdown and the debt limit battle also now dominating wall streets attention. President obama continues to call on the thousands vote immediately on ending the shut down. House Speaker John Boehner still insisting the government agree to talk about changes in Health Care Reform or the obama care law as its known and also broader budget issues. This is now were nine days away from the debt ceiling deadline. This morning the journal after a conf
The level is 16. 67. Down more than 15 . Yesterday, the vix hit 21. It has certainly calmed down. Hoping for a coup by jan moment in washington, d. C. Lori lets get more on that partisan logjam. It is finally showing signs of easing. Rich edson with his exclusive reporting. Rich House Republicans will present president obama with an offer. If bars treasury from extending that. He is taking nothing off the table. It is time for leadership. It is time for negotiations and this conversation to begin. I would hope that the president would look at this as an opportunity. Rich jackboot disagrees. I think prioritization is just default by another name. It is just saying that we will default on some of our obligations. By definition, if we do not have enough money, we will be in default on our obligation. Rich he also says it would be difficult to reprogram computers to pay some bills, but not all. Lori we want to go into peters report. What is the take at the white house . Peter jay carney is
Elizabeth macdonald will join us in just a moment with Additional Details on this developing story that actually now involves j. P. Morgan chase. Target is probably kind of appreciative of the fact that j. P. Morgan has stumbled, in no way. They had to limit the usage of some of the same customers who happen to have chase credit cards. They said it was for everyones protection, but the fact is right now everyone is mad because there were told they can only take a certain amount out of their atm. As i said, just six closing bells away from wrapping up an epicure for stocks with a big, red, sparkly boat. Can anything happen to change the picture . Well, one at least, but 2014, cleared saaling. We have traders. At least until 2014. Is thereeanything over the next couple of sessions that you think might derail something or are there just not enough players . It is tough a line even if there were, who would come out and say anything bearish . People have got so sheepish about in these about