Spreads business on the table amid rumors three private equity players are taking a bite. Good morning thank goodness its friday its been a bruising week for the spanish equity markets before that, i want to show you how the european markets are faring off a tad, 0. 1 . We are pretty cautious going into the jobs report in the u. S. That will be very, very skewed number given the hurricane effect in the month of september. European markets one by one. We see a split picture cac 40 off by 7 or 8 points. The ftse mib off by 0. 7. The xetra dax holding on close to those record highs we saw earlier this week. Obviously i want to draw your attention to whats happening with the spanish market. The ibex is off by half of a percent again after it rebounded nicely yesterday it was up by more than 2 . And obviously were focusing on the banking sector, we did see that recovery trade yesterday, but it was very fleeting yesterday we did see that relief on the backs of these Companies Moving or mulli
Raise for the american households. You see Justin Trudeau, the Prime Minister of canada, the commander in chief just wrapping up meetings at the white house right now with him. The focus not just reworking nafta but building it up. A defense alliance, fair and balanced democratic congressman joe crowley of new york is the Democratic Caucus chair and met with trudeau today and well speak with congressman kevin brady live one on one from texas. The house ways and Means Committee chair, the man writing the house tax reform bill thats in this hour. Do not miss it. And north korea really ready to pull the plug on americas antiquated power grid . We talked to the former ceo of nrg, huge, huge company in that space. David crane. About why he looked at this threat years ago and took it seriously. On wall street, markets making yet another run for record highs as the fed says its divided how quickly to raise rates. Were less than an hour to the closing bell. Lets start the countdown. Liz breaki
Holiday. The president bushed hard for it last night and middleclass tax cut that would put 4,000 into the pockets of middleclass families. One more for you. The Justice Department is confronting 7 sanctuary cities, obey federal law or lose federal funds. Last chance. With all these policy statements, whats going on with your money . Stocks will open slightly lower. Lets not forget after hitting the 56th record on wednesday the dow is just 127 points away from 23,000. We say it every day, could you believe this . Varney company is about to begin. Stuart the news from Northern California is grim, the fire still rage through wine country. 23 now dead. 3,500 homes and businesses damaged and the fire has burned, now 170,000 acres, its a very human tragedy. The fires concentrated around the vineyards. Ashley, do we have any handle of the Wine Industry . Extremely difficult to figure out what damage has been done to wineries. Two things, theres the wineries and vineyards, five win ris, the b
How its changed the conversation about sexual abuse and harass manhattan. And a world war ii veteran keeping active. Meet the neighbors who put out chairs to keep him moving. But we begin this morning with todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. I was stun and brokenhearted at what i saw. John kelly defends President Trump. He called four people the other day and expressed his condolences in the best way that he could. Said to him, sir, theres nothing you can do to lighten the burden. Amid the controversy over President Trumps call there are serious questions about the attack itself. Do you feel the administration has been forthcoming up to this point about what happened there . Of course not. The u. S. Senate has passed a budget plan. A major effort to overhaul the tax code. Bigotry seemed emboldened. Former president s bush and obama are blasting the politics of america. Instead of politics affecting our values theyre disrupting our community. A protest at the university of flor
Bus 50 capitols tour with wendy davis and Texas Republican Party chair james dickey. Hell be our guest on board the bus. Be sure to watch cspans washington journal live at 7 00 eastern wednesday morning join the discuss. The tax reform discussion proposal is expected to be released wednesday morning. Next, the Cato Institute hosts a discussion on the prospects for the tax reform agenda. Panelists include americans for tax reform president Grover Norquist, American Enterprise Institute Fellow alex brill, and Cato Institute tax policies studies reported Chris Edwards. This is an hour. All righty. I think were going get started here. I want to welcome you all today. Im peter russo, the director of Congressional Affairs at the Cato Institute. And i want to thank you all for coming today. This is a capitol Hill Briefing entitled the home stretch for a major tax reform. And of course we crossed a big hurdle today in the house as they agreed to the Senate Budget proposal which of course paves