countries, two americans among them. a far right rebuke in the world s fourth biggest democracy. brazil s bolsonaro beaten in his re-election runoff. what could be a big blow to diversity at colleges. today the u.s. supreme court considers ending affirmative action. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world, i m christine romans. the death toll is now at least 154 in south korea s crowd surge. making it one of the country s worst ever disasters. this morning south korea s president and first lady laying flowers at a memorial alter in front of seoul city hall as the nation begins a week-long period of mourning. senior international correspondent ivan watson is live for us in seoul this morning. are investigators making progress on figuring out what sparked this crowd surge? reporter: we re not hearing any conclusive details about that. i do think that the shock of the scale of this tragedy is still sinking in. i m here just basically a few step
is having the best month since the year 1976 when gerald ford was president around the bee gees were topping the charts. the dow is up 14.4% in october on this final trading day of the month. the s&p and nasdaq currently on track to snap a two-month losing streak. right now on wall street, stock index futures you can see them, we ll pull them up, this is tokyo hong kong there you go, down just a little bit. looking at markets around the rld wo, mixed performance here. european shares mixed as well. october inflation figures from the eurozone due out today. marriott, uber, cvs and hyatt among those set to release quarterly numbers. federal reserve meets tuesday and wednesday. fed chair powell is expected to deliver another whooping interest hike. gas prices now sitting at 3.76 a gallon. it s all about the fed this week. let s bring in chief economist. good morning, mark. nice to see you.