Right now. Well take more of yesterday today that is for sure. Welcome to fbn am and good morning im cheryl casone. Hey cheryl good morning everybody. Im lauren simonetti. Yeah well it is a great morning for your money investors gobbled up stocks yesterday. Also major indices were set to open at record high this is morning right now were a little bit to the downside. Back to change, though, the dow is down 12 s p up one and three quarters nasdaq down one and three quarters but the dow could if things turnaround hit a 100th record close today under President Trump. Thats unbelievable. Records indeed set yesterday, the s p 500 and nasdaq both hitting all time high as you can see on this screen. If youre keeping track, with the s p had its 24th record close of the year. The nasdaq had it 19th. All of these new highs are under President Trump. That tech heavy nasdaq led the way with 114th record close that was powered by technologying toes trade optimism there and s p is 10 4, dow hitting
Had been bought by hays travel, in move which could save 2500 jobs. Parliament is difficult a special saturday sitting on october 19, after these that week, seen as a last chance to avoid a new deal brexit. No deal. In beyond 100 days of bringing the latest on the turkish offensive in northern syria. Well be speaking to a former Us Ambassador to syria. Coming up at eight, Coleen Rooney accuses Rebecca Vardy of using her private instagram to obtain stories about her watching to tabloid newspapers. At 1040 and 1130 people have a look at some of tomorrow mornings front pages in the papers. Stay with us for all that. That is ahead on bbc news. Now, let us return to our top story that of turkish. Turkish warplanes bombing parts of North Eastern syria, the certain events of which could lead toa certain events of which could lead to a conflict with kurdish led allies of the united states. In the past hour, the white house has released a statement. That is the very latest of the president , in
The euro is trading weaker by 1 4 of 1 versus the u. S. Dollar. Brent is close to 60 a barrel. Gold futures are trading higher again, all the way up to 1543. 50 an ounce. Trade headlines and tweets have been whipped sawing have been ing markets the last few days. Joining us with the latest from washington is shawn donnan. What difficult to know if President Trump says makes a difference to china and vice versa. Is there a standoff happening right now . Shawn theres been a standoff happening now for some time. All summer weve been waiting to see a resumption of substantive talks between the two sides. Those talks broke down in may, and weve had some flirtations, some truces, some more tariffs over the summer. This morning, trump again muddying the waters by insisting that there were new contacts between the u. S. And china, and that things were going to go very well. To spin thesetry things is going well. It is never clear whether he his escalation or actual substantive talks. We are go
A look at the dos and donts of how to behave when its really breathed hall. And at the womens world cup thats a controversial round of 16 match sees the u. S. And its past spain reigning champions now face a quarter final against the hosts of the charter friends. Hello im terry martin good to have you with us irans says the path to diplomacy between tehran and washington is now permanently closed the statement comes after the u. S. Impose new sanctions on irans Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and other top officials in Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman accused the u. S. Of being desperate and destroying established mechanisms for maintaining peace us president all signed off the punitive measures yesterday. In front of the assembled press President Trump signed an executive order imposing new sanctions against iran the order is meant to limit access to Financial Resources for run Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei and his associates. We will continue to increase pressure on terro
Comes by a group of employees who filter extreme content to the site. Always see every single day you see pain and suffering and for days in fact in my mind it just makes you angry. Because theyre not doing anything. For their good morning just gone 10 oclock here in moscow youre watching international now iran has the International Community to stop washingtons destabilizing actions in the persian gulf comes after shot down an American Military surveillance drone over the strategic strait of hormuz on thursday the u. S. President has spoken out on the incident saying the republic has made a major miscalculation. Well i made a big mistake. This drone was in International Waters clearly we have it all documented its documented scientifically not just words and i made a very bad mistake ok sorry i misunderstood im afraid youll find out and maybe youll find out youll find me arguing there are obviously obviously you know were not going to be talking too much about it youre going to find o