D. C. Good afternoon, everybody, and welcome to a beautiful Nations Capital today. I think its no exaggeration to say that today the biggest, most consequential decision, the one that will affect the most americans in the most immediate way is being made right here today in washington in the building behind me, the headquarters of the Federal Reserve where the men and women of the open Market Committee have been meeting. Mandy . Will today bring the first rate hike in nine years . That is the big question. In less than one hour from now the feds decision will drop. Where do policymakers stand right now headed into the big decision . Senior economics reporter steve laesm liesman is also in washington live. What are you hearing . I think its worthwhile to go back and say how did we get here . How do we go into a meeting of such consequence without really being sure whats going to happen. 50 50 on both sides. You heard at the top of the show some of the brightest minds are disagreeing. I
Succeed. And counting down to cnbcs republican president ial debate. It is live tonight from colorado. Well tell you where the candidates stand on fixing things like Social Security and medicare, plus what some Small Businesses would love to hear from the candidates arrayed out there in boulder. Meantime, lets aez go down and check in with my friend, kayla at the nyse. Kayla. Hey, ty. The countdown to the latest fed decision is on in earnest. We will get that decision from policy makers in less than one hours time. Steve leaseman is life at the Federal Reserve and says the fed has some new data to think about today. Steve, is it all about gearing up towards december now . Yeah, it is. Thats what all of the discussion is about. Before we talk about the fed i want to talk about new data. We got some advanced trade data this morning. The deficit was better than expected. Why is that important . Because deficits a big part of why we go up and down in gdp. The Third Quarter gdp taking a mea
Financial trading revenue saw a drop of 15 . Hear what the companys ceo has to say about the results with shares down almost 6 on the session today. Many of its competitors are not down today. All right. We have a brain drain at yahoo evan has been talking about, two more people, high level people, have left the technology giant. We will discuss the impact of yahoos executive exodus coming up. And ibm set to report right after the bell. The companys cfo will join us live before the Conference Call for an exclusive interview, shares down about 1 ahead of that report. Lets start with chinas economy, that has september Oil Prices Lower today, dominic chu has the story for us. So, bill, kelly, we understand right now that the china slow down effect has been anticipated for quite some time. You could argue perhaps priced into the market but still we finally got confirmation of some of the worst levels of Economic Activity that we have seen since the Global Financial crisis back in 2008, 200
The Mississippi River. And prices spike. Its sweater weather at the north pole, 50 degrees above normal. Look at this, too, old navy withdraws the tshirts, artists objected to their profession being crossed out, theyre sensitive. Im not particularly sensitive. Varney company is about to begin. Thats b. B. King and his gang performing auld lang syne, not my favorite, but were running it. Times square, ive been there and it looks like a military zone. According to the police commissioner, its the most secure place on earth with 6,000 police officers. Now, a Million People are expected to pass through times square today. Once you are in, you will not get out. Bathroom breaks virtually impossible. A lot of those people wear Adult Diapers. Thats a true fact liz thats an interesting 9 00 in the morning story for you. [laughter] just a fact. Stuart what youre looking at is sydney, australia. Its already 2016 and they celebrated with a huge fireworks display right next to the sydney opera hous
Losses, even the race to obama, she was going to beat obama. I dont know who would be worse, i dont know, how does it get worse . She was going to beat favored to win and she got bleep , she lost, i mean, she lost. Theres the bleep and the Clinton Campaign firing back on twitter. And saying we are not going to respond to trump and the degrading language for women, , i am with her. And the editor of the white house dossier and the accountability project, thank you for being here. Let me begin with you, as i kind of alluded to, donald trump doesnt team to get hurt in the polls. Should we put much store in this hurting him moving forward . Polls can be deceiving, there are general polls, voter likely polls. When you look to the early states to iowa, South Carolina, New Hampshire, trump isnt doing as well as we think. Hes riling up the base and registered g. O. P. Voters who have never voted before. The rethe a, the reason that Hillary Clinton isnt responding, we know that the real winner