With pan reaction of north korea. Lauren if you thought that selloff was bad, check out asia. In south korea, kospi down 2 . Stock trading in japan, close for holiday. Cheryl at the last minute, google canceling a town hall meeting on diversity fearing for the safety of employees, this is days after firing an engineer who posted a memo who sparked nationwide debate. Fbn am starts right now. Lauren good morning and happy friday, 5 01 a. M. In new york. August 11th, good morning, im lauren simonetti. Cheryl good morning, im cheryl casone, i cant wait to talk about the google story, this is when they needed to have a town hall. Lauren talk about how women cant cut it in the tech world. Cheryl we are here to anchor the fact despite that we are women. Lauren i can handle the news in case you wanted to know. Cheryl a lot of breaking news obviously to get to this morning from the markets and more. President trump saying that his fire and fury warning to north korea did not go far enough. The
Things. Stuart with me, hes not going to get away with it. He says kim jong un should be very, very nervous, china state media says this, if north korea shoots first, china stays out, if america starts it and tries regime change, china steps in. Face to face standoff and thats what investors have to live with as the weekend approaches. The possibility of Armed Conflict with the markets are closed. Each new headline will have new impact. Follow it all minute by minute on Varney Company, the friday edition is about to begin. Stuart so where we are in 28 and a half minutes when the market opens . Slightly higher across the board. Heavy selling from yesterday has not continued so far this morning. But, remember, the duh has dropped just 1. 25 since monday. Here comes a tense weekend, would you buy ahead of that . We shall see. How about the price of gold . Thats another twomonth high at 12. 91. Flight to safety. Oh, will you look at this. Its can you believe this. Jc penny resulted the res
This is daybreak asia, coming to you live. I am betty liu in new york. 7 00 it is just after a. M. In hong kong. I am shery ahn. We are seeing geopolitical tensions being great for Global Markets and volatility retreating as well, but i guess the key question is whether President Trumps new actions on china will in fact stoke more trade tensions. Betty we have not seen that affect the markets before, but who knows . The markets are even more jittery these days. It seems like you cannot make sense of what headlines will move what index. You may as well follow buffett. Im pretty confident you will make money if you follow him. Our sources talk more about that story. Shery with the rally here, we are setting up for a bullish trend in asia. Betty that is always good advice, isnt it . Always follow buffett. Out onseeing korea Independence Day and usually around this time, we could have further escalation of tensions. So far, as he mentioned, the market seems to be weathering all of that. Ne
You head out to shop and check off on your holiday list this morning. Oh, baby, it is cold outside. Yes. Sing it. It is too cold to sing. It is cold outside. Good to have you with us im thomas drayton. Im karen hepp. It is friday, we are so excited, they made a new addition of that song to make it more p safe. I didnt know that. People were like what . We will have bob sing more in a little bit. Warm up those vocal cords. The first line, one of the first line is i really cant stay but you we have to stay. We will stay and tell but how cold it actually is. We are going down to a six today. We have no precipitation in the forecast, it is all about the temperatures but you with that cold era cross great lakes we are seeing lake effect snow near lake erie and ontario maybe a flurry could reach poconos but, generally we just have to worry about bundling up. Our 31degree temperature feels like 20, that is the wind chill right now and that is in the city. Sunrise Convenience Team 711 these wi
We have 31 degrees as our wind chill in philadelphia, 27 is what it feels like in wilmington, and as far as the pocono mountains are concerned , yeah it feels like 22. So the number as promised is an eight out of ten. We have buddy bundled up appropriately and it turns out today is National Cocoa day. If you were with us yesterday you thought it was yesterday but we fixed it. The seasonal temperature high of 43 degrees, today. Polar plunge is coming, bob kelly but we will tell you when. So nice we will to it twice we have a couple accidents here, this one here westbound, schuylkill expressway, right here at vare avenue, these guys, kind of bumper to bumper here, in what would be the right lane. Police are not even on the scene just yet on the vine street expressway across town westbound as we go for a ride coming off i95 into broad street this truck off to what would be the right shoulder, so that is causing delays, on broad street and coming off of i95. An accident tree came down, car