This is appointing to how things open in a half hour. Down, way down. This is Dow Jones Industrial average futures. Its a look how things are going to work out 29 minutes from now. Were going to be down around 675, thats a significant 4 drop, its huge. Look at the price of oil. Fresh 6 1 2 year low, 39. 03. Now at 38 again. And that, go en, is a huge selloff, but i want to trigger right at the start and get into the drop in china. Look at these declines in asia. Starting with the shanghai at the top down, 8 1 2 . Hangsang index, hong kong, japan down 4 and south korea 2 . Mary kissel is right here. All right, china, there are reports theres speculation that the government in beijing has lost control and thats scary. Well, i dont know about that, stuart. Look, china may have been the trigger for a reality check for the markets. What has happened over the last six years, you had very low Interest Rates that let governments all over the world and china were particularly big spenders, seve
Be more big moves next week. Oil staging another big rally today. Yesterday traders said it was mostly Short Covering. Could this be the beginning of a real rebound for the commodity . Weve got rbc commodity guru helena croft joining us live. We have bob pisani tracking the action here at the New York Stock Exchange. Kate rogers at the nasdaq and jackie d at the nymex. Finally more typical august day. There is a little fireworks in the energy space. S p 500, a narrower range, about 15 points. That would be more than normal on a typical day. Compared to what weve seen, other than a slight swoon in the middle of the day, its been fairly straight and narrow here. I want to show you what markets are doing here. Well call the trading range narrow. Volume on the heavy side. Not as heavy the prior four, five days. Heavy for a day in august. Breadth 32 advancing to declining. Thats been holding other than a droop in the middle of the day. Volatility is flat. Look at names like mid state petrol
Texas Governor Greg Abbott updating residents this afternoon. There is reality we have to come to gyps with, and that is we are just beginning the process of responding to this storm. We are still involved in the searchandrescue process. Our number one goal from Corpus Christie all the way to east of houston is still protecting and preserving life and rescuing every person that we can find. Ashley this as President Trump is expected to address the National Disaster sometime this hour. Ahead of that visit to survey the damage in texas tomorrow. Of course well be, he will be making comments and taking questions live from the white house. Well take you there immediately that begins. Cheryl well be waiting on President Trump. Right now we have jeff flock. He is live on the ground in houston, texas. Thousands are being forced from their homes seeking shelter. Jeff what are conditions for you right now. Reporter oh, boy, cheryl, i tell you i didnt think it could be much worse. Were in the a
Baum or our allies will be met with a massive military response, a response both effective and overwhelming. Maria President Trump takes aim at china over its trade ties with north korea appeared to follow up this morning. Global market actions look like this this morning. Tensions rising, futures indicate markets will open lower. Dow industrial down 50 points a quarter of a percent lower. In europe checking averages, checking averages come against acrosstheboard the board, dx and germany 40 right now. In asia overnight, the stocks took a cue from some volatility last week at the end of last week amid the uncertainty and north korea. The nikkei average down as was the kospi. Shanghai in china up a fraction. Hurricane irma, powerful category four storm. States of emergency already declared in the nfl now considering moving the Miami Dolphins opening game. The floodwaters with hot arriving. Houston Police Department honors one of its owner died during the storm. And into a cube on the ai
Tilt. Divided Republican Party could not deliver the votes to get things done. The president turned to democrats who could, now what . The president is cleared decks crowd of legislative calendar no longer quite so crowded and democrats involved limited tax cutting legislation looks likely to pass the republicans in disarray leadership stunned by the president s tilt conservatives furious democrats got what they wanted they are happy looking forward to december 15 when funding of government will be an issue all over again, sum it up this is a shock to the political system, it is a political realignment, in a moment we show you the markets reaction to all of this irma looks like eastern see board takes the ive got to start with irma, it is still a monster remains category five storm. It looks like it to hit the east coast of florida. Right hand side of your screen storms track on the left, youre looking at long gas lines in florida. As people are try to get out of the way. Mandatory eva