The president and the first lady and rnc chairwoman Ronna Mcdaniel and we just learned about senator mike lee and all of this started with hope pics, the mike Lee Development that we are indicating, he sits on the Judiciary Committee, a number of democrats have been calling for delaying the confirmation hearing or knocking altogether as a result of this, we do know that judge barrett has already tested negative but again the news only is going to prompt more calls for him to be tested yet again, among those who have been testing negative besides the judge wilbur ross, the secretary negative, Steven Mnuchin, the treasury secretary, negative, alex azar the health and Human Services secretary, negative, yvonne cattrall, mark meadows, the chief of staff, negative, secretary of state, mike pompeo, negative, the defense secretary, mike esper, negative, bill barr, the attorney general, that was known yesterday, negative, the widespread Contact Tracing to get to the bottom of anyone who was 50
Once again along the gulf coast. The story of this storm, this hurricane will be that of the flooding rainfall. Were talking about a catastrophic and lifethreatening flooding situation. As you mentioned from southern mississippi all the way over into southern alabama including the mobile area, also into the panhandle of florida where the conditions have been very serious out towards pensacola. Now the wind, intensity of the storm coming down, moves further inland this afternoon. It is slowly crawling inland, neil. Only five miles an hour. It means relentless rain will continue over the same hours for hours and hours, resulting in that flooding. If that flooding that were alerting people and businesses to across the southeastern United States as the storm continues to move off to the north and east, that risk for serious flooding is going expand into georgia and up towards the carolinas the next couple days. It is really important that people and businesses be prepared in those areas. T
That broadly speaking if we dont get that, there would certainly be Downside Risks certainly through the channel i mentioned. Thank you cnn. Thanks for taking my question chairman powell, give us an update to the policy framework and repeated calls for this and this event, is the fed open to other parts of the economy such as income inequality and Affordable Housing we monitor everything we think is important in the u. S. Economy. In a broad sense, all of it goes into thinking about Monetary Policy you mentioned inequality so disparities in income and Financial Wellbeing demographic and racial categories, something we monitor carefully, inequality, which i would point to its a multifaceted thing, stagnation of nat the lower end of the income and lower mobility those are things that hold back our economy. They are the thing is we dont really have the tools to address those. We have Interest Rates and Bank Supervision and Financial Stability policy and things like that, but we cant get a
59 minutes left to trade, kayla. And that green screen is not something we have seen in a while. We have a big show ahead today on closing bell. A big deal for big steel well talk to the ceo from Cleveland Cliffs and his outlook on the economy later, sneaker startup all birds scoring 100 million in fresh funding. Valuing the company at 1. 7 billion the coceo will join us to tell us how his Company Plans to spend that cash and well have that later on in the show. Lets focus in on the big show were tracking to days rally. Theyre covering the latest tensions in the tech cold war with china start us off on the Broader Market and what youre seeing behind the scenes today. Yeah. Market making the case that last weeks lows and got some traction near the levels its not Something Else tachlt a look at the s p 500 year to date all the indices have a similar look with different mag any tudz we were talking about this level for a long time. This is where we hit the lows a few times last week aroun
President trump refuses to commit to if he loses the election. He says he could try to accelerate the vaccine approval process ahead of november 3rd. Just 6 00 a. M. Here in the si of london. Ma us in is off today. Lets get a look at the markets. The nasdaq dropping below 3 . The benchmark in asia down more than 1. 5 . Futures, there you all in the red. Move over the board. Lets look at what happened across as set. The dollar still on course for the strongest week since april. Were up. 1 of a percent. Trading below 1900. Citi says more upside. And Morgan Stanley taking the flip side. Well talk about that later. The crude just under 4 a barrel. John authors hes without a piece. He says this bout of stock market angst looks much darker. Earlier sell offs is an intent to correct excessive prices in companies. Dominant he said we took things too far as we might have taken things in completely the wrong direction. Lets digest all of this with georgette, senior analyst. We had this selloff.