But the dow up, nasdaq up, sure didnt turn out that way, though. In the Early Morning hours we saw china literally gave up the ghost, plummeting 6 , and finishing at 2,749. That is well below the 3,000 line in the sand, as the Chinese Government tries to maintain. Maybe the communists decide the whole effort is futile and they dont want to spend anymore money propping up stocks, or maybe the sellers at last overwhelm the buyers. Including the prc. But either way, starting ugly. Meanwhile, oil after being 2 yesterday, falling back down to 30, was flirting with 29, insanity. Plus, with the Federal Reserve meeting on the horizon tomorrow, felt like it was another horrible session on its way. Yeah, 4 00 a. M. , etched in stone wed be down at least threequarters of a percent and the futures traders seemed to have their hearts set on appealing all the gains from i wanted to go back, but thats not how you play in the playoffs. Next thing you know, oil climbs back to 39. 21. Nobody thought tha
Money propping up stocks, or maybe the sellers at last overwhelm the buyers. Including the prc. But either way, starting ugly. Meanwhile, oil after being 2 yesterday, falling back down to 30, was flirting with 29, insanity. Plus, with the Federal Reserve meeting on the horizon tomorrow, felt like it was another horrible session on its way. Yeah, 4 00 a. M. , etched in stone wed be down at least threequarters of a percent and the futures traders seemed to have their hearts set on appealing all the gains from late last week. I wanted to go back, but thats not how you play in the playoffs. Next thing you know, oil climbs back to 39. 21. Nobody thought that was in the cards, why . I could say ive given up trying to find logical explanations for the oil move. Forgive me, though, for going back to oil giant and the expiration for budgets are coming so fast supply and demand year. Plus, despite a story about the decline in chinese gasoline demand, we always seem to forget decline is a wrong w
Mentioning them in the news conference, were about to hear from, most of them say its an experimental drug. And no one can say for sure if the drug is responsible. More than 1300 people have died from ebola in west africa, and theyre not able to use that experimental drug. And that is the fact thats very much on the line. In atlanta, georgia. The doctors and nurses who cared for him. Today is a miraculous day. I am thrilled to be alive, to be well. And with my family. Last month, when the aid workers arrived from west africa aid workers were wearing protective clothing to prevent it from spreading. The disease that nearly killed him. Nancy writebol was discharged on tuesday, and both brantly and writebol received an experimental drug that was not wadely available. The disease is still prevalent in west africa with more than 1300 people dead. These two individuals were able to walk out of the hospital healthy, and the ebola epidemic continues to rage on in africa. 576 have died in guine
Split the ceo and chairman roles. Frederick keeps his job while Vice President steps in as chairman. Lets get out to one of our top stories today. Chinese stocks suffered the worst drop many more than six years led by the countrys three largest broke ages have been banned from opening new trading margins for three months. It follows a investigation into high risk activity. Joining us live from beijing on the latest. Hi. Thats right. It is driven by a crack down on margin trading here. The countrys regulators had issued a warning to 1 different brokerages and they punished three of those firms. These are three major industry heavy weights here. And these companies now face a temporary ban for about three months on opening new margin accounts. The reason we saw it a lot of people are worried the move will dent the buying in stocks. The shanghai rally has been driven in large part to the margin trading that has been going on here. A lot of people have been flocking to the stock market and
Is expected to touch on this evening in the state of the union. Lets check on u. S. Equity futures at this hour. Youre seeing implied open for all major averages here. S p 500 would open up by 8 points. Dow up by 50 points. The nasdaq up by 21 points and a lot of that is based on firming in the markets over in europe. Better than expected gdp numbers out of china and of course thats helping move Global Markets in a vastly different direction than we have seen for much of the month. Breaking news overnight too. Isis releasing a video early today which has been verified by nbc news consultants. It shows two japanese hostages and the now notorious isis militant seen in previous videos. Hes now demanding 200 million from the japanese government within 72 hours or the hostages will be killed. Japan reacting with anger demanding a release of the hostages and saying it will not yield to terrorism. Quite a stunning release of this video and looks similar to past videos released from isis that