Crude Oil Last Week which hit the highest interday wti up to 63. 72 an barrel ice brent crude is up to 69. 49. Gold hit a nearly fourmonth high last week posting its eighth straight positive session on friday. Longest daily winning streak since june of 2019 right now gold price is up another 1. 75 to 1,579. 60 an ounce. Our top story, tensions with iran escalating over the weekend. Eamon javers has the latest from washington good morning. Good morning, joe the iranians were vowing revenge over the weekend the administration took to television to explain its decision to kill that iranian general who was in iraq last week and to offer an explanation for what its plan is Going Forward. Mike pompeo said the administration is prepared and ready to handle anything that the iranians respond with. Heres what he said. If the American People should know that we have prepared for this, that we are ready well talk cultural that our responses are lawful and the president will take every action nece
Pushed the dow into negative territory for the year. Joining the russell 2000 at this point. You got the dow industrials under pretty severe pressure. The s p and nasdaq up by 10 and 25 for the year, respectively. But they have seen their gains whittled away over the last several sessions too. The vix hitting its highest level since the turmoil in the regional banks earlier this year touched at about 20. Havent seen that in a while. Gr granted this is not the serious fear factor you get into, but we had an incredibly low vix for quite a while. Youre going to see that elevation, concerns about what happens next and people asking what are the odds of a Government Shutdown come november 17th. Thats the new deadline that is there and without a speaker of the house at this point, those odds jumped significantly. You also see that playing out in the treasury market where the yields pretty much across the board hitting the highest level since 2007 once again. You got the tenyear now at 4. 815
Of a percentage point. The hang seng was up by 0. 4 shanghai composite was up 0. 4 in europe in some early trading that were seeing, we are looking at a mixed picture slight declines in germany and in france. The ftse is up by a quarter percentage point gains in italy and in spain as well finally crude oil prices, which were up by 50 cents yesterday, they have given back some of those gains. We are talk about crude oil below 58 a barrel a couple stories were watching, bombardier said it is confident u. S. International trade commission will reach the right conclusion in its dispute with boeing. The Commerce Department announced yesterday it will impose duties of 300 on the companys cseries jets after boeing had been complaining they had been unfairly subsidized by the canadian government. The penalty will only take effect if the itc rules in boeings favor bombardier said it is common practice for a plane manufacturer to offer discounts to launch customers. Bombardiers ceo will join us
Thoughts on the u. S. Military. We have special lines for this question. If you are an active member of the military, call 202 7488000. If you are a retired military service member, call 202 7488001. All others can call 202 7488002. You can also reach us on social media. On twitter at cspanwj. And on facebook at facebook. Com cspan. Good morning. Lets start by taking a look at what the president said earlier this month about the state of the u. S. Military during his comments about his National Security strategy. [video clip] dealt isis one devastating defeat after another. The coalition to defeat isis has now recaptured almost 100 of the land once held by these terrorists in iraq and syria. Great job. [applause] really good. Really good. Thank you. Thank you. We have a great military. We are now chasing them wherever they fully. And we will not let them into the United States. In afghanistan, our troops are no longer undermined by artificial timelines. And we no longer tell our enemie