Market action. Blake burman doing sorting of his own at the white house. Edward lawrence with the fed in a few minutes from washington. Like, to you. Reporter we heard from the commission that oversees the president ial debate, next debate one would be virtual debate. President trump reacted instantly, no, no will not take any part in that whatsoever. Instead his campaign is saying they would like to see the debate happen on october 22nd. Which was supposed to be the last debate and one on october 29th. The Biden Campaign came out said theyre good with the 22nd. That was on the calendar to begin with but they do not believe President Trump can unilaterally dictate the debate schedule after that. That is where we stand. Here is how both candidates reacted today. President trump i dont want to do a virtual debate. A virtual debate is a joke. Im in great shape. Unlike joe i dont have the luxury staying in a basement all day long. I have to run the country. We dont know what the president
First, democratic representative al green of texas, then scott perry of pennsylvania. Washington journal is next. Host good morning. It is thursday, october 1, 2020. The senate convenes at noon, and the house is in at 9 00 a. M. Eastern, which means we will be with you for two hours. We begin taking stock of tuesdays first president ial debate. With criticism pouring in from both sides of the aisle, the commission on president ial debates announced yesterday it would make changes to the remaining debates to ensure a more orderly discussion of the issues. As we wait to see with those changes will be, we are asking you what you would suggest. How would you alter the debate format, if all . Phone lines are split up as usual. If you support the trump pence ticket, 202 7488000 202 7488001. If you support the aydin harris ticket, 202 7488000 biden harris ticket 202 7488000. For independents, 202 7488002. O text us, 202 7488003 twitter,lso find us on cspanwj. You can start calling and now as
We were up 259 earlier. S p 500, as you can see, it is up more than. 5 . We just came off the best sixmonth performance for the s p actually since 2009. Youve got the nasdaq higher right now, up 1. 5 . All of this, were watching. Were watching washington. House speaker nancy pelosi, treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin are continuing their discussions over this coronavirus stimulus bill that could pour trillions into the economy and help airlines, Small Business owners and the unemployed. We will have up to the minute details on the state of negotiations as they go on right now in washington. Then the travel industry is desperate for help from congress as a new study says the Hotel Industry might not be able to hold out much longer. One of the nations top hotel owner operators is here to tell us how his company is handling these challenging times. Hes here in a fox business exclusive. Meanwhile, pepsico is popping as people lock down at home during the pandemic, turned to its snacks and d
The markets. Ashley, first to you. Ashley well, guys as we say good riddance to september where all the major indexes posted a loss we embrace a new month but we havent come exactly flying out of the gates although green across the screen. The dow finishing slightly higher as you can see, about 1 10 of a percent after being down more than 100 points. S p up half a percent. But it was nasdaq showed the best performance of the new month up 1 1 2 . Like Charlie Brown with a rain cloud over his head investors are frustrated by congresss inability to agree on a new stimulus bill. With the markets going up and down with each competing headline from nancy pelosi and the treasury secretary and everybody else. As a result we saw stocks move for the most part today sideways in somewhat flat trading but as i mentioned the big tech stocks did manage to give the Broader Market some impetus. Amazon, microsoft, facebook, Alphabet Google all managed to make nice gains today which you can see gave the
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