China says unless you remove the december tariffs we dont have a deal otherwise. David dietze and kristen anderson, last but not least the wall street journal wealth reporter, veronica daguerre. David i will begin with you. One out of five s p 500 companies have already reported and 82 beating earnings estimates. 63 top line revenue estimates. So far, so good. What do you think . I generally agree with that. Remember the bar was set very, very low. Of course companies forced analysts to push down the ratings so it is easier to beat. Neil i thought i was only one who did that. Gave my parents d and fs and see cs would think i was genius. They learned from you. Expectations are very low. I am seeing pretty good beats. I like the fact revenue is coming up strongly. Remember that Information Technology sector that is really weighing down expectations for the s p 500. The rankandfile is doing extraordinarily well. Neil it is interesting, veronica, Biotech Sector on this stunning news out of
The president was elected because of his antiestablishment campaign. Well analyze some of those unnamed sources and contrast them with our unnamed sources. They are amom plus officials with our anonymous highly placed officials. Well report, you decide whose unnamed Anonymous Sources you choose to believe. They give pull user prizes they give Pulitzer Prizes to people who got it wrong. Lou well be talking tonight with general jack keane. Well be talking about whats required to make sense of americas role in the middle east. Well be talking with dr. Michael pillsbury on the china trade talks and what is needed to rational aize a trade talks. We begin with breaking news out of the middle east. The taliban to hold a new round of intraafghan peace talks for two days next week. Those talks will be held in china. The talks monday and tuesday will be the first meeting between the taliban and the afghans since an earlier round of peace talks in july. After those peace talks failed with the Uni
Certainly has been weakening i know businesses spending on software purchases technology purchases, but do you think now businesses are sitting on cash because of the uncertainty around trade. That is what we hair travel around meet with businesses, farmers are absolutely nervous suffering from low prices you are hearing manufacturers nervous some export nervous about trade wars some nervous about globe environment we know that europe is slowing we know china is slowing so i think there is a general level anxiety that is causing people to pause. What can you tell us about minneapolis are you seeing weakening there i know there was some worry or speculation that maybe Unemployment Rate was ticking up. The minnesota rate kicked up from very low levels i am not hearing businesses saying laying off workers i am hearing caution about how many more they are going to hire, so o i am hoping just noise in the data but something we are paying close attention to is this upcoming week getting anot
Phase one trade deal, there will still be challenges between the United States and china, even after that trade deal is complete. Maria mr. Secretary, we thank you for your time today. Of course, we are always giving you best wishes on your trip. Thank you so much. So long. Maria secretary of state mike pompeo. Over to stuart varney. Stuart good morning, mr. Secretary. Good morning, maria. Good morning, everyone. The debate. All right. My opinion. No clearcut winner, but senator warren emerged as the clearcut leader. She was attacked from all sides. They went after her because shes out front. Joe biden asked about his sons Business Activities said only that neither he nor hunter had done anything wrong. Bernie sanders came on strong after his heart attack. Yes, he did. Mayor pete and Amy Klobuchar asked warren pointed questions on paying for medicare for all, but did not get a straight answer. Tulsi gabbard was the lone voice suggesting democrats be careful with their impeachment drive
The president saying if other nations want to get involved . Syria, fine by him. But hes keeping america out of it. The president tiger of the carping tiring of the carping from senator behind i graham who seems hell bent on keeping american kroops in syria in armed conflict. I will stem you, President Trump is warning turkish president erdogan that the United States will impose crippling sanctions on turkeys economy if he continues the assault in Northern Syria. Kevin corke with the latest from the white house. President trump if they dont, the tariffs and sanctions we are doing to turkey will be devastating to turkeys economy. Reporter President Trump told reporters at a News Conference thats turkey has only one way out of the crisis in syria, ceasefire and talk it out. President trump we have a situation where turkey is taking land from sir gentleman. Syria is not d land from syria. Syria is not happy about it. Let them work it out. We shouldnt be over there. He urged erdogan to quo