Volatile month for equities. Why the s p could rally another 9. 5 from now until the end of the year. They are the most loved stocks on wall street and apple is not one of them. Weve got the list for you. We begin with what could be a major breakthrough in the battle to contain ebola, a vaccine being developed in record time proving to be highly effective in fighting or warding off that deadly virus. Shares of the two Companies Involved in the Drugs Development are moving higher at this hour. As you see it there, newlink genetics and merck. Cnbcs pharma expert meg tirrell with the very latest. That vaccine being developed by merck has shown to be 1 00 effective in preventing ebola. According to a interim analysis of a late stage study being conducted in guinea. Experts say the results need to be confirmed and the studies are ongoing but they call the news encouraging with the w. H. O. Declaring the world is on the verge of an effective ebola vaccination. It was used in the 1970s to era
Giving him new hands and a new life. Wait until you hear the one thing he says he is fighting for right now. My fight song and good morning, america. Lets get right to that breaking news in the war on terror. Mullah omar, chief ally of Osama Bin Laden, forced underground when u. S. Forces invaded afghanistan. A 10 million bounty on his head now confirmed dead. Abcs chief investigative correspondent brian ross is here with the details coming in right now and, brian, this man right at the top of the worlds most wanted list. Reporter absolutely the case, george and good morning. Confirmation of the death of the oneeyed taliban leader came in the last few minutes to abc news from officials on the afghanistan government. A report u. S. Officials have been hoping to hear for more than a decade. The government spokesman told us mullah omar was killed in a u. S. Air strike more than two years ago with his death kept secret until this morning by the taliban. Omar, who lost his eye while fightin
We track it. Talking to an official down there. Looks like progress is finally being made in congress on two of President Trumps biggest agenda items, that would be tax reform and replacing obamacare. We head live to capitol hill for the latest details on that. We also have fedex, adobe, Bed Bath Beyond reporting earnings after the bell today, a few days sinces weve had bigger earnings to recover. Well bring you instant analysis as soon as the results are released bed, bath down 2 . Fedex getting ready to raise rates. We begin with Hurricane Maria gaining strength yet again heading right toward puerto rico w wtvj meteorologist Steve Mclaughlin with the latest. A couple days ago the storm was what we call 96l, a big storm in the ocean by saturday 5 00 pvm, it was Tropical Storm marine ya, sunday 5 00 p. M. , Hurricane Maria last night at 7 45, category 5 with winds of 160. That is where we are right now the track right across the Virgin Islands especially st. Croix as a major hurricane,
Welcome to bbc news. Tonight, more questions about how the royal family invest their millions. The latest revelations from the Paradise Papers the cache of leaked documents about tax havens show that Prince Charles private estate the duchy of cornwall secretly invested in an offshore company in which a close friend was a director. Thats perfectly legal, but hes been accused of a conflict of interest because he went on to campaign for International Rule changes that would have benefited the company. The princes spokesman insists hes never chosen to speak out on a topic simply because of an investment decision. The Paradise Papers were shared with the International Consortium of investigativejournalists including the bbcs panorama programme. Richard bilton has this report. For years, Prince Charles has campaigned on environmental issues. This week hes in malaysia, yesterday he spent time in the rainforests of borneo. But panorama has discovered he campaigned on one issue that he secretly
Rishaad we are a leading an important trade day out of china. Looking at july numbers, expected to be up about 11 from a year ago. That would be similar to what we did see in june, 11. 3 gain. Early indicators are positive. Lets have a look at what is going on. This is trade, remaining resilient. Administration, trade seems more and more likely, are also looking at steel. Steel exports rank 2. 5 of the total to china. This is what we have currently. We see have exports and imports are down from elevated numbers we had great other than. 3 is the big number from exports in dollar terms. Imports, 17. 2 . Thats what we are looking for when it comes to trade numbers. Could be out anytime in the next couple hours. On thethis will build back of the fx reserve numbers we had late yesterday suggesting that there are six straight months of building reserve expectations for the yuan. You have to take this with a grain of salt heading into congress. It is the consolidation of power and policymakin