Hit you totally out of left field. Or even worse, something bad will happen that could have easily been anticipated unless you took the appropriate precautions, and you will end up being run over by a train that you actually saw coming. All aboard think of how often weve been clobbered by the mess in europe. Every time things look less horrible across the atlantic, every time we begin to wonder, just maybe the worst has finally passed there, is some hideous headline and the euro panic comes back with a vengeance and the s p 500 gets bashed down by a torrent of selling. Thats why its so important to prepare yourselves for the next catastrophe. So you can make money in any market or lose less and not just when things are going smoothly. You have to build this stuff into what i call your world view. You have to assume that somewhere, sometime, something will go wrong. Im not saying you should be a superskeptic perma bear. Not at all. Over the course of my 31plus years in the business, i h
Meredith whitney coming up on the closing bell. The Dow Jones Industrial average right now flat on the session. A lot of movement but not much change from where we began, actually. Nasdaq composite looks like this. Once again seeing selling there as you see the nasdaq down just a fraction. Really steady today. The s p 500, similar chart pattern with a flat showing there as well. No surprise from the latest announcement from the federal reserve. Leaving Interest Rates unchanged saying the economy is limping along but going in the right direction. The fed pretty much took a breather after last months big policy moves. As anticipated. But will the fed make any bold moves after the election . They have a meeting coming up in december. We have our team of experts with their reaction looking ahead as well. Joining us from the buttonwood gathering here in new york. Gentlemen, good to see you all. Greg, i guess no surprise, but how much of this is, you know, leaving things almost precisely as
Is down by just. 10 . A road map develops for what could be a very, very good day in technology. Hear what Steve Ballmer has to say. The mini ipad is out. More trouble at best buy, a Major Management shakedown. And is cramer going to call this the come back story of the quarter . And could it keep the ceo off the hot seat . We begin today of course with microsoft officially unv l unveiling its the secret staging area microsoft uses to lae out its Retail Stores nationwide, we talked to Steve Ballmer about pcs versus tablets. You asked me whats going to happen to the pc market and the tablet market. We cant tell them apart. But with one arrow, we have if you will gotten two birds, tablet and pc, but we dont want to let any of the innovation surface of that not be exploited. Thats the only statement were making. What do you think its going to do . Because if theres so much hoopla about windows 8 a year ago. Its a dividend play, its a utility, its a little more spark. The company itself, t
Taliban militants. This happened two weeks ago. For speaking out for girls rights. Police say that the main suspect a 23yearold chemist student from the swat district. She say theyve made several arrests in the case. I want to go directly to the region there. Reporter simon who has a sense of what is taking place right now. The main suspect has not yet been arrested. What do we know . Reporter yeah, suzanne. So far ive spoken to one of the Senior Police officials involved in the investigation. He tells me they have six people in custody, but they believe key facilitators around this attack, they all are local men from malalas hometown. They suspect that maybe some of them went to afghanistan where the plot was hatched and returned to pakistan where they carried out the attack. Now, the main suspect, as you say, they have identified is a man called he went on to do a masters in chemistry. He is one of the main suspects involved in shooting this 15yearold school girl all because she was
Im john berman. 5 00 a. M. In the east. Well begin with the sprint to the finish line. Over the next 13 days president obama and mitt romney will crisscross the count industry and leapfrog the campaign. All the med fors you like as they try to lock down votes in states still considered tossups. This morning the president kicks off a twoday aroundtheclock blitz around six Battle Ground states with a raleigh in davenport, iowa. Then on to denver, colorado. Then to los angeles for a taping there. Then it is back to a latenight event in las vegas. For mitt romney he recollects has Campaign Events in reno, nevada, tonight, and then cedar rapids, iowa. It is a mouthful with dana bash following the fight to the finish. She is joining us live in the studio. Dana, what is the map . What are the travels these candidates are doing over the next two, three, four, five days of the race . It tells the number of battleground states is relatively big. If you look at the polls in the states where they