everyone is very excited about the demo trump live tweeting almost excited as they are about the debate itself. we are also on twitter live streaming onto your and road device, your iphone. this is different than the presidential debate. then the most anticipated thing in the history of the world. perhaps didebate alter the contours of the presidential race. there is not the same anticipation here. should be asking questions of them very since a similar very similar to what we saw the presidential debate. these are two guys were very prepared of my donald trump unlike donald trump and we expect them to bring to bear not only their preparation but years of experience. both have been governor. john: it s in the state of virginia. tim kaine has won in the state nine times for mayor, governor. he is very much a hometown candidate. you can see it as you go out around the university. back will be right we will be back right after the debate. a 90 minute debate. you can switch
most opponents that he previously faced, watch out when tim kaine comes in. he was flustered and off his game. mike pence came with his a game and demonstrated a contrast. the important thing for voters to understand that the single most important thing a presidential candidate does is choose their vice presidential candidate. tonight, donald trump proved that the kind of people he will put around him are people like mike pence, solid, solution-oriented folks. mark: thank you, and i know some are agreeing he had more good moments. is there a single good moment you would point to, hoping that is what gets replayed over and over. there are several. a couple one line zinger is, the he said, you have worked on that a lot. i think the substantive exchanges, where he bested him on contrasting his record in indiana bringing down taxes and unemployment, two tim kane kaine s record of bringing up on employment. would you prefer donald trump perform more like mike pence did tonight
imf, and underlying all of this is what we are seeing in the markets. tom: the markets repricing with a handle on sterling and stephen king will join us here in a bit. but i agree, the topics in the hallways will shift. taylor: let s go to the bloomberg first word news. it was the vice presidential candidates turn in the spotlight. tim kaine fended off last night. at one point, the two sparred over reports that trump may have not pay federal taxes. when hillary clinton said he hasn t been paying taxes, he said was smart. so it is smart not to pay for veterans, the military and teachers? and those of us who do pay, i guess we are stupid? he faced tough times 20 years ago. his tact time showed that he went through a difficult time but he used the tax code the way it was supposed to be used and he did it really only. 48% say mike pence won the debate. 42% say tim kaine won. hurricane matthew may threaten the coast of florida. at least 11 people have been killed and countless h
yesterday stocks were down for the third time in four sessions. not far off the session lows. that was just a decline of 85 points for the dow. a loss of ten points for the s&p 500 and a loss of 11 points for the nasdaq. check out what happened overnight in asia. the nikkei was up by a half percent. mainland china markets closed for that week-long celebration that they do. in europe, in the early trade, at this point they re under a bit of pressure. biggest decline coming in france with the cac down by 0.8%. ftse off by a half percent. the ftse has been the big story. ftse up yesterday. the british pound falling to the lowest several since 1985. we ll talk more about that in a moment. look at crude oil prices. cried down yesterday in the regular session. it did pick up some ground in the evening session after we saw a surprise draw down in api inventories. $50, right within spitting distance. 49.44 for wti. among the top stories, becky is still here. yes. i m still here.
pitch as it s expected to field acquisition offers this week. and unexpected fireworks from the vice presidential debate last night. we ll look at the highlights and the impact on the campaign. amazon hitting another all-time high yesterday. announcing prime reading, which unlocks thousands of kindle books for free. what that means for the industry. but first up, twitter shares rising in the premarket amid some increasing talk about a possible sale of the company. comes more than a week after david broke the news that twitter has received expressions of interest from a number of tech companies that are considering whether to make a bid for the social media company. little more color being flushed out by some regarding splits on the board between av and dorsey, the role noda s had in sort of driving morale. yeah, interesting story from bloomberg. our reporting sort of is where it was, you know, perhaps it is this week as i last reported. there was a formalization, more
we will reveal. a developing story captivating both wall street and silicon valley today. will sales force make a bid for twitter? mark benioff is speaking right now. sales force ceo mark benioff on a bit of a shopping spree, buying companies left and right to build out his business. in fact, sales force has closed 11 acquisitions this fiscal year. among the biggest ones really making headlines, there was crux for $700 million. which should strengthen the company s marketing cloud. collaboration software developer kwip for $582 million and e-commerce providing demand ware for $2.8 billion. all buys would take a back seat if benioff didn t make a bid for twitter. today on cnbc, the ceo addressed those reports. we look at everything, you know that, jim. linkedin. we look at everything. you name it, we look at it. it s in our interest. we have to go deep on everything. we have to understand what is possible for our shareholders, what isn t. but in the scheme of things, i
to do business with iraq.d it i this is relevant, he was pushing the sanctions and lifting the sanctions when he is messes why we didn t think he should have a ceo of halliburton. they pay millions of dollars in fines for providing false information on w those. they did business with libya and iran, two sworn enemies of the united states. they are now under investigation for having bribed foreign officials duringl that period of time, not only that, they have gotten seven and have billion-dollar no-bid contract in iraq and instead of part of their money being withheld which is the way it is normally done, they continue to get their money. mr. vice president? i like to respond but it s going to take within 30 seconds well that s all you ve got. well the reason they keep mentioning halliburton s because because they re trying to throw up a smokescreen. they know the charges are false and they know that if you go for example to fact checks.com, you can get the specific
the final presidential debate will be on wednesday october 19 at the university of nevada, las vegas. tonight vice president of the debate will get underway in just under two minutes. live coverage here on c-span2. known. [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] good evening, from longwood university in farmville, virginia. welcome to the first and only vice presidential debate of 2016. sponsored 2016. sponsored by the commission presidential debate. i am elaine quijano, correspondent for cbs news. it s an honor to moderate the debate between senator tim kaine and governor mike pence. both are longtime public servants are proud fathers of sun serving in the u.s. marines. the campaign agreed to the rules. there will be nine different segments covering domestic and foreign policy issues. each segment will begin with a question
barack obama hillary clinton, first appeared a few years ago with the moving georgia and now they ve moved into crimea. now they move into the wider middle east, and all the while all we do is fold our arms is a we are not having talks anymore. to answer your question, we just didn t american strength. we need to marshal the resources of our allies in the region and in the media we need to act and act now to get people out of harm s way. moderator: exactly have a safe zones work? pence: the safe zones would have to be, as the senator said. is already a framework for this that and recognized by the t international committee. that united states needs to be prepared to work with our allies in the region to create a route for safe passage into to protect people in those areas including within no-fly zone. this is tough stuff. i sort of the foreign affairs committee for a decade. i traveled in and out of the region for 10 years. ice with the american soldier one in operation ira