The final president ial debate before those key elections on sunday is starting about now, and we will tell you whats at stake for the euro and your Global Investments coming up. Meanwhile, forget sign also of economic weakness. Federal reserve looks like it is on track for another rate hike in june. Naels according to the statement they put out just an hour ago. We will have more on how the market is reacting coming up. Plus this afternoon it is all about Mark Zuckerberg and elon musk. Their two companies will be reporting earnings after the bell tonight. We will get you ready for those reports and bring you the numbers as soon as they are released. Be interesting to see how that turns out. Meantime, shares of apple still trading lower. Coming off the lows of the day, but they were down sharply on the open this morning. Ian weidner from bush securities and were going to start with ian. You were our bear yesterday during our apple bullbear debate. I mean what did you learn in that repo
And welcome to power lunch. Stocks are holding into the green. We have the dow up 122 points. S p is up by about 11 right now. But take a look at the tenyear note, because the yield is 1. 72 , a rising dollar, rising yield continue to be themes in todays mark. Were seeing nice gains in financials. And Energy Stocks among the biggest winners on that index at this hour. Take a look at chesapeake, trance ocean, marathon oil, free port mcmoran in the green right now. Im michelle carusocabrera. Americas trade deficit widening in august as we imported more goods than we exported. Mortgage applications climbing 3 last week and that was driven mainly by refis. Justice Department Says they have arrested an nsa contractor accused of stealing classified materials. Well have much more on that story in just minutes during our live interview with the assistant attorney general john carlin coming up here on power lunch. In the meantime, were counting you down to the big september jobs report on frida
Shanghai hanging in there. Higher by about half a percent. European equities, of course, this one often the last week or so has been the tale how we begin the trading day. Ftse might be down. Spain ibex down one and a quarter. Interestingly was in positive territory. 6522. It is higher than before britain voted to leave the eu. Take a look at crude, wti down about a 133. Natural gas has been rallying this year down about the same amount. I want to thank you for being here. Bern stooen was a merrill guy for quite a long time. Made quite a name for himself, but for him to come in here and be the guest host for an hour is really good for richard bern seen the advisers. I think it says you couldnt get anybody else. That may be true to some extent, but im thanking you. Its nice to see you. Im glad youre here. Im sure he didnt need to set his alarm. Couldnt wait to get here this morning. Chopping at the bit. I think either works. Cham champing or chomping. Its champing. 6 02. If youve never
Before, and it could be signaling a major sell sign, the action begins right now. Lets get right to it. This is the fedfree zone. Next week only one stock will matter, and that as apple. They are set to unveil a new iphone and possibly a new apple watch . This is the most leaked product in a long time. We know what the phone looks like, we know what the gbs are going to look like, the camera. The watch could be something new and innovative. They released it in april of 2015 and the only thing they updated was the software in the bands. Theres not a lot of enthusiasm. The option is about a 2 move. Thats not technicalparticularl wow, theres something new. You think theres going to be a move . I actually think its going to be. I cant imagine its going to be that big. Do you have an apple watch . No. You did buy one briefly. What could you do with it . What could they do to the apple watch that could get you to buy one . Probably nothing. Drop the price by 300. You have a battery that basi
New model three ahead of tonights unveiling. The line is longer for the tesla 3 than it is for the apple se today. Well tell you how to play the tesla announcement without buying tesla stock. Thats coming up a little bit. I did see pictures of people with tents popped waiting to sign up for teslas. Lets start with the digital disruption facing our nations banks, hours ago the u. S. Controller of the currency sounded the alarm on the risks Financial Technologies pose to banks saying what were trying to encourage is responsible innovation. This coming just as citigroup is out with new research claiming that the Banking Industry could lose up to 30 of its jobs in the next ten years due to the rise of Financial Technology companies. We turned mike santoli on this following the story. What did you find . Both of those things you mentioned, the concern about the rapid growth and unregulated areas and potential loss of jobs is because theres really been this gold rush of Financial Technology