Positive, europes are slightly in the red and we are watching crude and gasoline on news of the pipeline explosion yesterday in alabama. The first trading day of the month after that red october, more earnings. The election, the jobs number and the fed meeting all on tap for the markets. It is one week to go until election day. New polls and investigations are moving the markets every day, including today. Well have the latest. And a spinoff for kfc and taco bell. Yum and yum china begin trading as separate companies this morning. First up, though, a lot for investors to digest into november as we head into the first trading day of the month. A jobs report is coming on friday, the election is next week. All three major indices were in the red for october, posting their worst performance since january, although to be any worse than january would have required a lot more selling, jim. Look, theres theres just a major change underneath. What we saw were a lot of health care companies, big
We have been telling you about lawmakers in state after state, passing bills to protect people who cite religious beliefs for refusing to serve or employ gay or transgender people. We wondered why so many of these laws including some that limit ak tess to Public Restrooms are surfacing right now. Well Dean Reynolds found out. Being transis not a crime. Reporter demonstrators against the socalled bathroom bills were out in force in South Carolina chants echoing those in other states where they say legislatures have enacted laws allowing bigotry. While they protested, the conservative group that helped author many of those measures prti orientation was working at the orlando area office on new ways to uphold what it says is really at sta. It is only about being free to pursue your faith. We have no interest in discriminating against any one. Reporter the founder and chairman of Liberty Council which is affiliated attorneys in 50 states drafting bills advising lawmakers and defending clie
Sure that were the firewall to stopping the radical agenda of Chuck Schumer. He wants to fundamentally change this country. Thats why im crisscrossing the state, why davids out every single day. We need georgians to turn out and vote. Paul lets bring in our panel, wall street journal columnist and deputy Editorial Page Editor Dan Henninger and columnist kim strassel, bill mcgurn and Mary Anastasia ogrady. Ing so, kim, the republicans running as a check on a biden presidency and Chuck Schumer senate, but what in particular are they running on . What issues . Well, that is a lot of it, and you hear them talking about what could happen under a biden presidency, a pelosi house and a Schumer Senate in terms of taxes, in terms of deregulation, in terms of the federal courts. You also see them talking a lot and trying to tie this socialist agenda into local georgia issues. In particular things like the defund the police movement, safety on the streets. The that had its way, antifa and riots a
Becomes the first pope in centuries to resign. And hes leaving behind a vatican really at a cross roads. The Catholic Church facing difficult challenges and also opportunities as it moves forward. Now, as i say, usually when theres a transition and weve covered it so many times, well, not so many times, but the last one i was here, and that was because a pope died. John paul ii died after living his last years infirmed and in visible pain. Now we have a transition, we have a living pope. Youre not watching a funeral before the next pope is elected. Youre not watching the worlds heads of state come here to pay their respects to the departed pope. Youre seeing a much different kind of transition. John al whlen, what is Pope Benedict going to do the rest of the day . Normally the wednesday audience, the pope gives religious instruction rooted in scripture. But today i would imagine that knowing the momentous nature of whats happening, its probably going to be uncharacteristically personal
Last debate in particular, all that on msnbc, the place for politics. We begin with those brandnew National Polls showing the state of the president ial race just a little more than three weeks now before election day. The nbc wall street journal poll Shows Hillary clinton with an 11 point lead, 48 to 37, while the abc News Washington post poll shows it 47 43. Both polls were taken amid controversies for both candidates. Wikileaks releasing emails reportedly from clinton and her campaign, and allegations of Sexual Misconduct against trump. Here is what Rudy Giuliani told willie geist this morning about the allegations. What youre saying is there are nine women, and i dont believe any of them. I find that they all fit a pattern and i find they all come 27 days before an election. And i know how the clintons conduct an election. And they conducted an election about as dirty as it gets. And i find it impossible that people remember 30 years ago, 20 years ago, eight come forward now right