loyalists. gadhafi s sons say they are both in custody and wanted by the fcc and war crimes charges. yemen s embattled president has arrived in riyadh. he s expected to sign a power transfer deal to end ten-month-long political crisis in his country. the parents in a high-profile missing child case are scheduled to testify before the phone-hacking inquiry in london on wednesday. the mccanns were highly scrutinized when their daughter, madelei madeleine, was reported missing in 2007. they ll join other victims of media intrusion who will give evidence before the inquiry. those are the top stories from cnn, the world s news leader. i m monita rajpal. world business today starts now. it s 9:00 a.m. here in london. good morning, i m nina dos santos. and it s 5:00 p.m. here in hong kong. i m andrew stevens. you re watching world business today. the top stories this wednesday, november the 23rd, stock markets sink into the red worldwide. as poor manufacturing numbers fr
july. jenna: a lot of information there. the survey points to little enthusiasm you said about the economy but over some of the policy efforts like the jobs bill for example. but what do small business owners tell the chamber of commerce about what they want to see to fix this and turn this around? what do they need to see from washington? well, that s a good question and we poll that in our survey. they say they want washington to get out of the way. 86% say that they need more certainty out of washington as opposed to more assistance. that polled at 7%, down from 14% in the previous survey in july. if you look at it, the health care bill has given small businesses pause. you have a dodd-frank bill that has created a stranglehold on access to cap it will for small business. you see regulations coming down as an avalanche out of
baby? that s bad news. alisyn: so you think what s going on in massachusetts by definition will happen nationally, now that we have this new health care overhaul? there s no question about it. in fact i think it s even going to be more of a problem nationwide because massachusetts has harvard university, boston university, tufts university, they re loaded with doctors. if they ve got a shortages what s going to happen to north dakota? having said that, this is also a problem in manhattan, in new york city, where we don t have the same health care system that massachusetts has and you still have a long wait to get to see your doctor and many doctors don t take insurance, so this was a bubbling problem, even without universal coverage. you are totally right, to be fair, this already was a problem, but how did we fix it by not even recognizing it? we weren t taking medicaid here, a lot of doctors are running from medicare. how does extending that to more and more people help the sys
president obama s going to be trying to mend some fences with the business community today as 20 top ceos head it to the white house to talk jobs. the meeting comes as a new survey points to a more positive outlook among those who occupy the corner office. you want to sound smart tell your friends that optimism among the nation s leading ceos is at its highest level in four years according to business round table whose respondents expect to spend and it to hire more in the next six months thanks to an improving economy. among the round table s members of the ceos of pepsi, amexand boeing, all scheduled to be at the white house today. let s huddle around the water cooler to check in on rahm emanuel s run for mayor in chicago. a new poll, chicago tribune has rahm leading at this moment. the election is in february. he has 32% just ahead of undecided at 30%. but he is getting a challenge to his residency. some people saying he shouldn t be allowed to run because while he went to work