of the turmoil on wall street has been triggered by fears over the european debt crisis and the anemic economies. and richard quest, one of the best people to turn to when we want perspective on the global economy. he joins us from london. what happened in the european markets today? reporter: the europeans went down initially and then down further and they rallied with wall street. we closed down 1% in london, and paris 1%, and frankfurt, once again the german market is being creamed by what is happening at the moment, by far and away being breutally attacked. and the german industry has made much from the exports and those promised to be hit by the u.s. slowdown and elsewhere in the world. putting it altogether for you, and as we look at the weekend, i cannot agree more with alison, and basically what we are seeing this afternoon is market exhaustion. people have literally just have been gasping there way. there will betrayeding because of triple witching. but by and larg
bill: i think it s more than that. i think it s a nightmare. this is such a nightmare for the uber left. the new york times just ignored the thing entirely. that gives you a at this at thi. so did the the washington post, pretty much ignored it it s a nightmare because the world was watching. tomorrow we will have the exact amount. they say 17 million people. that s not true. we will have the stat for tomorrow. but, above that, everybody watched it on the internet. i mean, eclipsed interviews all over the place. i submit most watched interview of all time. i can t back that up and quantify it. you have got to look at the internet carrying this every place in the world. but, wait. bill: but, wait, here it is. this was a successful. success. this was a huge success for fox news. and it takes away all the lies and propaganda that these people, as you just pointed out, trade on. they wouldn t have anything else to talk about. yeah. bill: day in and day out. the odd thing
bill: i think it s more than that. i think it s a nightmare. this is such a nightmare for the uber left. the new york times just ignored the thing entirely. that gives you a at this at thi. so did the the washington post, pretty much ignored it it s a nightmare because the world was watching. tomorrow we will have the exact amount. they say 17 million people. that s not true. we will have the stat for tomorrow. but, above that, everybody watched it on the internet. i mean, eclipsed interviews all over the place. i submit most watched interview of all time. i can t back that up and quantify it. you have got to look at the internet carrying this every place in the world. but, wait. bill: but, wait, here it is. this was a successful. success. this was a huge success for fox news. and it takes away all the lies and propaganda that these people, as you just pointed out, trade on. they wouldn t have anything else to talk about. yeah. bill: day in and day out. the odd thing
bill: i think it s more than that. i think it s a nightmare. this is such a nightmare for the uber left. the new york times just ignored the thing entirely. that gives you a at this at thi. so did the the washington post, pretty much ignored it it s a nightmare because the world was watching. tomorrow we will have the exact amount. they say 17 million people. that s not true. we will have the stat for tomorrow. but, above that, everybody watched it on the internet. i mean, eclipsed interviews all over the place. i submit most watched interview of all time. i can t back that up and quantify it. you have got to look at the internet carrying this every place in the world. but, wait. bill: but, wait, here it is. this was a successful. success. this was a huge success for fox news. and it takes away all the lies and propaganda that these people, as you just pointed out, trade on. they wouldn t have anything else to talk about. yeah. bill: day in and day out. the odd thing
have we have always cautioned. overall, it continues to be up tremendously. you can t look at one indices and say that is the benchmark of one economy. experts say it is important to watch how stocks trade on thursday. well, confirmation hearings begin today for the nominee for the supreme court neil gorsuch. he faced intense questioning yesterday and is gearing up for another round of grilling. justice correspondent pete williams has the very latest. good morning, pete. reporter: alex, the second and final day of questions for neil gorsuch. tuesday s session went into the night with the nominee vowing to be independent of the president who chose him to succeed antonin scalia on the supreme court. judge neil gorsuch says he never promised president trump or anyone else involved in selecting him that he would vote a certain way on the hot-button issue of abortion, even though donald trump made overturning the roe v. wade abortion ruling a point in his campaign.