Both banks reported betterthanexpected results but they warned there are still risks looming for the economy. Today our swing state economy series continues from here. The state of florida, were now in Pinellas County which could actually endp deciding the election. It is really the Battle Ground of all battlegrounds. Well talk coming up why that is the case from here in Clearwater Beach. First the news, fox Business Team coverage of todays top stories. Blake burman is the a the white house. Hillary vaughn reporting on the Supreme Court hearings from capitol hill. Both Jackie Deangelis and susan li are in our new york newsroom. Blake, we start with you. Reporter connell, when it comes to covid relief here in washington there is seemingly a disconnect on both end of pennsylvania avenue. Lets start with the other side up on capitol hill because Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell today suddenly announced that he would be putting up for a vote next monday a 500 billiondollar relief pac
Open up higher, just a little higher, and yes, we are still very close to record highs. The dow is going to be up maybe 15, 20 points. Very small gain for the s p, 11 points up for the nasdaq, but up is the operative word of the day. Now look at this. Street battles in hong kong. That is the right word to use. Water cannon was in use, police pointed their guns. There is a report of a shot fired in the air. Chinas leader has a growing problem in his own backyard. Tomorrows october 1st. Chinas big day. The last thing xi jinping wants is more violence in the form of british colony. Big protests are planned. We will be looking at the impact of this on china trade and yes, on your money. Look at this, too. Huge fire at a new billion dollar train station in saudi arabia. That comes on the heels of the attack on the big oil refinery there, and the shooting death of a saudi general who was a bodyguard to top saudi leaders. Plus a reported attack on an American Military installation in somalia.
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Theyre about to make a big bet on all Day Breakfast. Will this be the move that finally turns things around for the fast food giant . Or is it just too little too late . We have both sides of yet another heated debate on mcdonalds. Everybody, you either love it or hate it right now. Nobody is lukewarm on mcdonalds these days. A lot of people like breakfast for dinner. We will see. That big selloff in commodities. Keeping an eye on that for you. Gold seeing the longest losing streak since back in 1996. Well discuss whether the strong dollar and the commodity drop could actually delay a fed rate hike. Oil just closing below 50 a barrel. Well start, though first with the tech sector. Getting hit the hardest today after apple and others reported disappointing Quarterly Results yesterday. Apple and microsoft are the bottom performers on the dow. Yeah we had those two plus go pro and yahoo. Theyre all down today. And go pro now has turned positive. It got slammed hard initially after reporte
Were the two profit drivers in the Second Quarter for General Motors and more importantly for investors, margins were above 10 and for the remainder of this year General Motors expects business to be Even Stronger in part because of pickup trucks in north america. Our pickup share in the Second Quarter was up close to 3 Percentage Points on a year over year basis. So we continue to see a lot of Strong Demand for fullsize pickups, suvs and crossovers. To drive that point home think about this. Year to date General Motors pickup sales, both fullsize and midsize up 25 . Thats one reason why gm is doing so well in north america which we saw in the 2q numbers. Eli lilly beat the street. Meg tirrell, the Company Raised its forecast for the year. The beat on the adjusted earnings was 16 cents. Raise only by 10 cents though. Ceo on squawk box this morning address what went into that question. As we are launching products and bringing drugs through our late stage pipeline that drives certain am