Mondays big gain. Thatters the s p 500, nasdaq following suit as well. The tenyear note yield 1. 86 . Americans heading to the polls today, including president ial nominees, Hillary Clinton and donald trump both casting their votes early today in new york. Our don harwood closely following the election. He is here at the wall with the very latest. John. Scott, Hillary Clintons favored to win today t. Pom versus shown her ahead by four points or so on a national basis. This is the battleground picture. If you look at the assessments. A lot of blue on that map. Enough to get her over the electoral votes she needs but she has to deliver, significant amount of vote has been cast early, but not all of it. And so donald trump has to hope to pick up florida, pick up georgia, pick up north carolina, pick up ohio and flip some other state thats on this map colored in blue. Maybe michigan. Maybe virginia. He has a shot in New Hampshire as well. Its not going to be easy. A lot of work for drumplt
Good evening. And we begin tonight with the growing firestorm over the forum. The commander in chief test. Donald trump and Hillary Clinton both under fire. Trumps words about american generals, clintons promise, no Ground Troops ever again in iraq. And tonight here, straight to the new polls. Take a look at the key battleground states. Clinton with a very slight lead in pennsylvania. Trump up by one in and in florida tonight, they are both tied. All of the polls within the margin of error. This race is suddenly a dead heat. And both candidates facing heat. We begin with what donald trump said about the generals, and abcs jonathan karl. Reporter campaigning in ohio today, donald trump blasted Hillary Clintons performance in that National Security forum. Shes got to get her act together. Reporter but trump is now facing blowback over his statements, including his attack leadership. The generals have been reduced to rubble. They have been reduced to a point where its embarrassing for our
The dax is up. Its up by about a quarter percentage point. If you want to check out crude oil prices today, yesterday giving back some ground. Relatively flat right now. Down by about 4 cents for wti. Dropping slightly this morning as major producers down play the chances of an output these at this weekends meeting. Separately, the International Energy Agency Cutting its estimates for Global Demand growth in 2016. And it is another busy day for Economic Data and earnings reports. Were going to have weekly jobless claim at 8 30 eastern time. Expect it to hold steady. Filings have been 300,000 for about 58 straight weeks now. Also at 8 30, were going to get the march Consumer Price index, headline cpi expected to tick up about 0. 2 following a decline in february. Now, atlanta fed president Dennis Lockhart is also speaking today. Were going to have to wait to see what hes got to say about all this. Also, for earnings, look for results from bank of america, blackrock, wells fargo, Delta A
Europe. Chicago pmi in 45 minutes. Sales beat for starbucks, comps up 8 . Stock is down in afterhours and is clawing back. Valeant makes another controversial decision and is cutting ties with philidor. Monitoring bill ackmans Conference Call. And linkedin and expedia, both stocks spiking. Well hear from both ceos late their morning. Data shows consumer spenting rose only 0. 1 in september. Bo bo stocks are on track to extend that weekly winning streak to five and post the best month in four years. Best dow names . Dupont, followed by microsoft, followed by ge. Okay. Lets talk about those. Ge, the execution, getting out of financial. Dupont, that is breen, going to break up the company. These are very, very important. Also both large trian positions. Trian has nelson peltz has made a lot of good pushes. Done a lot of good things. I think breen, without peltz on the board, will follow peltz game plan. Even though dupont had a miserable quarter, ed breen issued by any means necessary a m
Bank of america and wells fargo beat, jpmorgan falls short. Results from delta and intel. Both coming ahead of consensus. And the read on retail sales slightly below expect tatioexpet Doug Mcmillan giving a rosier assessment. Bank of america had good Third Quarter results. Wells fargo had a beat as well. Its loans helping to lift profits. And jpmorgan missing with its quarterly results. Jamie dimon spoke about his banks expenses on last nights Conference Call. I spoke my whole life on good expenses, bad expenses. Bad expenses are waste, things you dont need. We want expenses go up. We find marketing opportunities, well spend it. If the Investment Bank does better. Thats how we run the company. That wont ever change. Once again, jim, story is loan growth is good, but the trading revenues are challenging almost everywhere. Yeah. People will say when they listen to bank of america, which was an excellent quarter, okay . Bank of america is making money in that business, why shouldnt jpmorg