I am not sure that bernanke will discuss the topic. Looking at both fedex and General Mills. Fedex has been a great performer. They have done maintenance on the planes. That has also cut down on the prices. We are seeing General Mills under pressure while fedex is hitting new highs. Lori thank you, nicole. Adam we are just an hour away from the latest decision from the central bank. Lori will they, or wont they when it comes to tapering . Peter most of the Analysts Expect them to do a soft launch of its tapering. Probably dial it back right ten 20 billion a month or so. Make sure that markets and investors know that it will be future tapering and it will be data dependent. This may not be a slamdunk for the fed. Take a listen. With such a slew of moderately bad news, much weaker than they expected, you know, it does raise the question why start tapering now. I think the market has not really priced that in yet. Peter one of the other options could be not to start tapering now. I also want to mention the new Economic Forecast from the fed. We get it every quarter. We are going to start getting the numbers for 2016 projections. We are not expecting anything earth shattering out of those. These are the blue dots. We will get them for 2016 from the members. That will give them some idea on how members think they should start raising shortterm Interest Rates. Lori the markets really just discounted. The rates will rise again one day. Peter barnes, thank you. Adam after months of buildup and speculation, they are expected to announce tapering of purchases. What happens if they do not taper . I have to imagine, i read one article that said titanic if they do not start tapering. The markets would be in freak mode. Well, i think you are right. I think the market is really poised that they will start their engines. The economy is not gangbusters at the moment. They will eventually announce the taper, but kind of modulate the Forward Guidance. Adam what happens as they start revealing their predictions for this economy Going Forward . As peter just talked about, there could be hands of raised in the Interest Rates that they charge banks Going Forward. What will happen to our retirement account . Believe it or not, there are many reasons for the Federal Reserve to start raising Interest Rates. Today, what the Federal Reserve is doing is reacting. It is not because they are trying to slow the economy, they are reacting to the fact that they perceived the economy getting better. Adam some people say the economy is not getting better. You look at inflation. They have a target of about 2 . It is below that. Initially, over the next couple years, look at the market. Lets face it, the Unemployment Rate is coming down. You can have a debate on whether or not some of that is due to the inflation rates. The near fact is, we are seeing labor market improvement. We lost almost 9 million jobs during the financial crisis. We have created more than 6 million jobs. Those are the facts. Now may be a good time to actually get into the market. I think that this is a fairly good time to get into the market. We will not see the 13. 4 annual gains or even the 19 plus rates of return on the s p 500 forever. We certainly see that organic growth in the market, it is reasonable to expect every 12 months eight12 . We will see some positive contributions. I think this is a good time to get back into the market. Adam thank you very much. We will have chairman bernankes comments. Lori the long awaited apple operating system said to be available for download. Some of the biggest changes apple has ever made to its operating system. Apple has dramatically changed the look. The updated control centers one the best reviews. All it takes is a quick swipe. All of this on top of the many positive reviews. The 5s and the 5c due out friday. Up 6. 24. We have some news about black very. Blackberry unveiled a new smart phone. 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As i talk to people down here, this market may be setting itself up for a big surprise. We are watching the u. S. Dollar ahead of this. Right now, it is down on the day. Trading at its lowest level in about five weeks. The euro, watching that specifically, at a two week high today against the u. S. Morgan stanley is buried polish on the euro. Volatility is here for now. Gold prices right now hitting a sixweek low. Gold has been lowered based on the fact that the fed will reduce their Bond Buying Program. Oil prices up on a end up report. We have fallen significantly. We are getting a lot of movement in the bond market. The yield is up online for the first time. Adam you talk about excitement. We are waiting for it. Lori lets check in with Nicole Petallides. She is watching electronic arts. Nicole looking at it very closely. We know that the former ceo was ousted. Now they are tapping and insider to take over. He is andrew wilson. He will be the next chief executive. Down 3. 4 at the moment. Lori thank you. Adam tesla is jumping into the race. The electric carmaker expects to create a car that can handle 90 of the driving within three years. This is not speculation. The projects timeline is more ambitious than the rivals. Google has been working on an automated car for a few years. Lori who will really want to even driving, it is one of your favorite things to do. Do you think that this will take off. Adam absolutely. I do not think that people will stop texting while they drive. I think that that will win out. Lori the dueling words as white house tells agencies to prepare for a shutdown. Adam walgreens is making sweeping changes to how it provides Health Insurance to its employees starting next year. Well oracle ceo we will explain. [ engine revs, tires squeal ] [ male announcer ] since we began, mercedesbenz has pioneered many breakthroughs. Breakthroughs in design. Breakthroughs in safety. In engineering. And technology. 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Employers making the switch to private insurance exchange. Adam president obama trying to drum up support from business leaders. Rich edson is in washington, d. C. With more. Rich he is warning republicans. That is exactly what republicans are doing. The Government Shutdown is less than three weeks away. You have never seen the debt ceiling or the threat of not raising the debt ceiling being used to extort a president or a governing party. For decades congresses and president s have used the debt limit for legislation to cut spending. Even president obama worked with us two years ago in the debt limit negotiations. Rich republicans say they will detach a defunding to the bill. Republicans say they can probably pass out from the house in the next few days. They presented their conference with the policy options. As for the president , the Administration Says it refuses to negotiate over the debt ceiling. Adam has anyone week . Rich you hear time and time again that there still is the same threat from the administration behind the scenes as they are making in public. Adam thank you. Lori Larry Ellison has a pretty busy day ahead of himself. They will have to decide where the allegiance really lies. It is due to start in just about 15 minutes. After the Quarterly Earnings call. Oracle is expected to report revenue of 8. 4 billion. They are probably easier targets. They must win six of the seven remaining races. Adam here is a quick look at the Software Update hitting iphones and ipads across the country. The biggest change to ios since the iphone. Lori pretty good reviews so far. Adam higher Mortgage Rates not scaring homebuilders. Lori will the fed continue doing its part . Adam at 2 30 p. M. New york time, we will hear from mr. Bernanke himself. We will carry that live for you as he takes questions. My mantra . Trust your instincts to make the call. 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And with the Housing Market still needing a boost my next guest suggests that the fed will likely announce a minimal taper today but will only reduce its purchases of treasury bond purchases, not those mortgagebacked assets. Phillip swagel, former assistant deputy of treasury and economist at American Enterprise institute. So good to have you with us. Thank you. Lori it popped some today, correct . I had it did after the fed started talking about the taper Mortgage Rates popped up. There was Research Presented at the jack hon sole conference this august was the purchases were most detecteffective part of the qe3. In a sense the fed would create uncertainty if they didnt do a small taper so i think they have to go ahead and do it. Lori let me ask you how the Housing Market. We got the Housing Starts data for august, up from july but lower than expectations. So are you, i really want you to zero in on how the fed with its Monetary Policy has propped up the Housing Market and how much more need to be done if at all . Yeah. The fed has done a huge amount and actually has been the bang part of the qe1, 2 and 3 is housing with low rates. As you said Interest Rates have popped up. Weve seen refinancings have drop off suddenly and probably home sales have been eaffected. Housing market is recovery. Home sales are up, construction is up. There will continue but definitely theres an impact what is happening with Interest Rates. Lori so the impact of this extraordinary easy Monetary Policy will continue to help heal the Housing Market. But overall, would you still describe our overall Monetary Policy, ben bernanke fed, as providing easy money to the system . Oh absolutely. I would put that in all capital letters, easy money, in all caps. With the taper, it will be a small taper i suspect at the same time the fed will find a way to strengthen its Forward Guidance and tell Market Participants that easy money is here to stay for a long time. As you said the data have been very mixed. Housing data occasionally disappointing. Industrial production, inflation weak. So inflation low, that is. So the fed will find a way to say we are slowly tapering but this is not the end of easy money. Were continuing with our policy. Lori phillip, of course well get the Economic Forecast as well with the fed event this afternoon. For the first time well get a peek what the fed thinks will happen in 2016. What do you they have the overnight Bank Lending Rate which has been near zero to this point . Markets expect that to start to rise beginning of 2015. I think the fed will try to push that back. I think data has been weaker than the fed previous forecast. The fed has to find a way to mark down their forecasts and say we think the economy will still need monetary support into 2015 and maybe into 2016. With the goal of reversing some of the Interest Rate damage caused by the feds discussions this summer. Lori phillip swagel, thank you for helping us set up ahead of the fed this afternoon. Well see you again very soon. Ill look forward. Thank you. Lori so we are just less than 30 minutes away from the fed decision and chairman Ben Bernankes comments to the press. Keep it right here on fox business for complete coverage. Now, when the hottest thing on the exchanges are the exchanges themselves. Lori one way to put it. Adam yes it is. Charlie gasparino will be here with the latest. Exclusive details