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trial balloon on taxes from top advisor steve bannon. according to a person familiar with steve bannon s thinking, he supports a 44% top income tax rate for americans earning more than $5 million per year. the money was to be used for middle-class tax cuts. sam shepard has died. a spokesman says the pulitzer prize-winning playwright, oscar-nominated actor, and celebrated author died last week of complications on lou gehrig s disease. he was 73. in los angeles, they have reached a deal with olympic leaders that will help them host the summer games. global news 24 hours a day powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. this is bloomberg. bloomberg technology is next. emily: i m emily chang. this is bloomberg technology. coming up softbank s end game. ,masayoshi son makes another run at the u.s. cable market, with a direct offer for charter. why the move to acquire america s second-biggest cable company is the japanese billionaire s ....
earning is the big driver today. despite that, p&g, having a positive impact on the dow. 3m is your biggest threat. i m michelle caruso-cabrera. here is what else is on the menu or happening this hour. ibm s board approving quarterly cash dividend of $1.40 a share and announcing a $3 billion stock buyback program. consumer confidence taking a big tumble in october, the conference board s number, its index falling to 98.6. and in the meantime, home prices jumping in august to near record levels. but we begin first with what is going on here with let s get to tyler mathisen i see what we re doing. welcome, everyone. tyler mathisen is with us from cnbc s net net summit at the new york stock exchange. we ll get to him in a bit. let s start with the outrage today over health care and your money. the average premium on the benchmark obamacare plan jumping 25%. year over year. dan mengin joyn mengin joins us. i see there are some states where they have risen 60%, 100%? ....
carolina. the numbers in colorado, clinton 46%, trump 32%. clinton 46 to trump 33 in north carolina clinton 48 trump 39. from new york, i m mark crumpton. emily: i m emily chang and this is bloomberg west. coming up reportedly hit the brakes on g.m. chooses to ride solo. more details on the reported takeover rejection ahead. plus, the c.e.o. behind 2015 s biggest ipo joins us on the current climate for trading debuts and what he thinks of jack dorsey. asia s massive bet on virtual reality. the bulk of the latest funding round came mostly from china and japan. why asia is buying into j.r. big time. but first, to our lead. lyft has turned down a buyout offer from general motors according to a report from the information. the company is commenting on the story. the report comes two months after lyft hired the banking firm catalyst a move that at the time suggested lyft was open to or even soliciting a sale. g.m. is already an investor in lyft. the car maker paid $500 mil ....
the national security agency. he currently leads a global cybersecurity practice at the mayer-brown law firm. and michael riley covers cybersecurity. from cambridge. david sanger of the new york times. i m pleased to have all of them here. david, since you ve been with me so many times, tell me where we are. david: i think year at a predictable place in the course of this because what we knew a year, year and a half ago, though the government didn t announce it as such, is the russians have gotten inside the state department s unclass fayed unclassified email systems. the white house unclassified email systems, part of the systems in the joint chiefs of staff, then we discover that the f.s.b., the successor to the k.g.b., more than a year ago got into the democratic national committee s systems. followed by another russian intelligence agency, the g.r.u., the military intelligence agency, which probably didn t even know the f.s.b. was there, going into the same d.n. ....
by the way, if she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks. although, second amendment people, maybe there is, i don t know. mark: trump and his campaign still say they are talking about voter mobilization. while some republicans, including the former campaign manager and speaker of the house, paul ryan, are going with a different point, that the whole thing was just a joke gone bad. here s what to head here s what donald trump had to say. mr.trump: a big part of the rig the system is the press itself, because they can take a little story that isn t a story, and make it into a big deal. it happens so much. it happens so much. and speaking of that, remember this we have so many things we have to protect in this country. we have to protect our second amendment, which is under siege. [applause] mr.trump: remember that. it is under siege. mark: it happens so much. it is under siege. trump was still speaking at that rally, and hillary clinton weighed in at her ....