well, the romney campaign could be waking up this morning to a brand new political he headache as yet another political candidate makes explosive comments over rain. it was during a u.s. senate debate in indiana last night. richard murdoch and his opponents were asked about abortion when murdoch said this i believe that life begins at conception. the only exception i have for to have an abortion is in case of the life of the mother. i just struggled with it for myself a long time. i came to realize, life is a gift from god and i think when life begins in that horrible situation of rain that it is something that god intended to happen. after the debate murdoch told the news conference he was only trying to explain his view that god creates life. are you trying to suggest that somehow i think god ordained or pro-ore daend rain. i don t believe that. that s a sick and twisted no, no, that s not close to what i said. this all matters to the romney team because the c
by. forecasters say tropical storm isaac is moving west toward the caribbean on a track that could take it to florida early next week. the gop convention is being held in tampa. isaac is expected to become a hurricane by friday but it s still too early to gauge whether it will head to the sunshine state or turn north into the open atlantic. we ll get a complete forecast from the weather channel in a few minutes. let s check on markets this minute. becky i want to welcome you both. good to be here. we have a lot to talk about. we just lost the board there. down five points or something? yeah, it s looking flat. yesterday you saw the market was down by 68 points. you saw a big swing through the course of the day. like a 1% swing, right? yeah. at one point it looked we were is the sitting a five-year highs before the market gave back a lot of the gains. let s take a look at oil, which is another big story out there. brent is off a little this morning. wti cru
governor rendell, each going after romney saying he s dead wrong. they re goingover the job-killing history with bain capital. governor ed rendell along with new york magazine s john haloman. an e-mail lists six democrats saying they re tired of free enterprise. an excerpt reads as follows. rendell joined the course of criticism over obama s attacks on finance, whose leaders have written checks to many members of both parties. i think they re very disappointing, rendell said of the ads, attacking bain. i think bain is fair game because romney has made it fair game, but i think how you examine it, the tone, what you say is important as well. governor rendell, big question. are you with the obama campaign as it s being run right now or are you against it? well, either/or. right now i d like to see the president i think he s done a good job, chris, and you and i discussed it. i d like to see him emphasize the terrific things he s done for the country under different circumst
governor rendell, big question. are you with the obama campaign as it s being run right now or are you against it? well, either/or. right now i d like to see the president i think he s done a good job, chris, and you and i discussed it. i d like to see him emphasize the terrific things he s done for the country under different circumstances. and the ad himself, of course he has the right to go after governor romney s claim that he s a job creator because of his work at bain. that s the main thrust of his rationale why he should be elected president, because he s a businessman and he knows how to create jobs. he didn t create jobs, he created wealth, and let s examine that. i think the media has the responsibility to take all the deals that governor rop knmney at bain, look at them and were they net job gain or net job loss. 10,000 jobs created. he said in the republican primary 100,000 jobs, and now he s saying tens of thousands of jobs. so the obama campaign has a right
last but not least, andrew liveris will talk about what we re seeing in this economic recovery globally. first, let s get down to the new york stock exchange. gary, as we approach the final stretch, gary? yes. we re seeing a big blue chip average within a striking distance of a new four-year high. texas financials come as they take their cue from the fed chairman ben bernanke who left the door open for mormon tear stimulus yesterday. let s take a look at where things stand right now. dow up 121. nasdaq up almost nasdaq up 24 points. the s&p, as we said, essentially 1400, up three-quarters of 1%. a big rally day post the fed, maria. it really is. we like to come to trading floors because we get the different information flow. today we re at the alliance bernstein trading floor. more than $400 billion as a whole of assets undermanagement. in new york, the big business is fixed income. last year, for example, this floor traded $2.5 billion of face value in the fixed income