Here are the top stories we are watching ahead of the closing bell. Former Federal Reserve chairman ben bernanke speaking in mexico saying that he is more pessimistic about europe than the u. S. Or japan. He is cautiously optimistic about the north American Economy and believes inflation is too low in the u. S. Black rock in a venture seeking to raise one point 3 billion. Money managers are looking to expand the pool of money they oversee and diversify in the bond market. And bank of america will along will allow longtime investors to vote on its board to nominate its board. They will now be able to propose candidates if they have held shares for over three years. We are going into the close am trading. I want to go right to the breaking news desk. Scarlet, the nasdaq, are we going to see it . Are we going to see an extra high here . Scarlet the nasdaq is inching away from that level, but it is in our sites. The s p 500 had its best weekly advance and five. The dow, this is its seventh
November. I was just in south america about a month ago to lay out the roadmap and how we are dealing with this. I just sent this morning one of our Deputy Assistant secretaries to iceland for a conference the next two days. This is critically important that we Pay Attention to this. Bottom line is, with all the crises of the moment, and thats part of my job, to manage immediate crisis, we also cannot lose sight of the strategic longerterm challenges that face our country either. And this is one that we got to be smart in how we handle it. Spent behind the political figures who would resist and argue about Climate Change respond differently when its coming from the pentagon . I think there is sometimes more of an awareness and edge put an issue it comes from the pentagon. Only because the military, the pentagon has maybe at least perceived by many people in more serious look at the world. And doesnt mean the state department that series or anybody else, but when you talk about the mili
Atlantic yards complex. Oakland has changed a lot since i lived there. Hes helped to build the tallest occupied tower. Good to have you here. And i come back home to new york, im always mad the city has changed so much. Heres the man to blame. Its always a party when bruce is here. About one hour away from the closing bell today. What a market it has been. The fed coming out thomas thing they will continue to taper, reducing the Bond Buying Program by another 10 billion to 65 billion a month. You can see the dow right there when that statement came out, whom, down to its low of the session. On the flipside, you have the 10 year benchmark yield that shot straight down. Lots of bond buying going on in the treasury markets. Expectreaction you would being that people think the fed is serious about taking stimulus away. Slowly. 10 billion out of 75 billion, its the same kind of cut as last time, but i look at it and i see it slowly tapering. The amount of people who said the fed was going t
Answer soon. Well also get to some other big news tonight. The Government Shutdown being pushed by the hard republican right. That and the first strike just scored by a secretive figure in the Hillary Clinton camp to undercut the candidate some believe could become her number one hazard on the road to nomination. Gleets to the story thats fired up the streets of new york. Nbcs Stephanie Gosk is with the protesters in foley square in lower manhattan. Stephanie . Good evening, chris. These protesters are on the move. If its anything like last night, theyll continue to be on the move. Minimum disde struction, maxi. M its unclear where theyre going to head. Early estimates there are about 500,000 people in this crowd right now. So they are moving slowly. Theres also a pretty heavy Police Presence here. One of the things thats angered this crowd particularly is the secrecy of that grand injury process. And they were hopeful that all of that evidence, the same way it was released in the ferg
News tonight. The Government Shutdown being pushed by the hard republican right. That and the first strike just scored by a secretive figure in the Hillary Clinton camp to undercut the candidate some believe could become her number one hazard on the road to nomination. Lets go to the story thats fired up the streets of new york. Nbcs Stephanie Gosk is with the protesters in foley square in lower manhattan. Stephanie . Good evening, chris. These protesters are on the move. If its anything like last night, theyll continue to be on the move. Minimum destruction. Its unclear where theyre going to head. Early estimates there are about 500,000 people in this crowd right now. So they are moving slowly. Theres also a pretty heavy Police Presence here. One of the things thats angered this crowd particularly is the secrecy of that grand injury process. And they were hopeful that all of that evidence, the same way it was released in the ferguson case would be released in the garner case. Instead