doctor p dollar per barrel level. brent up to 52. is it still linked to the dow the way it had been in. seems every other day. every other day. not like every day. among today s top stories, china reported gdp of 6.7% matching forecasts, retail sales rose. urban investment rising 8.2%. industrial output only growing 6.1%. markets in asia overnight, let s see. up on the nikkei, down slightly on the hang seng. and just call it unchanged on the shanghai. back in the u.s., another busy day for earnings and economic data. september housing starts are out at 8:30 a.m. they are expected to have rebounded after falling 6% in august. at 2:00 p.m., the monthly beige book report tracking conditions in the fed s 1 districts. a trio of fed speak today. san francisco fed john williams, dallas fed president rob kaplan and new york fed president bill dudley. look for results from morgan stanley before the bell. american express and ebay after the close. apple is launching a new imac
the hang seng was up about half percent. and the shanghai up about .6%. the european equity markets. this is the early trade. relatively flat. the dax is flat. cac is down less than .2%. the ftsi up about a .25%. and the italy index about 1.5%. and spain just over 1%. and up about 0 30 cents. brent up about 33 cents. couple of big stories this morning. bp reporting overnight. quarterly profits dropping 80%. that topped expectations, oddly enough. the company says it now could cut capital spending further as a result. ceo expecting prices to recover towards the end of the year as pruszers stop work on fields and demand strong returns. also dupont is raising its full year guidance. the chemicals and seed producer planning to merge with dow chemical but last year regulators needed more time to review materials related to the deal. and today we re expecting results from dow components 3m, numbers from pharma company eli lilly and hear from its chairman and ceo at 7:30 eastern
when he made an offhanded comment about what it would take to solve this through diplomatic reasons. we ll talk more about that. just a moment. but a new cnbc wall street journal poll finds 60% of americans are against striking syria. john harwood will join us with that in a moment. but first, andrew has a rappup of the day s headlines. the big one being apple. apple holding a major media event today. it s expected to update you with its lineup of iphones. the company will likely announce it has penetrated the world s largest mobile carrier, which is china mobile. in the run up to the party, in the past two weeks, apple has made buyups. twitter is preparing to get public. they have purchased public advertising company mopub. the deal is expected to help automate ad buying on tweter. unclear what the means to advertise on target. china s factory output grew at its fastest pace in 17 months. and investment and consumption beat market forecasts. let s get back to the story
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