the hang sentence by 0.75%. and hang seng slightly weaker. right now, things are flat, relatively flat across the board. you re looking at the dax, barely budged. the cac is slightly higher, wti was up for the second day in a row we ve seen a gain of 7% over the last couple of sessions. going back to $48.96. these currency traders better know what they re doing. that better indicate they re going to stay. they better know what they re doing. right. but still, the polls are pretty even still. betting markets they bet that it breaks first day. when people get ready to do it, they think, oh, my god, what am i they get too nervous. they say they re going to be leaving and they don t. obviously, the pound is hitting at 1.47 this morning. george soros, the financier who has made a ton of money the last time it collapsed. his warning you could see the pound go to almost 30 if there is a brexit vote. let s go to wilfred who is watching what is said on all of this, wil
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
moment in the european central bank news conference. have a listen and watch. the news conference was in frankfurt at 8:30 a.m. new york time. it was short after after he began speaking and he was interrupted boy the female protester who screamed and threw glitter on him. screamed and threw glitter on him. it took a few seconds before security was able to subdue the glitter-wielding disruptor. how does this even happen? joining us now is steve leesman in germany. welcome and good to have you. steve and annette, both of you have been in these press conferences before. what is security like? does it make sense to you that someone like this could break in and breakthrough this way? it s going to be seen as a clear lapse of security protocol. what we heard is we started off reading the statement we have gotten the last couple of hours we watched the video. the statement from these, the initial findings suggests the activist registereda aids journalist and does not represent l
last word with lawrence o donnell. good night. government shutdown, day two. president obama meets with congressional leaders to do what republicans refuse to do to the american people listen. it any just too bad john boehner and mitch mcconnell have nothing worthwhile to say. we are not going to engage in serious negotiations. it doesn t look good for a quick end to the government shufltdo shutdown. this could drag on for weeks. we re done to the bare minimum. the house of representatives offered compro is mys. the republican party is in denial. we want to sit done and gement this doget this done. the president has to talk to people. they won t even sit down. he hasn t communicated. and have a discussion. he never got it. i am a mans. i am sensitive. all we are asking for is a discussion. i need to feel loved. i need to be desired. not that kind of a system. the president. the leaders of the house and senate will head to the white hou
government shutdown, day two. president obama meets with congressional leaders to do what republicans refuse to do to the american people listen. it any just too bad john boehner and mitch mcconnell have nothing worthwhile to say. we are not going to engage in serious negotiations. it doesn t look good for a quick end to the government shutdown. this could drag on for weeks. we re done to the bare minimum. the house of representatives offered compromise. the republican party is in denial. we want to sit done and get this done. the president has to talk to people. they won t even sit down. he hasn t communicated. and have a discussion. he never got it. i am a mans. i am sensitive. all we are asking for is a discussion. i need to feel loved. i need to be desired. not that kind of a system. the president. the leaders of the house and senate will head to the white house. opportunity for the people to sit in the room. mounting across the