again, that gain was the biggest we ve seen since february 15th will you see that the nikkei ended up thin in europe where there is some early trading majority taking place as we hear more about the brexit talk, it looks like the ftse is flat at this point. cax higher dax flat, too. a little bit of lack of momentum across the board well see how things shake up as we go deeper in the trading day. take a look at what s been happening in the treasury market here in the united states the ten-year is yielding 2.666 let s go across the pond and talk a little about bit about the new brexit negotiations. prime minister theresa may announcing legally binding assurances from the e.u. in a last ditch effort to persuade parliament the pound moving higher overnight on that news we will get a lortd from london in just a couple of minutes. the faa at this point doesn t plan to ground it closed above 400 after all is said and done. that was down 22 you can do the math for how effective t
the u.s. trading day. julie hyman has been tracking the moves. s&p on track for the biggest loss in a month. back-to-back declines in more than a month. down for seven straight sessions. it has still been a pretty tight trading range for stocks the past couple of weeks even with today s decline. we had been moving incrementally higher. one of the things putting pressure on stocks today is oil. energy stocks had been holding up their games but now we are seeing below $40 a barrel. we will get the weekly inventory data from an industry group after the close today. from the government the official data tomorrow morning. 500of the groups in the s&p are now lower with the decline in the oil price. technology shares also putting pressure on stocks today. apple was downgraded. samsung is introducing a new phone today about a month before apple is expected to introduce its next phone. we are seeing facebook and amazon decline. there is a story today about the uber sale. interesting t
another bus standing by. e bus involved said alliance bus group on it. it is still here in this lot, although it s not quite visible at the moment. again, all the other passengers have now left on their secondary bus. we witnessed that bus head over innto the lincoln tunnel. again, that one passenger that fell through ths windshield was taken to jersey city medical center, and his condition is not known at this moment. but that is the very latest live from weehawken. back to you. ida, thank you. now to the long-awaited blast of winter storm team 4 has been tracking. snow lovers may not be completely satisfied given the lack of accumulation. still, it made for ome slick walking and driving. right now the storm system is winding down. we ve got team coverage across our area right now, beginning wi th newti4 s katherine creag in garrison, new york. kat? reporter: shiba, there s something coming down right now, looks like just a little mist he dore in garrison. we ve been i
clean debt limit increase. under no circumstances? i told the president there s no way we re going to pass one. the votes are not in the house and the president is risking default by not having a conversation with us. by moody s ceo says the chance of a u.s. default is extremely unlikely. that reflects our thinking that it is extremely unlikely that the government treasury is not going to continue to pay on the treasury securities. hopefully it is unlikely that we don t go past october 17th and fail to raise the debt ceiling, but even if that does happen, then we think the u.s. treasury is still going to pay on its treasury securities, prioritize those payments. still, the dollar is trading near an eight month low today amid debt default fears. take a look at what s been happening. you can see that the dollar is down against the euro at 1.3572. the dollar is at 96.96. we ll talk more about that with john harwood. first, andrew has a roundup of the morning s top stor
the standoff, as well. china is worried about getting paid back on its investments. the yields on one-month treasury yields continue to head higher this week. it s just another sign that investors are getting increasingly worry worried about the government defaulting on its locations i would argue they re not worried enough, but we can talk about that in a mip. china and japan aren t the only ones calling for a solution out of washington. howard schultz is urging leaders to push for a shutdown. he says the following, utterly disappointed by the level of ir responsibility and dysfunction we are witness to with our elected political leadership. it is our responsibility to address this crisis of competent that is needlessly being set in motion. during the last debt ceiling debate, you ll remember schultz made headlines by calling for americans to stop making political contributions until lawmakers struck a bipartisan deal on the country s debt revenue and spending. dallas fed