Today. Our road map begins with Global Growth concerns. China posting the weakest gdp in 27 years aed my fallout from the trade war. Well wrap up the first week of earnings season, two names in focus, coke and American Express, both rallyi ining aheaf the bell. Rick perry set to leave trumps cabinet. He will join us live this hour going to start with that slowdown, china saying the economy grew 6 in q3 from a year ago, believed to be chinas slowest gain in nearly three decades. Markets here largely shrugging it off Industrial Production was up from the prior five to 58. Retail sales up from 75 back to 78 so kind of mixed. This one we can say, look, there is something for everybody. Fed can still cut. But im doing a lot of work on American Express this morning. Consumer is still strong consumer strong, business, corporate spend, as barry said, still a lot of negativity among ceos, extends to the election, negativity extends to china, european woes. Go back to the ibm call, we didnt talk
Lot, you have to let them fight and then you pull them apart. The president saying his deal for turkey is great for civilization. Were live with the very latest. Chaos in mexico, the son of notorious drug kingpin el chapo captured leading to this dramatic shootout, an entire town terrorized but this morning hes free again. What went wrong just ahead. Those stories, plus one giant leap for woman kind. Well meet the nasa astronauts behind the all female space walk. And one on one with Michael Jordan. Why are you more outspoken now . When i was playing, i had tunnel vision was my craft. This morning, the hall of famers message to todays stars. And a star is down, lady gaga and a fan tumble off stage mid concert. Shes laughing it off. Today, friday, october 18th, 2019. Fr nbc news, this is today with Savannah Guthrie and hoda kotb, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Hi, everybody, good morning, and welcome to today on a friday morning. Its good to have you with us o and a lot has ha
International space station. Why it took 35 years to happen. Finally. Its friday, october 18th, 2019. Heres todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. The kurds are very happy. Turkey is very happy. The United States is very happy. Reporter the president defends his ceasefire. Despite an agreement by turkey to temporarily halt the fighting in northeast syria, gunfire reportedly broke out overnight. Reporter White House Acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney backtracking on his statement about quid pro quo with ukraine. Get over it. Theres going to be political influence in foreign policy. Next years g7 summit will be held at a florida resort owned by President Trump. It will be completely and totally unfuneral. Its a domestic of the domestic emoluments clause. The son of el chapo free after he was detained by mix Security Forces following hours of intense gunfire. In support of chinese prodemocracy supporters in hong kong has cost the nba millions. Our games are not back on the air in c
Elected president in my opinion, the market drops 25 . We are americans. We believe in making these investments to create lots of opportunity. We are happy to do it. All were saying is if you make it big, i mean really big, i mean one tenth of 1 big, pitch in two cents so everybody else gets a chance to make it now lets welcome in Lee Cooperman, joining us today from florida, should let you know we invited senator warren to take part in this conversation with us today and we have not heard back from her campaign Lee Cooperman, as you can see is here its good to see you thanks. Youve created all the problems for me the whole thing started at delivering alpha im not a political analyst, im a financial analyst. It was your words, not mine, lee. Yeah. The only i would like to modify my words a little bit first of all, i want to say the significance of an event for the stock market is a function of what the stock market is discounting at the time the event occurs the market at 3,050 whereve
Power to parts of 35 counties 34 counties to reduce the risk of wildfires in windy conditions. According cal fire, the majority of the states destructive while wildfires have happened in october. Joining me no are anthony sehgal and jonathan cox welcomef to botyou, jonathan i want to begin with you give us a season is a shapup compared to last year with the camp fire and now we are approaching november, which was whenthe camp fire broke out, in early november. Thats right. In comparison to the last few years we experienced under 200,000 acres ofland burned california. This time last year, we were over 1 million acres of land burned, a relatively mild co season in arison to the last few. Maybe the biggest reason for that is because we have some more stens that we hahad in the last two years thats due to the rain and much we havent had earlier into the year. However we are nointo the timeframe that we tend to get large instructive fires in california. As we have seen over the last few da