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yesterday stocks were down for the third time in four sessions. not far off the session lows. that was just a decline of 85 points for the dow. a loss of ten points for the s&p 500 and a loss of 11 points for the nasdaq. check out what happened overnight in asia. the nikkei was up by a half percent. mainland china markets closed for that week-long celebration that they do. in europe, in the early trade, at this point they re under a bit of pressure. biggest decline coming in france with the cac down by 0.8%. ftse off by a half percent. the ftse has been the big story. ftse up yesterday. the british pound falling to the lowest several since 1985. we ll talk more about that in a moment. look at crude oil prices. cried down yesterday in the regular session. it did pick up some ground in the evening session after we saw a surprise draw down in api inventories. $50, right within spitting distance. 49.44 for wti. among the top stories, becky is still here. yes. i m still ....
pitch as it s expected to field acquisition offers this week. and unexpected fireworks from the vice presidential debate last night. we ll look at the highlights and the impact on the campaign. amazon hitting another all-time high yesterday. announcing prime reading, which unlocks thousands of kindle books for free. what that means for the industry. but first up, twitter shares rising in the premarket amid some increasing talk about a possible sale of the company. comes more than a week after david broke the news that twitter has received expressions of interest from a number of tech companies that are considering whether to make a bid for the social media company. little more color being flushed out by some regarding splits on the board between av and dorsey, the role noda s had in sort of driving morale. yeah, interesting story from bloomberg. our reporting sort of is where it was, you know, perhaps it is this week as i last reported. there was a formalization ....
coming up tonight on c-span2, the washington post told a conference on cybersecurity issues. next cybersecurity experts from the public and private sectors discussed cyber warfare, infrastructure security and how the obama administration is dealing with cyber threats from foreign states like china and russia. this is part of the washington post annual cybersecurity summit. it s two and a half hours. [inaudible conversations] good morning. good morning. i realize people are still coming in so please don t be shy. there are still seats. thank you all for being here today. i am the vice president of communications and events here at the washington post . thank you to those of you watching this on line. this is our sixth annual cybersecurity summit and it couldn t come at a more interesting time. this summer the democratic national committee was hacked likely by a foreign government. just last week yahoo! news announced that breach affecting hundreds of millions of ....
that people doubt the u.s. government to do revelations after the snow and revolutions. if the u.s. comes out says that the u.s. was behind an attack on sony you have to believe that. the app he i would not the best vehicle to explain it but for example, just strategically at the present level president obama s not looking for fights. he does not want to fight with north korean soda, and say it was the north koreans, that introduces a level of complexity that he doesn t want to address. is it worth acknowledging that president obama s only present for the next few months. depending on your point of view whether it s hillary clinton or donald trump, it may be your comfort in the assertions of the u.s. government may go up or down. as a journalist who lives on the outside of these things let s talk about the golf attack, that turned out to be basically not true. we all reported it it s true at the time in the press because we didn t know better. so even if the u.s. gove ....
welcome to squawk alley for a monday morning, john ford, kayla is back, great to have you back. our top story this morning, forget a town hall, more like a town brawl in st. louis last night, where nothing apparently was off limits in the second presidential debate between donald trump and hillary clinton. i think it s clear to anyone who heard it that it represents exactly who he is. if you look at bill clinton, far worse. mine are words and his was action. it s just awfully good that someone with the temperament of donald trump is not in charge of the law in our country. because you d be in jail. secretary clinton there has never been anything like it, and we re going to have a special prosecutor. we have never in the history of our country been in a situation where an adversary, a foreign power, is working so hard to influence the outcome of the election. they are doing it to try to influence the election for donald trump. she won t say the name a ....