Agents. Plus. Im in brazil, the capitol of brazil where the biggest staterun company here is facing corruption allegations at the highest levels. Starting the news hour with these pictures from Eastern Ukraine, showing how potentially come busable the situation has become and these prorussia gunman have continued to ignore orders to leave a government building which they seized over the weekend, barricades there as weapons have been stockpiled and although it looks pretty quiet right now ukrainian soldiers we understand are massing on the outskirts of the city. And the ukrainian crisis straining further relations between the u. S. And russia, a phone call between president s president obama and putin has been described as frank. Obama accusing putin government of supporting armed groups in Eastern Ukraine and asked him once again to withdraw Russian Troops from close to ukraines border, 40,000 are thought to be stationed there. And obama warned putin that russia would incur further cos
Brazil where the biggest staterun company here is facing corruption allegations at the highest levels. And pictures from Eastern Ukraine showing how tense the situation there is getting. This is prorussian gunman are not leaving the building they seized over the weekend and have barricades and stockpiled the weapons and ukraine soldiers are posed on the outskirts of the city. And the ukrainian crisis is straining relations between u. S. And russia, a phone call between barack obama and putin has been described as frank and obama accused putin government of supporting armed groups in Eastern Ukraine and asked him to are draw troops from the border and 40,000 are thought to be camped there and obama warned putin they will have costs on top of targeted sanctions in place and the russian president says accusations that moscow is interfering are unfounded and turning the tables he called on the United States to prevent the blood shed. These are some of the sorts of things obama is talking a
[applause] its wonderful to be back so i thought i would give you some of the major ideas that are in the book. Recently essentially see your eyes glaze over then we go to q a so i am in the fifth week to you physically the same talk so i am pretty tired of it. [laughter] blige just thought i would move past that to have the of bit more of a conversation. I think this is an engaged groupon we have had some really good discussions not only the technical detail but the geopolitical mitscher so to me that is the interesting part i will try to throw out enough to talk about but not so much i go into the question and answer time. I started to write september 2009. Rights after i was ambushed in afghanistan is this is one of the classic scenario is. Most live in mountain valleys of the little villages nobody really lives high on the mountains they live on the valley floor and usually there is only one road. By 4 00 in the afternoon everyone knows exactly where. Kid you hear me okay . And the
Continue to tighten their wallets in the month of september. As you can see, the decline is accelerating just a bit. The majority of companies are saying that they simply are not spending many as you have heard in some of these earnings reports are citing the word uncertainty. But look who is spending money, the New York Stock Exchange. It is expanding its Options Market, which is apparently having its best month ever. Business is huge. A lot of you are starting to trade options. If you are not, we will take you to the countdown college. Dont miss when we talk to Steve Crutchfield. He is one of wall streets most eligible bachelors. We found that out. Hes probably totally annoyed were mentioning that. Steve crutchfield. Lets get to the floor show. Not a very broad band of trade here when you see the dow has crossed the unchanged line 30 times. I mean 4 points up, 4 points down, nothing really great happening here or is there . Im going to try to find a bright side out of this tape we se
Changes to the 30 stocks in the index. Three changes that tell a huge tale about where Corporate America is today. Before we get to those changes, though, the old dow jones average had a pretty darn good day rallying 128 points, s p climbed. 7 . Nasdaq jumped. 62 . Wouldve been more except for apple. First president obama talked about more diplomatic kind of more diplomatic outcome, the syrian crisis, perhaps allowing Bashar Al Assad to work with russia. The fluid situation offers a way out of congressional defeat of president obamas war resolution or the possibility of a wider war with far worse consequences than a missile strike targeted at the regimes leadership. Remember, the stock market craves certainty more than anything else, and the uncertainty of waking up and finding out whether we launched missiles last night has kept some on the sidelines, and had others relentlessly selling until either the missiles are in the air or the fear of a strike has subsided. You take that off th