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For nightly Business Report, on wednesday, august 17th. Good evening, everyone, and welcome. A house divided. That is the unmistakable conclusion to be drawn from todays release of the minutes of the latest meeting of Federal Reserve policy makers last month. Several members of the Interest Rate setting open Market Committee felt an urgent need to raise rates soon. Others said, not so fast. Lets wait for more data, especially on inflation, which remains below the feds target. But investors, of c...

Twice, but three times before monsanto agreed to be acquired and each time the price tag increased. Todays deal came in at 128 a share. And that sent shares of monsanto slightly higher in the trading session. The takeover will create a conglomera that operates in pharmaceuticals, health care products, pesticides. So it still needs regulatory approval, and given that monsanto is the Worlds Largest supplier of genetically modified seeds, the combined company would be a power house that could resha...

Street. Stocks plunged, the market turned icy at least for a day. Dow and s p 500 had the worst day since the brexit vote aftermath at the end of june. The reason today, a fed official hinted an Interest Rate hike is not far off. Thats not necessarily a bad thing. It suggests the Federal Reserve thinks the economy is getting Strong Enough to shrug off a rate increase, but it did spook investors who have become accustomed to easy money policies and spooked them doubly because the fed official tha...

On nightly siness for wednesday, september 2 good evening, everyone. And welcome. Im sue herera. Tyler mathisen is on assignment tonight. The Federal Reserve did not budge. Though there was some disagreement, policymakers decided not to raise interest but the central bank did say a few iortant things. That nearterm risks to the economy were more balanced, it signalled a possible rate hike this year and lowered its outlike for longterm Interest Rates and with that, stocks took off. The Dow Jones ...

Everybody waiting to see what happens. 8 30 a. M. S p futures down by less than a point. The nasdaq up by 1. 5. Yesterday you saw the nasdaq close down by basically it was flat. It was down 0. 9 points or something. It was flat. Dow and nasdaq did manage to eke out gains. Check out what happens overnight in asia. The nikkei looks like it was flat lining as well. Up 3. 5 . Shanghai comp and hang sang both a little bit higher. In europe, youll see thing are relatively positive if evfor th major av...

Twice, but three times before monsanto agreed to be acquired and each time the price tag increased. Todays deal came in at 128 a share. And that sent shares of monsanto slightly higher in the trading session. The takeover will create a conglomera that operates in pharmaceuticals, health care products, pesticides. So it still needs regulatory approval, and given that monsanto is the Worlds Largest supplier of genetically modified seeds, the combined company would be a power house that could resha...

Us with more anticipation and hand wringing and questions because the data showed the rate of hiring slowed in august and did cast doubt on whether its enough for the fed to act. The economy added 151,000 new jobs last month. That was below the estimates of 180,000. And it was down more than from the 270,000 we saw in june and in july. By the way, the Unemployment Rate held steady at 4. 9 . Hampton pearson tells us what it all means. Reporter manufacturing and construction sectors lost a combine...

Us with more anticipation and hand wringing and questions because the data showed the rate of hiring slowed in august and did cast doubt on whether its enough for the fed to act. The economy added 151,000 new jobs last month. That was below the estimates of 180,000. And it was down more than from the 270,000 we saw in june and in july. By the way, the Unemployment Rate held steady at 4. 9 . Hampton pearson tells us what it all means. Reporter manufacturing and construction sectors lost a combine...

Us with more anticipation and hand wringing and questions because the data showed the rate of hiring slowed in august and did cast doubt on whether its enough for the fed to act. The economy added 151,000 new jobs last month. That was below the estimates of 180,000. And it was down more than from the 270,000 we saw in june and in july. By the way, the Unemployment Rate held steady at 4. 9 . Hampton pearson tells us what it all means. Reporter manufacturing and construction sectors lost a combine...

Sweaters, and some scary moments occasional for investors. After all, october has brought frightful events, like the 1929 stock ma crash, black monday in 1987, and a 500point drop on the dow, thanks to the socalled asian contagion in 1997. Today brought none of those but the month did start out on a down note as investors digest economic in news showing spending fell for a second straight month. Tepid manufacturing numbers and Oil Prices Hit a threemonth high on renewed optimism opec may reach a...