Minutes away. My partner tyler is what im trying to say, and you are my tyler, but youre down and you are my sue. Sue, i cant remember a more eagerly anticipated, maybe more important fed decision than the one we face in about 58 minutes from now. Everybody wonders what the fed is going to do with those bond purchases. Probably no move on Interest Rates. Almost certainly none here. What will they do about the bond purchases. That is one reason why the basic barometers of the stock market are basically calm. A little bit lower. The dow down about 47 right now. The nasdaq off about 4 and the s p down about 3 points. Basically waiting, watching and wondering what the fed will do. But there is also another huge story that were following at this hour and that is the question of whether they will rise above down in washington and come together with respect to raising the debt ceiling and then that important continuing resolution to fund the government. There are a lot, eamon javers, politica
Rates. But also, promising that the administration will take action without congress if need be. Well ask a top House Democrat out of maryland about all this and will there be comprehensive tax reform to encourage companies to stay put in this company. Very much a thorny issue. Still with us by now. This time tomorrow theoretically we will know what apples new products are being introduced and it is at the iphone 6 . Is it the iwatch . Something else their sleeve . Payment system . Were they a hit with public and investors . Today a closer look at what apple needs to do to impress shareholders and customers and the bar is set very high. Yes. Lets start with that sector. Its the nasdaq out performing fractionally lower off by a point or two. The s p 500 is a weak link down and hardly call it a link. Thats the broad market index. Down almost half a percent today and something to did with the weakness across brept crude and the metals, as well. The blue chips off a quarter of 1 and just b
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