Good morning. Welcome to Worldwide Exchange on cnbc. Im sara eisen im wilfred frost you wore the right color today for halloween. Its coming off more orange but it looks red we could have dressed up like everybody else not quite the thing to do at 5 00 a. M lets get to the markets. After tremendous month were capping off for u. S. Stocks especially the dow well go over some of the month to date figures. We will end on a strong note dow futures up 21 points in the early session. S p futures up 1 nasdaq futures up 11 after we saw a pull back in yesterdays session. But it has been a tech fueled rally on the back of some stellar earnings the dow up 4 for the month. S p up 2 tech sector having its best month in years as for the tenyear treasury note yield yields have lifted throughout the month. Its been a story of stronger dollar and better yields theyre backing off this morning. 2. 36 so back below 2. 40 on the tenyear yield they moved a lot yesterday on talk that the tax reform policy could be staggered that brought it down. Brought down the small caps. Brought down the dollar. Everything linked to that. You mentioned that we had Strong Performance in the u. S. Indices over the course of the month asia really is the blowout performer. Japan japan up 8 in october. Some other strong statistics like korea up 5 india up 6 . Hong kong and shanghai up less 2 and 1 . Japan up 8 in october the bank of japan did leave rates unchanged at minus 0. 1 . You could argue during the course of the month thats one of the main reasons why we had such Strong Performances, the bank of japans tone suggests that we will have loose policy for longer there that helped weaken the yen and boost the nikkei in china, the official manufacturing pmi came in below expectations particularly on the manufacturing number 51. 6 it was expected at 52 still above 50 either way, theres the performance in asia. Pretty much mixed to flat. Korea adding to record numbers in europe, germany is closed today. The rest of europe is sort of flat slight positivity on the screen in the ftse 100 for the month to date again, Strong Performance, particularly the euro denominated markets. Germany and france up over 3 . Ftse up 1. 5 for the month. Oil also had a strong month this month alongside the firmer u. S. Dollar wti crude giving back about a third of a percent this morning, just below 54 per barrel. Brent at 60. 56 brent up 7 for the month. Nat gas pops a percent in the early action the u. S. Dollar, perking up for a second month in a row. Up about 1. 5 for the month firmer against the yen thats set the tone for Risk Appetite 113. 18 definitely helped the nikkei in its strong rally as for the dollar against the euro dollar a bit firmer. Some fractional moves this morning. 11 1. 1634 we have a fed meeting on wednesday. Expect a fed decision on the next chair by the end of the week a jobs report by friday. The president leaves for asia and earnings continue. On the earnings front, apple going to be in focus on thursday they topped the dow yesterday, up over 2 on news of possible encouragement of iphone x. On the point of brent, its up 7 for the month and briefly touched 61 yesterday which it has not done since mid 2015. Gold on the flip side is down for the month b a half percent hovering around the unchanged line below 1300 an ounce. Not just a big week for apple but also facebook. They report wednesday and face the political hearings yesterday they announced 126 million americans could have seen just may have seen ruglinked political posts during the election. Thats roughly half of all u. S. Voters far bigger than the number facebook previous ly revealed. Say they were not influenced in the election, i would think for those that do say that social media did not have an impa impact, and the russianlinked accounts did not have an impact, todays testimony f we get numbers like that, will rebut that google says russianlinked advertisers spent 4,700 during the 2016 election. All of this comes as executives from facebook, alphabet and twitter head to capitol hill to discuss russias role on the election more on that story in a few minutes. I think its interesting that were in a period of strong Earnings Growth for these companies, despite the political headwinds. The fact that their general counsels continue to go up on capitol hill trying to explain how their Business Model lent itself to this behavior that influenced this election more heat on these companies, yet it does not affect their ability to make money. For investor s thinking longterm, the question is will it will either regulation from congress, selfregulation or continued tweaks of their Business Model have an impact, not to mention how much theyll have to spend on vetting all of this. The advertising is how theyre making money, thats potentially misleading people. When you talk about broadcast news, print journalism, people take pride in accuracy of what theyre delivering does that responsibility have to fall on the platform with which it gets delivered . If it doesnt, are they also allowed to make money off the same things . Im sure that theme will come up throughout the day. Shares of sprint and tmobile, reportedly softbank is calling off merger talks with tmobile david faber poured some cold water on those reports sources telling him while the tw running into governance and pricing issues, softbank has no intention of running from the deal softbank actually fell on the news there was a lot riding on these deal hopes faber says theyre still in play we talked about this quite detail on closing bell. His reporting suggests those issues wont stop it but over the course of the last three weeks, issues have arisen that made it harder to get a deal done. Well see. Telcos was the worst sector yesterday because of those two. The fed kicks off twoday policy meeting in Washington Well get a big batch of data including the s p caseshiller home price index, chicago pmi and Consumer Confidence. Look for results from under armour, mastercard, pfizer and kellogg. Under armour up against it thats an interesting one the stock crushed over the last year or two. We reported on nike investor day last week which helped the stock. Will kevin plank and his new deputy who well hear from be able to do that . Will they have to lower guidance again. Sticking with earnings, sony reporting a blowout quarter thanks to strong sales of playstation. Landon dowdy has more on that. Good morning good morning. Sony certainly knows how to play the earnings game. The stock moving higher this morning after the firm reported better than expected Second Quarter results thanks to a Strong Performance from its playstation gaming business. The Japanese Electronics giant posting a 22 rise in sales and 346 rise in profits year over year sony raising its earnings outlook and it expects its best ever annual profit since 1998. One big contributor here, games and Network Service sector with sales up 35 compared to a year ago thanks to the playstation 4 driving sales growth sales in the pictures segment up 27 led by spiderman home coming the big beat at sony comes as the gaming world continues to win. Anyone te nintendo posting a Strong Quarter yesterday thanks to the switch console shares of sony up more than 2 this morning nintendo up as well. Back over to you thank you very much stocks to watch today, samsung announcing a big shakeup to the corporate leadership its replacing the leaders of the three big units. Samsung also announcing record Third Quarter profit thanks to Strong Demand for its memory chips. Up 2 today. Bp beating expectations thanks to an increase in oil and Gas Production the energy giant also announcing a Share Buyback program. Up 3. 3 today. That Share Buyback maintaining dividend is taken well, something it had to fight against doing in recent years. We have bnp paribas reporting boater tha better thad forecast earnings. The cfo on cnbc this morning. Only the fixed income has been relatively challenged in this quarter maybe this challenge came from uncertainty, people waiting to do investments or whatever, depending on how things would clarify. The stock down 3. 3 the most interesting part of that interview was when he was asked about possible interest in commerzbank. Many people wondering if thats a takeover target for bnp. It deflied tanied takeover talkd they are interested in germany something to watch. Mondelez posting betterthanexpected earnings in revenues the company benefitting from rising sales in europe, latin america and other emerging markets and cost cuts. The stock a big mover on this report dont miss the mondelez ceo at squawk on the street at 10 00 a. M. Eastern this is her final quarter as ceo. She is definitely ending on a high note. Better organic growth. Power brands like oreos and ri it shgritz crackers helped the quarter. A good day to interview a snack company. On halloween they do make a lot of candy im sure last night they would have gotten rid of a lot of it. Shares of alison transmission getting a pop the jump coming as revenues topped analysts expectations and exact sciences with a less than expected drop. The stock up premarket. Still to come a doeuble dos of apple news. We are live in beijing with the latest on that. Apple reportedly considering dropping one of its biggest chip suppliers. The full details on that and the latest on the story from washington and what it means for the markets when Worldwide Exchange comes back i love you, basement guest bathroom. Your privacy makes you my number 1 place to go number 2. I love you, but sometimes you stink. Febreze air effects doesnt just mask, it cleans away odors. Because the things you love the most can stink. And try febreze small spaces to clean away odors for up to 30 days. Breathe happy with febreze. Welcome back to Worldwide Exchange. Japan flat this morning after the bank of japan kept rates on hold minus 0. 1 basically staying on that loose policy trend as they have recently japan up 8 for october, extraordinary performance for the nikkei hong kong slightly lower shanghai higher. 51. 4 verses a forecast of 52 lets look at european trade where germany is closed today. Elsewhere slightly positive. The trade numbers, as you can see for most markets, ftse 100, up 0. 3 . Germany and france up nicely the ftse up 1. 5 as we look at u. S. Futures, we have slight positivity after slight declines yesterday. Down 0. 3 for the s p and the dow. Nasdaq flat. Today the dow called higher by 40 points. Apple has been a big part of the dow story. Making headlines this morning apple could drop qualcomm components from next years iphones and ipads. The wall street journal reporting qualcomm is not giving access to the software needed to test the chips in device prototypes those two companies are locked in a long legal fight. Apple said to be considering building its own devices with only chips from intel and maybe media tech well see how that saga plays out. Amazing what apple can do imagination technologies, the uk firm when apple pulled out of using their technology and chips, the company completely collapsed. Wa qualcomm a much bigger company. Tim cook is in china as the tech giant holds a show and tell for its iphone 10. Eunice yoon has the latest china is getting excited about the new iphone x apple is tapping into that excitement today they had an event where they had a sneak peek of the iphone x and that video from that event has been put on the chinese internet and been viewed 2. 5 million times. In terms of preorders, as of an hour ago, the retailer jd. Com had 2. 5 million. Some other chinesebased Appliance Companies have tallied another 3 million. The most popular color thats been ordered is space gray on the black market, the markup to the official price is almost double with the most expensive iphone x that people have actually ordered costing 2900 this should be good news for tim cook who is in beijing for a separate event at a university along with Mark Zuckerberg they had been meeting with president xi jinping who had a message for the u. S. , saying he is optimistic about u. S. china ties ahead of President Trumps visit here the american executives said they were impressed with chinas economic achievements and also they hoped to contribute to chinas development. Weve seen apple contributing to that development with their phones they have been struggling a bit, seeing a challenge with some local competition. Even so, the iphone x is a really big talker. I wanted to pull up some of the fan favorite features so far that have been getting attention. The animojis, as well as the camera portrait lighting and the facial recognition has been getting attention here with people wondering openly on social media if the phone will recognize them if they have a hat on, put on heavy makeup or if the phone will recognize them with their pollution masks on. I dont know about the pollution masks. I asked about the makeup thing, because we wear a lot of makeup. Apparently its supposed to recognize you. Dont reveal our secrets. Eunice yoon, thank you very much thank you very much for those supplier rumors about low demand i like the Portrait Mode for better selfies do you have the ten you tonight have it yet. Still ahead, big peck heading to capitol hill. Facebook, google, twitter all set to deliver testimony today about russias role in the u. S. Election we take you to washington for the latest. First as we head to break, todays National Weather forecast from bill karins. Good halloween morning to you. We are watching unfortunately a bit of wet weather developing in east texas not a lot of bad weather out there today, but we will see some of that heading up towards houston and maybe some flight delays i paused this at 6 00 p. M. This evening. From brownsville, corpus christi, hit and miss showers towards dallas and tyler, texas. Tomorrow some of that mess will head to louisiana, mississippi, and areas of east texas. Your halloween forecast, its a treat for the east gorgeous weather from florida up through main we mentioned that rain in east texas. We like to pick some of our spookier cities. Frankenstein, missouri a nice day. Scary, West Virginia or trick or treating in dracula, georgia more Worldwide Exchange when we come back what we do every night is like something out of a strange dream. Except that the next morning it all makes sense. To power global ecommerce Fedex Networks are massive, farreaching and, yes. A little magical. Fedex. Com slash dream welcome back to Worldwide Exchange. To washington, executives from facebook, google and twit rer headed to capitol hill, they will deliver testimony to congress about russias role in the u. S. Election. Eamon javers has more. Reporter we are learning more about russias reach in social media both facebook and twit ver relear twitter have released their testimony. They will talk about russians making 80,000 posts over a twoyear period. They were focused on Race Relations and gun rights we will also learn that about 126 million americans may have seen the russianlinked posts. But facebook will say thats a tiny fraction of the content on facebook, equal to 1 out of 23,000 posts so there were a lot of posts on facebook from the russians, but they were just a drop in the overall bucket of what goes on with facebook on a daytoday basis. Twitter will release new statistics today, including the fact that approximately 36, 746 russian linked accounts existed and they generated 1. 4 million automated election related tweets guys, race, religion, gun rights, gay and transgender issues, all the fault lines of american politics in terms of social issues appear to have been the focus well learn more from those executives later today including when they knew about the russian effort on social media and what they did to stop it you can imagine lawmakers particularly on the democratic side will have a lot of questions for them. Absolutely. And how they can control this from happening in the future not clears whether there a collusion on the r solution on the laegtoregulatory front. Here is the front page of the daily news smashing trumpins. They have the heads of the three who have been indicted mueller with the axe there. Exactly clearly theres nothing new in terms of developments overnight. But what can you tell us about the administrations response and how they plan to keep the focus on tax reform and getting something done by before thanksgiving with all of this going on yeah. Look theyre not going to keep focus on tax reform in terms of the broad headlines, and the Media Coverage around this the tax reform takes a back seat to whats going on with the Mueller Investigation for the time being they can continue to focus on tax reform internally. The people dealing with tax reform are not necessarily the people implicated with by any of this or dealing with any of it inside the white house. Of course on capitol hill, Speaker Paul Ryan says none of this will have anything to do with what lawmakers are doing. Theyll continue to focus on their business so tax reform can run on a second track. The question is how distracted will be the white house be and how much oxygen will this suck out of the room as far as political alliances for donald trump on capitol hill. Hes already been sparring with a number of key republican senators who he will need for votes on tax reform. Well see if this derails more of those relationships thank you very much have to leave it there still ahead, were focusing on the fed what to watch as policymakers kick off a twoday meeting. Most American Homeowners would be shocked if they knew just how rich they were. The average American Home value has increased 40,000 over the last 5 years. But many dont know you can access that