S p up by just under 2 points. In Global Market headlines, chinas Manufacturing Sector strengthened further. Mixed signals in important areas, including export orders suggest that any recovery will be gradual. Take a look at what happened overnight in asia. Youll see that shanghai and hang seng were barely higher. The nikkei was down by 0. 8 . The big news out of europe this morning, royal bank of scotland, rbs announcing it will move 61 billion of toxic assets into an internal bad bank. The early european trading this morning, youve got some red arrows. But thats only down by about 16 points. Well see what happens as we get further into the trading day. Well have more from Ross Westgate in just a few minutes. Andrew, over the to you. Thank you, becky. We have Corporate News this morning, as well. Aigs corporate earnings top wall street. Some analysts were looking for better results in the companys consumer line business. The ceo was on the closing bell yesterday talking about the economy and the broader business environment. It was lacking is enough confidence to take risk toes create jobs. I think thats the big issue here. But people are maximizing what they have. Theyre not doing a lot of new things. So for aig, we continue to grow. We continue to grow across the board, both in the United States and around the world. But its a matter of our clients are a little bit more cautious. But i dont know that this quarter or next quarter that youll see any effect on our business materially. And stores products retailer Container Store, they raised 225 million. The ipo was priced at 18 a share, the top end of its increased price range. Stairs are set to start trading on the New York Stock Exchange today under the symbol tcs. Microsoft cofounder paul allens fund is suggesting microsoft spin off its consumer business. This is big news. The man who manages allens fortune is now suggesting that microsoft search and xbox business res deextracting from the Software Business which drives earnings. So i mean, paul allen and bill gates, i dont think theyre theyve been spending of time together these days, anyway, joe. No. And the roys. These guys found or fund companies, whatever it is, they dont i dont know, over the years, things happen. I think well always be together. Well always be together. I saw a picture of gates on the ft today. Interesting. Which is more important, connectivity or a malaria vaccine . If you think connectivity is the key thing, thats great. I dont. It is interesting, i think. You went for halloween last night, andrew. Did you pick one building and just did you finish it . Yes, we did. Did you just pick one . We picked one building. We went up and down and up and down. I was kidding. I was kidding. Honestly, you picked one building . Yes. Because by tend, max . Henry, they were tired. They wanted to go home. And i mean, to get a pumpkin, you had to rent a car to drive to a pumpkin patch. We like those pumpkins from yesterdays show and thought that was the coolest thing. I still think that was the coolest thing. Come on, you didnt actually put that out, did you . No, no, did not put it out. But we had a couple of people who came over after for pizza and they saw them. Becky, you want to do what you did. It was pen nell penelopes birt. I brought her the picture of me on a pumpkin. Heres your present. It has a thing, you can light it up. I wanted her to put it in the window so people would come and say oh, my god. What a jerk. What a jerk. And as you said, pass out instead of candy, signed head shots. Here you go. Here you go. Wow, huh . Huh . Anyway, its we didnt have it was raining, so there wasnt a lot of people that came by. We only had two. We have a lot of candy left. We do, too. I was going to bring it in here. Have you ever lifted how heavy it is . Yes. And then you know whats next, thanksgiving and then christmas. I know. This is a very you know, this is where i do get mad at you because youre so thin, you have to problems with oh, no, no. Andrew can eat six doughnuts and get away with it. Not true, not true. Anyway, lets check on the markets this morning. And then well get to some of this other stuff thats been happening. Like what . Joe biden. And i believe those guys. Well talk about it in a second. But up 31 points on the dow. Its been a great im still going back to i dont know. Suddenly im remembering that i said the market would be up 35 in 2005 and im bitter at people that laughed at me. So were up like not you. Theres other people that tweeted and i agreed. I know you did. How much are we up, 60 since 2012 . I dont know. Anyway, were up a lot. Lets look at oil. Today i yelled at the guy at the gas station and said why didnt you i dont like it when they dont top it off because then i have to get it too quickly again. And it was only the price that you paid i said you didnt top it off and i looked at the price and its like 60 cents less than it used to be. Your ocd is coming out. It is. But it was 3. 30. This is a tax cut for everyone, but its not good for exxon, as we saw yesterday. Do you think its coming back, or no . Oil . I hope not. Even walmart said its a tailwind, but offsed by the headwinds of higher im still forecasting 20 a barrel. Im hoping for that for our friends in the midwest. Lets look at the tenyear note. Friends. Saudi arabia doesnt even like us any more. 2. 56 now on the ten year. You can do it for your friends on the l. I. E. If we get down to 20, well that the. Which is you when you rent a car to go out and get a pumpkin. This is Getting Better because germany is messing up with their export driven economy and theres no inflation. In fact, theyre going to have to try and engender some inflation. One of the lead stories today is how low inflation in thor row zone is right now, which is, you know, raising the specter of and fear of deflation, which isnt good for anybody. I guess well go to europe first before we talk about all this other interesting stuff here. We have to talk about your friend, randall. Here is the guy with the inflation problem today. Its all red behind you. We are starting to maybe the do the day of the dead over here, which is a mexican holiday, i think. Yeah, a mexican holiday. Were starting to do that here. But you dont even do you do halloween over there, ross . Yeah, we did. When i grew up, joe, halloween didnt really exist. And now as far as i can tell, we special a fortune on it. My children, i was out with them for about an hour last night, dressed up, collecting sweets. Its become a massive commercial event. I blame you guys for this. Yeah. Do you have any Good American candy over there . Do you give that inferior i dont know, what is it . I guess you guys did chocolate. We have some great sweet companies. Like round tree and cadbury. All right. Nobody is hanging out sfp. Kraft. Nobody is handing out hagaths and bangers or mash, theyre not putting those in kids bags, right . No, no. We might do more of that next week. We get november the 5th fireworks celebration. Youre all messed up. Why would you have fireworks on november the 5th . Because thats when guy forks tried to block parliament . Thats when what . Guy forks tried to blow up he tried to kill king james i way back in the 1700s. We still celebrate. That holiday is older than this country. Youre still talking about something that happened in the 17th century. Pathetic, isnt it . Yeah. I think its cool. Fireworks were for july 4th. Which is a great day. Isnt that when they showed his mash with the moustache . Is that it . Is that right . Isnt guy like a white mask with the moustache that sort of represents him now . Yeah, there is that and what you do is you make a guy, you stuff you get some old clothes. You stuff it with paper or whatever and you put him on a bon fire. Is this like the topless woman that puts the moustache on her . Have you seen her . No, no, this is what it is. You know its legal to be topless in new york now . Its legal . She got 40,000. She got all of her expenses, all of her legal fees paid. It was weird. Anyway, sorry, ross. Go ahead. We digress. Just a little bit. We are to the down side, not by much, joe. It looks worse on the heat map. Around about 6 do 3 decliners currently outpacing advancers on the Dow Jones Stoxx 600. The ftse yesterday was down 46 points. Fairly slim losses this morning for the uk market. Just off six points. There is some focus on the part nationalized rbs. Its creating an internal bad bank to separate 38 toxic bounds of assets for the rest of the business. Rbs stock, though, it is down. Now there was a consideration over whether they would split the bank in two. Thats not happening. But the stock off 4 . The lender is in worse shape than we thought. The losses narrowed in the Third Quarter, but its setting aside another 200 Million Pounds for a pension. Its warping of a substantial full year loss, though, asset spikts combat and litigation charges to continue. The French Market is down, dragged lower by renault today, off 5 and renault is down because of its partner, nissan. The auto giant reported earnings and has cut its profit outlook by 20 for the year. Nissan was expected to put Second Quarter earnings on two. They brought it forward. So not great news. Thats dragged renault down, as well. You caught up with the euro. Wanted to look at this move weve had on euro dollar over the last few days. Remember, the twoyear high we reached at the end of the last week. 1. 3533. At this timier we were trading above 1. 37. The biggest oneday fall we saw in around about 16 months. Core inflation in the eurozone is running at core 18 , which is the joint record low. There are some concerns that the eurozone is facing deflation. It will be interesting to see how the ecb responds to this next week in their meeting. Some houses are saying they should be cutting rates as a result. Quick look at where we stand with bond markets, as well. Bund rates today, pretty steady at 1. 67 . Thats where we stand right now here in europe in the last trading day of the week. Back to you guys. All right. Thank you, ross. Ive got some washington news. Well do it all now. Dismal debut numbers for healthcare. Gov. Documents released by the house overknight sight and government Reform Committees show just six enrollments managed to make it through the system in 24 hours. Notes from a center for Consumer Information and insurance oversight, war room meeting on october 3rd say a total of 248 enrollments had been processed by that morning and that contrasted with the Obama Administrations reports of more than 6 million unique thats a big i understand why they dont want to give out the numbers. The health and Human Services department has said it wont release enrollment figures until mid november. Theyre probably better off that way. Thats what sebelius said. Mid november, id do jan 1 . Yeah. Mid 2015 and see what happens. We have other news, president obama has reportly ordered the nsa to stop eavesdropping on joe kernen. No, stop eaves dropping on the headquarters of the imf and world bank. The order is said to be the latest move, of course, by the white house to demonstrate its willingness to curb at least some surveillance in the wake of weeks by former nsa contractor edward snowden. A number of comments about janet yellen starting to come from the senate. Richard shelby says he would oppose efforts to block her nomination with a filibuster unless some disturbing disclosure emerge. His comments come after senator rand paul said he instead to withhold her nomination. And senator Lindsay Graham has vowed an effort to block white house nominees until the Obama Administration comes forward with more information about benghazi. Shelbys comments are important because democrats would need to pick up only five republicans vote to clear procedural hurdles and bring yellens nomination to a full senate vote. Yellens nomination needs only a simple majority. Joining us this morning from washington is eamon afterers. This is getting back to some tense times in the senate when it comes to these nominations. We thought we had averted these issues. Mccain threatening to pu put a whole here on janet yellen in the United States. They wanted to see more of these documents related to ben fwazzy. They wanted to see the survivors of benghazi testify on capitol hill. They would like more information as to what exactly happened there. They dont have any particular animous towards janet yellen herself. This is just the leverage they have to get this done. Its been a very bad week for for obama admin appointees. Yesterday, the senate rejected mel watt, the Housing Agency nominee for the Obama Administration. Its a very rare thing for a sitting congressman to be rejected. But they did that yesterday in the senate. Its a tough time here for obama getting his nominees through. We expect that yellen will go through here. They can break these holes with a 60vote margin. We expect that thats doable or that this will be negotiated and resolved before we get to crunch time here. But its something to keep an eye on, definitely. Yeah. You know, when i first saw senator mccain, it was like, you know, we tried obama care with the Government Shutdown. Now year doing benghazi. As much as id like to have info on benghazi and the way that whole thing was handled, but i dont i cant see the connection here. I was fascinated by the biden story. If you remember that first debate, obama was just, like, he was on not interested, like why am i here, do i really have to do this . And biden came in and saved i dont know when those conversations were taking place and for anybody who didnt hear it, it was reported that they thought about dumping biden for Hillary Clinton. But what were finding out and the report is from a new book called double down. This is a sequel to game changer 2008 campaign book. They have done another book going inside the 2012 campaign and theyve come up with some blockbuster details, including the fact that they were looking at replacing biden as early as 2011. And daley said i dont know if the prt weighed in on it. The president , i dont think he knew. He didnt know about, you know, the nsa with merkel. He didnt know about any of that irs stuff. He didnt know about the problem with the whistle all i know is hes mad. He is mad about well, hes mad about the merkel thing. Hes definitely mad about the irs. I think hes still mad about the website. Nobody is madder than him about the website. So i figure hes probably mad about this biden thing. But to be not consulted young he was consulted on the biden thing . These people are making all these decisions . Im sure he was consulted on the biden thing. This would be one of those things, joe, where theyre poll testing. These campaigns are big, sprawling enterprises. A lot of people running around. Eamon, thats praet big thing. When is the last time a Vice President was dropped after the first term . No question, no question. Its a huge thing. And, you know, clearly how far do we think it goes . Thats my question, how far does it really get . And i have to read the book to see what theyve reported. But the question is, how far did it get or was it something at a lower level, at a daily level they looked at and disruchted. Just a second, eamon, do you think sdulzs like that take place without anybody running it by the president. Good i think its possible, yeah. Thats a huge undertaking. Its not an undertaking at that point. Its just an idea. Although the risk about when it gets out what happens if theres one or two strategists sitting around in a room but its not. Theres polls that were taken. What if they say were putting together a poll for tomorrow night lets throw a question in there and see what happens. If it comes back that we should look at something else, well sxlorp it. In the excerpt that ive read of the book and i havent read the whole book but daley is quoted in reaction to this saying, look, in 2011, the president was politically cratering, having a difficult time and we looked at a lot of different ideas. Thats the way he described it and that seems to be what happened here. But it would be an astonishing thing to throw out a sitting Vice President , especially one that has been an asset to the team the whole way through. If there was a scandal or a problem, you could see it. And this is the only guy willing to work with republicans. And andrew, if the president didnt know, at least the next time he sees joe, he can go, geez, i dont think if he did know. What if biden ever does reappear, i dont know where hes been, but my question is, when did biden find out about this . Is he finding out about this at the same time we are . Yes. Has he even heard about it yet . Where is he . Exactly. He might pick up his paper this morning and say oh, my god. Where is he been . Hes still in the dog house gore going around harry reid and negotiating that budget deal. The last time i saw him, he was wearing ivaters in the white house driveway and going out to eat with president obama. Ive developed a liking for him recently. He was wild eyed and shook up that got the president back on track. They needed that. They needed performance from biden in order to get the president focused again. Absolutely. No question. Look, biden is somebody who has been hes a target of a lot of abuse and some mirth. But hes somebody who has been rock solid for the president. The one thing that the obama people really dont like is that biden got out ahead of the president on the gay rights issue and gay marriage issue. They dont like that. Thats something the president tsh. That helped the president a lot in the election. They should be thanking him for that. It is a huge issue and biden has become a real hero on that issue with that political base. And thats something that portends to bidens future. Dont count him out entirely for 2016. Hes somebody that will take a look at this, absolutely, especially if Hillary Clinton knot in the running. Compared to hillary, his numbers arent good. So that was not a white house trial balloon that he put up on Marriage Equality . You think that was off