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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 course, dont have the luxury of waiting. Hampton pearson reports tonight from washington on the fed a...

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 reshape the farming industry. Hampton pearson has details. Repor americans seed and fernandez giant, mons...

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 that spoke is normally in the easy money camp. Here are closing numbers for a bruising friday. Dowjones...

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 Industrial average grew to 18,293. The nasd added 53. Harpton pearson has more on what janet yellen ...

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 averaging at least. Dax up slightly. And lets take a look at crude oil. This was the wbig story yester...