"varney & company" picks it up. stu, take it away,ing ashley webster in for stuart varney. take it away. ashley: thank you, maria with. good morning, everyone. i'm ashley webster in today for stuart varney. president biden holding a prime time address to make the case for billions in aid to israel and ukraine. and while he didn't give a number, it is widely expected to be around $100 billion, maybe more. some critics not happy that biden is using the war in israel to push for more aid to ukraine. we're going to get into that issue. meantime, the situation in the middle east intensifying. smoke rising from buildings in gaza saw as israel's ground offensive could begin soon. israel warning the conflict will be long and intense. tar heinrich is the spokeswoman for prime minister benjamin netanyahu. meanwhile, more attacks on u.s. troops in the mideast are ramping up, overnight two more were thwarted in iraq. meanwhile, hamas is calling for another day of rage. they're encounselinging muslims a-- encouraging muslims to stage mass protests against israel. as for the markets, let

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i am ashley webster in first stuart varney, they selloff yesterday, more than 1%, nasdaq down 2%, the dow below the watermark, 0.4%, s&p slightly higher, nasdaq up half of one%. the big story is the 10 year treasury yield, close to a 16 year high, down 4. 8 basis points, still up there, 4.75%. opec plus, don't think you can expect any production increases but the price of food is still down $86, $0.73 a barrel, down 3%, would like to keep an eye on bitcoin, it was up $200 earlier had now up $53, 273025. also happening now more than 75,000 looking to strike in 5 states across the country. what could be the largest healthcare workers strike in us history. kaiser permanente union workers including pharmacists and therapists working the picket lines, one more pay, benefits, more pension benefits and on the picket lines, they continue throughout the show. the latest read on the services sector. lauren: it came in at 53.6 for the month, it is the ninth consecutive month where the service sector expanded, the manufacturing sector, 11 months in a row. prices paid, inflation in the sector, sam

lauren: i am getting nervous. >> we are on varney so we are talking stocks.mpany for today, you thought of one and just change your mind again. no way you can know this. stuart: we do have a timeframe. you're going to come back later on the show and perform even more and my granddaughter is not watching unfortunately. here's what we have coming up as well. professors at the university of california want the school to stop condemning hamas. there seems to be a double standard of anti-semitism. if people of color were targeted the way jewish people are now, there would be arrests. people would be in jail. brian kilmeade next. our job is to help people feel safe. not only our customers but those who matter most to them. just like our company does for us. we have great benefits from principal. so i know i'm taken care of. and (pause) not just me. but the ones who matter most to me. ( ♪ ) this is spring semester at over 13,000 us school districts, which have become top targets for ransomware attacks. but there's never been a reported ransomware attack on a chromeb

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third hour of varney starts right now. stuart: mike huckabee is here with me, the former governor of a.c. do you agree with me, this is about identity? >> stu, i always agree with you. in this case, it's really legitimate and the biden administration is like buying a crayon set with 64 different crayons and more interested of what's in the box but can't sign name with a ballpoint pen. what we'd love for people to be is just competent. be able to dot job. you know, i would never be picked in a biden administration. i'm white, i'm straight, i'm old, i'm male. i mean, i uncheck all the boxes, but that's the problem with identity politics, you care more about how something looks than whether or not it functions. stuart: that's it. you missed one out, you're a christian too, i believe. >> yeah, that really messes it up, doesn't it? that just finishes me off. stuart: you've lost that box, i'm telling you. let's get serious. governor -- bill maher says it's time for president biden to step aside. watch this. >> someone has to con

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more varney after this.tuart: with a selloff, mike murphy, what stocks would you buy in a heavily sold market in >> the price action today, stuart n dollar general. low cost retailer. this stock was $260 and sold all the way off down to $100, $105 where it is today. looks like it's oversold, down almost 60% year-to-date ask at some point buyers will come in and see some value and in the event that we go into a recession or the economy slows down markedly, when people are spending money, it'll be at discount retailers. i think it's something interesting to look at today. stuart: in a heavily down market, it's up nearly 2%. >> i wanted to bring out positives and i felt like since jimmy left, things got a little negative and i wanted to bring out positives here. stuart: keep thinking positive. nike. >> should be green -- yes, there we. nike can look backwards and announced earnings not too long ago and they weren't good and they were extremely good and stock had a nice reaction on that news 6789 taxpayers start

"varney & company" is up right now. good monday morning stuart varney. stuart: you wake up on a monday and you see the war in israel expanding, what is happening to your money. we have a rally the dow industrial to a point of the opening bell, s&p 24, nasdaq up 100 points. maybe investors take a benign view of the fed's interest-rate decision this wednesday. maybe they're looking at history which shows stocks rising when the shooting starts. despite the work, oil has come down to the low '80s, touch 90 bucks a barrel when war loomed, now it's 84 as the shooting starts. gas has come down to it is at 349, your average on regular, diesel down another penny, $4.46. interest rates are creeping up a little, the tenure at 4.91%, maybe that is edged back a few of the gains on the nasdaq, the two year above 5%, 506 where we speak. that is the market, now the war, israel pushed deeper into gaza to encircle gaza city the central population, basic supply running very low crowds break into and loot un warehouses, two very important meetings, the saudi defense ministe

monday october 9, 2023, "varney & company" is about to begin ♪ ♪.art: israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu has declared war against hamas terrorist asked her the provoked attacks on israel. >> israel has can gain full control around the gaza border in israel's defense minister order to complete blockade of the gaza strip, no electricity, no food or fuel everything is closed. we are fighting human animals and we act accordingly. at least 700 israelis including nine americans were murdered by hamas and the surprise attack saturday morning. dozens taken hostage. that complicates any plan for israel to go into gaza, the wall street journal reported late yesterday iran helped hamas plot this out since august. if that is true israel could retaliate against iran that is a much wider war, earlier 12 rockets fired from lebanon from has blot into israel as more rockets flew into southern israel were trey yingst was. >> huge rocket bras targeted the city of hash code we saw multiple impacts across his heavily populated area. we took cover next to a build

the third hour of varney starts now. stuart: kyler skinner joining us this morning. this is the new world order. is this the new world order winning at the moment? >> it's a new world order that's emerging. i don't think we've hit it yet. the united states still has the capacity to be the leader in the world. i would say we have the domestic will, but we need a white house that has a theoretical argument to make the case to the american public and to show the strength and the world that the world is better off when the u.s. is the predominant power helping to organize norms and helping to make sure that nations are treated fairly and that in the realm of great power competition, the united states with its democratic practices is the best model for the world. that's not happening now. but i think we can still get there. this war makes it a lot more difficult because as you've said in junior powerfully accurate monologue, the u.s. can't retreat in ukraine or in north korea, in the middle east and other parts of the world. it doesn't mean that we have to fight the wars,

"varney & company" is about to begin. ♪ ♪ ♪ people, gather round, send it back to you ♪ stuart: you knowoducers are really cool. this song is climbing up the wall just as we announced the president wants to build 20 miles of wall on the border. well done, producers. all right, let's move on. it's thursday morning. the administration has made a major reversal a. yeah, they're going to construct a little wall on the border. lauren, take us through this. lauren: i have been shocked so many times this week. this is the latest. talk about a 180. this marks the are first time the biden administration will use its powers to, yes, construct new border wall. that's something candidate biden said would never happen. remember this? >> trump campaigned on build that wall. are you willing to tear that wall down? >> there will not be another foot of wall constructed in my administration, number one. number two, what i'm going to focus on and the fact is that minute in this group written a lot about the border. i'm going to make sure that we have border protection, but it's going to be based on making

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"varney & co." is about to begin. in israel, 30 americans are now confirmed dead, 13 are still missing. good morning, lauren. we know there's a threat of a wider war, what else is happen something lauren: trud trey yins on the ground in israel and reporting rockets from will be non-and hezbollah to the north -- lebanon and hezbollah to the north. lloyd austin was asked and he said he's not going to speculate. that's not a no. this is of course a two front war to the south in gaza and israeli invasion is imminent on this day nine, day five of civilian evacuations. president biden is prenyling support to israel, most recently in form of second carrier strike group to the region. there's reports that the president will travel to israel this week. of course secretary of state antony blinken is there. he's back in israel today, extended his trip and he's promoting extreme diplomacy after iran's foreign minister publicly warned-over a regional conflict. "if the scope of the war expands, heavy losses will befall america". st

that always gets stuart varney's attention.they are executing across the board. really wonderful quarter from simon property. stuart: 7% is safe. >> very safe. stuart: i like it. okay. if you're not careful, i'll buy that thing. now, here's what's coming up. do you remember when mentalist otis perlman joined the program? >> tell me which one, two, three or four? stuart student doesn't have the danger? two. >> what you have seen, get the kiwi if you want. it's me saving my own hand. happy halloween. stuart: that's extraordinary. welsh he's back again for the halloween, and he's brought a couple of tricks with him. i'll guarantee he amazes you. he's going to be the on the show later. twice, actually. >> biden says hostages must be released, but all this talk about a humanitarian pause sounds like a ceasefire to me if. i'll ask larry kudlow about this. he's on next. ♪ ♪ i have type 2 diabetes, but i manage it well. ♪ ♪ jardiance ♪ ♪ it's a little pill with a big story to tell. ♪ ♪ i take once-daily jardiance, ♪ ♪ at each day's sta

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third hour of "varney" starts now. ♪ ♪ stuart: jimmy failla is here., has biden changed america forever? >> hopefully not forever, but for the time being, he absolutely has. this is what people mistake about mass migration. yes, we are a country that was built on immigration, but the people coming here wanted to be american. they wanted to buy into our way of live, okay, and they were proud to have a piece of that grand bargain. what we're seeing now is not a melting pot. we're now a country that's a smoking pot. and half of the people coming here are just complaining the whole time. and what you realize when it comes to the border is there's a real dereliction of duty. what we've tried to characterize as compassion, people want to come hear and build a better life, is fine. okay? but if we don't have the ability to vet who's coming here, because they're not coming from landlocked nations. they're coming from had the, you know, breeding grounds for terror groups on other sides of the world because they know they can get in. and they're not coming here

we'll hand it over to "varney & company", stu, take it away. stuart: good morning, everyone. at this moment sirens are alerting israelis to rocket attacks across the country. timed to coincide with secretary of state blinkenning's powerful message of u.s. support for israel. we will have more on the escalating violence in just a moment. here at home inflation is the big financial and political news of the day. in the last 12 months, consumer prices is have gone up 3.7%. that's the same increase as reported for the previous month. now, before those numbers were are released, stock prices had moved quite sharply higher, dow was up about 120, 150. here's where we stand now. the dow is still up but not as much. it's up 50 points at this stage, s&p up 4, nasdaq up 11. still a little green. before the inflation numbers, interest rates were edging lower. now we have the 10-year moving up, 4.60, and the 2-year, same story, moving up in yield. you're now at 5.05 on the 2-year. this is good news who drive gasoline cars. gas keeps edging lower, down another 2 cents overnight. back to $3

"varney & company" is up right now. good monday morning stuart varney.nd you see the war in israel

second hour of varney just getting started. guy benson with us, is the president doing the right thing going to israel. >> i think so. this is maximum solidarity in american president can show at a time like this. there's some risk going over there, politically, physically, he's doing it, it's the right thing to do. without absolving him of some of the policies that got us here, you made that point in your opening monologue, you can't wipe that away, he said some good words, doesn't make everything else disappear but given the circumstance in front of us, trying to make as clear as possible the united states stand with israel as strongly as possible is the commendable thing. a when the objective is keep iran up. >> iran reportedly helped plan the lethal attack of hamas over a week ago. the fact that iran is making threats to get involved, they are already involved. they are involved in the region from anti-terror and biden's administration, they empowered and enriched the regime at every turn. they are trying to keep this from

second hour of varney just getting started. stuart: kathy, mary catherine is with us this morning, sorry about that. i mispronounce to that. what's the democrat party going to do with the squad, promoting anti-semitism and calling our allies in israel war criminals, what are they going to do with them? mary:it's a problem for biden. 71% of the american people hold this past week have sympathy for the israeli people as they should obviously. the right side of history is to acknowledge that war is hell and self-defense is righteous particularly in this case, against those wantonly murdering civilians is the side you want to be on. remember when we were told as private citizens we shouldn't be spreading disinformation about covid when we were having conversations about things that could be true in the administration used the powers of the federal government to bully social media into telling us not to say those things, interesting the deformation brigades are not out for rashida tlaib when she repeats things that have no evidence,

second hour of varney just getting started. ♪ it is friday morning.ce sitting right there. i was surprised to hear the prime minister said that so straightforwardly. >> there's there is a stage where everyone recognizes every civil rights fighting this country was never reliant on limiting common sense or the existence of people or condemnation of a nation or of other people. it was about being recognized for who you are, minorities, i am a sexual minority, there are racial minorities and that is real life. you've got transgender people, that's what's difficult for the extremists who are the activists, that's not a representation of the trans community. i know many transgender people, we know caitlin jenner. there's a recognition from trans people that they are a trans person, there is no debate or confusion about biological women versus trans women or trans men. there are differences. the harm that is done to the trans community is when the extremists try to make the entire community a part of this kind of strange approach of wanting no one to discus

i don't think this congressman has a real chance but who knows, maybe he's trying to be varney. no one would know varney except he ran against hillary when no one else would. >> let's show the latest poll on how americans feel about the u.s. economy. you will see the two and three saying costs have risen, three out of four say income has dropped doctor inflation. dean phillips setting bail support and cities growing from about us a rebuke to the white house. he is saying democrats should join the race for 61% of the pole want stronger law enforcement at the border so when you hear dean phillips saying they are in chaos, democrat saying wait a second, the policy is accurate. >> coming pretty late due to the deadlines but i am surprised no other democrat has stepped into the ring although gavin newsom's trip to china as an attempt to put his name up there is a possible candidate. biden is unpopular among normally that would trigger challenges and i think the danger of not removing biden from the ballot did he falls or shows some kind of problem much later and they are stuck with,.

"varney & company" picks it up. stuart: the war is widening, israel has stepped up the targeting of hamas in gaza there have been on the ground raids beautiful land invasion has not started. president biden is trying to restrain israel from the ground invasion. hezbollah and iranian proxy has fired more rockets and antitank missiles into northern israel that is looking more like a second front. separately fox trey yingst has been interviewing witnesses to october 7 attack there is video which we will not show you the atrocities. it was a deliberate massacre. on the market this morning, here is the news the ten year treasury moves above 5%. it is at 497, ten minutes ago it was a 501. it hit the 5% level. as for the two year that is well above 5% were looking at five tend to be precise. plus the expanding were producing some stock selling this morning, the dow industrial done 140, nasdaq 1050. here is a bright spot, bitcoin been well above 30000, 30600 to be precise, i thought the war would move oil up but now it's ar

second hour of "varney" just getting warmed up. ♪ >> speaker mccarthy is brushing off matt gaetz threath this. >> this is personal, matt voted against the most conservative to protect her border, secure our border is more interested in tv interviews than doing something he wanted to push us into a shutdown and threatening his own district with all the military people that would not be paid only because he wants to take this motion, bring it on. stuart: gerry baker is with us is morning. i'm going to mention carlos hermanus porter republican says gaetz is bidens favorite republican. >> absolutely right. everything that you said in your opening is right and what speaker mccarthy said, what we've got is maga republicans, conservative republicans who want to change the country in a more conservative direction and deal with the massive spending in congress and deal with the cultural revolution that we had taken over the country and there standing up for us. as a result of their actions we end up with a measure the past 45 day continuing resolution that's way more democratic and enjoys democr

varney, you better change that refrigerator, you better change that stove? and tell you you shouldn't be using air conditioning in the summer. they have a list of things if you have been reading in the newspapers about all the list of things that biden doesn't want you to have like natural gas at your home or gas stove, one of the things untrained young people could do is knock on doors and go through your home and tell you what laws you're breaking because they keep passing new ones. again, we're all paying for this. nobody passed a law. this is thoroughly lawless. stuart: how much does it cost? what's the cost of 20,000 climate core people? >> they won't tell you. they're not telling you how much they're paying these 20 year-olds. stuart: what are the chapses this actually happen -- chances of this actually happening? >> he's done other things without going through the law. he may have money squirreled away somewhere and announced i'm spending that money here. now, comer, james comer on the house side doing the investigation into this sort of nonsense and

the third hour of "varney" starts right now. ♪ martha maccallum joins us this wednesday morning.oes the american people, do the american people have the will to retain or superpower status? >> that was laid out very well in terms of the challenges that we face. what's interesting and the overall phyllis address the president laid out the axis of evil, he talked about what were facing against iran, russia and china and he did not call it that. once you do that as has been done by kevin mccarthy and mitch mcconnell, then you say it is essentially us and our allies against the forces. he also did not take much time explaining how we got here and clearly what has happened through hamas and ukraine is intentional. there is an intention to take this moment for their own reasons and we can speculate why this might be a good moment for all of us to happen. clearly each of the players sees it as a moment of advancement of when they can push the things that they want and for israel it is very difficult, iran wants them off the map and they're making an effort to squeeze them from the south

third hour of varney starts now. stuart: jimmy failla with us this tuesday morning. >> doo to see you. stuart: what do you want to hear from the president today? >> everything that's opposite of what he's been for the last two and a half year years, for real. strength at podium and condemnation of what's going on in the democratic party and people like rashida tlaib flying the palestinian flag outside of her office and it's disgraceful. the message that we acceptable to the world right now is so important because we need american strength on the world stage because the lack thereof is what's created the vacuum that's causing this. afghanistan was the first domino and it kind of knocked over the tom know that fell -- democrat know that fell into ukraine and china circling taiwan and we are where we are in israel. to be honest with you, i feel like this was avoidable. stuart: i understand that but he's got to be constrained because of hostages. >> yeah. stuart: how do you get them out? what do you do with them? that co

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"varney & company" picks it up. stuart: good morning, everyone. there are times when you have to shake your head, the chaos and bitterness among house republicans. six holdouts voted against a spending bill. speaker mccarthy needed help from democrats to pass it and keep the government open. now matt gaetz says he will move to dump the speaker. mccarthy to keep his job may need democrat support again. where is the win in this? politics california governor newsom will report butler to the late dianne feinstein senate seat. it looks like identity politics. butler is female, black and gay. according to gavin newsom should be the first black lesbian and lgbtq senator from california. to the markets, no government shutdown no bounce for stocks as we start the new month of the new quarter, the dow is going to be down 70 at the opening bell, s&p and nasdaq on the downside. a rotten week last week as well, little change for interest-rate the ten year treasury yield 4.6% is up this morning. the two year treasury the last time i checked was 511 on the two-y

we like it. >> good for stuart varney. stuart: yes. >> we know you love it. stuart: i hope the world knows that. i'm under obligation, if i own a stock, i have to tell the world about it so i can't grind their ax for them. i own a thin sliver opportunistic microsoft and i'm a happy guy. moving on, senator mitt romney claims america's involvement in the world is in the world's best interest. watch this. >> we're involved in the world because it's in america's interest, it's in israel's interest, it's in all of our ally's interest and the world's interest. stuart: he had a lot more to say and we'll tell you what else. foreign minister warned an israeli ground offensive in gaza could force iran to intervene. benjamin hall has the full story after this. ♪ you're probably not easily persuaded to switch mobile providers for your business. but what if we told you it's possible that comcast business mobile can save you up to 75% a year on your wireless bill versus the big three carriers? have we piqued your interest? you can get two unlimited lines for just $30 each

third hour of varney starts right now. stuart: steve forbes with me this monday morning. what do you think of the quality of the american leadership at this point in time? >> it's sadly reminiscent of the leadership in the 1930s in france and britain before 1939 what we had in the presidency in late 1970s when our militaries deteriorated and soviet union on the march and losing communism and the mail tear was dilapidated and the leadership is bad and barack obama didn't do anything when putin took crimea, which start that had aggression in europe and trying to undermine nato. everywhere you look. what's amazing, even not to coon the haddist reigns leading thing, after the collapse of the munimunich agreement. this guy doesn't get the magnitude of the problems we have today. it's a crisis around the world. who knows what's going to happen in the south china sea. we're not even rebuilding our navy properly. we're not contracting with the south koreaens and japanese to build more submarines and no sense of anxiety and urgency. stuart: the president leads a divided party, bad

"varney & company" picks it up. stu, take it away,ing ashley webster in for stuart varney.

"varney & company" picks it up. stu, take the it away. stuart: good morning, everyone. two the hostages released, israel's invasion of gaza apparently delayed, the stock market is rallying, and bitcoin goes straight up. let's go through this. the hostages a arrived back in ill reese a -- ill reese a a a s ago. the u.s. appears to want a delay in the ground invasion. there is concern that it would triggerrer a wider war. members of the squad continue to charge israel with genocide. that's been picked up at pro-hamas rallies at colleges and cities across the country. as of now, israel is pounding gaza are airstrikes, their tanks are prepared to move. now look at the markets. first, look at this. bitcoin hits $34,000 a coin. there is no hope for an etf which would make buying and selling crypto much easier. 34,5 as of right now. all right, to the stock market, up again at least at the opening bell. the dow industrials showing a gain can of about 160 points at this hour. nasdaq up close to 90. that's a solid rally. interest rates moving a hit little higher after yesterday's

"varney & company" is about to the begin. ♪ ♪ stuart: right to it.e than 1200 now dead, confirmed dead in israel including 14 americans. all right, lauren, take us through it. lauren: that's the most jews killed since the holocaust. that's another way of looking at it. and on the this day five of war, 4 p.m. this in gaza, and it is about to be dark. gas saw's only -- gaza's only power plant shut down, there is no fuel. and the scale of saturday's massacre is coming to light as these images of the acrossties emerge. concern atrocities emerge. israeli troops are amassing on the border as they prepare to strike gaza. they're selling targets -- shelling targets to the south, but they're also fighting hezbollah in the north, so it is a two-front war. the first shipment of u.s. weapons has arrived. secretary of state antony blinken is leaving for israel today. he will go there to help assess what they need amid concern of a wide or conflict with, yes, lebanon and syria backed by iran and possibly iraq. stuart: understood. fox corporation has made a $1 is m

"varney & company" is about to begin. ♪ ♪ stuart: u.s.ops in the mideast have been urn attack, and now we're learning about some injuries. lauren, good morning. what more do we have on this? lauren: two dozen service members have been wounded, u.s. officials say u.s. troops were attacked at least 11 times in iraq and 3 additional times in syria. this is just in the past week. the drone and rocket attacks are being carried out by third party militias, but the pentagon says they're coordinated by iran, and they're promising to defend u.s. service members israel says it has fended off rockets from syria, and it's warning of, quote, damning strikes if hostilities escalate. on this day day of war, at least 332 americans killed -- 32 americans killed, 10 unaccounted for. stuart: join fox corporation in supporting the the emergency israel fund, donate at ujapedny.org. karl rove joins us this wednesday morning. biden has come out as a strong ally for israel, but he seems to have lost the left of his party. will his divided party compromise his po

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i'm ashley webster in for stuart varney today. let's get straight to the markets and all been very mixed and muted is the way we'll describe it. the dow off about a third of a percent and nasdaq up a third and s&p somewhere in the middle down slightly about two tenths of a percent. some of the big tech names and we like to keep an eye on those and alphabet up more than 1% and meta and microsoft and slightly lower. 10 year treasury yield as it goes higher and so do the equities go lower. down 4.8 basis points with the yield and the 10 year at 4.75%. meanwhile, take a look at this, over 75,000 workers are starting to strike today in five states across the country plus washington dc in what could be the largest healthcare worker strike in u.s. history. kaiser per permanente workers including lab and pharmacists and therapists are expected to strike and we'll get a live report from the picket line coming up. anyway, now this. the white house was asked about congressman cuella after being carjacked at gunpoint. roll the tape. >> did pr

"varney & company" picks it up. stuart: good morning, everyone. dramatic developments in us israel and in washington d.c. as we speak, the ground invasion of gaza appears to be just hours away. israel has gibb a million residents -- given a million residents of north gaza 24 hours to leave. hamas is telling those people not to leave, forcing civilians to stay in the line of fire. defense secretary austin in tel aviv asked if america would fight if a second front was opened from lebanon, he would not answer the question directly. we have late reports of clashes in the west bank between demonstrators and israeli riot police. secretary of state blinken goes to the west banked today. high alert back home after a former leader of hamas called for a day of jihad. in new york with a lot of jewish population, all police officers have been told to report for duty in uniform, no excuses. some parents are keeping their children home from school today. in washington, d.c. chaos among house republicans. steve scalise has withdrawn from the speaker's race. with

"varney & company" picks it up now. stu, take it away. stuart: good morning, everyone. if you like political drama, this is your day. florida congressman matt gaetz is trying to force speaker mccarthy out. democrats are meeting this morning to decide if they'll give him any support. if they do give him the votes, they will demand concessions. how is that a win for republicans? if they don't support him and the speaker is toppled, there is no obvious successor. chaos. how is that a win for republicans, he asks. to the markets. a minor selloff in progress. it's more related to rising interest rates than republican chaos. the dow's looking down about 170, nasdaq now down 130 points. look at the 10-year treasury yield, that's the story of the morning. the yield is all the way up to 4.72%. it was 4.74 just moments ago. the 2-year is moving up as well, 5.12 on the 2-year. oil, not hutch change there, still looking at $88 a barrel, but the price of gas is starting to come to down. man, did i get that wrong. overnight, the average moved to $3.79, down 2 cents. it's still over $

not surprisingly people just like stuart varney are watching their pennies and not willing to pay thehe average nonluxury car, internal combustion and for an ev, about $50,000. so the cfo of ford said yesterday on the earnings call we're losing so far this year about 3 billion with a b dollars, and it gets worse. listen. >> our ev start up incurred 1.3 billion of losses in the quarter reflecting continued investment in our next generation products in a more challenging market for our gen one products. we have taken out some mustang production and also slowing down several investments all tolled we have pushed about 12 billion of ev spend which includes ex, direct investment and expense -- cap ex, direct investment and expense. >> they do cost more money. cars did back in the day cost more than horses. some people wanted to stick with the horses. although the car i think did catch on. stuart? >> stuart: yes, so it did. i'm not quite sure how to respond to your last comment there, but i'm just going to move on anyway. >> thank you. >> stuart: see you later. kevin is still with us. thank

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"varney & company" picks it up now. stu, take the it away. stuart: good morning, everyone. since the president left israel, the situation on the ground has deteriorated. in south remember monoisraeli forces are responding to anti-tank missiles fired into israel by hezbollah, iran's proxy. in the west bank, the idf has arrested 63 hamas operatives. in syria, a drone attack on an oil facility housing american troops and a nearby u.s. base. there is now fighting on three fronts. back home an emotional peach by democrat congresswoman rashida tlaib. she says biden's support for israel is, quote, your genocide. the president clearly leads a divided party. he addresses the nation at 8 p.m. tonight. to the markets. now, here is the number to watch. the yield on the 10-year treasury, closing in on 5%. right now we're at 4.93. the 2-year treasury moving to 5.25%, you're actually at 5.21 right now. stock investors do not like these the rising yields. as for the dow industrials, going to open fractionally higher, s&p up 8, nasdaq may be gaining 60 points. some green there. here's anoth

that is it for "varney and company" for today. i've got to count this down accurately. 5 seconds to go. i've got to say coast to coast starts now. adam: we are indeed watching the market reaction of which we try to do every day, what has been remarkable this week with growing fears of a land invasion any moment among 300,000 israeli reservist. how remarkable it is, stocks have indeed held their own. nasdaq stocks are going to be up, and the columbus day holiday started things off, the jitters might be feeding the buying of treasury notes, the more those rates come down, it is bump and grind but the fact is if you were to say last saturday morning, if you were to tell me as that was unfolding, war was looking inevitable that the market would finish up and interest rates would finish lower, oil even with an advance would finish lower. you would think it was crazy but that is the reality. we will get into than and more. following developments right now with all hands on deck, those making their way back to israel to fight the good fi

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