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ashley: good afternoon, everybody, i'm ashley webster. tracy: i'm tracy byrnes. happy halloween.ilsenrath effect. markets took a plunge 24 hours ago when "the wall street journal"'s jon hilsenrath that the fed still has tapering on the table for december. we happen to be joined by that very man, jon hilsenrath, the man that can apparently move markets. we'll go and find out what is next for the fed. elizabeth macdonald will be here to go one-on-one with him. you don't want to miss that. ashley: faa says yes to using some electronic devices on planes. you still can't make a cell phone call. our twitter question, should be able to? tweet us. tracy: what is the point? are you using electronics anyway? ashley: you're supposed to turn them off when they take off and land. tracy: everybody does that, sure. ashley: well, now we know you don't. tracy: exactly. turning gamblers into traders. cantor fitzgerald tries it and may face charges for money laundering. we'll talk to a former federal prosecutor ahead. ashley: in tech minute, what the heck is google up to. mysterious barges in calif

ashley: i'm ashley webster. government shutdown, the president's view.ut to give us his view on all of this d.c. stalemate and showdown. we'll bring it to you live of course and fill you in on house speaker boehner's latest version. plus, how is it all playing with small business? we'll go one-on-one with nfib chief economist bill dunkelberg. tracy: you don't want to miss this. peter barnes with an exclusive interview with one of the so-called hawks at the fed, philadelphia fed president charles plosser. so when will they begin to taper? that is an interview you can not afford to miss. our twitter question of the day, the fed or d.c. politicians, which poses the greatest risk to the markets and your portfolio right now? tweet us at fox business #mkn. that is something you can't afford to miss. ashley: do we get the option of both on that question? tracy: all of the above. ashley: all of the above. top of the hour. time for stocks. let's get straightstraight to lauren simonetti on the floor of the new york stock exchange. wall street down on the governmen

ashley: i'm ashley webster. t the budget deal but did you know washington slipped a healthy helping of pork into it as well? outrageous. we have team coverage ahead. tracy: our twitter question -- ashley: oink, oink. tracy: are you even more fed up with congress after learning that the spending bill is stuffed with, well, questionable stuff? tweet us at fox business. your responses are coming up. ashley: billionaire mark cuban calling the government a bully after being cleared of insider trading charges. judge andrew napolitano is here. you doesn't want to miss what he has to say about all of this. tracy: and look, this can not be a good idea. ahead in your tech minute, we'll tell you about a motorcycle helmet with a computer display projecting maps on the visor. come on, now. how about two hand on the wheel? let's focus. ashley: oh, my gosh, accident is written all over it. time for stocks. let's get down to nicole petallides on the floor of the new york stock exchange. as we do every 15 minutes, the dow has str

i'm ashley webster. tracy: and i'm tracy byrnes.vestor carl icahn cores apple with a new tactic to stir things up. the website pushing the company to buy back more shares. liz macdonald is here whether it is working or not. ashley: new promises that the obama website will be fixed allowing people to actually enroll on time but our twitter question to you, whose head should roll for these problems? give us a tweet. your responses are ahead. tracy: everybody knows that girl's face now, right. new battle on the government war on banks. there are rules that require them to hold more assets. we have the former chairman of wells fargo here to react. ashley: in tech minute, let there be light. sidewalks that store solar energy during the day to light your way home at night. if you had a little too much to drink it is going to help. that and zoo much more ahead on this bright hour of "markets now." tracy: i think it is brilliant. ashley: show me the way home. tracy: dow almost at session highs. up almost 90 points. nicole petallides on floo

ashley: i'm ashley webster. battle in the beltway.and president obama trading jabs over the shutdown showdown. we'll have the latest from capitol hill straight ahead. tracy: stocks climbing near the highs of the day but the dow and s&p are on track for a losing week. despite concerns over the shutdown mike crofton says the longer it lasts the more opportunity there is for investors. he is going to explain all that straight ahead. ashley: hashtag, finally. a look at twitter's financials. it is one of the most anticipated stock offerings of the year and we will have an expert panel for to you break down all of the numbers. that's coming up. tracy: pretty exciting. it is top of the hour. time for stocks. we go to nicole petallides on the floor of the exchanges like we do every 15 minutes. stocks are at the highs but still a good friday, nicole. >> the dow is about 25 points off the highs of the day at 58 to the upside. so you can see it up almost half of 1%. the nasdaq has been the benbest of the bunch. that is another story i give you t

ashley: welcome back, everybody, i'm ashley webster. tracy: and i'm tracy byrnes.anted at all. anemic jobs number, bad for main street. wall street on the other hand is higher as traders again see no fed tapering ahead. we are all over the story. ashley: keep the cheap money coming. the robots by the way, they're coming for your job as well. oh, boy. we'll talk to the ceo of a firm that wants to replace your favorite starbucks barista with a machine. >> i want to buy one for my house. brings us to the twitter question of the day, are you worried your job will be replaced by a robot? tweet us @foxbusiness#mkn m. ashley: much more ahead on tablet wars. what is new from apple with its ipad. we hope to find out literally in minutes, on the same day by the way, that nokia and microsoft launch theirs. we'll have that and so much more ahead on this hour of "markets now." tracy: it is top of the hour and time for stocks. we head to nicole petallides on floor of the new york stock exchange. up 65 and new apple products, i could potentially buy myself a robot, what could be

tracy byrnes, ashley webster take you through the next hour of fox business. don't miss it.h ally bank 24/7, but there are no branches? 24/7. i'm sorry, i'm just really reluctant to try new things. really? what's wrong with trying new things? look! mommy's new vacuum! (cat screech) you feel that in your muscles? i do... drink water. it's a long story. well, not having branches let's us give you great rates and service. i'd like that. a new way to bank. a better way to save. ally bank. your money needs an ally. tracy: hey, happy monday, i'm tracy byrnes. ashley: i'm ashley webster. markets rattled by the government shutdown and fears that the u.s. could actually default if congress fails to get its act together but don't fear. we have a power panel here ahead to help you make money on the shutdown. nicole, elizabeth and charles. tracy: serious mug shots. now we go one-on-one with cme chief terry duffy, an exclusive interview how the government shutdown is stopping the flow of information to the commodities markets. ashley: puting a face on that government shutdown. while the

adam: i'm ashley webster.ed by google, facebook, netflix and intuit also setting new highs. great day for tech stocks. all of this while china's lenovo eyes blackberry. tracy: that brings us of course to our twitter question of the day. so if you had an extra $5,000 to invest, would you buy shares of google or blackberry? that is actually an interesting question. adam: it is. tracy: tweet us your answers. we'll put your responses up ahead. and all you. adam: u.s. feature, tech minute. makers of "grand theft auto", they're making out like bandits appropriately. how you can make money on it straight ahead. tracy: jeff flock is kind of living on the edge today. he is live overlooking o'hare's cemetery runway. you will be shocked to learn why it actually has that name. we'll have that much and much more ahead on markets now. big news news of the day we're n sirius xm 113. adam: did you listen? tracy: i listened on the way in. i'm not sure if you need in the morning is varney yelling at you but i got it. road rage,

ashley: i'm ashley webster. cyber security summit.bama meeting with ceos at the white house. our twitter question, do you trust the same people who brought you the obamacare website to tighten up cyber security? tweet us. your responses coming up. tracy: is a rhetorical question, right? ashley: may be. tracy: apology for the problems with the obamacare website. we're live on capitol hill as congress grills the head of the agency responsible for the site but is saying i'm sorry enough? ashley: consumers putting the brakes on car sales. that is taking down the whole retail sector. we'll have an analyst what it means for the all-important holiday shopping season ahead. tracy: in our tech minute, the suck mark zuckerberg files. we have files for every word that the every word that the facebook ceo has spoken. that is little maniacal, right? that is ahead on "markets now." ashley: zuckerberg rocking. tracy: nicole petallides on floor of the exchange. nicole you have breaking news on jpmorgan, don't you? >> right. as the market has been hit

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ashley: i'm ashley webster.ring with president obama set to meet with congressional leaders in just about an hour now on late word that washington may, we heard it before, may be close to a framework on at least a short-term solution to the debt crisis. tracy: that is our big twitter question of the day. can d.c. get its act together tweet us at fox business #mkn.k? ashley: joining us with their take, charles payne, greg valliere and fox business's david asman weighing in on what happens next. tracy: and in our newest feature, tech minute, why facebook's mark zuckerberg is buying up homes. ashley: because he can afford it. tracy: exactly. ashley: first, top of the hour, time for stocks now on this columbus day. let's get straight to nicole petallides down at nyse. nicole, stocks certainly reversing earlier 100 point loss on the sniff of a potential deal in washington. >> it is pretty unbelievable as the watch the market action pertaining to each headline. we started off with negative action. we were to the downs

ashley: i'm ashley webster.ts adding to the gains of their best day of the year yesterday. while everybody's working for the weekend lawmakers in washington will be working through the weekend trying to hammer out a deal. byron york will be joining with us up sight to the gop strategy and why he is warning that talks could easily fall apart. adam: shutdown and shut out. trying to get into a life-saving clinical drug trial. forget it. we'll talk about the impact of the fda being closed with a accord today therapeutics ceo ron cohen in an he can exclusive. ashley: to and threw, why the netflix emmy-award-winning show, "house of cards" will fold after two season. >> time to check stocks with nicole petallides on the floor of the new york stock exchange. major averages are accually building on some gains, aren't they? >> couple of points away from the session highs on the dow jones industrials. so yes, they absolutely are. nasdaq up 3:00 quarters of a percent and, s&p 500, 1701. you notice that? 1701. the s&p 500 is

i'm ashley webster. tracy: i'm tracy byrnes. markets in middle, huh? budget and debt mess in d.c. now seem farther and farther away. gop house members throwing a new plan in the ring and dems calling it, well, sabotage. investors don't know what to make of it all. the dow is down 56 points. ashley: neither can any of us. the best is congress kicks the can on the debt and deficit. is that good enough? tweet us and your answers are straight ahead. tracy: a big earnings miss at citi. but we have an analyst ahead to still likes the stock and we'll find out why. ashley: our newest feature, tech minute, why supermarket shelves may soon be watching you. tracy: a little freaky. depend where the camera is, what exactly are they watching? ashley: hopefully just, first stop of the hour, time for stocks. let's go to nicole petallides on the floor of the new york stock exchange. nicole. >> the people who taste the grapes will be in big trouble. take a look here. the dow jones industrials down 52 points right now. what is interesting to note we actually moved into p

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ashley: welcome back, everybody, i'm ashley webster. tracy: and i'm tracy byrnes. and government shutdown realities are tag-teaming to pull down stocks. the dow is tumbling, down about 72 points right now. third loss in four-days on the markets right now. we have got a money manager that will tell us why he is not buying stocks anytime soon. ashley: wall street ceos speak out after a white house meeting on all this fiscal mess. why they are urging action on the debt ceiling deadline now of course just two weeks away. tracy: stopping the government shutdown, president obama calling congressional leaders to a meeting just over three hours from now. congressman sean duffy will tell us what must happen to break the stalemate. he has his magic eight-ball. ashley: at this stage, anything. first off the top of the show, let's get to the stocks slipping lower. let's get get to nicole petallides on floor of the new york stock exchange. nicole, stocks are off session lows. >> they're off session lows. interesting how they make their way back to the unchanged line, instead of

ashley: i'm ashley webster.ernanke and the fed moments away from the latest decision and proannouncements. no one expects a big change in monetary policy, we'll sift through the language for any hints of future changes. tracy: we're all over it. peter barnes standing by at the fed with the first word. peter will interrupt us immediately when the gets the decision. zane brown of lord abbett fixed income and our lauren simonetti down on the floor of the nyse. phil flynn at cme in the trading pits. ashley: all right, let's start with bob first. what are you looking for in this statement, bob? >> very little. you are not going to see much of any change in the statement, you will hear about some worries of impact of the government shutdown. they will continue the asset purchases. really not much. don't expect very much. you will not see much of a reaction by the stock market. you will have the fed keeping quantitative easing at least until april i think. tracy: zane, how about you, what are you waiting for? let's rem

i'm ashley webster. tracy: and i'm tracy byrnes. after a morning selloff as the drama in decease continues to heat up -- d.c. the dow was down 190 points at its low. now just down about 100. ashley: coming back. the question is, could a deal be coming? in a speech this morning president obama showing no signs of compromise, putting more pressure on house speaker john boehner to allow a vote on a clean spending bill. we'll have the very latest from capitol hill straight ahead. tracy: it is not even halloween yet. oh god, another holiday, but a new report shows that holiday sales are expected to rise. lazard capital's jennifer davis disagrees. she actually thinks we're in for a weak year. ashley: halloween in d.c. is very scary. i mean, come on. tracy: oh, i'm with you. ashley: not pretty, put it that way. but first climbing off the lows of the day as tracy just said, let's go down to the new york stock exchange. nicole petallides, nicole. >> we've seen some improvement, ashley and tracy, that is absolutely right. right now the dow is

ashley: ashley webster with your fox business brief.act to a mixed bag of earnings, dow component went on the blue chips after third quarter results missed estimates but another dow stock, boeing soaring after its quarterly numbers topped expectations. right now the dow up 80 points. investigator says hundreds of irs contract workers are behind on their taxes, the irs inspector general says 5% of contract employees or 700 workers or a total of $5.4 million in back taxes. prices rose 0.5% making the estimates but export prices also of 0.3%, prices expected to remain unchanged and that is the latest from of a fox business network giving you the power to prosper. cheryl: there is. we are ready. fox business all-star showdown title and the final competitor, oliver porche duking get out this friday at 12:00 eastern. are the stocks for the championship round, tracking them for a month, the average best performance will win. we thought it would be fun to look at the average of their picks for the past year to see if it could help predict who t

. ♪ ashley: i am ashley webster with your fox business brief. shares of ups are up higher.evenue $13.5 billion. just missing the forecast. ups expects to pick up 34 billion packages on its peak day. a surge in aircraft the expectation was for it to rise 2%. that is the latest from the fox business network. giving you the power to prosper. ♪ dennis: mark cuban toppling the sec after a jury rejected the claims. market cuban joins us now. i appreciate you being here. first, let's start with a broader picture. >> you know, i do not have the insides. i do not have the exposure to all the data to know if insider trading is rampant or not. i think the sec overplays the impact it has on individual investors and their decision-making process. there is no correlation at all. i think the sec may need to reevaluate. dennis: is as part of a bigger and rotter part? >> i think there are certain individuals that are lifers. i think there are certain individuals -- i try not to generalize about the government or an entire agency. dennis: two companies, businesses and big investors, do they

. ♪ ♪ nine i am ashley webster with your fox business brief.justed profit of $0.50 a share. revenue climbing to $8.1 billion. also topping the forecast. china's economy grew. that is the fastest growth rate of 2013. previous quarter growth of 7.5% with a decade low. general electric reporting a higher adjust profit. that is the very latest from the fox news network. giving you the power to prosper. ♪ the ten consumer confidence is on the joe klein. we are joined now by i hg american president. we have to talk about how this s a fact being. >> we have the strongest summer we have ever had in the history of hotels. tracy: business is finally coming back. >> it is. we are showing some of the hotels right now. holiday inn, holiday inn express. you are at a good price point. >> our brands cover a wide variety. the bulk of our brand is in the mainstream category. tracy: you just had a little groundbreaking. tell us about it. >> we had a month ago. it is great to see what is happening just across the river here. tracy: speaking of business, you said t

. >> ashley webster with your fox business brief.nt shutdown, no usda prices. this followed and producers in the ultimate formula using private data to determine prices since u.s. the market prices have been suspended. hershey announced it will build a manufacturing plant in malaysia. $250 million factory will be one of the largest and the largest ever investment in asia, hurting chocolate and icebreakers. asia and china in the fastest-growing region and samsung's operating profits had another record high. the maker of galaxies markphones set to make $9.4 billion of 25% from last year, that is the latest on the fox business network giving you the power to prosper. r teaching us that you can't create the future... by clinging to the past. and with that: you're history. instead of looking behind... delta is looking beyond. 80 thousand of us investing billions... in everything from the best experiences below... to the finest comforts above. we're not simply saluting history... we're making it. so i can reach ally bank 24/7, but there ar

♪ >> i am ashley webster with their fox business.tgage rates have little change this week. the number of u.s. homes entering the foreclosure process sliding to a seven year low in the third quarter. about 174,000 homes. down 39% from a year ago. taylor pharmaceutical announced it will cut 5000 jobs by the end of next year. they will save about $2 billion annual by the end of 2017. that is the latest from the fox business network. giving you the power to prosper. ♪ dennis: some of the important leaders in healthcare industry, they are here in new york. an exclusive interview with elizabeth macdonald and bruce broussard. >> bruce is one of 200 executives meeting right now in the lincoln center. i asked him how health reform is affecting his bottom line. here is what he had to say. >> i think for society overall, it will be great. it is expanding coverage for people. business, it will give us more customers. >> what are you seeing in terms of medicare cutbacks? >> it is reducing the rights they pay us. it is allowing us to find new ways

ashley: ashley webster with your fox business brief.ticals ceo jeremy levin stepping down from his role of the israeli drugmaker today. the company did not give a reason for the departure but the drugmaker's third quarter earnings report will be released tomorrow. the cfo has been named interim ceo. the board affirmed the search committee for a permanent successor. again and 30,000 jobs in october and looking like 20,000 according to a payroll processing firm adp that is the smallest increase since april. september at number was revised down to $140,000. one of the best minds in health-care can't run a company. tonight at 8:00 eastern neil cavuto talks with ceo richard squishy about fixing the health care system. that is the latest on the fox business network. cheryl: from pharma to health services the health-care industry getting ready for obamacare but where should you putting your money in the sector or sectors? as ac capital iq and a.j. rice of ubs join me now. welcome, i hope you can hear me. let's talk about this, good to have you

ashley: i'm ashley webster.away from the release of the latest fed minutes as markets hit session highs. we have an all-star panel for you ready to dissect all of the oct-tape every nuggets. janelle yet len expected to be nominated by the president as the next chair of the fed. what does the market think about that? i think they like it. our twitter question of the day, what should janet yellen's first priority be? give as you tweet at fox business #mkn. tracy: marcia blackburn will talk as the government shutdown and debt ceiling looms. right now we go to peter barnes in washington. >> hey, tracy. the fomc minutes for the september meeting show the fed members support staying on track with their plan for tapering, depending on how the economic data comes in. if it comes in as they want and expect, more job growth, continued decent economic growth, they say they would start tapering. they say once again, start tapering by the end of this year and winding the program down by the middle of 2014. but, a great debat

ashley: i'm ashley webster. maybe a path to a plan?ffering a new plan for the debt ceiling increase. the question will meetings at the white house over the next 24 hours, there by the way, a picture of it, could that result in a deal? in case you're wondering. what could come from a short-term extension? you know what we'll do this all over again anyway. jerry webman, from oppenheimer funds will join us on that. lori: a possible debt deal does not change the shutdown and no lending or financial verifications. we have a ceo on the shutdown impact on homebuyers. twitter question of the day, so how long will the shutdown shuts down the nascent housing market recovery? tweet us at fox business #mkm. ashley: what it doesn't need. lady gaga, you know her, encouraging the little monsters to get covered. she doesn't cover up. hey,,but why celebs are jumping on the obamacare bandwagon. always a good show when you get lady gaga in. major averages moving because of a possible debt ceiling extension. we'll take any good news i guess. lauren simone

ashley: i'm ashley webster. markets rallying as washington plays, let's make a deal.ts meeting as the senate reach as compromise to reopen the government but can speaker boehner keep republicans from ruining this one? team coverage ahead. tracy: good luck. our twitter question of the day, what is your message to congress? and good luck trying to keep it clean and within 150 characters. tweet us and we'll flash your answers during the hour. that is my little ad-lib, by the way..3 of the go outside of fox business headquarters for live responses as well. ashley: a lot of asterisks and things like that in there. plus in our newest feature, tech minute, facebook's founder didn't graduate college but soon may become professor zuckerberg anyway. how about that for a teacher? we'll tell you why. tracy: are you jonessing for oreos? maybe because researchers say you could be addicted to these cookies with cream inside. you don't want to miss this. -@ashley: from oreos to beige book, peter barnes is what it he is telling us from around the country. >> back book says the economi

. ♪ ♪ >> i'm ashley webster with your fox business brief.ng to 5.6%, the biggest month to month drop in more than three years. the national association of realtors saying that its pending home sales index plunging to 101.6, the fourth consecutive monthly decline. industrial production increased by six-tenths of 1% in september up from the august increase. the september rise was the largest gain since february. and toyota maintaining its lead over general motors as the world's top-selling automaker for the first nine months of the year. toyota had sold 7.41 million vehicles so far edging out gm's 7.25 million with sales just over 7 million. that's the latest on the fox business network, giving you the power to prosper. when we made our commitment to the gulf, bp had two big goals: help the gulf recover and learn from what happened so we could be a better, safer energy company. i can tell you - safety is at the heart of everything we do. we've added cutting-edge technology, like a new deepwater well cap and a state-of-the-art monitoring center

ashley: i'm ashley webster. website went down today after suffering yet another glitch this weekend. all of this days before the health and human services secretary kathleen sebelius is set to testify on capitol hill. coming up gerri willis will be weighing in and i think she will have a lot to say. we want to hear from you as well. our twitter question of the day, are the computer glitches just the tip of the iceberg for the obamacare website? tracy: this has been a disaster. talk about two for the price of one, well, sort of, not exactly, but this is the first quarter where apple will have sold two new iphones instead of one. with nine million new iphone 5ss and 5 ss and 5c, only sold not nearly as much we'll talk more about that. expectations are high for apple's earnings. we have a preview of that coming up. ashley: samsung hitting the hardwood. a new partnership with the nba has the south korean tech company sitting pretty courtside. details of the $100 million deal in our tech minute. that is very old scho