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the baltic dry index, a five-year chart and what's important is the daily rate to all things like ironal has basically tripled in the past 18 months, and we're at 1,800 now, but what's important is this basing took place right at the '08-'09 level. let's look at a long-term chart just to put this move into perspective and puts into question whether one is too late. it has tripled off the low, but is it too late? when you look at a top like that, obviously this is the china explosion and so forth, but in many ways to say it's too late is a silly thing, not that anyone said that but i wouldn't think that. now let's look at some ways to express this in the marketplace. this is the guggenheim shipping etf. it picks up many different stocks, but to give you a look and feel, all the hallmarks of a bearish to bullish reversal which is to say a very weak thing coming to life just like the baltic index itself. moving on to a picks let's look at dry ships. a very aggressive move after a big base. the thing has basically doubled from 2 to 4, closed today at 3.50 on a nice little dip. now, again,

out any of the three baltic states, so sweden and finland were certainly the most logical choices. and stockholm won that choice. this is in fact the first time a president has visited sweden in a bilateral capacity. president bush was the first president to visit sweden, i believe, in 2009 in gothenburg, sweden, for u.s.-eu summit. but this is the first time that we'll have a president visit the capital. president obama arrives in sweden and will be greeted by prime minister fredrik reinfeldt. he has led a center-right government for the last seven years. he will face elections next year. certainly sweden has experienced some unsettled times and its own challenges dealing with integration of immigrants. if you'll recall, in may, about six days of riots in the suburbs of stockholm dealing with a police shooting and continues to be a very great topic of conversation with that immigration aspect. so certainly that would be part of the domestic conversation. prime minister reinfeldt has been very gracious in gathering his four other nordic colleagues to join with president obama in a

first the aggregate, this is the baltic dry index, five year chart.rtant, the daily rate to haul things like iron ore or corn or coal has tripled in the past 18 months. and we're at 1800 now, what's important is this basing took place right at the '08, '09 low. we didn't violate the crisis low of lehman and bear sterns and madeoff. it has tripled off the low. but is it too late? when you look at a top like that, obviously this is the china explosion and so forth. but in many ways, to say it's too late is a silly thing. not that anyone said that, but i wouldn't think that. now, let's look at some ways to express this in the marketplace. this is the guggenheim shipping, it picks up many stocks. just to give you a look and feel, it has the hallmarks of a bearish to bullish reversal, which is to say a very weak thing that's coming to life, just like the baltic index itself. now, moving on to a pick, let's look at dry ships. a very aggressive move, after a big base. the thing is basically doubled from two to four, closed today at 350 on a dip. now, again,

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. >> merkel traveled to her constituency on the baltic coast for the final stop of her campaign. she is fighting for every last vote, leaving nothing to chance. now in the studio by our political affairs correspondent. michaela, the chancellor is surging in the polls. could she win this out right? and talk us through the preferred outcome. could voten voters directly for the chancellor, it looks like she could win this out right, with a handsome majority, 58% of people polled over the last weeks and months saying they would vote for her directly, but she needs a party. as the opinion polls show at the moment, she would need a coalition partner. there are no easy options. the easiest option is the free democrats, who were in coalition with her, if they were to gain at least five percent, but this looks by no means certain that the moment. there is no clear outcome. the other potential option would be a grand coalition, but the social democrats are looking reluctant about this option. >>ome have camp -- some have complained that the campaigns are lackluster. do they have a point an

the most severe weather is going to be found from germany into the baltic state. the system will likely linger across this location throughout the day, and again turning cooler across the british isles, with incoming low pressure system, not too bad on wednesday, however, turning very chilly on your friday, you may want to wear one more layer of a jacket as we go into your friday. for example, only 13 degrees for you on the last day of the workweek. and 15 degrees for manchester. here's your extended forecast around the globe. >>> here's a recap, people in japan are looking back. it's been two and a half years since an earthquake and tsunami devastated the northeast. about 290,000 people are still living away from their homes. spokespersons for the national police agency say nearly 16,000 people died in the disaster. more than 2,600 are missing. more than 2,600 got sick and died after they left their homes. evacuees from the hardest hit prefectures are living in temporary housing or rented apartments. workers have not been able to keep up with the demand for publi

. >> maria, look at that baltic dry index. it's at all time highs again in 2013. a leading global economic indicator to look for as far as the health of the global economy into q-4. >> look how good that looks. >> we do love the baltic dry index. >> that is a good looking chart. >> thank you all for joining us. appreciate it very much. does this mean we can't mention the fed anymore? >> we can still mention it. but i'm over it. bill, i'm over it. on to earnings. >> we'll get to earnings. let's get to gold, first. having its best percentage gain in more than four years. sharon epperson at the nymex with more on that. folks thanking ben bernanke, i guess, huh? >> maybe some gold traders are a bit over the fed for the moment as well. that one day gain is actually a one session gain. the session started after the 1:30 close yesterday. most of the gain we saw in gold was between the 2:00 announcement and 5:15 end of electronic trading yesterday. today we're not seeing as much action in the gold market. but still we are looking at a tremendous runup post fed in the gold

you mentioned baltic freight. up 114% since august 12 9. it's not just the shipping, the industrials, the mining, they have been leaders. once you get through washington and all of this confusing times here, that those are the sectors you want to be buying. i think the guidance from these sectors are going to be better because the global economies are getting better. >> katie, you know, maria raises an interesting question right off the bat. it goes back really to what carl icahn told you about valuation of the market being fully valued and that sort of thing. it's become much more difficult to find cheaper stocks. and i think that may be playing into some of the role -- investors don't know where to go, into what kind of sectors, what kind of stocks to buy. right now momentum names have pushed so far. where do you go here? >> i do think you stick with outperforming sectors. consumer discretionary as we've been discussing, industrials, technology. i think those are the areas of outperformance for the fourth quarter, so still looking for tha

roughly twenty percent in the baltic states twelve percent in spain and so on but those numbers have a very real effect on people and they mean fewer services available to those who need the most according to oxfam this will drastically increase poverty and inequality across the continent not just now but for years to come now in these economic times having a job itself doesn't mean you're in the clear in fact almost one in ten working households in europe now live in what's known as in work poverty now they may bring home a paycheck but it simply doesn't buy what it used to and that is because the value of wages has actually dropped in countries where spending cuts have been the harshest prices go up salaries stay the same causing many families to struggle just to get by now the spending cuts also mean fewer jobs unemployment in the many european countries is hitting record highs and the report notes that women and young people are often most effective what about those who lose their job only just ten months even years looking for another in ireland greece and spain the long term un

is the question and we should note that the from the most recent pets the balance of forces in the baltic states know the biggest enemy is the us safe to be steven levy step who waits putting them missing we see two days to be his or soon young people to get these kids up to see you get the petty details of the super. super super creepy to put things in the story context because. we talk nonsense first of all. does it take precedence. there's been problems is quite a long time. to do with this could take the well being in. this state to make you like egypt a client state one in the uk soon. you'll be blown. porch in effect it's not a one sided string of checks but these killing christians allow we zig needles on the ground is the need to pretend. they do the piece to be safe to be steep it. would be no mistake we see we take city pretty good deeds will soon be petty get the super committee get the suv. to use. marcel let's talk about hip hop first performance thank you for doing it why did you initially choose hip hop as your means of expression what i think from its inception was born as

but actually spent a winter up here also in petersburg you know the head of the bay of finland the baltic sea here the winds get ferocious and with the high humidity it gets very very cold indeed what we're waiting for katie now is tonight a lot of the world leaders from the g. twenty now heading to the peterhof palace as tonight they'll be a laser show doing also the pictures on the side of the palace as well as artists from the marine ski theater as well going forward to it i'm famous again for the hype i see mr obama that he gets in lays this together have you got an early start to morrow. are you going to go ladies or jim brady if i say i'm going to look at some place it's not i want lime getting to the city why not embrace them hand after business and pleasure but to morrow i am really looking forward to that state because i get into t.v. i.m.f. . christina like god i'm listening to be talking to the head of the aisle or you're talking you're talking big names that could be. a t.v. day two of the g. twenty day be going to be a big one in days already fully set in florida and he will

the question that we should know much better from the most recent pets the balance of forces in the baltic to know the peace to me is the way safe to be steven levy step two way putting them missing we see two days defeatism soon to be pretty good these kids up to seem to be just the petty thieves of the super. super super greedy to put things in the school context was. we talk nonsense first of all. does it take precedence. there's been problems is quite a long time. to do with this continued. well being in. this state to make you like egypt a client state one in the uk soon. you'll be blown. porch in effect it's not a one sided string of attacks killing christians allow resisted needles on the ground is the need to say and. do the peace to be safe to be stupid. would be no mistake when we see a city pretty good piece of. the pretty good to his office so you think it is up to soon. to use. marcel let's talk about hip hop first performance thank you for doing it why did you initially choose hip hop as your means of expression what i think from its inception was born as a culture of resista

is the question we should know much better from the most recent past the balance of forces in the baltic states know the peace to me is the same duty steven levy step away putting them missing we see two days to see his office soon to young people to get these kids up to see the petty thieves of the super. super super greedy to put things in historical context was. so we talk nonsense first of all. does it take precedence. has been problems is quite a long time yes. yes. this could take. this state to make you like egypt a client state one in the uk super you. won't. porch in effect this is not a one sided string of attacks killing christians allow wheezy it may do so on the ground is the need to pretend. they do the peace to be a safe. place would be no mistake we take city pretty good pizza. he pretty good to his office soon to get the suv. she says. marcel let's talk about hip hop first performance thank you for doing it why did you initially choose hip hop as your means of expression well i think it's inception was born as a culture of resistance a culture of struggle something very

so far versus public sector austerity where you do what the baltic nations have done and reduce the burden of government spending. we've seen better results in countries that have done what they can to control, limit and cut government spending as opposed to spain and the u.k. that have been raising taxes hand over 50. >> wasn't austerity necessary in some way or another? the budget office this week talking about how our debt to g.d.p. ratio would get to 100% in a few years. >> austerity was necessary in some places. in smaller countries that don't have the captive market for the bond that the united states does, if the market was nervous the united states was extending itself, we would have seen rising interest rates. instead, we've seen the opposite. people are rushing to buy u.s. government bonds because they are safe securities. that gave us a luxury some governments didn't have where we could rely on fiscal policy. >> you have to be careful however you go with that debt. >> you have to be careful, but we're not in the danger zone. we have a long way to go. we're actually in a position

grab your power baltic -- power ball tickets.ting right now. ♪ >> green and blue out there protecting the streets of new york city for us. thank you for joining us. it is thursday, welcome to "fox & friends first". i am heather childers. >> i am ainsley earhardt. it is 31 minutes after the top of the hour. we begin with an exclusive interview with bashar al-assad. he sat down with gregg palkot and dennis kucinich. in it he admits to having chemical weapons but blames the terrorists for carrying out the horrific attack last month. >> it is clear from the interview that nothing about this agreement to get him to turn over his chemical weapons is going to be quick and easy. they confirm sarin bagas was us in syria. the trajectory of the rockets themselves that link the attack to bashar al-assad. he acknowledged that his country has chemical pweapons but he alo said rebel troops were responsible for the attack. >> sdwent use any chemical weapons. terrorist groups used them and that evidence handed over to the russians. >> they have t

and on there you have russia and china -- >> you have milosevic in the baltics and they have him becauses ethnic cleansing and -- >> but you didn't have to get him to cooperate. you have to get russia to make him do what russia wants and say agree to sign on to this and get rid of the weapons and supervise it through the u.n. >> but you're always going back to the u.n. >> so this chemical treaty is a bunch of baloney. it doesn't mean anything to anybody? >> it really doesn't. not to syria. >> in california, there's a proposed new law that says if you're in a relationship and you do some videos or still pictures, you can't put them public, right? >> even if you consent, two parties say let's do this, either photos or recordings and you gree agree this is something we're going to have between us as private. if someone is married and then divorced, if you disseminate it, you're then breaking the law. >> because people do this because they're angry. so california would have a law that makes that a misdemeanor. >> iks month six months for the offense. how do you prove that both parties consen

. >> i will be watching the baltic dry index. neil: so weird, so as i.ay in september, 32% in just the last two weeks, and although ben bernanke says we have higher prices for shipping, they are there to watch this. >> he will be waiting up for the consumer sentiment amount. they contact 500 households asking them how they feel about the economy and what are their spending habits likely to be. we are going to give a good gauge as to what the people feel about the economy. if those numbers are good, it makes people tell themselves that i need to be spending more because i need to feel better about the economy. the report you don't want to miss. neil: tomorrow is denny's grand slam bid. [laughter] neil: tomorrow we have a brand-new segment by you. send us a tweet at neil cavuto and ask me anything. tell me what you are ticked off about. i may just respond to you. i want you all to go to bed right now. [cheers] [cheers] john: hundreds of union teachers once showed up outside of my office to shout shame on me. why have tenure? now a school reform movement ha

my friend on the street, going back and forth on that baltic dry, you want to be in dryships.a is my favorite. todd in massachusetts. todd. >> caller: hey, how you doing? >> not bad. how about you? >> caller: i wanted to know what you have thought about oled. >> i don't know. i got the cree wrong. we got to go to another show, loser money, because i can't figure the darn thing out. government shutdown money. nick in california. nick. >> caller: booyah to ya, mr. cramer. >> absolutely, i like that. >> caller: i know you're not a big fan of chinese stocks. i was hoping you could share your opinion regarding nq mobile. >> mobile connectivity. can we just buy verizon, please? why do we have to go to china? every time we go to china, do you know what happens besides this? we get our heads cut off. i say go to verizon. and that, ladies and gentlemen, is the conclusion of the lightning round! >> the lightning round is sponsored by td ameritrade. coming up, don't let the fed mess with your head. cramer's helping you keep in the clear. call, tweet or e-mail, and make sure you're prepar

grab your power baltic ets the winning number is revealed in just a few minutes.& friends first" starts right now. >> we are on the tail end of the weekend. we hope you are having a great morning so far. you are watching "fox & friends first" on this thursday. i am ainsley earhardt. >> thank you so much for starting your day with us. we have an exclusive to tell you about. he sat down with dennis cue sen itch he blames terrorists for carrying out last month. >> good morning elizabeth. >> good morning. the syrian president continually blamed what he said terrorists in this country brought the entire long interview. he did admit he will eventually get rid of his chemical weapons and join a chemical weapons convention. he talked about the attack outsid

the baltic drive freight index which i always say to keep your eye on is getting stronger and stronger almost doubled. from the low it has doubled signaling that china's starting to order raw materials again. part and parcel of that is turnaround in europe. spain just declared end to its hideous recession yesterday. greece tells us now budget surplus. remember when we were worried about italian bonds? should have bought them. meanwhile the european central bankers are saying they'll remain accommodative because the market is so fragile. sixth reason, merger acquisition and breakup pressures continue. it makes it an environment for short sellers. you never know when lightning could strike. greenway medical technologies fairly recent ipo launches a $9 billion takeover for cross-border rival tokyo electron. a 5% stake in bob evans farms wants to break the company in two and another value move. this stuff happens every day. it acts like a trampoline under the market. we're up these activist related moves later. oil is coming down given that iran is acting nice with the united nations. i do

you had the president's statement in the afternoon sitting with the leaders of the baltic nations. and then at 6:00 p.m., president obama decides to seek congressional approval. he goes on a walk with his white house chief of staff, dennis mcdonough, to hash this out. according to officials, this was kicking around inside the president's head all week. he was not really talking about this with his advisers. then after that, after this walk with dennis mcdonough, white house chief of staff, he goes back to the white house, calls his national security advisers including susan rice into the oval office and have a discussion and this discussion sparks a heated debate among his national security staff. now, we're not getting a sense from administration officials who was on what side of this debate. they won't reveal that, but needless to say, they say this was a big debate, then the president got on the phone, called vice president, called the secretary of state, called chuck hagel, defense secretary, to let them know what was happening and everybody reconvened back at the white house a

passionate statement over at the state department and the president made his statement sitting next to the balticders, he went to his chief of staff, dennis mcdonough, said let's go for a walk around the south lawn of the white house. it went on for about 45 minutes. the president came back and said he had made this decision to seek congressional approval. he went to his national security team. there was a heated debate inside the oval office. and then he called vice president biden, john kerry, the secretary of defense, chuck hagel, and started to relay the news and convened everybody back saturday morning. his principals meeting, they like to call it, national security and intelligence team, all gathered in one room. then he made the dramatic statement out in the rose garden of the white house, and it was a striking, striking day. you talked to john kerry about this earlier this morning, gloria, would the president go ahead with the use of force without congressional authorization? senior administration officials were trying to prepare us for that, saying, yes, he would do just that if he got a

we know china's going up because the baltic dry freight index keeps rallying and because 25% of china's exports go to europe, which is turning. while stocks are no longer cheap, we're far enough along in the year that managers have to use every price break to buy, not sell stocks. that's why all week i'm featuring anointed stocks, the names that have done so well this year that they're prime to be bought for the next three months in any weakness like i think we're going to get. third and most important, there's a very big change happening right now that wasn't the case even as recently as six months ago. managements are taking action to increase the value of their stocks, and activists are prodding them more and more which is leading to a lot of mergers and acquisitions. david faber and i talked about this this morning. saying, listen, a lot more m&a activity because of this activist business. microsoft announced a big dividend boost motivated by an activist, which has been eager to bring out some value. value that certainly wasn't brought out by the purchase of the nokia handset divisi

>> i look at the chinese baltic freight that came out last ni t night. we are talking about staggering numbers, euro zone confidence and chinese exports. i am saying, geez, do we have some sort of boon going oversees, japanese olympics? >> could we be carried up despite mortgage rates? i still think they are a facto. >> it did help the asian markets to some hefty gains. upbeat economic news. japanese second quarter numbers, what were they? gdp was rising sharply higher, up to 3.8%. 2.6% growth had been what we previously were working with. there had been a consensus that number was low and we would get to a higher actual number. you have data showing chinese exports up 7.2% in august. that was ahead of expectation. a 6% increase with consumer inflation holding steady last month. yum! brands, talking asia, reporting a 10% decline in stores. kfc, taco bell and pizza hut says they expect them to resume in the fifth quarter. you mentioned better than anticipated growth in asia. it seems to be grabbing hold and getting some tracks. >> there is a tax issue peo

the mediterranean, then news out today, another destroyer out there, their best flag ship in the balticare so when vladimir putin said i will assist syria, first thing, seldom arms or would it be more than that because this could mean a lot of things? the market plummeted, we lost 250 points before the press conference even began. stuart: sandra smith is in the marketplace. who will have the bigger influence on the markets today? was it vladimir putin before the press conference or president obama during a press conference? >> these markets never like when the president is talking. we always season sellout. that is playing into the picture but it was certainly vladimir putin when we turned on a dime, we have been higher on the jobs report this morning. vladimir putin said they will stand by syria in case of a strike, we pulled off 100 points in the dow, oil prices spiked sitting near their highs of the session, oil prices are back above $110 a barrel right now and there's a flight to safety going on. people are jumping back into the bond market, yielding the ten year coming back down so

i mean, for the president to visit with the nordic colleagues as well as to see the baltic president in the span of a week really speaks to, i think, a deeper regional engagement, which is - which is very welcome. i think it will be an opportunity to - for the stockholm stop to really hear from five european leaders, some within the eu, some just within nato, their concerns obviously about syria and the regional issues. i think there will be an extraordinary amount of outreach in the corridors of the g-20 summit with david cameron, with francois hollande, with the european colleagues as this gets closer. we just saw reports this morning that prime minister cameron has recalled the british parliament back in session on thursday to discuss this. so this tells me we're going to see a very intense dialogue, and in some ways that stockholm visit is a good preview of those issues. and to sort of tap on the first question, certainly it's not just u.s.-russian bilateral relations that are undergoing some reassessment: european- russian relations also. there have been challenges both with vis

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he finished speaking, the president speaking from the roosevelt room from the meeting with so many baltic state presidents. the president back pedalled. that was probably the first indication these strikes were going to be delayed. so kerry was adamant late week and worked hard over the past 48 hours or so to fall lock step with the president. >> what does the united states -- what does the president need to clearly state to fortify the united states credibility abroad at this moment you believe? >> richard, i think the president needs to do -- not just the fact we have the proof of the actual gas attack but there's unequivocal proof that convinces lawmakers, as well as international parties, that assad himself or his commanders ordered this attack. number three, to convince many reluctant members of congress there's a strategy behind the attacks and what happens if they use gas again. let me add, as i close, what happens if the assad regime orchestrates an attack on its own forces using chemical weapons in order to say it's not just us, it's also the other side? and then it complicates a

with the first baltic states to leave the european union, definitely we have a certain agenda, but the presidency for this means to try to coordinate as much as we can and try to do a lot of working discussions in brussels on many issues. the economic agenda is very detailed and very challenging. also foreign policy, which as you know, was formed back in 2007 and foreign policy is led. the member states really having an in-depth discussion in many issues. and i will run very quickly for you just to see our agenda of the presidency. and then maybe i will try to highlight some of the items on the european general counterterrorism strategy. which was adopted in 2007. and so it basically is here year it is important and very challenging because next year the european parliament will have new elections. so this is one of the final cycles of the european union while we are trying to push a lot of legislation and economic reforms within the european union until this remains. most important thing is that really that the european union we are debating to push through the so-called annual financ