it is is a lack of results. >> courtney, what are you working on?kes, spooks, and war. >> it's a book. >> i'm watching closely the situation in northern iraq where it looks like there is a possibility for a clash between the central government and the kurds as they move toward kirkuk. the turks are moving more and more troops to syria. and diplomatic relations between the -- >> would you explain how frayed that has become. >> it's remarkable. it all really started last summer with the failed coup in turkey. erdogan really felt -- >> the president of turkey. >> he felt they didn't respond with enough support for him and his government. he felt burned by that. his reaction has spanned a year. there have been a series of diplomatic back and forths this week with now both sides saying they're not going to issue visas. >> we have a minute, courtney. will the united states ever extradite gu hand to turkey? >> right or wrong, we have no evidence that he is has been conspireing. >> exactly. two of the buggest things i'm watching, there is an enormous u.s. m

this is courtney donohoe. trump called the quick response of police during the left leg is shooting a miracle. they track down the trigger -- shooter when the smoke alarm in his room when off. >> he was a sick man, a demented man, a lot of problem's i guess. we are looking at him very very seriously. we are dealing with a very very individual and courtney: we will be talking about gun laws as time goes by. the first lawsuit have been filed against the trump administration's travel restrictions. a nonpartisan legal is to filed. they say read picking travel violates the constitution. there is a report that the trump administration has two front runners to be the next chair of the federal reserve. given worst. steve mnuchin's data is in labor of owl. googles youtube is making a push to get sports fans to sign up for the new service. they have signed on as a is any concert or the world series. they will run youtube tv ads during the broad asked and the on the website you global news 24 hours a day powered by more

. >> i'm courtney ragan in for sara eisen >> nice to be with you, court. let's check in on the market picture this morning we did get slight gains on friday and slight gains for the week as a whole last week. the dow led the pack it was up 0.4% the s&p up .10 of a percent. a number of record closes. walmart the big winner last week, up 9.6% which courtney will have all the details on in a moment or so this morning we have stocks up 30 points on the dow fed chair janet yellen making the case for more rate hikes speaking at a weekend's g 30 rate hike. they said it will warrant gradual rate increases she noted inflation has been, in her words, the biggest surprise in the economy similar message in turn that was struck in the minutes last week and it's leaving the ten year treasury note below. last friday we split them to 2.28 and we're just above that this morning on monday morning, 2.29. >> asia market news, we got some data out of china. consumer prizes rose 1.69% from a year ago that was in line with expe expectatio expectations producer prices jumped 7%.

courtney, what are you reading? >> i am reading "that it's like to go to war" by can't recall marlantes. a young officer leading a platoon of 40 marines. he gives this difficult at times is and very compelling look what it is is like to be to kill the enemy and see your friends die. and to come back from that how the next four decades of his life he learned to deal with the emotional toll that his time in combat had on him. >> wow. >> it's a really important story for anyone who is trying to understand what it's like to number a war. and i think it's really telling right now when we're looking at potential conflict it seems all over the globe. >> so relevant to so many hundreds of thousands of americans. seung min kim, what are you r d reading? "jabsville an american story" by amy goldstein. when the general motors factory shuts down in the middle of the recession in 2008. it is is beautifully reported, very well done. it is also interesting to see the congressman from janesville is the current speaker paul ryan. ba

i'm courtney donohoe. this is bloomberg. mark: courtney, thank you. coming up, brexit hitting a rough patch after the breakout talks and ended in a deadlock. the eu commissioner for economic and financial affairs says the eu's position is clear. more on that conversation, next. this is bloomberg. ♪ vonnie: live from bloomberg world headquarters in new york, on vonnie quinn. mark: live from london, i am mark barton. counting down to the european close. the next it's over exit hang in the balance after talks ended in a deadlock. the european commissioner for economic and financial affairs spoke to bloomberg's tom keene about the eu position at the imf's annual meeting in washington. clear,position is very it's a divorce that needs to be a good divorce, with a strong relationship after the divorce. but discuss the future relationship between you and u.k., and u.k. will be a european country, even if not inside the eu, we still need to show the issues on the table. and the first thing is we need to have a strong, precise, definite discussion about the fin

willem marx joins us >> reporter: thanks, courtney. senate liked to vote this week they include the takeover of the local police force, the firing of the catalan cabinet the takeover of the local state broadcast. the catalan broadcast tv 3 as well as the maintenance of the economy ministers control of the region's finance ministers catalan government fighting back and saying they're not intervening and they will only take orders from the catalan people the real big question is what happens here on the ground in barcelona across the region if madrid tries to enforce its will and people decide not to accept it will civil servants, police officers not listen to what they're told to do >> over all, willem, when we look at the markets it's muted in spanish governments and less reaction a krcross the region. >> we heard from s&p over the weekend. they said they're not sure what this will mean for the spanish economy and spanish markets, spanish corporate bonds. they are saying it's something to watch closely clearly we're seeing 1100 firms w

here's courtney donohoe. courtney: republican senator bob corker warns the president could set the nation on a path toward world war iii. corker told the new york times the president is trading -- is treating his job as a reality show. president trump accused corker of being gutless for deciding not to run for reelection. corker responded saying it is a shame the white house has become an adult theater center. president trump is making some tough demands on immigration in exchange for letting the so-called dreamer stay in the country. the president wants congress to provide money for his border wall with mexico. and to make dramatic changes to immigration policy. top democrats rejected the demands. tremors are young people brought to the u.s. -- dreamers are young people who are brought to the uss children. richard thaler was awarded the nobel peace prize. the nobel committee said his work shows how human traits affect market decisions. the committee said he has made economics more human. more on this, coming

i am courtney donohoe here -- i am courtney donohoe. this is bloomberg.ark: spain ready to take control of catalonia if the push for independence goes on. the prime minister said catalonia's efforts to break away from the rest of spain is fraudulent and fruitless. fairytale.a it is not free and will not be recognized by europe and the world knows it is very high-cost . it was a fraudulent referendum on the first of october and cannot go ahead by that amount of people. from let's get the latest maria in barcelona. what happens now? what a 24 hours in barcelona. yesterday, the catalonia regional president may be symbolic move and said i am ready to set the mandate and for 10 seconds they were an independent republic but he said i will suspend this for talks. there is nothing to talk about that this is a fairytale and his signal is now i am ready to implement article 155. the socialist party just now saying we are totally ready to support rajoy. the liberals saying we need to do this and need to do it now as we have legal grounds. -- he needs tod explain wha

i am courtney donohoe.ith coming up, talking resller.ony this is bloomberg. ♪ julie: live from bloomberg world headquarters in new york, i am julie hyman. mark: i am mark barton. roughly 17 minutes until the european close. dutchsee how saudi and saudi arabia's investment fund is holding its investment initiative. erik schatzker has been talking with global business leaders and joins us with one of the biggest names in private equity. erik: mark, that would of course ler, ceo and cofounder of ares management. 100 $8 billion, nice to see you in riyadh. s have anudi extraordinary amount of money to invest but there are a great many investors. some money and money managers, not everybody can get everything. how competitive is it and what is your key to getting the saudis to work with you? tony: i think they have a very long-term perspective and how they are trying to invest their capital and they are also very focused on having a two-way street with investment professionals and investors. to they bring investo

, thank you, courtney reagan with an update on that. that is a major development as we start digesting what has happened >> this is a time that the country needs to come together the president needs to be presidential i don't want to make this political, i'll just say that's what we need right now at a time when washington is very distracted it's a massive week when you think about it, for the markets, it's a massive week for the parking lot. we have the tax draft coming out tomorrow, possibly a new fed chair announced on thursday, payroll on friday. the fed started a meeting today. to say that markets should just sail through this stuff is a really difficult thing for a market that i think has been starting to show some undercurrents of volatility. you certainly see it in dispersion in how stocks are acting we're going to get to it on this show tonight, if we get to it, stocks that have been taken out to the woodshed and ones that have a chance to come back this is a time when you start to weave in an international terrorist element, a

kim was madonna. >> courtney was michael jackson. >> that is courtney as michael jackson. >> what? >> so, we don't see the actual costumes. >> so who is who. >> courtney michael jackson, kim car kardashian is madonna. >> that is not bad. >> wow, all right. >> by the way, david, who is having the wedding and asks for sponsorships. >> hi, david. >> he said thanks for the help , we are getting the idea, about his wedding. let us know, keep us up to date. >> well, david, we would have you on the show if you hadn't gone to another station and done your story eddie says it is a try again costume. >> yes. >> all right, so, you know i'm a big fan of that movie seven because it freaks me out, morgan freeman, brad pitt and toward the end of the movie some horrible things happen but a lot of times on the show i'll say what is in the box, what is in the box? >> yes. >> so gwyneth pal tremendous was in that movie, right. >> yeah. >> and it was basically her character's head in the box. so here's the clip from the movie. >> what was in the box. >> because i envy your normal life. >> put the gun

courtney, thanks for helping us understand it. really appreciate your time. >> thank you. >> former attorney general eric holder joins us live for the interview in just a moment. stay with us. except for one of us. i write them a poem instead. and one for each of you too. thats actually yours. that one. yeah. regardless, we're stuck with the bill. to many, words are the most valuable currency. last i checked, stores don't take "words." some do. not everyone can be that poetic voice of a generation. i know right? such a burden. the bank of america mobile banking app. the fast, secure and simple way to send money. when you're clocking out. sensing your every move and automatically adjusting to help you stay effortlessly comfortable. there. i can also help with this. does your bed do that? oh. i don't actually talk. though i'm smart enough to. i'm the new sleep number 360 smart bed. let's meet at a sleep number store. >>> it was 2010. i was in alaska. lisa murkowski was an incumbent senator who'd lost the primary for her own seat and

as courtney was mentioning. i would just say on this idea of how much overhead surveillance they have, africom at the beginning of the year and initial request said they only had 20% to 30% of theed intelligence needs they require. they said it leads to intelligence failure, a lack of overhead understanding. so, this idea there isn't enough surveillance there is something you've heard within the africom community and they are building drone bases. they are building a new one in niger. they have one they're also building down in cameroon. all across africa you see dots, networks of drone bases so they can have a better idea of what's happening on the ground. they're doing surveillance. yes, they're doing training and operation with their partners but it's mostly surveillance and intelligence mission there. crucially, supporting the french who do have a lot more troops on the ground. we just had the french defense minister here at the pentagon, secretary mattis thanking her for the role they play in combating extr

how's it going out there courtney? >> reporter: well, debra we are the target of hurricane nate's second landfall and that should happen in the next couple of hours. and meanwhile, the wind and rain are starting to pack a punch. hurricane nail roared ashore as -- nate roared ashore as a category 1 hurricane in the mouth of the mississippi river saturday night. the powerful storm with 85-mile an hour winds has south mississippi in its crosshairs. >> this is a nighttime storm. nighttime storms kill people. >> reporter: mississippi governor bryant warned of the 11 to 13-foot storm surge in some areas. >> there's a big storm and it's moving in a hurry. >> reporter: the water is rise asking streets are flooding -- rising and streets are flooding on the water here in gulf port, nate's potentially deadly storm surge could do the most damage. >> that's all that concerns me is the surge you know. >> reporter: hundreds of people like blakely weren't taking any chances. they filled up sandbags ahead of the storm's arrival. >> we

i am courtney donohoe. this is bloomberg.ark: coming up, an uphill battle for akzonobel chief executive, they are looking to shore up support from investors to go it alone after an unwanted approach from a rival. more from that interview next. this is bloomberg. ♪ ♪ vonnie: live from bloomberg world headquarters in new york, i am vonnie quinn. mark: live from london, i am mark barton counting down to the european close. the future of akzonobel after a failed takeover bid from a rival. their chief executive thierry vanlancker has a long road ahead and making the go-ahead alone approach and he spoke to us earlier. >> the most important task for shareholders besides the dialogue that stepped up massively to explain what our plans are, what our future steps are. the others that is to deliver and that sense, the third quarter is a mixed message, encouraged by the volume momentum and a positive turn on prices in the market. at the same time, the third quarter from a variety of industry announcements, everyone in the same boat, a nu

courtney, good morning. >> good morning, jan and clean up is already beginni

courtney, i want to start with you. the president's comments, quote, raised questions about his familiarity with the nuclear posture and other issues. can you explain? actually, kristen. >> reporter: yes, let me set the stage. this all happened on july 20th. i'll read you a portion of our reporting, which i think sums it up very well. the president's comments, the official said, came in response to a briefing slide, his comments asking to increase the nuclear arsenal. when he was shown the charted steady reduction of the u.s. nuclear weapons since the 1960s, mr. trump indicated he wanted a bigger stockpile, not the bottom position on that downward sloping curve. that amounted to a nearly tenfold increase. our nuclear footprint back in the 1960s was about 32,000. right now it stands at 4,000. as you rightfully pointed out, his comments stunned a number of advisers in the room. some top officials said, look, he wasn't being literal. but it did prompt briefers there to explain to him why it's not feasible to increase the n

courtney, always great to talk with you here.tting information from a lot of different sources now. what do we know at this hour? >> you hit the nail on the head in the intro when you said there's a lot of confusion. that's been the case since the attack occurred on october 4th one of those reasons is the nature of the mission there. these are largely special forces soldiers. they do what is atraining mission, but they also do an advising and an accompany mission when they're there. so much of what they do is classified. they can't talk about it necessarily. it's also something that they do these kinds op engagements every day. special forces sole judges often do what they call a key leader engagement. they meet the locals, trying to get in with them so they can gather human intelligence with them. when they're working with the niger military, they're helping them with terrorists moving through the area, stopping the smuggling of good, which funds the terrorists and even human rights to help them with the across that live in the

i think courtney has got it done pretty well. there's probably more than 1,000 u.s. military personnel in that three-country region. we have thousands going in out of somalia. running air operations in libya. tom is in command of the joint command. during the obama administration we entered this south of libya to keep weapons and contrabands coming south and letting isis set up new locales in central africa. that's what they're doing. it's classified missions. they are very dangerous. sometimes they bring in the big guns out of joint. the terror one special operations folks. they will conduct actual missions, raids. they kidnap people out of libya, tripoli and broad daylight. pretty dangerous work. important for us to prevent counter terrorism from occurring throughout the region. >> courtney, put this in the context of what the general just la laid out for us here. number of operations. the hot spots in africa that we're watching north. if you can do that for us. >> yeah, he's right. there's been expansion of the u.s. military presence and mission in that area. ther

courtney tulloch on the rings — he won european silver earlier in the year, how could he do?t to hit all his positions and he's got to stick the dismount. this is possibly the most closely contested final in the whole event. you've got world and european champions cup for him just to get into that final, that's testament to what he's done. i really hope he can just hang in there and pick up a medal. that would be so good. we can find out exactly how max whitlock and courtney tulloch get on, and it will be on the red button and on the website. two former world champions go head to head tonight in manchester with scotland's ricky burns facing anthony crolla in a lightweight clash that could produce another world title shot for the victor. no trash talking in the build up to this one. mutual respect between the two fighters as they prepare for a fight neither man can afford to lose. i look on every fight as the most important in your career, because if it goes wrong it can scupper your future plans. for the loser, you have to drop down a level, which none of us want to do. i don

courtney was in the middle of the protest outside the richard spencer speech at uf. he thought about hitting the man walking in front of him with the swastikas on his shirt but he quickly realized what he really needs is love. >> what is it? why do you hate me? what is it about me? he couldn't answer. and i tried to give him, you know -- arc tried to give him a reason. is it my hair? is it my skin color? is it my history? what is it about me that you hate? >> he still wouldn't respond. >> so i started to get emotional and i asked, man, i have a four-year-old son and a seven-year-old daughter and they respect you right now. they respect you. i teach them to respect adults and they respect you. but you hate them. what is it? why? and at that moment i realized as i was speaking of my kids he really didn't have a reason and i just felt like, you know what maybe he don't -- maybe he don't know how to love. >> courtney hopes his moment in the spotlight is a step in the right direction showing the world the power of a hug. that's impressive. >> let's hope so. what a wild sc

let's check in with the first word news and courtney donahue.ourtney: president trump will meet with the controversial philippine president. he has been criticized for a bloody crackdown on drug dealers. he threatened to cut ties with both america and the european union's win and massacres complained -- win ambassadors complained. it would be a mistake for the fed to focus -- he writes that they "camouflage what is happening in the economy which could lead to dangerous miss cut delays and's -- miscalculations." in japan, shinzo abe gambled on election, andly he went. his majority was held in the house. japan'sld make abe longest-serving leader. day have had a record 15th in a row. separatists are bowing to use human shields to keep spanish authorities from taking over buildings. he has announced that he will use unprecedented measures to read assert control over the region. atalan officials will meet again on thursday. global news 24 hours a day, powered by 2600 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. this is bloomberg. mark? mark:

peter alexander is at the white house and courtney helped break this story. the white house is sfiting back, before we get to the white house response. walk us through this meeting. what happened in that room? >> reporter: so, it was a meeting in the tank, which is the joint chiefs' conference room. and it was really a look at the entire world. officials have explained it to us as they went around the world and showed president trump the force posture. how many troops, what kind of assets are all over the world. and in this briefing it included a slide that had a look at the historical u.s. nuclear arsenal. so from the beginning up to the present, which included height at the cold war and then starting to come down, the numbers in the early 1970s and then stabilizing out until today. colleagues told us that while looking at this briefing slight, president trump said, why don't i have more? why don't we have more nuclear weapons now? he referenced back to the higher number, which was well over 30,0 30,000. its important to point out the conversation in the tan

we will check your forecast in just a moment but first latest on nate, correspondent courtney is live in biloxi miss sip think morning where the storm made land fall overnight. courtney, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, jan well, sun's coming up and crew s are getting a better look at the damage. what we are seeing is sand in the road, rocks in the road, police are telling us there are light poles in the road, that there are piers that flew off the beach in the road, you talk about power, 100,000 people are without power, here in miss sip anal bam a and florida but good news, i just saw a truck go down the street , so they said they were going to do this. they will work to restore that power as quickly as possible, jan. >> now courtney you did a whole lot of reporting in the aftermath of harvey in houston how would you compare this storm with the storms we have just seen roll through. >> reporter: no comparison to harvey, to irma, i was than the there for maria but not to maria i assume either. this cast a category one, it moved fast, it didn't sit on top of the city and pour

courtney says he just screamed for help for days.to stay alive, he said he resorted to eating ants and at one point he ate snake. it wasn't until nine days later that a construction crew heard him screaming for help and got help. >> i did not want to die in a bunch of sewage water. i want to thank the people that found me. and i very seriously strongly believe that they need to start putting some ladders or something down manholes. >> courtney is recovering in the hospital this morning. he underwent some surgery yesterday. his family says he looks incredibly skinny, but they are so happy to finally know he's okay. >> i'm all for doing anything it takes to survive, but you would be writing my obituary. i would not be eating a snake or drinking what he drank. the >> it was the snake thing. >> the sewer water, yes. snake, done. >>> when we come back, kimmel takes on the big apple. >> so does bill murray, "the skinny's" next. i can breathe again! i can breathe again! vicks sinex... breathe on. not all fish oil supplements provide the sam

courtney, start with you. you heard pwhat the president hd to say. your response? >> we don't make up sources. it's very well sourced and took quite a number of days to put it together. there were a group of us working from a lot of different angles. it's unfortunate that the president felt the need to trash our reporting, and our sourcing, but we stand behind it. >> so give us the heart of what happened inside that meeting as you know it. >> reporter: it was a two-hour-long briefing. they went around the world. they looked at u.s. force posture all over the world, and part of that included a briefing slide that looked at the u.s. nuclear arsenal. posture of the u.s. nuclear force, and of course, the beginning of the nuclear force it was a smaller number and then of nuclear warheads the u.s. had and then parked during the cold war. and then started to decrease in the late 1960s, early 1970s as the u.s. became a signatory to various treaties, nuclear non-proliferation began, and we were told by numerous officials by several officials, that president trump looked at

. >> jason courtney says he was walking home from work, cut across a grassy area, falling into that opene was unable to move because of a broken ankle. he lost his cell phone in the water. he says he screamed for help for days and in order to stay alive he resorted to eating ants and at one point he ate a snake. it wasn't until nine days later that a construction crew heard him screaming for help and got him help. >> i didn't want to die in a bunch of sewage water. i want to thank the people that found me. and i very seriously strongly believe that they need to start putting some ladders or something down manholes. >> courtney is recovering in the hospital this morning. he underwent some surgery yesterday. his family says he looks incredibly skinny, but they are so happy to finally know he's okay. >> i'm all for doing everything it takes to survive, but i would not be eating a snake or drinking what he drank. done. >> it was the snake thing. >> the sewer water, yes. snake, don takes on the big apple. >> so does bill murray, "the skinny's" next. does bill murray, "the skinny's" next. i ca

let's go now to courtney kube for the latest on the niger ambush. with a welcome to you, is there any new reaction in light of this "new york times" report? >> so "the new york times" report touches on the fact there is some discrepancies between the niger military account of what happened and the american military. that's actually been pretty consistent from the beginning, that there has been some discrepancies on exactly what happened the day that the american soldiers were ambushed in niger. one of the things from the beginning niger has been saying that they had several soldiers who were injured and killed and the american military, while not disputing that, is not confirming that. so what we do know is that there was a group of a dozen u.s. military who were there on what the u.s. africa command and military are calling a key leader engagement. they came out of the meeting and they were ambushed by anywhere from 40 to 50 militants. the latest intelligence assessment still believes this was some sort of an isis affiliate. but that's also not con

courtney, is live in biloxi miss sip think morning where the storm made second land fall overnight. courtney, good morning. >> good morning, jan and clean up is already beginning, crews just came by and moved out the rocks that were in the road, and, as soon as the sun came up. power co will be, working to get lights back on, about a hundred thousand people, are without power in mississippi and florida, anal bam a. there was water inside these casinos because of the flooding and storm surge. that water has since receded but they, jan after lot of clean up to do as well. >> we saw a lot of the video there. describe to us the most severe impact you are seeing this morning along the gulf coast. >> reporter: well, it is storm surge, because as the debris it left behind. along one road between gulf port, biloxi which is a 15 to 20-mile stretch, there are light poles in the road,piers from beach that he is blew off we cannot access those road because is there too much debris. we have seen the flooding, inside casinos and parking garage, but the good news is all this is we have not heard o

courtney live in gulf port, mississippi tonight.thank you. >>> we want to take a live look at gulf shores, alabama just along the eastern edge of nate's projected path and as you can see it's raining and the trees are blowing. but the power is on. and this is the scene in biloxi, mississippi at this hour. where the rain is coming down in sheets. but again, no major damage that we can see. >> so that's how it looks on the ground, here's the satellite. boy this roared across the gulf at 22 miles per hour overnight and right now making landfall it's a category 1 storm. with winds up to 85 miles an hour. with gusts to 115 and the big problem will be not just the wind, but the rains as much as half a foot of rain will fall overnight tonight. and after that, it will move across parts of central mississippi into g where it will be down -- georgia where it will be downgraded to a tropical storm then a tropical depression and then just low pressure over new england which will get rain later in the week. but in the meantime at this time it's

courtney reagan takes a look at walmart's big plans for the future. >> reporter: walmart is making a prediction you rarely hear in retail, 40% online sales growth in the u.s. next year. executives spoke to analysts in arkansas, explaining progress has been made to fix the fundamentals. there is still some runway to go. the crux of the walmart's plan uses its stores and online business together. the retailer says consumers that shop both in its stores and on its website spend twice as much as those who buy only in-store. >> we have to ensure we're doing everything we can to earn our customers' business. >> reporter: while walmart's online sales are growing rapidly, it's starting from a relatively small base compared to sales in-store. growing a digital business is costly. >> an only busine business is a second business. at some point in time you'll see those two businesses converge. walmart is in the early stages of that. >> reporter: walmart is the country's largest grocer. by the end of next year, it will double the number of stores offering online grocery ordering with store pickup

joining me now is nbc national security reporter courtney cubie.'s start with the report what can you tell me about the context of the president's comments and how his adviser's received them. >> my colleagues and i spent numerous days and spoke to many officials during the course of our reporting. this was a meeting back in july at the joint chiefs conference room in the pentagon. it was a worldwide force posture look. there was a slide that showed how many nuclears the u.s. has. president trump looked at it and it was a look at how many russia has and he said, well, i want more. there was a conversation about why that's not really feasible. for one thing, budget constraints, you know, treaty operations that restrict the number of weapons that the united states can hold and a delicate balance between the conventional and nuclear force. so it was a wide-ranging conversation in which officials told us he asked many probative and provoking questions. this one was interesting because he had seemed to show that the president didn't understand the treat

. >> i'm courtney reagan in for sara eisen thanks for joining us. >> thank you for joining us. let's look at the market picture it comes off a day of fractional gains. essentially markets were flat. for the week, the dow is up 1% the s&p and nasdaq 0.6 p%, 0.7 % we're set to open 11.3 points higher for the dow yields above 2.3% for the ten-year, that nice rise in yields we saw over the course of last week, up to highs of 2.34, 2.35, just down a bit. 2.32 the yield on the ten-year. >>> another quiet session in asia with markets in main lan china, hong kong and south korea closed today the nikkei up just a hair. 0.01%. i guess it counts as a gain. hardly at all. let's look at europe a marginally mixed day on wednesday. if we look where we are now, we are mixed here we see markets totally flat in france the xetra dax down 0.2%. spain rallying again here, 0.6%. >> spain closed down 2.8% yesterday. that was after the king made a speech the prior evening, did not go particularly well sort of elevated fears of more clashes or catalonia calling for independence last night the catalonia

courtney donohoe has more.ney: republican senators are ready to consider limits on a device that can turn semiautomatic firearms into fully automatic ones. las vegas shooter used a so-called bump stock to fire more rapidly. the number two republican senate leader, john cornyn, says lawmakers should hold a hearing on that device. south korea has agreed to amend its five-year-old free trade agreement with the u.s. the trump administration blames the deal for increasing its trade deficit area south korea said it plans to start the process for amending the treaty, but is not saying how it might be changed. the u.s. is south korea's second-largest trading partner. speaking of the u.s. trade deficit, it hit a low in august, improving global demand and a weaker dollar helping to boost exports. the dollar -- it fell a little more than $42 billion. -- most popular exports pharmaceuticals, cars, and telephone equipment. in the u.k., members of her own conservative party are calling for prime minister theresa may to step

(justine) that was courtney friedman reporting. rosa maria is now in a refugee shelter. and a family attorney says it's unclear what's next for her. (jr stone) a california-based company known for its brightly colored clothing is facing big problems - including a lawsuit. accused of obstructing justice to theat the fbinuclear war, and of violating the constitution by taking money from foreign governments and threatening to shut down news organizations that report the truth. if that isn't a case for impeaching and removing a dangerous president, then what has our government become? i'm tom steyer, and like you, i'm a citizen who knows it's up to us to do something. it's why i'm funding this effort to raise our voices together and demand that elected officials take a stand on impeachment. a republican congress once impeached a president for far less. yet today people in congress and his own administration know that this president is a clear and present danger who's mentally unstable and armed with nuclear weapons. and they do nothing. join us and tell your member of congre

i'm courtney donohoe, this is bloomberg. coming up, shares of intel at their highest and's 2000 after the company reported better-than-expected third-quarter earnings. we hear from the chipmakers cfo, bob swan. this is bloomberg. ♪ mark: live from london and new york, i'm mark barton. vonnie: i'm vonnie quinn. this is the european close on "bloomberg markets." seeing the biggest move into years after third-quarter earnings beat estimates. cory johnson is in san francisco and he has with him intel cfo. cory: bob swan joins us to help us dissect this very interesting earning report. glad to have you join us from nearby santa clara. lovely santa clara. bob.nk we have after this earnings report, it was an interesting quarter. i want to have you explain what happened. it was confusing in my model where i saw your marketing cross go from 12% plus the year ago down to 10%. what was the change? it looks like the marker disappeared. mr. swan: first, thanks for having me and good morning. , that's a keys component of our overall cost

i'm courtney donohoe, this is bloomberg.ark: the clash between spain and catalonia turning up the pressure on spanish prime minister. he met with members of his canister -- of his cabinet. the symbol of barcelona's inancial strength may follow abandoning catalonia as the region continues to device name. ,ith the latest in barcelona there seems to be some division, maria, within the secessionists. what do we know? maria: we broke the story yesterday. ago allroup of parties the way from upper-middle-class conservative to radicals and anarchists. the latest is the more radical side is really piling on the pressure. to have this unilateral declaration of independence ready to go next tuesday. situation, difficult being pulled from all sides. parliament has to enact this law , it's never been elected into office. he was parachuted to this job and i was really struggling to keep both sides together. vonnie: as a matter of breaking news, catalonia's posting the definitive results. 2.2 9 million votes were counted were in favor of i

joining suus is courtney kuby.bviously general kelly gave those very emotional remarks about condolence processes for the families of service members who were killed. but when it came to explaining what happened in niger, he put most of this off to there being an ongoing investigation. have you been able to flesh anything else out at the pentagon in terms of knowing what happened? >> general mcmaster, i asked him about niger and he also was relatively circumspect. the incident is under investigation. that's one reason we're not hearing a lot of very specific facts yet. at some point u.s. africa command is going to have to put out more details about what happened. but right now they are really hiding behind the fact that it's under investigation to give us any real specifics. one of the things you talked about in the intro, the confusion. that's a theme that people have really been stressing with me over the pass two weeks since this happened was that they were not expecting this patrol. this was a patrol they had d

courtney reagan >> reporter: as retailers closed stores, jobs are disappearing with the liquidation sales. the u.s. will end the year with more than 2700 fewer stores this year than last. and that's even accounting for offsetting store openings. the number of people working in retail peaked in january and has been declining since, with more than 107,000 retail jobs lost in the first nine months of this year. some retailers do offer employees positions at other still-open stores. but while online divisions of retailers are growing, with more abundant jobs in warehouses and distribution centers, few store sales associates move into those roles. the skill set is a mismatch. those jobs are closer to an assembly line than sales and working directly with customers. plus many retailers' warehouses aren't located near their closing stores. zip recruiter says more former retail workers are looking to cross over into completely different industries. >> there's almost a shift of these people from retail into sales, customer service, business services, food and beverage. >> reporter: the employees we

the audio came out from courtney love back in 2005 sing don't work for harvey weinstein and they banned her, a lifetime ban. when people blame the women and i've been on other panels were my opponent has come out and said these women knew, don't you dare talk about those women and put them down for what they did when we see what happened when courtney love. >> a new york times columnist wrote about this that there's a network of very aggressive public relation people who guard the secrets of those who they work for and they keep the stuff out of public view and only major news organizations i have the lawyers can take this on. >> that's right, and look, a lot of very wealthy entities or people, when they first see a crisis happening will bring on a public relations firm so they can fend off that sort of thing which obviously we know happened with harvey before he was trying to stop the new york story. >> he's on the cover of "time" magazine looking like a villain which is premature how he's been cast. producer, predator, pariah. if you want to write to us, trump is talking about pulling

for "nightly business report," i'm courtney reagan in los angeles, >>> that does it for us tonight. i'm sue herera. thanks for joining us. >> and i'm bill griffeth. have a great eve >> this is "bbc world news america." funding of this presentation is made possible by the freeman foundation, and kovler foundation, pursuing solutions for america's neglected needs. >> planning a vacation escape that is relaxing, inviting, and exciting is a lot easier than you think. you can find it here in aruba. families, couples, and friends can all find their escape on the island with warm, sunny days, cooling trade winds, and the

. >> that's jason courtney talking about the moment he thought he was going to die trapped in a manholeouston for nine days. he says he was walking home from work when he cut across a park and fell into that open manhole. >> so he broke his ankle and lost his cell phone in the says all he could do was scream for help for nine days. finally a construction crew found him. >> i want to thank the people that found me and very seriously strongly that they need to start putting some ladders or something down the manholes. >> courtney is now recovering after undergoing surgery and says he survived by eating ants and even a snake. >>> a drone has collided with a passenger plane over north america. it happened in canada as it approached the airport in quebec city. the plane landed safely but the afaa is he can seeking more actions. >>> the confusion inside the florida nursing home where several patients died after hurricane irma. workers made several calls as elderly patients endured air-conditioning. none of the workers requested paramedics to hurry to the nursing home. one frustrated worker wa

this is courtney love.ar, who were in a way trying to get this out in the same han anybody burris got this out. this is courtney love. she's on the red carpet. 2005 at a comedy central event. take a look at what she said. >> do you have any advice for young girls moving to hollywood? >> if harvey weinstein is at a party -- >> that's remarkable. courtney love sent out a tweet. although i wasn't one of his victims, i was eternally banned by caa for speaking out against harvey weinstein and she put the hashtag #rape. you work in the tv entertainment side. you with amazon. you have book and movie deals and tv deals. if something like that was said by courtney love on a red carpet and no journalist thought that newsworthy then to pursue, are journalists in a sense clouded by the relationship then as it makes them less likely to say, oh, that's a strange thing, let me dig into it. do you ever feel like that interrelationship makes the joushlism more difficult? >> first of all, i haven't had any relations with har

joining me reporter courtney kobe. kelly, first to you. that briefing, people were just holding their breath. it was difficult, painful to watch. it was clearly the chief of staff taking one for the boss in a very personal way, some people questioning his facts and the fact that he went after the congresswoman so angerrily as well. >> reporter: you highlighted where the president wanted to make his own voice heard using what we've seen before, using kind of a mocking term referring to congresswoman wilson, calling her wacky congresswoman wilson, pointing out the d for democrats, making point this is someone who is a critical adversary of the president. john kelly is taking some criticism for the way he addressed her. the back story, the congresswoman is a personal friend to the fallen soldier and his family and had a reason to be there beyond being a member of congress. making it more personal criticizing the fbi unveiling in her district in florida, suggesting she had taken credit when we have looked at a tape first obtained by the sun se

courtney reagan back at hq how does this work >> today ten kohl's stores in l.a. and chicago areas launching amazon products and services 72 more stores will roll out in the months to come kohl's employees will pack up and ship back your returnable amazon fulfilled orders for free it happens just inside the front door they are even dedicated parking spots for those making amazon returns. now, the returns is located inside the amazon connected home experience there amazon employees will demonstrate how an alexa enabled device can do things like turn on the lights. michelle gas who will take over the ceo job in may is spearheading these amazon strategies >> we think it's a tremendous convenience for the customer there's no other experience like this anywhere. so engaging with the customer, it provides a new way for existing or new customer to have that touch point with kohl's then surely they are making a trip inside the store. we hope that they take advantage of being in the store and checking out all the amazing products that we offer. >> so there's no obvious dow

do you remember when courtney won it. >> oh, yeah. >> courtney? >> applause. >>> i remember courtney i was rooting for her who knows, maybe somebody watching the show right now who think they are a good cook can make it on one of our good friend barbie marshall was on the show during health kitchen. and i saw her yesterday. >> you do. >> yeah. >> christine wilson she got a job with jordan. and milly from philly. they had so many people from philadelphia on these shows. i feel like we have great cooks here. we have no excuse. we have to come out and, hear it. >> and she was from philly. >> maybe 11 years old, exactly >> from west deptford, new jersey. >> master chef junior in 2015. >> he cooked. >> came on the show. >> we have two casting agents from is what the name of the show. >> hi, good to see you. welcome to the show. >> we have ryan. >> hi ryan. >> welcome to the area. >> thank you very much. >> we want to give our viewers a little inside tips to get through the audition and get on the actual show. >> yes. >> okay. so, like you mentioned we'

courtney donohoe has more.mp renewed his twitter attack on the mueller investigation. he said they news is working overtime. robert mueller is building a case of the campaign was in close touch with russian officials who wanted to defeat hillary clinton. advisor foreign-policy pleaded guilty to lying to the fbi about his contact with operatives. he is now cooperating with prosecutors area -- prosecutors. rose over the previous 12 months. they were higher than the month before. buyers are competing for a limited supply of available homes, driving up prices did in the u.k., the sex scandal swirling around westminster has reached theresa may's government. -- he apologized and the woman downplayed the incident. the leader of catalonia says he will not asylum in belgium. he said he would return to spain once he is guaranteed fair trial. he said he will stay away from spain until he makes catalonia's case to the european union. global news 24 hours a day powered by more than 2600 journalists and analysts in more than

>> clearly, courtney, the auto delinquency rates are moving up a bit.s over the last two, three years more credit has been taken out. that credit growth exceeded the increase in prices for the automobile more and more cars and automobiles are being financed with that credit we are a little concerned that with the fed on its projection for raising rates that will create some real financial strains in terms of auto delinquencies in the u.s. economy. >> does the next fed chair have the possibility of drastically changing that direction that the fed is on? is that something you expect to happen is the appointment more of a rubber stamp over the policy that's been put into effect? >> i'll tell you, given the economy, the flow of inflation, i don't think it will be drastic changes going on here. the fed has that dot plot. they'll probably go ahead in december, one or two moves next year i don't see drastic changes. the same thing with the fed balance sheet. we talk about shrinking that significantly, but i'm of the suspicion we won't shrink it that much in th