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and he's back to hinder russia praxair return says sri lanka's prime minister but the man he's replacing is still refusing to go. the weather doesn't look too bad for china over the next couple of days i'm a little more concerned for the philippines there you can see typhoon you two making its way towards lose all much of news on we'll see those damaging winds and the rain increasing as we go on through the next twenty four to forty eight hours there we go for tuesday some very strong winds coming through then gusts in excess of a hundred fifty kilometers per hour very very heavy rain could see as much as three hundred fifty millimeters of rain also over the next day or two rain still in place as we go on into wednesday the wetter weather then punching its way out into the south china sea and eventually just easing its way up towards the east of hong kong so that eastern side of china will see some rain as we make our way through this week eastern parts of india also seeing some very heavy rain at the moment see this law in those showers just along the coast nudging a little further west

we also have praxair and linde trading higher. as for some of the weakness, the worst sector is the industrial sector. textron, down 7.2%. they put up a big mess on the top and the bottom line. they also have weakness in their aircraft segment. here from seales down-- sealed air corp. 7.6%. bank of america has cut their writing to a neutral on those shares, and finally, united rentals beat, but those shares down 6%. they also boosted the outlook. the reasoning there has to do with pricing and margins. the shares are down 30% since the last tie back in september. the industrial group is reagan we sit -- is weak in recent weeks. vonnie: as earnings season continuance on pace. we also have concerns in china. the country's stock market and currency have been taking a hit --my and -- amid on growing taking a hit amid ongoing trade tensions and slow consumer growth. it seems like china has a plan for its currency and his -- is executing that plan anyway. >> the last announcement or lack of announcement takes the takes the off -- pressur

fdc approved the praxair deal. everything else in germany trading lower.oss the board it is red italian stocks trading lower down about 1%. steepening some losses we saw earlier today. let's get into the forex markets. euro holding steady versus the dollar we have the ecb meeting on thursday investors will look to that shortly. sterling is recovering after dropping to the lowest point in 2 1/2 weeks on brexit concerns looking to the u.s. futures and seeing how this affects u.s. trading. we are seeing the s&p indicating slightly lower the nasdaq slightly lower as well clearly the u.s. is not immune to the negativity in asia and europe in the u.s., massive focus on earnings this week the busiest week for s&p 500 companies to report. >> the tech sector one of the leading underperforming sectors in europe this morning >>> turkish president recep tayyip erdogan is expected to point the finger at the saudi government for the killing of jamal khashoggi when he addresses parliament in a few moments time hadley is in riyadh. there's been a lot of developments over

almost $140 million our state praxair dollars -- our state taxpayers. this could be a fireball offense. why isn't it with you? >> good evening to rhode island. it is wonderful to have this opportunity to discuss the issues tonight. say, the you have rollout has had its share of struggle. we've turned the corner. that is important. fasterpaying our claim than we ever have. faster than massachusetts or most of our neighbors. the first ofre on the month, lobbies are flowing. you do not see lines that you used to see. great credit, by the way. it goes to the staff. state employees who have struggled with the system for two years. by and large, we have turned the corner. having said that, mistakes were made which i have owned. the system was a system started in the prior administration. it was required by the federal government because our system had been so integrated. >> you've said that you've inherited the problem before. while that is true, didn't inherit the timing. despite a letter recommending against starting at -- it. >> that was a mistake. i have

we saw linda and praxair get chinese approval for their merger and french supermarket chain announced real estate, underlying some of its stores. joining us now is a partner at robeson gray. great to have you both. good morning. . happy monday -- happy monday. let's look at the fourth quarter ahead. is it going to the a busy one for deals? >> absolutely. we've been incredibly busy through the year, inevitably a downtick, but it's gearing up. there's a number diversifying from the core business and out to infrastructure and real estate and credit. what are the challenges for a standard private equity firm into different asset classes? >> halfing for those that are the performances the have the strong brand, strong track record, they been moving into credit for some time. i think it's interesting to look at the drivers for that diversification, in particular for sponsored. the need to be relevant and to differentiate because it's a crowded marketplace. when we think about challenges, that needs to remain competitive and ahead of the game at all times. there is all going to be a challeng

the s&p, general electric, unexpectedly removing ceo john flannery after barely one year up over 9% praxair, higher as well as we look at higher prices and chip stocks also helping prop up the tech sector, invidia and xylink up guy, back to you >> thanks, seema, one piece of uncertainty out of the way at least but headed into earnings season should investors keep riding this record rally? let's bring in luca palini and scott ren senior global equity manager. luca, good morning to you. good afternoon, i should say gosh, this day is flying by. we do have this one piece of uncertainty out of the way with the new nafta. usmca. earnings season is beginning and still have trade tensions with china. how should you position your portfolio. >> i think, look, what happened today from my point of view is not really a big deal. i think obviously it shows u.s. administration is willing to compromise i think this may be good news when you look at china the big deal is u.s. economy it's obviously a very important thing for mexico and canada. for the u.s., i don't think it's a big deal but tells you the u.

buy trans-norm the company specializes in warehouse automation that stock is up by more than 1% and praxair two more approvals needed from the u.s. and south korea to go through. another executive change in c-suite. pfizer ceo ian read will step down burla a veteran of pfizer of 20 years or so. >>> we're back with guest host and cnbc contributor walter isaacson he is the author of "leonardo da vinci" also other great books as well the paperback is now available >> today thank you for touting that i appreciate that. >> you're welcome. we, off camera, were talking about social media do you think that there's a way in the future to reform or rehab the -- what i think are deleterious effects? there are things we haven't factored in. >> i said twitter and facebook, which we're all using now, will be cohesive. it has been so destructive and unleashed the worst ininstincts. there's news today nobody a noticing but the investor of the worldwide web is announcing today a new set of tools called nrupt. which means you can own your own data we were just talking to brian about the at&t data being owned