transocean now vote to take away his control. nsocean mac launching article 155 of the constitution which will affect catalonia's autonomy is the last resort. it's the only way to risk your galaxy, tolerance, democracy, and economic stability to catalonia. this is all the fault of the catalan president. today, the spanish senate will vote on unravelling catalonia's powers. something which has never been done before. that much is clear that the future is not. the question, what will happen here if spain strips away catalonia's regional powers? the answer, no one really knows the repercussions may be. andrew plant, bbc news. let's take a look at some of the other stories making the news. a un—backed report has concluded the syrian government was behind a chemical attack on the town of khan sheikhoun earlier this year which killed about 90 people. investigators said the nerve agent, sarin, was dropped from an aircraft. syria has previously denied responsibility. north korea has announced that it will release the crew of a south kore

an offering from transocean energy.y companies are returning to credit markets at the fastest pace in three years, with bankruptcies falling and companies facing more than $70 billion of debt maturing in 2019. salehabi's $10 billion following saudi arabia's $12.5 billion issue last week. it was a record $89 billion this year. the big headliner was in spain. a sale of 3.2 billion, up 53 basis points. for the double on last month's spanish sales of similar debt. sending it to the highest level of interest in this maturity for months. oksana aronoff and george kumquat us that luke hickmore joins us as well. european politics is reasserting itself. this time it is spain and madrid and a divide opening up. does that stay a spain story or does it cleans through the rest of the periphery? luke: i think it is a spain story. , greece, italy, and portugal. if catalonia continues to cause problems, we have an italian election early next year. that may spill over into that as well. right now, right here it is all about catalonia an

thanks to an offering this week from transocean energies and others, energy companies are returning tomarkets at the fastest pace in three years, with bankruptcies falling and oil stabilizing, and companies facing more than $70 billion of debt maturing in 2019. in sovereigns, abu dhabi's $10 billion sale following saudi arabia's $12.5 billion issue last week. the borrowing binge pushes sales from the middle east and north africa to a record $89 billion this year. and the big headliner of this week was in spain. a sale of 3.2 billion, up 53 basis points. more than double that on last month's spanish sales of similar debt. sending demand to the highest level of interest in this maturity for months. still with us, oksana aronov and george , and luke hickmore joins us as well. luke, let's dig into europe very quickly. european politics is reasserting itself. this time it is spain and madrid and a divide opening up. i'm trying to gauge if that stays a spain story or does it bleed through the rest of the periphery? luke: i think it is a spain story through and through. you can start reading

an offering from transocean energy.y companies are returning to credit markets at the fastest pace in three years, with bankruptcies falling and companies facing more than $70 billion of debt maturing in 2019. abu dhabi's $10 billion sale following saudi arabia's $12.5 billion issue last week. it was a record $89 billion this year. the big headliner was in spain. a sale of 3.2 billion, up 53 basis points. for the double on last month's spanish sales of similar debt. sending it to the highest level of interest in this maturity for months. oksana aronoff and george kumquat us that luke hickmore joins us as well. european politics is reasserting itself. this time it is spain and madrid and a divide opening up. does that stay a spain story or does it cleans through the rest of the periphery? luke: i think it is a spain story. the other gips, greece, italy, and portugal. if catalonia continues to cause problems, we have an italian election early next year. that may spill over into that as well. right now, right here it is al

transocean and noble are some of the gains we are seeing there.hen we talk about risk on over the longer term at the bloomberg, it's not just start -- stocks and large cap. we are at the emerging markets index in white. looking at bit coin, we have talked a lot about that, as well as the russell 2000 and yellow. these various other ways of measuring risk. bit coin, you argue, has been hitting record after record as well. julie, thank you. -- shery: julie, thank you. david: coming up we will have the latest on how the u.s. is trying to solve the escalating crisis with north korea. shery: welcome back. this is "bloomberg markets: balance of power." david: we will bring new comments from the president and the majority leader as soon as they happen. but first, first word news this morning with mark crumpton. mark: president trump held his first full cabinet meeting since june. he addressed the iran nuclear deal, saying again that the agreement was not good for the united states and needed to be changed. itron --amco -- the deal, i feel strongly about

that is transoceanic flights. >> one of the many theories of what brought the plane down is fire. in fact, the faa is urging the world's airlines to ban large laptops from checked luggage because of the potential for lithium battery fires. mh-370 was carrying 487 pounds of lithium ion batteries in its cargo hold. bret? >> bret: doug, thank you. if there is a story you are curious about, what ever happened to it, let me know on facebook, twitter, instagram. we will look into it. we will use your question on the show. up next, the panel on learning new facts about the niger ambush. first, let's hear from our fox affiliates. fox 25 in boston as old ironside takes another voyage, the newly refurbished uss constitution sales from charlestown navy yard in boston to fort independence on castle island. the world's or its commission warship is helping the u.s. navy celebrated its 246 birthday. fox 13 in tampa is a man who says the police say he had an arsenal in his home. and information about local schools send for a mental health evaluation. authority is a duke had an ak-47, 12 gauge sho

transocean and diamond offshore among the gains. finally, we turn to a proxy for ewp surging in the wake of those comments from the president of catalonia, pulling back on an aggressive plan for independence, deferring and independence push, so to speak. we are seeing that up 1.5%. julia: thank you very much, julie. staying on spain, maria joins us now on the presentation from the president in barcelona. what did he actually say here? there were concerns that he would declare independence here. it looks like he's taking a step back and wants more dialogue. "i accept the mandate they gave me." he didn't give himself a 48 hour deadline. markets with a sense of relief because he backtracked on those two things. the 40 hour deadline and the unilateral aspect. the key here is him saying we think the vote is valid. as per the spanish constitution as it stands now was not valid. it violates the constitution. the courts to recognize it and the european union has said it . he insists the vote was valid, but i will suspend the referendum that

of course, we're watching energy and some of those energy names, leaders such as transocean, noble andche on the same day we're hearing about opec and russia and talk about curbing production. i know that's a topic we hear a lot about, but look at that, settling up 1.6% with west texas right now 50.70 a barrel. back to you. ashley: arrows pointing up. thank you so much. make sure to tune in tomorrow for maria bartiromo's monthly special jobs in america at 8 a.m. eastern just before the release of the september jobs report. jobs in america with maria tomorrow. don't miss it. >>> let's take a look at the dow, as we mentioned, another triple-digit gain today, we're up 102 points at 22,764. the markets just want to go higher. >>> meanwhile, let's get back to the devastation from hurricane maria. it's stopped commerce in its tracks in puerto rico. so the question is how soon can the island territory get back to business? we'll have an eyewitness account from a san juan businessman when "countdown" comes right back. ♪ ♪ this woman is laughing because she's listening to a hilarious audiobook