Millions of people in crosshairs as Hurricane Florence approaches

Yahoo Finance’s Alexis Christoforous, Jared Blikre, Ethan Wolf-Mann, Sibile Marcellus, Melody Hahm and Julia La Roche discuss today’s big stories.

Today’s topics include:

• Carolinas brace for direct hit from Hurricane Florence

• Hurricane Florence rattles commodities markets

• China willing to talk trade with US

• Canada won’t hold NAFTA talks: Reuters

• Unemployment is too low: FED

• Apple unveils new watch, iPhone

• Turkey raises its repo rate by 625 bps to 24%

• Kroger stock drops after sales miss

• JPM: Expect next financial crisis in 2020

• Trump blasts JPM chief’s claim he could defeat president

• Walmart redesigns Jet.com to focus on urban shoppers

• AT&T chief calls Netflix the ‘Walmart‘ of subscription video

• Google facing controversy over leaked post-election video

• Adobe looking to acquire Marketo: Reuters

• High-ranking finance exec leaving Tesla

• Nvidia unveils new platform for data centers

• Almost half of Americans are not investing: GoBankingRates