P&G prepares for critical boardroom battle

It’s a big week for the markets as third-quarter earnings season gets underway. We’ll hear from some of the big banks at the end of the week. Yahoo Finance’s Alexis Christoforous, Editor-in-Chief Andy Serwer, Seana Smith, Dan Roberts and Ethan Wolff-Mann discuss the big stories of the day.

Today’s topics:

• Investors brace for earnings season

• P&G readies for boardroom battle over Peltz proxy

• California wildfires claim at least 10 lives

• Russian central bank to ban websites offering bitcoin

• Walmart announces $20B share buyback

• Honeywell spins off home, distribution and transport, keeps aerospace

• Pfizer explores sale/spin-off of consumer health care business

• AIG down after estimating $3B in catastrophe damage

• Trump claims the NFL is getting massive tax breaks

• ESPN suspends Jemele Hill over tweets about the NFL

• NVIDIA unveils next-gen chip for driverless cars

• Bank of America surveyed 1K people about friends and money

• Carl’s Jr. tweets ‘big ideas’ in bid for Amazon acquisition

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