In a day driven higher by one after another "optimistic" headline, it was natural that any bad news would be reported just after the close. Which is why we expect the White House press secretary Carney to have saved any negative news for the just started press conference. Watch it live below.
And sure enough:
MT @mviser [3]: O called Boehner today, but no breakthrough. “The two of them agreed that all sides need to keep talking,” WH spox Carney says.
— Robert Costa (@robertcostaNRO) October 11, 2013 [4]
WH spox Carney : "we are obviously in a better place than we were a few days ago .... but there is not an agreement." @AFP [5]
— Stephen Collinson (@StCollinson) October 11, 2013 [6]