Hurricane Florence causes major flooding as it slams into Carolinas

Yahoo Finance’s Alexis Christoforous, Jared Blikre, Rick Newman, Sibile Marcellus, Dan Howley and Maylan Studart discuss today’s big stories.

Today’s topics include:

• Hurricane Florence slams the Carolinas

• Markets cautiously watching Hurricane Florence

• Insurers facing huge claims from Hurricane Florence

• FEMA chief under investigation for misusing government property

• Bezos: Trump should be ‘glad’ to face scrutiny

• Bezos: Amazon will announce HQ2 by end of the year

• Marking 10 years since the start of the financial crisis

• Markets on the move US dollar sliding, crude and gas set for weekly gains

• Goldman downgrades Walmart to neutral, PT: $101

• Money flowing into cash, US stocks, IG bonds, crude: BofAML

• Sears losses widen as sales slide

• Amazon may have eyes on German supermarket chain: Reuters

• Lawmakers express concerns over Google’s China plans

• Pre-orders open for new Apple iPhones

• Men dominating corporate earnings, conference calls: Study

• M&M reportedly rolling out internationally inspired flavors