We were up 259 earlier. S p 500, as you can see, it is up more than. 5 . We just came off the best sixmonth performance for the s p actually since 2009. Youve got the nasdaq higher right now, up 1. 5 . All of this, were watching. Were watching washington. House speaker nancy pelosi, treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin are continuing their discussions over this coronavirus stimulus bill that could pour trillions into the economy and help airlines, Small Business owners and the unemployed. We will have up to the minute details on the state of negotiations as they go on right now in washington. Then the travel industry is desperate for help from congress as a new study says the Hotel Industry might not be able to hold out much longer. One of the nations top hotel owner operators is here to tell us how his company is handling these challenging times. Hes here in a fox business exclusive. Meanwhile, pepsico is popping as people lock down at home during the pandemic, turned to its snacks and d
The markets. Ashley, first to you. Ashley well, guys as we say good riddance to september where all the major indexes posted a loss we embrace a new month but we havent come exactly flying out of the gates although green across the screen. The dow finishing slightly higher as you can see, about 1 10 of a percent after being down more than 100 points. S p up half a percent. But it was nasdaq showed the best performance of the new month up 1 1 2 . Like Charlie Brown with a rain cloud over his head investors are frustrated by congresss inability to agree on a new stimulus bill. With the markets going up and down with each competing headline from nancy pelosi and the treasury secretary and everybody else. As a result we saw stocks move for the most part today sideways in somewhat flat trading but as i mentioned the big tech stocks did manage to give the Broader Market some impetus. Amazon, microsoft, facebook, Alphabet Google all managed to make nice gains today which you can see gave the
Drowning in debt as never before ballooning government corporate and even Household Debt piles have some experts sounding the alarm on a potential debt bomb coming we have more on that in just a minute yes we do as you mentioned, energy helping to lead thisrally higher dont look now but the tech sector just turned positive for 2020 lets get to bob for more on the markets. Bob. Sdp you youre right. Who would have thought nnenergy was a break out. Yes the green chute story still per va prevails volume is light. Theres the s p near the highs of the day energy, i know you think this is crazy but energy is on the verge of breaking out to the highest levels since the whole thing started falling apart. Nice moves up here they look like vs. These charts right now i know that sounds crazy but the big story is tech. The technology s p sector, the largest sector in the s p just on the verge of turning positive for 2020 i said this many times when you get facebook, apple, amazon and microsoft up a
This is wesh 2 new sunrise in high definition. Jason i am jason guy. It lets get you outside to one of our weather cameras. It is very hazy outside in downtown orlando. It is cool. Some of you might call it comfortable as we begin to take up the temperature. You might be slowing down as you hit these pockets of fog. Let s get over to eric burris. Is this widespread . Eric yes, especially across the interior. It is that overcast sky through late morning into 10 00. Temperatures will be very slow to climb. Once we get that sunshine working through, we will see a much improved forecast. 75 hour High Temperature. Notice we are not really throwing in any rain chances. Isolated coastal showers are possible. Widespread rain is not expected. Are watching all of this activity. The good news is that it is suspected to stay offshore. Two areas of wind holding there. Two miles for us and leesburg. For five getting below for five miles, you can notice a haze. That ll be one of us and you have to be
Wesh 2 dan billow is live at the scene. Dan . It all came to an end with a man when a man who had a relationship with the suspect was able to talk with him. It was a wild west shootout. People were evacuated to this nearby bowling alley. The red cross was trying to help. While they were holed up there. This is what they heard. [gunfire] gunshot after gunshot. Police are still not saying what kind of an arsenal the suspect Michael Thomas taylor had. They are saying this started with a mastic issue. What neighbors described as with a domestic issue. He is a military veteran. He has a number of guns we talked with several people. We will start with the witnesses to the gunfire. We are not talking like pistols. Heavy artillery. You could feel the vibrations of them shooting back. I can tell you that this was a very intense situation for our officers and the residents of this come complex. This is an active crime scene. We had multiple gunshots being fired creating damage to some of the fro