Lets get to bob pisani on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. This is what it sounds like when doves fly. Very good. That was a good song. The important thing about it is since yesterday, were up 1. 5 . The s p 500, we turn positive for the year. Lets look at what the markets are doing in the middle of the day. Brian is right. Were in a bullish situation now. Two to one advancing declining stocks. New highs are expanding 200 at the nyse. Volume is on the moderate side. Volatility, well, the vix is at new lows for the year essentially. So lets take a look at the s p 500, we are at highs for the year and, yes, thats only about up 1 . Well take that and most of those gains for the year have come just in the last 24 hours. Big caps, new highs, i mentioned some expansion of new highs and we have ge and coke and johnson and johnson, all names you know at new highs. United health. We track that on an intraday basis. Travelers also on the upside here. So most of the new highs recently ha
We start with the equity markets which is moving higher as the fed meets to decide whether or not to begin raising rates. Lets look at the numbers with the dow, the nasdaq and the s p. The nasdaq and the s p are now tracking for their second consecutive week of gains. Something that neither has done in nearly three months. But, ty, the real action here is in the oil market this hour with oil soaring. Wti crude up by 5. 3 . It could still be the biggest daily gain since august 31st when wti jumped nearly 9 . Brent crude, and weve been talking about the spread there narrowing, havent we, ty . But its up by 4 as well. Jack Jackie Deangelis is joining us from the nymex. Lots of people bringing lots of reasons to the table as to why we took off. You tell us what youre hearing. I have three main reasons that were moving higher, a spike like this today, 5. 5 . The first is that bullish eia report. A drawdown in inventories. Cushing down nearly 2 Million Barrels. Refinery runs are going up, an
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