Across the board with the exception of the italian ftse. A quick look at wti crude right now, wti if youre buying it buy the barrel, you can do it for 48. 91. Hurricane irma one of the most powerful atlantic storms in a century. Its churning its way across the caribbean towards florida. Kalee dionne joins us live from cnbc headquarters. Whats the path . Reporter the path is westnorthwest at this point the question still lies when will it turn to the north . Thats something well be watching throughout the day. The latest update from the National Hurricane center, it maintained its 185mileperhour winds. Its just to the eastsoutheast of st. Marteen, and conditions are deteriorating there. This will continue to move at 16 Miles Per Hour that pressure continues to drop. As that pressure drops, the winds will maintain that speed or continue to increase. Everyone is wanting to know where is the track i dont want a lot of people to focus on where it will go as it moves closer to the u. S. At t
Good morning welcome to Worldwide Exchange on cnbc. Im sara eisen im wilfred frost good morning to you from me as well well get to the markets and the agenda including an ecb meeting, but first the latest on Hurricane Irma the most powerful atlantic hurricane on record hammering a string of northeast caribbean islands with winds up to 180 Miles Per Hour the category 5 storm has already killed at least eight people millions are without power in the caribbean. In the island of barbuda, 90 of the buildings have been destroyed. A full report coming up as florida, georgia and the carolinas brace for irmas arifl arrival. U. S. Future force y u. S. Future force y for you a day of gains a quarter percent move higher yesterday, that comes off a selloff on tuesday but that was the only negative session in six for the dow and eight for the s p and nine for the nasdaq, within all this talk of pullbacks and directions is well worth noting. So yesterday slight gains by a quarter percent. This mornin
Slightly the nikkei up by 0. 2 . Shanghai composite under pressure as was the hang seng, down by a third of a percent the hang seng down by a third of a percent, shanghai composite down by a half percent in europe, in early trading, mostly green arrows. The dax is up by almost 1 the cac in france up by a half percent. If you check out crude oil prices, yesterday up 1 to 49. 16. This morning wti back down to 48. 99. Lets get an update on Hurricane Irma heres what we know. The most powerful atlantic hurricane on record ham agriculture string of northeastern caribbean islands with winds up to 180 Miles Per Hour its a category 5 storm. Its killed at least eight people and millions are without power. On the island of barbuda, 90 of the buildings have reportedly been destroyed for the latest lets get to nbc meteorologist kale dionne. Its an active time in the Atlantic Basin we have three hurricanes irma, jose and katia thats the First Time Since 2010 the main topic is irma as it marches clos
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