All this comes before we get Apple Earnings tomorrow. Pretty good week for central bank earnings. But for now, pretty quiet. Wait and see has to find the markets. Is at ank market important juncture because the s p 500 last made its record high may 21, 2015. Since then it is come pretty close to matching that high, but no cigar. Months. Mes in the last july, november, and a less week when we got within 1 of that record high we cannot get past that final hurdle. We are seeing a bit of a backup in rates everywhere you look. This chart on your screen is a oneyear look at the 10 year yield on german boon. Now over 0. 2. Not too dramatic. But you can see there was a huge tantrum last spring, some people talk about we see a repeat of that . We are nowhere to that we are seeing yields rise despite the lack of rally and equity markets. Tracey lets look specifically at the british pound against the u. S. Dollar. The pound rising to its strongest level against the dollar and more than two months
I contacted septa. It they are shuttle bussing between mount mariah and yeadon so watch out for that. In montgomery a few accidents, one in lore moreland apartment route 100 northbound at jackson road. Heading out on the majors no problems yet. A little volume on the southbound side of 95. These are around girard avenue. 15minute drive time. There it goes. Southbound from wood haven to the vine street expressway, no real problems. The northbound lanes doing better. The pope is coming, there are road closures. Ill go over those in the next ten minutes. Today the world meeting of families begins in philadelphia. More than a million visitors expected to flock to the city. Events are planned all week long starting at the Pennsylvania Convention center. The archbishop hold as conference followed by the Opening Ceremony. And the week ends with the papal visit and mass on the parkway. As we prepare for the pope another round of parking restrictions and towing begins today. Beginning at 6 00 t
Looking good. Northbound today. The numbers around the bay area its 40 degrees chilly out there 48 in San Francisco. 44 for san jose. 41 in santa rosa. Heres what were expecting today. It will be nice for Christmas Day. Clear and chilly to start out with, a sunny cool afternoon. A little dry weather ahead with no rain in sight in the near future anyway. And temperatures highs today will be 59 degrees in santa rosa. Santa wrapped up his journey delivering gifts. Cbs news Tara Mergener has more on christmas celebrations around the world. [ church bells ] reporter catholics around the world are celebrating the birth of jesus christ today. In bethlehem, thousands attended Midnight Mass inside the church of the nativity where jesus christ was born. At the vatican, pope francis celebrated with a traditional mass at st. Peters basilica where the crowd spills into the square. [ nonenglish language ] reporter he said, gods message of peace is stronger than darkness and corruption. That is the m
For renewed faith in a city shaken by protests and the recent killing of two Police Officers. Tara mergener for cbs news, washington. And the pope just wrapped up his traditional world view speech at st. Peters square. The u. S. Postal service is closed for todays christmas holiday. For the most part, some postal workers will be on the job though today to deliver priority mail. Regular Postal Service is set to resume tomorrow. Hard to believe at this late hour but some people still havent finished their Christmas Shopping this morning. And you still have a shot at it. According to kpix 5s Christian Hartnett, he is on powell street in San Francisco where walgreens is open for business this morning. Reporter yeah. And if you can believe it a lot of people are coming in right now. I mean, open on christmas, yeah. There are still people who need to get their gifts and if you can believe it about 5 or 6 registers here all of them are staffed around midnight. A line of 30 people at one point
Reporter yeah, good morning. Yeah. 24 hours a day even on christmas, its surprising. But yeah, people are coming in. And if you can believe it around midnight all of the registers here were staffed and there was about a line of 30 people. Were not kidding. Manager says people were buying everything from gift cards to Stocking Stuffers and, of course, you got to package it all up so wrapping paper of course was flying off the shelves, as well. As you can imagine some frantic shoppers trying to get a last minute gift. Employees here had to lend the occasional helping hand. What would you get . I was like i get that one, you know, and like okay, you know, like reporter people were asking your opinion. Would you like that . Got that for christmas would you like that, i was like yeah, thats pretty cool. Reporter so yeah, the procrastinators can come here to walgreens 24 hours a day. They are open here on christmas. These things here, gift cards, a lot of them going off the shelves, as well.