1 . Travel and leisure one of the major Industry Groups lower, and contributing to that loss, brent crude did top 70. It is now 69. 35. Gold futures were up to 1575 announce. That may be the biggest indicator of tensions in markets. Still the top story, escalating tensions in the middle east after the u. S. Killed a rainy and general killed iranian soleimani m general custom soleimani general kassem soleimani. They will see the consequent as of their mistake in not only today, but in the years to come. President trump has been warning against any major retaliation, and moments ago, tweeted this. Iran will never have a Nuclear Weapon. By the senior how close is iran to having an operable Nuclear Weapon . The iranians have said they will no longer abide by the nuclear deal that the United States reached in 2018 United States breached in 2018, and they will go full tilt toward develop at of nuclear technology. Based on varying estimates, the good have a Nuclear Weapon within a year to fiv
Where julie hyman has the latest. Julie another quiet rally pushing us to new records again for the dow and the s p 500. 51 points, but i track for a record close. The s p 500 as well. The nasdaq has been the big leader with a more than 1 gain on the strength of tech heavy earnings. The s p 500 reached an intraday record over the course the day if you look at trajectory. We saw a record high not that 130. Ago, right around we will see if we see more strengthening into the close. As far as strength in earnings take a look here. Microsoft that is the big one contributing to gains in technology, up six point 5 after cloudbased revenue beat estimates. Performing best performing and the s p 500, a uniform maker whose numbers beat estimates, and intuitive surgical, the maker of the Da Vinci Surgical Robot its numbers beating estimates as more folks, more hospitals ordered robots. Vonnie some deals causing it to move around. Julie it looks like the big year deal is a must a done deal. In beth