Gas prices have been going up despite oils drop. Weve got Joe Petrowski telling us what he calls a potential fear premium forming in the gasoline price. Here is a question ive been asking. Is outer space big enough for along musk and Richard Branson . Well tell you about the new satellite war brewing between these two billionaires coming up in a while here. Plus, the Commission Free trading app robin hunt has done 1 billion in transactions. How lock can it keep those trades free of fees . Well ask the founders when they join us live. Lets begin with walmart and home depot and the mixed fortunes they presented this morning. Courtney reagan joins us with that story. Its been a long and short day all at once. Walmart and home depot are dow components. Some small merchandise categories cross over. The reason for guidance updates widely. Home depot, inline enings, stronger than expected samestore sales and better spending among higher income consumers and professionals. Home improvement ret
Brent crude up to 55. 48. Okay. Breaking Global Market news some early news this morning. The Uk Supreme Court ruling against the British Government in a key brexit decision. The vote means the Prime Minister, theresa may, must get parliaments approval in order to trigger brexit. Look at the pound moving on a result of this. Youre seeing it falling there over a half percent this morning. A couple other big stories to tell you about, yahoo reporting better than expected results on the top and bottom line. The company saying the sale of its core Internet Business to verizon should be completed in the Second Quarter which helped ease investor concerns that the deal might collapse. The 4. 8 billion transaction was supposed to close in the First Quarter. We talked about it yesterday along with that news that the government was looking at yahoo and the fact it had not disclosed that breach earlier. Barclays turning cautious on apple. Downgrading the iphonemaker. The analyst is cutting apple
They say all service should be up and running and we will let you know how its going. The city is sending reinforcement on queens. We are sending the plows. Send in the plows. I get where youre trying to go. You made your point. Besides streets are just a mess. The mayor vows the city will not give up until the job is done. I hope not. A scary scene in the bronx as a little girl falls into a hole covered with snow. The hole has been there for quite some time and a little girls mother wants to know why the city did not do anything about it. Juliet she looks like she is in good shape. Good morning. Thank you for being with us. Juliet lots of commuter issues. Hopefully things will be we have liz down in north beach. It was a big deal with frozen switches and frozen third rails. Hopefully the weather will help. We do have rain today. It was a little bit rainy when i walked outside today. Are you sure it was raining . Maybe it was just the snow dripping. 2 30 am i dont know. Where you guys
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It was also blocking the right lanes. Inner loop clear in this region as well as the outer belt way. Roads open. No delays. Metro, marc, vre. If youre on twitter tweet us first4traffic. Anything you see, ill make sure we get it out. Danella, thank you. Angie goff with breaking news at the live desk. Aaron, at this hour Kenyan Security forces are sweeping the malin nairobi looking for gunmen and anyone still alive. Taking you to the scene outside the shopping center. Live look here. Pretty quiet compared to the start of the morning. We heard gunfire and explosions. They say they have controlled the mall but were getting reports that al shabab says hostages are still alive and fighters are holding their ground. So far, 62 people have been killed. 60 more are still missing. Thats the latest from the live desk. Angie goff, news 4. This morning there is fear among experts on copy cat violence. The u. S. Department of Homeland Security will likely coordinate with corporate security chiefs an