Good afternoon im tyler mathisen, thanks for joining us we begin with breaking news on the amtrak train crash involving gop lawmakers outside of charlottesville, virginia. We are from West Virginia near the greenbrier to which these gop members were decamping for their annual summit. Ylan tyler, one person has been confirmed dead in that accident. The train hit a dump truck the person who died was on the dump truck and another person on the truck was critically injured. The washington reports that jeff flake of arizona carried one of the injured into an ambulance with other lawmakers now we could also tell you that one member of congress has been taken to the hospital. We dont know who it is or what that persons current status is. Other people who were on the train were treated for minor injuries now as you mentioned, lawmakers are coming out here to West Virginia in the allegany mountains for the winter policy retreat and a moment for them to reflect and try to turn the president s st
Percent and the dow is up little higher and the nasdaq is up by 1 . Question was whether traders would see a selloff before the president s day to day weekend but we are Holding Onto Gains as we go into the holiday weekend. Lets look at sector performance. You can see for the most part its a broadbased rally. The s p 500 10 sectors are in the green but utilities are down a little. Financials are the biggest leader up by 3. 25 and they were the biggest laggard yesterday. 2. 4 ials are up by 25 and energy is up. Some of the financial stocks are in rally mode. Bank of america and citigroup yesterday fell 6. 5 . They are now up by 5 . Is up 7 off of that news as well as wells fargo. Lets take a look at energy. With energy, crude oil is up 10 at 6 . It had been up about 11 but we are now up near the 29 per barrel mark, near session highs. This is the biggest jump since january. Yesterday, it fell to the lowest hint of days. At equity struck a dive yesterday. Safe havens are going the other