Market picture this morning. As you can see were pointing higher to the tune of about five points or so the dow is up 27 the nasdaq up 13 we were a little bit lower yesterday, but not too much. The nasdaq was the laggard the other two were just below the flatline although it was the fourth negative session out of five for the dow. Albeit up 2 on the dow for the month as a whole which is the ninth straight month of gains for the dow. The s ps also looking at nine straight months of gains after december if we hold the gains at the moment which is pretty extraordinary, consistent gains through the course of this year. Lets have a look at oil prices coming up next as we said. Jumped significantly yesterday still up there near that 60 mark for wti. All right. Lets have a look at markets around the rest of the world hong kong was closed yesterday for the boxing day holiday most other markets open yesterday. Everything open today. Shanghai down a percent or so, but elsewhere slight gains for
Michelle miller spent the day with a Health Official spreading the word about the health risks. The big key is flooded water you know is unsafe. Reporter this doctor is making the round in areas that were flooded in houston. As the Harris County Public Health director, he is warning residents about the risks they face, while cleaning up their homes. Then me of all of this is mold and mold loves moisture. He got a foot of water and now mold is growing in her garage, and inside her house. When you took out the, the cabinetry and the sheet rock, were you wearing protective masks. No. See, thats what we have been saying, make sure you wear protection when you are doing all this. What we dont want while you are fryi trying to help everything and get back to normal life, is, that you also get sick in the process. Doctor shaw says it is important to clean up fast because of what contaminated walter leaves behind. Floodwater can harbor dangerous bacteria which can enter the body through cuts a
Wednesday. My mama is excited she watches star and empire. Who knew. Im Tom Sredenschek with karen hepp and Scott Williams said its National Chocolate milk day did you ever laugh so hard the chocolate milk. Comes out your nose and bubbles and everything. But chocolate milk is so good. It is so good. On this wednesday talking about temperatures heating up pretty rapidly throughout the day today by lunchtime 82. 88 degrees by this afternoon. So above average temperatures and what about at the ballpar ballpark. Later on this evening 05. Yeah, still pretty warm. 84 by first pitch there. So, dress appropriately because it does not feel like fall even though the calendar says so. And Tropical Storm maria now churning east of outer banks of North Carolina. Poorly organized still 75 mile an hour wind. You can see 1 45 miles to the east of Cape Hatteras North Carolina and Movement North 5 miles an hour it will make the turn ahead back out to sea. We have rip current to deal with over the next s
Good morning very warm welcome to Worldwide Exchange on cnbc. Im wilfred frost. Sara eisen is off today. Lets get straight to the Global Market picture comes off a day of record closes and intraday high for the dow. It was only up 0. 3 . The s p up 0. 2 the nasdaq the laggard up just 0. 1 the dow is holding on to a bit of green this morning, which would be another record high potentially up 0. 1 points. The nasdaq down 4 or 5 points. Treasury board, we have seen yields slip a bit since the highs of last week we got close to 2. 4 last week, back down on the tenyear to 2. 34, 2. 35 . That slippage did hurt the dollar a bit yesterday asian equities, the japanese nikkei closing at a record why not seen since prethe Asian Financial crisis, december 1996. This is a fresh high for the nikkei since then. Its take an long time to get back up to that level. One forgets way back to the Asian Financial crisis up 0. 3 or so today. Hong kong down shanghai up. Australia the leader of the pack lets lo
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