New york stockexch tyler and sue have the evening off. It seems many people this Holiday Season made their lists and checked them twice, or by the looks of things, maybe even three or four times. What i mean is, we were in a buying mood, as shoppers came out in droves this year, driving sales, by some estimates, to their biggest increase since 2011. That naturally sent the Retail Sector higher on wall street today. As kate rogers tells us now, it might not yet be over. Shes in west nyack, new york. Or us tonight at, where else, a reporter christm may be over. But retailers have a lot to celebrate. The latest numbers from mastercard point to the best Holiday Season in more than five years. Retail sales rose by almost 5 from november through christmas eve. Online sales are up even higher, 18 . Overall sales are projected to reach 682 billion. I got an apple watch and an ocustick. A universal for january. Time with the family. My son. Reporter shoppers arent slowing down anytime soon. In
Index was off triple digits. Bu compared to what weve been seeing lately it hardly. Register some say investors took a much neededhe breafter the recent bout of heavy volatility. Whatever the cause it was the third consecutive sessionf gains. The Dow Jones Industrial average closed higher by 39 points. The nasdaq added 31. And the s p 500 rose about seven. But as bob pisani reports, both the bulls and the bears are trying to figure out what might happen next. The dow moved in a 280point range from todays high tolo yet compared to the last two weeks its quiet. Amazing. Are things finally startg to settle down . Volume today was well below the recent average. The s 500 trade three times normal volume much olast week. What a titanic week it was. Now that the dow rorecouped ughly 40 of its losses from february 1st, the big debate is what happens next . The bulls would argue the correction was technical and there was no fundamental driver behind it they say earnings are growing and the Glob
Mr. Zarda passed away in 2014 and his estate continued the suit. Heres the oral argument from september of 2017. Good afternoon. Each side has been assigned 30 minutes, divided ten minutes per person. And that time may be exceeded depending on how things go during the argument. We will hear from mr. Antollino. Good afternoon, your honor and all your honors. My cocounsel who works with me. We are proud to represent Melissa Zarda and bill moore, executors of the zarda estate and asked the court to construe and unite title vii with life as we live it and under the plain language and its interpretations. We ask that you find that Sexual Orientation discrimination a sex discrimination under title vii. Donald zarda was a male. He was known as gay though he was not traditionally feminist when he was a great skydiver. When a customer complained that he identified himself as gay, he was fired. And for the revelation it was a violation of the statute because his sex, a male, who was attracted to
Stifle from the strength of swiss franc. And the reverse takeover in the British Assets in a 1. 3 billion pound deal. Good morning, everyone. Another episode of Worldwide Exchange. Good morning to you, seema . Yeah very good how about you . A lot happening in the gold market overnight. Absolutely. Lets get to the stop story. The price of gold has slump tide fiveyear low. The precious metal was trading as much as 4 lower after the asian markets posted. That mood with randall resources hit the hardest. Spot gold currently off at 1. 6 . And s p down 10 . Northern star down by 0. 2 . And the chinese selling and triggering stop loss orders. 1 million being traded on that very exchange. Thats after the government said on friday that the gold reserves were up 57 from six years ago, abdomen that was a lot less than people had had anticipated. A lot of factors seem to be weighing on the price of gold right now. You also have the fed indicating that they will raise rates sometime this year in th
You can see the cuban flag going up at the u. S. State department. You will see one on 16th street later on today. Well have news4s molette green with us. Thats in 15 minutes. A man charged with killing four people in d. C. Will be in court today. Follow nbc washington on twitter for updates on daron wints hearing. Wint is accused of killing the savopoulos family and a housekeeper on Woodland Drive in northwest in may. He has changed lawyers twice. Police believe there are other suspects in the case, but have not arrested anyone so far. And this just in to the live desk from metro. The third in the 7000 series trains starts today. Enters the fleet on the orange line, starting in New Carrollton this morning. Heres a picture of that that train looks like. The new cars replace the oldest cars in metros entire system. The 7000 running game cars feature electronic signs noslip flooring and sleek blue seats replacing the brown and orange color scheme in the old cars. The series first rolls o