Defiant north korea, top north korean diplomat warned his country is ready to send, quote, gift packages to the u. S. Comments come just days after that country tested most powerful nuclear bomb yet. Marking an escalation with standoff with United States and allies. U. S. Ambassador urged the security counsel to impose the strongest possible sanctions to north korea to cut off revenue that lets the nation build Ballistic Missile and war heads. Crisis prompted investors to sell stocks. Dow jones dropped 234 to 21753. Nasdaq was off about 59. Almost 60. S p 500 pulled back 18. Reports tonight from the new york stock exchange. Reporter mounting tensions between the United States and north korea royal Global Markets after north korea conducted most powerful nuclear test to date. Gold prices shot up to one year high in this geo political jitters. In the absence of any major catalyst, earning season winding down, there is a sense of nervousness today. You got a market risen a lot this year.
Gasoline spill. Busy road closed. Crews trying to clean up 4,000 gallon mess in bucks county. More violence at the prison after the center of last weeks inmate standoff as the community prepares to say goodbye to correction officer killed in takeover. Bundle up. Yesterday was snow. This morning dealing with the bitter cold. 4 31 friday morning. Good morning. Nbc 10 today. Im vai sikahema. Im tracey david sop. Happening now twostories that could impact your morning commute. First in bucks county a overturned tanker truck. Also weather is once again a concern today. This time because of the bitter cold temperatures. At least 20 schools in our area have delays. We have that information running at the bottom of your screen. Meteorologist bill henley has your neighborhood forecast, the most accurate forecast in town now. Cold wind is blowing this morning. Not a terribly strong wind. When its this cold out, 12mileanhour wind will feel a lot stronger. 24 light now in the city. 22 in the subur
Good morning and welcome to World Wide Exchange on cnbc. Im sara eisen. Along with don. Today to be here, good morning. Lets check in on Global Market this is morning. It looks like were lower again today. Dow down about 40 points. S p futures down 6. Nasdaq down nearly 14. This after the dow actually finished lower for the sixth session in a row. As for oil prices, all the focus back in a bear market off 22 from the june high. And they are getting a bit of a relief bounce this morning. Still around 40 a barrel. Dipped below it yesterday, 40. 13 right now. Keep a close eye on that. It is starting to impact sentiment perhaps with lack of other catalysts. The Economic Data heats up. Of course everyone still talks about the former correlation trading relationship between stocks and oil. Well see if that holds in the weeks and months Going Forward here. Among todays other top stories. Shinzo abe approving a 274 billion stimulus passage. The countrys finance minister says the bank of japan
Hoping to ease some concerns apple had hit a wall. Marketing the first time in ten quarters the company has seen Revenue Growth in ipad sells. Talking about the performance with an analyst in just a couple of minutes. Take a look at the futures right now. Not only do we have the earnings report. We had twitter last night. Right now things looking up on the high side. Dow would open higher. S p 500 about 3. 5. Nasdaq up close to 30 points this morning. The apple stuff makes a lot more sense to me, andrew, because when we were talking about when they were still growing. Yes. They were going to grow from a revenue base quarterly of like 42 billion and thats an unbelievable i was thinking thats not guaranteed. Even know it was down of what was it revenue was down i forget how much. Who cares if revenue is down 49 to 42. So its 7 billion less, but its 42 billion. Their quarterly profit is like 10. 68, but my problem when it was priced for perfection is you think its going to grow to the moo
Clintons past debate performances for her senate and president ial campaigns. And eventually will hold mock debates to prepare. The other big story this midday is the possibility of rain heres first alert meteorologist greg bennett with more. Several factors play into chances for rain today and tomorrow with the potential for more rain into the end of the work week. Today, partly cloudy skies will be common along with a shot for into the evening with 5pm to 9pm being our best wind for widespread rain and possible thunderstorms. Highs look to range between 94 and 99 degrees valley wide and will increase slightly into the work week but not by much. Day for rain through the next 7days, others say the rain is out by late tonight and we will umbrella handy for tomorrow morning and afternoon. By wednesday and thursday, a much drier forecast is expected with mainly sunny skies but highs hold between 99 and 104 degrees but winds look to pick up thursday morning and last into friday where we se