Spots coming up. Emily. Well, we are tracking some new delays this morning. Lets start with a look at main travel times. Coming through the altamonte pass you will be slow going thanks to a new accident right this on 580 westbound at north flynn road. That drive time creeping up closer to 40 minutes. You are now in the yellow on east shore freeway as well as highway 4. The drives are 2 2 minutes and 37 minutes. You looking good out of the south bay though on 101. On to the Richmond San Rafael bridge slow going in the westbound direction no problems as far as lane closures or issues with accidents. This is just regular old rush hour traffic. Eastbound direction no problem there. There are going to be laneclosures in the direction. Until this afternoon as a result of emergency construction on that bridge. Now off to the bay bridge where metering lights have have been on for a hour. Sun is coming up the east shore freeway is moving but slows down as you get to the maze. Same thing with 80
Raytheon, chevron and phillips chemical putting pen to paper just a few moments after that meeting with the emir, inking deals with qatari businesses, but do those deals negate the harsh truth that qatar is one of the few countries that will not cut its diplomatic ties with iran . We are about to get an answer to that in just a moment. While the president strikes deals with qatar, china trade talks lurching forward, kind of in fits and starts, but some u. S. Companies are still terrified that tariffs could derail profits. Jeff flock is live in milwaukee with that company on your screen, one company desperate for an exemption to keep the trains running. Theres a new billionaire running for president on the democratic side. Tom steyer, best known for his Environmental Activism and also this push to impeach President Trump, but will voters buy into a billionaire who says hes running against corporate greed . How did he become a billionaire . A former adviser to president obama and former
And the nasdaq. The dow is up about 100 points. The nasdaq 100 hitting a new record high. Your midcap names, jan bradys of the investing world, big standouts. Energy stocks a big part of that, led higher by names like denver, resources, sm energy and energen. Im michelle carusocabrera. Cleanup efforts from North Carolina to florida following hurricane matthew. 19 deaths have been reported here in the United States due to that storm. Samsung suspending production of its galaxy note 7 phones following reports that they catch fire. Oil prices are moving higher after Vladimir Putin said russia is ready to join opecs efforts to cap oil output. Begin with politics and new polls showing that donald trump is in deepening trouble. John harwood live in washington with the numbers. This one is, what, nbc news and wall street journal, john . Yes, this is a wall street journal nbc News National live interview telephone poll that was it is important for me to point this out, this is not reflecting a
Julie you just abide buy today between the individual retailers in the retail Sales Numbers. They are showing different pictures of whats going on within the retail industry. Individual retail showing sales letter disappointing even as the overall number does beat estimates. Women mixed picture at the moment the major averages is the nasdaq is down thing but the dow imap is the the best technology group. Telecom and Consumer Staples shares are lower, however today. Retail, when youre looking at different times of retailers today, its an interesting story. Walmart and amazon, for example, we of walmart which is rising falling by 2 . But amazon is also down after her recent winning streak it had. Walmart reports its warnings next thursday its earnings next thursday to be head of that. First quarter comes could come in in line or below what analyst are estimating. Declining,se stocks investments and owners are falling in the session as well. Got disappointing numbers, not just today but o
Nasdaq advanced. 2 . Good enough is the theme for the day. Why not start with the ultimate good enough . Lets start with apple. They reported a number that showed a 15 revenue decline yet the stock is flying in after hours. How in the heck can it decline like that be bullish . Simple. Because there were many, many worries going into the quarter. Even among the bulls that it would be worse, maybe far worse than that. Nope, it was good enough. Better than we thought three months ago. And frankly could have been more than good enough. Tim cook told us. If apple hadnt been supply constrained on its iphone selling almost only 40. 4 million when it could have been many more than that. Plus that Service Revenue stream that i talk about all the time just keeps growing. Cook said it will be the size of a fortune 100 company by this time next year. When we asked him if that meant 28 billion, the value of the Smallest Company on the austere list, he told us, no, it would be more than that. I stan