That exclusive cnbc investigation coming up as power lunch starts right now welcome, everybody i am Brian Sullivan. It may not look like stocks are doing much the dow is up 43 points. Modest gains but dont let the numbers fool you. As michelle said, those are all new intraday highs for the major indexes and hopefully for your money as well. This despite the north korean threat oils recovery helping some of the battered energy stocks, which is helping the overall market some big individual stock stories that you should be following, equifax battered again following a downgrade. That stock now down 35 since the data breach was announced a week ago and oracle down 7 , thats on concerns about its current quarter. Ty brian, thank you very much. Welcome, everybody im tyler mathisen, and heres what else is happening at this hour macys ramping up for the holidays, hiring 80,000 seasonal workers. But that is down from last year. Google reportedly considering investing a billion dollars in lyft
Situation right now with the fuel spill. Good work by the Atlantic City for department. Containing the fuel spill. So that it doesnt drip down, into the bay below. Come on, going to the maps. If you are getting ready to leave Atlantic City use albany avenue to route 40 or route 30, the white horse pike to get you out every town. South on 95, this accident right at allegheny avenue, just happened few moment ago. Three cheers to the bus drivers coming out of the great northeast headed into center city. So bumper to bumper from cottman avenue on in. Rough go for the warminster riders this morning, looking at 30 to 40 minute delays, now trying to give some trains a chance to express past some of the stops, which means, we will have folks standing on the platforms, some overcrowding, so expect delays this morning, on the warminster Regional Rail line. Mike and alex back to you. Bob, thank you. Coming up on 7 02 on this wednesday. Well, the girlfriends of the las vegas shooter was on that pl
The u. S. Energy center. Its track while still unpredictable could threat p onethird of u. S. Refining capacity. And some refiners began to shudder their operations, which on hurricaneof a nu harvey and its potential impact on the energy market. Tropical storm harvey is gaining steam and is expected to land in Corpus Christi tomorrow. Theres some speculation it could become a category 2, which would mean the chance frs heavy wind, flooding and damage are high. We havent seen a storm like this in that region for almost a decade, but these event tend to spike crude, gas and natural gas prices. A bad storm could shut down refineries and cut off imports and exports in the wra area. There are six main regio esz it little less than half the category 1 hits a refinery, it takes about a week to get back up. Category 2, more like two weeks. The Energy Markets are not in panic mode, but traders who recall past storms say prices will move quickly if this storm packs a bad punch. Shutting down a r
If it happens. Overseas we are watching for new details on the fatal London Attack thats put the entire Parliament Area on lockdown and of course the Market Reaction to all of these stories as we follow them into the close. Lets start, as you see the dow down 15 points with the latest developments on the Health Care Reform package. As it stands, Kayla Tausche is in washington with the latest. Opponents of the Health Care Bill are facing just about 24 hours before the vote is expected to happen on the American Health care act. First you have the president hosting the majority whip as well as moderate republicans this morning and then members of his top staff meeting with the House Freedom caucus. 25 to 30 members of that conservative wing of the republican party. And hosting them, Vice President mike pence, chief of staff reince priebus, kellyanne conway, steve bannon, health and Human Services secretary tom price, budget director mulvaney and others were there meeting with the House Fr
Stronger dollar story. People are still going shopping in the u. K. Retail Sales Numbers really strong in the u. K. Yields up by around two basis points. Much more on that in just a moment. Most the yields rose the it almost a year. Abn egypt air an egyptair flight has gone missing over the Mediterranean Sea. We have the latest with riad hamade in dubai. Please tell us what we know at this point about this egyptair flight. Unfortunately, we know very little. It took off from paris, disappeared around 2 30 a. M. Egypt time from the radar. Airbus 320. Is an it was given to egyptair in 2003. It is not a very old airplane. The pilots were very experienced. Right now, the militaries of egypt and greece are searching forn any debris. David weve heard president that no causeris has been ruled out. Was it at cruising altitude and what was the weather like . Riad as far as we know, the weather was good. This is from the air traffic controllers. It was at cruising altitude come a sudden disappea