Costs down and whether therell be more PrIce Cuts ahead. Good mornIng. In sport, a hIstorIc nIght for scottIsh Football CeltIc celebrate becomIng the fIrst scottIsh team to qualIfy for the maIn Group Stages of the womens ChampIons League. And as you saw, raIn Is stIll fallIng across parts of england and wales In partIcular but It Is set to clear two brIghter but colder weather. One of the forecast detaIls here on breakfast. All of the detaIls later. Good mornIng, Its frIday the 27th september. Our maIn story. HurrIcane helene, a dangerous category four storm has made landfall In the Us State Of FlorIda. One person has been kIlled and theres more than 350 Thousand homes and busInesses are currently wIthout power. AuthorItIes warn the hurrIcane could brIng a catastrophIc and unsurvIvable storm surge, wIth wInds of around 140 mIles an hour beIng recorded. Our North AmerIca Correspondent DavId WIllIs reports. HurrIcane helene touched down on florIdas Gold Coast brIngIng on FlorIdas Gulf
Courtney reagan who is in for sara today who is on assignment. Good morning. Good morning. Lets get straight to the market action. Rallies across the board. Record highs across the board yesterday as we said already. The dow, s p, the nasdaq, russell 2000, s mid caps and th dow all hitting fresh highs yesterday. Extraordinary stuff. Broadness of the rally. The dow called higher this morning by 42 points. S p by 3. Nasdaq by 3. 5 points. U. S. Equities doing well. We also saw equities in europe do well yesterday. Lets look at what the euro did over the last 48 hours or so. It moved very sharply. Initially going about a percent higher. When the decision from the ecb was announced, the market was focusing on the fact that the monthly size of purchases was reduced, there fourth euro rallying on the expectation, that meant stimulus was being withdrawn. About an hour later, when the press conference began, the euro fell sharply. About a percent and a half down for the day. That was when mari
A check on the yields on the tenyear right now. Youre looking at the 30year bond, 2. 985 . Want to get a mortgage right now . What do you think . Anybody . Better hurry up. What do you think . Better hurry up. Hurry up, right . Trains left the station . Whats going to happen to real estate prices . Well, commercial real estate prices, cap rates fallen to 4 . They only have one way to go. This is very true. Among todays top stories, were watching oil prices closely ahead of a key opec meeting wednesday. Crude was down sharply on reports of disagreement between opec countries and non opec exporters like russia over who should cut production to curb oversupply. A meeting scheduled for today between opec and non opec producers was canceled after saudi arabia decided not to attend. Take a look there. Wti down just a few cents a barrel, 46. 03 last trade, brent unchanged. On this weeks economic agenda, tomorrow look for the estimate on thirdquarter gdp, the s p caseshiller, Consumer Confiden
Crude prices ended the day by 1. 50. Wti is up against another 16 cents to 47. 48. Brent is down by three cents to 48. 95. Earnings just out now from home depot. The dow component posted a profit of 1. 44 a share was eight cents above expectations. Revenue also beat analysts forecasts. The company also raised its fouryear guidance to 6. 27 a share. Were going to dig through the report im digging. With an analyst at this point. The stock is looking really strong today. That should help the dow to some extent. Since it is in the dow. And i believe that is an alltime high. Alltime high for home depot. And youre talk about a market cap of closing in on 200 billion. And you know, we have still a young guy, energetic dude. Started in his lifetime i dont think he was in his 20s when he started either. To create how many thousands of jobs. Create 200 billion worth of shareholder value. Its just an amazing value. And craig meniere the chairman and ceo. Pleased with a strong expected growth. Bro
Saying how delighted i am to have made my very first trip out of europe, as the very first also european commissioner for immigration, here in the United States of america. Europe and the United States are longstanding allies and partners. We share the same fundamental values. Freedom. Peace. Democracy. Our joint meeting here yesterday and today is another concrete example of how together we can be more effective in upholding and defending our common values. Needless to say, the relations between the European Union and the United States in the justice and the Home Affairs Area reflect the strategic character of our partnership. Not surprisingly, our meeting this morning with attorney general eric holder and his team was very successful. Very positive. Very friendly. And very productive. I also had a very fruitful meeting yesterday with the Homeland Security secretary, jeh johnson, which helped make the days meeting very a success. Today, as was said before, we discussed the future of t