Visibility down to less than a mile and take it easy on the roads, likely going to come into some fog and clear conditions, it is going to vary where you are. Temperatures though on the mild side in the 50s, clouds around and few showers in parts of vermont but most of the region is dry right now. I am tracking though a cold front that will be pushing some showers into the region later on today but ahead of that front we are talking 70s and coolest cape and islands and notice evening commute Time Starting to see the risk of the showers and tracking scattered showers through the evening commute and into the early part of the overnight hours but today look at that, vents for highs, again, coolest for the cape and islands, we will take a closer look at the timeline when the cooler air arrives coming up but we need to get check of traffic now with julie. How you doing out there . Julie i have a stalled dumptruck on 93 south so people may be slowing down in the southbound lanes to check it
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These are the top stories in business and finance at this hour. China is given Global Markets a booster shot in a surprise move, Chinas Central Bank cut is bench mark Interest Rates for the First Time Since 20 12 the one year lending rate was reduced to 5. 6 . China is on track for its slowest annual growth in more than two decades. Stocks around the world shot up on that unexpected move out of china and comments from the e. C. B. President. He said Inflation Expectations in europe have fallen to a excessively low level and the e. C. B. Must find a way to get prices rising as quickly as possible. The inflation situation has also become increasingly challenging. Headline infrustration has fallen significantly over the last year. Last november it still today as 0. 9 . This was low, but it was generally expected to rise safely above 1 by now. Draghi is trying to keep europe from sliding into a japan style deflation anywhere spiral. Hours after his speech, the e. C. B. Said it is the gun b
Afternoon. Which is a big reason why they get slammed in the morning. With the dow closing at 4 points and the nasdaq climbing point 4 way out of the hole in the morning. Every day the press puts new obstacle courses in front of us highlighting everything thats wrong. Boy is it depressing. Its a regular clint eastwoodlike gauntlet. Sometimes days like today, we remember the consumers spending days with custom and the economy is doing much more than you believe. The news backdrop has become glooming with everything happening has been interpreted as bad for stocks. Portfolio, oh boy i cant wait to see how they spend netflix negatively that rallied 60 points after an amazing quarter. I bet they find something negative about it. They just cant help themselves. When you look at it that way, its easy to understand this nasty decline. Youll also understand the renaissance later in the day. Lets start with the wall street journal. Its a page that could cause you to realize how terrible things
Why we are going to have a supposedly Freedom Summit with this guy. I appreciate your time. The politico newspaper story on this event from steve king and the democrats looking to highlight some of his views on immigration talks about some of the issues you bring up across the street from todays event. A press conference to call on republicans to condemn kings statements on immigration. They note that king is compared to undocumented immigrants king has compared undocumented immigrants to dogs. Some of his statements on immigration. Office of left bob is up next on the line for independents. Good morning. Caller i wanted to make a comment about the summit today. I am an African American independent. I have been watching the republicans on some of the cable networks. I have been watching some of the republicans that come on some of the cable networks, and it seems like to me that republicans im sure an assignment today is going to be dealing with bashing the president and his policy as