Today. I should tell you if we take a look at the indices, you have the ftse 100 bouncing back a little bit from last weeks weakness putting in the worst week in performance given the clues about. The dax is up this morning now overall europe is doing pretty well. Also thanks to the psi 20. The portuguese index not an index that will usually focus on its up by roughly 1. 6 . Port few gall has returned be to investment grading after 5. 5 very long years. Take a look at the portuguese yield tumbling roughly the lowest in the year s p the first of the big three Credit Ratings or agencies to look portugal back to an Investment Grade now deutsch bank ceo says market volatility may be higher than people think and low Interest Rates will keep hurting bank profits he spoke exclusively to nancy. Volatility is actually higher so when you price an option or the market prices an option, its using applied volatility thats been very low for technical factors, just buying and selling futures options.
Conditions out there, also dealing with the wind. 30s and 40s right now. Berkshires a few snowflakes mixing on in as the storm system pulse away. High pressure to our southwest, that will be building on in. But in enit would, the winds still very busy for the day today and this morning gusts over 20 for the interior and as well as for the scapes and islands. Adding to the chill in the air. So when you step outside, the chill is in the air. The wind will stay with us through the day. Today on the cooler side. What you can expect through the afternoon and also when we get back to much more milder conditions coming up. That timeline ahead. More breaking news this morning about the paris attack. German media reporting this morning, a man with links to the attacks is in police custody. 51yearold was arrested last week near the near the german they say he had guns, hand agree mads. The Islamic State group claiming responsibility for the attack. Calling the paris attack the second deadliest i
A new plea today from the mother of an american hostage. She asks the Islamic State group to let her son go. Roxana saberi with more. Reporter tony, this is the first time that Shirley Sotloff is speaking out. Her plea comes eight days after the release of a video showing the execution of another journalist steve foley. Im Shirley Sotloff. My son stephen is in your hands. Reporter she addresses the leader of the Islamic State group by his preferred title, asking him to let her son come home. You, the caliph can grant amnesty. I ask you to please release my child. Reporter in this video she calls her son an honorable man who always tried to help the weak. Stephen is a journalist who travels to the middle east to cover the suffering of muslims at the hand of tyrants. Reporter the 31yearold miami native had reported from syria several times when he disappeared last august. The sotloffs kept his captivity secret even from close friends. They thought if they publicized his case his captors
Smile, Varney Company is about to begin. Stuart oh, check that big board please. This is another record day. 130 points higher as we speak. Pretty much the same story for the s p 500. It too is on its way to a nice new high i believe, up. 7 . 2067. Let me show you the biggest name of them all, another new high, only just up, up more than this earlier. That is apple at 116, up two cents, 116 per share right now. Please dont forget oil. It moved up to 76 a barrel this morning. That is still pretty close to the fouryear low. Gas down more than a penny overnight. In fact it dropped almost two cents. The National Average for a gallon of regular, smile, please, 2. 83. All right, weve got a whole long list winners among the dow 30 industrials. Nicole, give me that list, please. Theyre easy to find the winners. I love urbaner there, china rate cut equals u. S. Rally. No doubt. The dow and s p hitting record highs. Dow components hitting lifetimehighs. Nike, travelers, visa, 3m. Add multiyear h
Roads we are tracking snow, sleet and changing over to rain later tonight into saturday. Here is stormtracker 6 live double scan radar, you can see the swath of moisture from the ohio valley to the southeast we are tapping into all of that moisture from the gust coast states and this makes its way to the southeast to northeast direction. And during the overnight hours and as you wake up tomorrow morning. As far as expected precipitation type for philadelphia the 95 corridor snow turning to rain and there will be a band of ice setting up before you get the gradual change over to rain. From the poconos to allentown and reading, its mainly snow, but south its mainly rain. 9 00 right through midnight ton that is when the precipitation will arrive and during the overnight hours when a lot of us are sleeping youll find the heaviest precipitation. And later on tomorrow afternoon between noon and 3 00 in the afternoon, this precipitation will end from a southwest to northeast direction. It wil