Time. Abigail, what are session highs . The dow, s pave 500, nasdaq all sharply higher. Up 1 on pace for their best day since march 1. The s p 500 on pace for its best weekly gain. The first weekly gain in three weeks. The best weekly gain in 2 months. The nasdaq on pace for yet another record closing high. Certainly a bullish day. We havehis, strengthened financial straight American Express up more than 5 , on pace for its day its best day since october 20 of last year. Investors clearly like that, plus there was nice acceleration in growth around the companys credit card, commercial credit card business, volume three by 6 rate we have the regional banks, see corporate citizens trading higher. These companies also put up solid firstquarter, top and bottom line estimates spread lets turn to a stock that is spiking higher after comments of treasury secretary steve mnuchin, spiking down just a little bit more great initially of 2 after Steven Mnuchin did say that fannie mae and freddie m
Divided hikes, with the swiss insurer targeting an eventual payout of 75 of its net profit. Donald trump prepares to meet his first foreign leader, japanese Prime Minister shinzo abe, as the bank of japan goes on the defensive, buying jgbs in a bid to offset rising treasury yields. Good morning again. Welcome. Glad to have you with us for this next hour. We have lots going on. A packed show for you. Just giving you an indication of where europe is trading, we were called higher by the spread bettors before we opened an hour ago, hanging on to those gains, just over a tenth of a percent. Over night, the bank of japan conducting the bond buying, stopping jgb yields from highing higher this had an effect stateside and some rejigging of yields in europe. When it comes to some bigger movers out there, also just looking at some of the stock specifics, investec has been trading higher after reporting a solid set of first half earnings, similar for zurich. Ahold trading lower after weakness in
You back. 4 00yesterday, most of us were enjoying the sunshine of the day, and through 7 00 or 8 00, we saw the strong storms along i75, and that took it until midnight when the storms pushed into the gulf of mexico. I think today it will be almost identical. No rain chances this morning, a 20 rain chance in the early afternoon, and almost all of the rain is after 4 00 p. M. As the storms head back to the coast. Before the rain gets here, its a hot day. 91degrees, and above average. At 6 08, an hourbyhour look at the friday into the weekend, and Meredyth Censullo will help you look at the roadways. Lets go out and show you what it looks like. Green on i75 and 275, indicating no delays. South tampa, we want to let you know about the emergency sewer work that got underway directions between concordi a and ferdinand. You can get by, but look out for workers there. Delays pasco into hillsboro county, gayle and gene, back to you. Thank you, and right now a horrifying murder of a 13day old b
Beating up the baby. Throwing her around like a rag doll. The baby had a cracked skull and other injuries. The mother was in no position to take care of children. Frankie and phillip at six and three were running amok and were unsupervised and what others saw was consistent with what happened on monday and that she didnt care for the kids and was neglectful and abused them by leaving these kids in the car. In one of the worst. Things that i have ever seen, especially with a 13 day old. Her appearance was one of a kid who had been pummeled. Reporter unbelievable. That family had moved into a hotel after a fire at their north reddington beach home so they were in the motel when all this happened. Kathleen and asked her what happened to her little daughter that she seemed to be aloof and uncaring and didnt even ask about her daughter until an hour into the interview. Guys . That is even more aggravating. But to talk about the angle of this story, we talk about two kids born after artifici
Child died at the hands of her sixyearold brother while locked in a van. Peter bernard joins us live outside the store where investigators believe this all happened. Peter, you and i have been doing this a very long time. I have never, just like the sheriff, heard of a case like this. Reporter i have never seen anything like this. I have been in this business for 30 years. This is just a horrific story. This is the Cell Phone Store behind me where the sheriff says the mother of three Young Children left them minutes while she went inside to get her cell phone screen repaired. The Pinellas County sheriff says sixyearold frankie got upset when baby kathleen started crying so he beat her up badly. His mother, 62yearold Kathleen Steele, you see her here, is charged in the death. The baby had a cracked skull and other injuries and the little sixyearold threw her around like a rag dog. The babys mother didnt recognize the severity of the stopped at a rental car agency on the ray home to get