Good thursday morning. Welcome to squawk alley. Im jon fortt with morga brennan, david faber, here at post 9 at the New York Stock Exchange carl is on assignment. And were going to begin with todays rally. Stocks surging all of the major indices up more than 1 . Our dom chu is back at headquarters with a look at what is driving the gains today dom . So, jon, we are right near highs of the session right now the dow is up about 458 points, 452 at this stage. And as you can see here, almost 1. 5 to 2 gains at this stage for the major indices. The s p 500 really the laggard there. A lot of tlechnology and communication stocks powering that nasdaq composite to a 1. 5 gain overall with regard to whats driving the action, take a look at the sectors that areat most at wor and at play. Financials, industrials, technology, meanwhile, consumer staples, real estate, and utilities really lagging behind. The key level that we wanted to watch earlier on was 2945. That had been an area of resistance o
Get our mobile app. Quick update on bay area weather and traffic. More on the forecast which will get hot. And were tracking a tough ride on this thursday morning. Two hot spots. One just cleared, one more to go. If you have to use 80 west. Make sure you leave early this morning. Because traffic is at a crawl. Lets talk about the Traffic Alert the still in place. The off ramp is blocked. Theres a car stuck under a big rig. The driver has already been transported to the hospital. The accident happened in the 4 00hour. But its taking a long time to clear. So you cannot exit there. Get off at highway 4 instead. The second accident 80 west at carlson. It is jammed now coming out of richmond. The Activity Still on the shoulder, the crash clear but still a tough ride. Zooming out you can see the drive time now a whopping 80 minutes to get from hercules out to the oakland maze. Good morning everybody. And checking the Area Temperatures not Much Movement yet. But clearing happening. Upper 50s
Parliament voted to expel u. S. Troops from the country, raising questions about americas future presents, and a key middle east ally. Here is vice chair of the Senate Intelligence committee, democrat mark warner. Im not sure how we will be seen as both stronger and smarter if we have our iraqi allies asking us to leave. If our nato allies dont feel like they are going to be informed before we hit this kind of action. Frankly, if the people in the region that were against the iranian regime, all across the region, are now rallying against america. Harris we start this hour of overtime in baghdad on the ground with trey yingst doing excellent reporting. Trey . Harris, good afternoon. Another funeral today for iranian general Qassem Soleimani. Excuse me. A lot of tension here in the region in baghdad specifically after last nights three rockets were fired into baghdads green zone, just off to my left. Concerns that escalation could continue as that funeral took place in tehran. Millions
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