Ive taken this quarantine times to update a couple of bathrooms. Not. Light bulbs i have always wanted to be handy. These numbers are expected to be insane i did change a couple of light bulbs. They are all different so finding the right one for all the Different Things my wife has, it is not easy. I have changed a couple of them but thats about it. Rising to the challenge, im sure before we get those numbers from home depot, lets start with the overall markets. The s p 500 finished the session just shy of the high just shy, we are talking 4. 15 points away from the record it is sitting at at this point. 3,386. 15 is where it closed. The record from february is 3,393. 52 the record close of 2020 up another 1 to 11,129. Looking at record futures. Two dow components reporting home depot and walmart big numbers expected from both of those dow futures up by 64, nasdaq up by 40 and s p up by 7. Dow component reported 4. 02 a share. Consensus was 3. 71. I noted revenue gain was over 23 . Com
Just 1 these days, 1. 1 higher for the blue chip. Today is a broad based rally compared to yesterday, the s p up 1 as well as the nasdaq and russell. Dom has a rundown we hit the 26,000 mark, a shot of keeping it for the close this time. Remember, it was a year, a little under a year weve seen a 20,000 to 26,000 rally, just 4 between that last big move in 25,000 to 26,000, but still, look at the Drivers Behind it. Theres familiar names we talked about for quite some time with the dow, heavily weighted ones between the 25,000 and 26,000, boeing added 350 points. Caterpillar contributed 90 points, and United Health 66 the biggest weight, General Electric took eight points away, and Goldman Sachs took 36. Between 20,000 and 26,000, similar names. That 6,000 point rally, 1236 points of that was boeing alone. United health group at 323, 3m, 490 points, and the laggard were shares of ibm taking 26 points off, and General Electric at 89. As we talk about 26,000 numbers, these are stocks to wa
Temperatures will be climbing into the low 50s later this afternoon, despite it being per on the despite it being on the breezy side. Maybe you still have to work like the rest of us. Nice and dry, cleared to partly cloudy. 40 degrees at 5 00, dropping down to 30 degrees by 9 00. We are not tracking a white christmas, but it will be a little bit wetter part of the holiday weekend. More on the timing of that coming up in 10. Lets see how things are looking on the roadways. Hopefully pretty quiet the week before christmas. Julie so far, so good. Not a lot happening early. You will find lanes are open. At the wilson bridge, still a lot of green on the map. Top side of the beltway, leaving colesville road headed to the exit for 270, starting to see volume increase. Incident free on westbound 95 headed to 270. For those working on easou toward the beltway, you are to 495. Speed, 234 in the next 10 minutes we will update your ride on 95 in virginia. Autria Fairfax County police are respondin
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Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by and by the alfred p. Sloan foundation. Supporting science, technology, and improved Economic Performance and Financial Literacy in the 21st century. Supported by the rockefeller foundation. Promoting the wellbeing of humanity around the world by building resilience and inclusive economies. More at rockefellerfoundation. Org Carnegie Corporation of new york. Supporting innovations in education, democratic engagement, and the advancement of International Peace and security. At carnegie. Org. And with the ongoing support of these institutions and individuals. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Sreenivasan the nations new attorney general has spent this day under growing fire. And now, Jeff Sessions says someone else will oversee an investigation of russian meddling in the election, and of contacts between the Trump Campa