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We were on the air this morning. Reporter we are now in the 20s throughout the entire metro area. The dc record is not going to get dropped, thank goodness, right . 1 degree all the way back to 1873. We are not going to drop that low tonight. 2 degrees in baltimore. That is a little bit more in jeopardy. Still though, i think that is a record we are going to see shatter tonight is this record low. 14 degrees, Dulles Airport hasnt been in operation as long so their records dont go as far become. So this is a very unusually cold air mass for this time of the year. We are getting close to march and it is not feeling anything like it. With the wind chills tonight in the teens and Single Digits for that p. M. Rush and then it is going to dip close to the zero degree mark in some spots and the out lying suburbs. That is before you factor in the winds. The winds are going to diminish ....
Europe. The ecb is driving the euro lower. That means production could help rejuvenate european economies. Amazing amount of bonds being bought. European stocks up. European bonds are up as well. Borrowing cost coming down in spain on the 10year. They are coming down for germany as well. 0. 24 . In the first three days of bond buying, 10 billion euros of bonds were bought. Driving down the euro, driving down borrowing costs. Lets check out the euro. We did see it strengthening yesterday, but it is back down against the dollar. We did get a little bit of a waiver yesterday. We saw u. S. Retail sales coming in better than expected. Suddenly, people read gaging what the fed will say next week. Will they start to say, we could be easing sooner than expected . That is what everyone is focusing on. Yesterday everyone saw the dollar fall. Today, different story. Many feel that the u. S. Economy is Strong Enough to see rate hikes as soon a ....
I will go to municipalities for the money. Saying i need your cash desperately, i will go to municipalities for the money. Where hearing about potential rate rises this year. Bill dudley, head of the new york federal reserve, he is optimistic. He said it a rate rises needed this year. Stimulus a plenty. We are seeing a reduction on the u. S. The dollar is up almost zero. 5 . Euro weakness. Down goes the euro. Will we see a reduction . We are seeing weaker currencies first of the dollar. Aussie dollar trading lower. The centralbank comments saying cuts could remain. Centralbank divergence. Thats what were seeing. The equity markets lets check in on how steps are performed. Credit suisses of 0. 3 . Brady dougan was manus crannys last interview. His last set of earnings. He went out on a high. Trading approved especially in the bond market a fixed income. We are starting to see improvement. They are cutting their cost cutting targets. After regulatory charges so a bit of holding off in th ....
Address. Also during the speech he promised a year of action with or without help from congress. Susan mcginnis is in washington. Susan, good morning. Annemarie, good morning. What the president meant was that he would use whats called executive action to sidestep congress and get things done that he wants to get down. What he mentioned last night were the different issues he would use this for are very, very modest. Even so it still sparked a reaction among the republicans. President obama takes his state of the Union Message on the road this morning. The president is selling his idea that more needs to be done to close the gap between the rich and the poor. Inequality has deepened. Upward mobility has stalled. The president warned congress hell act with or without them. Wherever and whenever i can take steps without legislation to expand opportunity for more american families, thats what im going to do. The president announced he ....
Near east goudy drive. We have tried to find out if its the companys main and if it is how long repairs are expected to take. 67 Million People are expected to hit the stores today in whats become a post thanksgiving tradition. Delia goncalves starts our black friday coverage from Westfield Montgomery mall. Im a black friday devotee. Because i love shopping. I look forward to black friday all year. Reporter the faithful and frugal flocked to Westfield Montgomery on hunt for some black friday door busters. And so i rushed like right to the sale rack because everything on sale was 50 off. So the sale rack was once you got in its mad crazy and everyone is running around. I sort of planned it out beforehand by looking at the websites. Pretty good deals the clothing stores. Reporter many of the stores in fact got ....