Make sure you describe today as one of those rarest of stock market sessions. For only the second time in more than 15 years, the other was just last week, all three major market barometers finished the day at rec highs. They sent intraday highs as well. Who really knows why stocks rise or fall on any given day. As good an explanation as any today was oil prices were up. West texas crude gained 3 , and finished at a onemonth high of 45. 35 a barrel. Commodity shares bought a boost and oils gain in turn was fueled by last weeks signals that major producers may cap production. Here are the final stock market numbers for a low volume but recordsetting monday in august. The dow rose 60 to finish at 18,636. The nasdaq was up 0. 6 of a percent or 29 points, outperforming the dow and the s p to close the day at 5262 and the s p 500 jumped 6 to 2190. This meltup has been slow and steady. Some might even call it boring. But as mike santoli tells us, some want to know if this is the calm before
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Warmer weather. How are the temperatures now . Ingrid they are hovering around the freezing mark in a couple locations. The good news is, yes, we are starting to see the precipitation leave the region. The foothills, we are still worried from mcdowell to rutherford, polk county, for black ice concerns as well as the mountains of the upstate, where as of about even 45 minutes ago or so, i still saw some pink on the map, which indicates sleet, freezing rain. So were not completely out of the woods and, in fact, you can see some of the light snow still falling along the tennessee line. Here is a closer look at temperatures, 34 in hendersonville but still 32 in morganton. Forest city, gaffney, and greer. So, please use caution in those zones. Coming up in a little bit, we will talk more about how much more wintry precipitation is expected to fall as early as tonight. Right now lets check in with jaclyn, the weather is making traffic difficult in some areas this morning. Jaclyn heads up for
That, mitchell, yancey, avery county youre all under winter advisories. A lot of the snow is going to wrap up early tonight. But the impacts with the black ice, blowing snow will continue. Over in tennessee, we have winter storm warnings until 10 oclock in the morning. Graham county getting some of that snow fall. Its really about 3500 feet where some of this is really accumulating now. In the Black Mountains we have snow. Little creek in the Northeast Corner of madison. In the next hour you can see some of this snow is going to turn to rain briefly and back to snow. 32 degrees on our leicester carpet sales news13 Sky Cam Network. Haywood county 55. Right at freezing. Accumulating. Coal springs ranch dropping and thus the snow is accumulating. That are coming and when asheville might get some snow. Stick around. Tammy ems workers say 17 people had to be taken to the hospital. Ten of those injuries were from car accidents. 7 were from slips and falls. Had a lot of slips and falls. Peopl
Trouble spots this afternoon. The sun is out. Temperatures are warming above freezing as ingrid mentioned. That is helping things. The shaded areas like this one right here. They are not seeing that there are still icy patches. As you can see, evidence of the ice has weighed down trees along these roads, forcing them just to break. Butler bridge road is is where icy conditions remain with evidence of an accident last night and another crash in the same spot this morning. We know one person was taken to the hospital as a result. Dispatchers with the Henderson County afters tell me they have received 160 calls related to wrecks in the county since 8 00 yesterday morning. A combination of Highway Patrol or local police have responded to those crashes and even more are occurring this morning. Conditions have made it difficult for even the officials we are short handed everywhere in the state. We just try to get to everywhere as fast as we can. Ice on interstate 26 early related in multiple