Markets set to open in the green as investors monitor Hurricane Irma

Wed, Sep 6, 2017, 9:12 AM

Markets are set to open in the green as investors monitor another potentially catastrophic hurricane. Oil is already at a 4-week high with Hurricane Irma barreling through the Caribbean Islands. Yahoo Finance’s Alexis Christoforous, Jared Blikre, Rick Newman and Ethan Wolff-Mann discuss these and the other big stories we’re covering today.

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