The Financial Select Sector SPDR , the largest financial services exchange traded fund, is up 6.3% year-to-date, bringing its one-year gain to almost 40%. As has been widely noted, politics are playing a part in lifting the financial services sector, the second-largest sector weight in the S&P 500.

The American Society of Civil Engineers issued poor grades for America’s roads, airports and public transportation in its latest infrastructure report card released Thursday, at the same time President Donald Trump is accelerating his push for $1 trillion in investments. The group, which has long advocated for increased spending on infrastructure projects, gave U.S. infrastructure an overall grade of D+, the same grade given in the ASCE’s last report in 2013.

A continued rise in U.S. equities pushed the net worth of U.S. households to $92.8 trillion in the fourth quarter of last year, a report by the Federal Reserve showed on Thursday. Household net worth rose $2 trillion over the quarter, up from a slightly revised $90.7 trillion in the previous period.

For years, the American Express Platinum Card has provided a wide range of travel benefits and luxury perks to its cardholders. But recently, there’s been increased competition from travel-centric credit cards entering the game or increasing their benefits to take some of American Express’ market share.

An industry tracker says bottled water overtook soda as the No. 1 drink in the U.S. by sales volume last year.

Executives from both the New York Stock Exchange and London Stock Exchange are fighting to be the primary international listing for the IPO of Saudi Aramco , Saudi Arabia’s state oil company, according to the Financial Times . The two are in a race to house the world’s biggest flotation ever.

U.S. stock index futures dipped slightly on Thursday as U.S. crude prices fell below $50 and investors remained cautious ahead of Friday’s nonfarm payrolls data that could move the needle on an interest rate hike next week. Also on investors’ minds is a policy announcement from the European Central Bank on Thursday.

The European Central Bank left its policy stance unchanged as expected on Thursday, keeping unprecedented stimulus in place and maintaining its dovish guidance even though inflation and growth have rebounded more quickly than expected. Facing low inflation and weak growth, the ECB has kept interest rates in negative territory and bonds purchases at 80 billion euros a month, promising substantial accommodation and an extended market presence to aid the euro zone’s recovery.

Hancock will remain CEO until a successor has been named, the company said. (Reporting by Nikhil Subba in Bengaluru; Editing by Saumyadeb Chakrabarty)

Crude futures fell below the $50 mark Thursday, extending the largest decline in the price of oil in over a year as the industry continues to battle a supply glut. U.S. crude inventories rose to 528.4 million barrels, an all-time high, after building up by 8.2 million barrels over the past week.

France’s major retailers are taking significant hits from domestic markets on their bottom lines amid a persistently weak consumer environment in Europe’s second-largest economy. France’s major retailers are taking significant hits from domestic markets on their bottom lines amid a persistently weak consumer environment in Europe’s second-largest economy.

“I would hate to see you out of it,” Cramer said Wednesday in an exclusive conference call with members of his Action Alerts PLUS club for investors. Cisco’s share price took a hit in November on disappointing guidance and sat out the market’s post-election surge until February, when the stock began to rally.