Our road map begins with macys down double digits on the earnings miss. Shares of kohls taking a hit. Shares of snap also plunging more than 20 after its first public Earnings Report. Didnt go too well. But well dig in on the quarter. Fireworks expected on capitol hill later this morning. Acting fbi director Andrew Mccabe will take the stand in place of james comey. But first, comps are below consensus, down 4. 6 on the owned plus licensed basis. Macys says it expects the sales decline for the full year. This is nine straight quarters, jim, they have had comps in the red. Yeah. Ive got to distinguish macys from kohls here. I thought kohls was a decent number. Kohls got better and better and better and they have lean inventories. Macys what can i say . They dont have it. They are the ones when you try to figure out who exactly is in the crosshairs of the moment, i come back to macys. I just feel like that the you could floor by floor. Aisle by aisle and theyre being challenged. And it i
Bell. Our road map begins with trump policy reset. Whos who of ceos head i by Steve Schwartzman returning to the white house with Infrastructure Spending and tax reform topping the agenda. United doubles down after dragging a passenger off an air flight. The can. Is facing a big pr bash backlash. Pricing Political Risk, Rex Tillerson makes his first diplomatic visit to russia. All in attendance for a strategic and policy meeting with the president and senior ple members of the administration. President trump will make remarks which well get later on this morning, well see about arrivals and departures, whether or not we can talk to them once on one. Infrastructure, tax policy, going to have a business will have a seat at that table. This is heavyweight group. I hope Doug Mcmillan talks about the notion of technology and what it means for walmart and the border tax means. The reason because walmart hired, huge employer now were talking about the big. Biggest employees over 2 million emp
Trumps campaign taking a vastly new direction, thiel is still in. Yeah, its also a bit puzzling. Its pretty late to give this amount of money, and it seems like, you know, the polls are bad for trump, so its strange that hes giving it now when things dont look good. You would wonder why he hadnt given money earlier when it might have had more effect. Im not sure what the point is, other than sort of there were some questions the last couple weeks whether he was still allin with trump. Some reporters had asked him and he hadnt really answered, so this sort of answers that question, but beyond sort of signaling hes still with trump, im not sure what the actual purpose is. Farhad, for someone whose estimated net worth is 2. 7 billion, what is the amount itself say to you . Because other Trump Supporters have given vastly larger amounts towards a campaign, and im just wondering if you think this is him putting his money where his mouth is, or if this is basically doing as little as possibl
Get into my car and, brian, i need a few more days until we get ready for this days power lunch. We dont have the luxury. Welcome, everybody. Power lunch sails on at 1 00 p. M. Eastern every day. Im tyler mathisen. Stocks lower now, but holding steady, off about 42 points on the dow. Four, almost five for the nasdaq. And 3. 75 for the s p 500. Energy, the worst performing sector. Telecom and utilities at the top of the charts right now. Earnings the big focus this week. It is a big week of them for investors, ton of big names set to report. And two at sort of either end of the technology spectrum. Netflix, video, obvious, new media, and ibm, old tech. Theyre out after the bell today. Check out those stocks ahead of the numbers. Netflix down about 1. 5 . Ibm, basically flat. Seema . Hello, tyler. Im seema mody. Here is what else is happening at this hour. Americans hitting the road, the Transportation Department says motorists logged 285 million miles on u. S. Roads in august. Thats the
Power lunch starts right now. All right, welcome, everybody. A big show as you can see. The dow, the nasdaq and the s p 500 are all higher. But is the stock market getting a little too cozy with one likely election outcome . Well tell you why the races you arent watching may be the most important of all. Meantime, the big sectors also higher across the board, health care really the standout, shares of United Health are soaring. Also, look at the semiconductor space. Chip stocks on pace for the best day of the month. Intel, big upgrade. Well tell you about that. Brian, thank you very much. Welcome, everybody. Im tyler mathisen. Here is what else is happening at this hour. Millions of Social Security recipients will get a monthly increase in benefits next year. How big . 3 . That is the fifth year in a row that Older Americans will have to settle for those historically low raises. Starting today, at t customers can talk, text and use data while they are in cuba. And samsung reportedly no