Ginsburg made the political picture in washington significantly more complicated with some analysts saying the odds of another round of stimulus before the election falling sharply. Bank stocks are getting crushed today as well amid new report about major firms dealing in suspicious funds well have more on that in just a bit. We have 59 munz left left to goy volatile session still make for the worst day in a while. Percentage terms, were down 2. 2 as we stand ahead will be all over the selloff in the final hour of trade. Billionaire investor Mike Novogratz will join us with his take on todays plunge and whether he is buying any of the dips after three straight lease losing weeks and well speak with john kerry in an exclusive interview. Well get his take on the Supreme Court, on stimulus, on the election and that final month run in of campaigning which, of course, he knows so much about lets focus in on the big stories were watching on a very busy day of news mike san toll toli is track
Number for the company. Quarterly sales were down 43 year on year. The stock is pretty much flat, though. The bad news now, just how bad would let actually be . Sales roseommerce about 74 . They still need people to come into the store to really make a lot of money. Their comp sales were up by over 10 , if you backout fuel. Clearly a lot of stocking up. Clearly good for walmart. Kohls suspended its Share Buyback program. That stock now off by about 1 in the premarket. Overall, no doubt we are obviously going to take a bit of a pause as we digest earnings and that monster rally. The question is whether the new was that or a bear market rally. Is that really being reflected in equities . We need the Economic Data to really match. Lets get to the news from overseas, as well as here in the u. S. We want to start with the walmart numbers and look ahead to fit your jay powell. Michael mckee has more. Just in case we werent sure that people were hoarding toilet paper, we get walmart. Michael
Reportedly approached 21st century fox to buy all or parts of the company lets get to Julia Boorstin with the very latest. A developing story, julia, what do you know . Reporter the latest is that comcast is in talks not to buy all of fox but certain assets, the entertainment assets it would not include the broadcast network. Likely a similar assortment of assets that disney was interested in, plus sky in the uk and star in india those two International Assets are particularly important comcast, although its cable assets are here in the u. S. , Nbc Universal is obviously more global but this would really allow comcast to position itself more as an international company. We have confirmed with a source that talks are still happening between fox and disney and it would be with a structure similar to what disney was pursuing now we see fox shares up 5. 5 on the news, comcast shares over 1 certainly a lot of movement in this media space right now, melissa. Weve had earnings reports since t
Well talk about that coming up. Speaking of taxes, coca cola ceo tells cnbc what he would do with a Corporate Tax cut well have all of those details coming up. Then theres best buy, its sitting out the rally today. Down pretty sharply. In fact, its off the lows right now. Less than 4 decline is the iphone to blame, iphone x to blame we have a debate on best buy coming up here. We begin, though, with the breaking news. Stocks hitting session highs as the house passes the tax bill. Ylan mui, our intrepid reporter on capitol hill has the latest for us right now ylan reporter bill, that final tally is 227205, that is a comfortable margin of victory for republicans. They said they were going to get this done by thanksgiving. No one really believed them. They were able to pull it off. Republican leadership held a press conference to celebrate. From the very start, we said that failure is not an option and the president and his team have worked so constructively every step of the way with us.
Yield backing up about four basis points. We are now 25 basis points away from a bill gross who is now saying we could desk could be a could be a game changer. David a big day for earnings. Billion and18. 8 67 gspershare, dollar 1. 67. This be a pattern of earnings with 80 of companies. Alix revenue and sales on that. Energy leading the way. Conoco out with their earnings. A 2. 5ws come in billion, earning be as wells. As well. We saw the same thing happen with shell. The production missing a little bit. Up, 5. 5 billion so far this year. Cash flows at 2. 5 billion. What are they going to do with the cash flow . How sustainable is the higher cash flow . David we have someone joining us who will tell us. Dicker is looking at that. Alibaba announce their earnings and they beat as well. Per share. Yuan total79. 8 billion yuan revenue. 30 on theire back payment system. 33 on their payment system. Myx so i will put it in right pocket and left pocket and that is how we rounded out. David the