Down, major averages higher. There is the rate picture today. 450 on the tenyear. Apple helping too. That stock having its best week since december of 2021. Results less bad than feared, and the announcement of a massive buyback the main catalyst there. It takes us to our talk of the tape. Is this the week that apple found its footing. Le i look at your notes today, you say, quote, it is hard to not be more bullish on apple here. Why so . Sure, so i think the risk ultimately coming into earnings was a fear of a guidedown. We got a guideup. So, we move past the june quarter guidedown and look at the developer conference upcoming, the iphone launch coming later in september, this is historically when an apple outperforms, yet we have seen the stock start the year as one of the biggest underperformance years in the last decade. There is a catchup trade, the risk is behind us, estimates seem derisked and there is a reason to be excited about the future. The revenue decline, the fifth time
And the yen finds its footing. Im melissa lee here with you tonight. We start with a human move last night on appear 8 after the tech titan announced a monster buyback, the largest in history across all companies. Apple is no strange tore giant repurposes, reducing share count over the last year buying nearly 85 billion worth of stock. Yesterdays announcement brings the total to nearly 700 billion. Is not all just a bit of Financial Engineering. After all, overshadowed, it was a 4 drop in overall sales with iphone revenues down 10 from a year ago. Thats the largest decline since the pandemic. Other products, like the watch, airpods saw sales down. Tim cook said he feels good about the businesses in china. Recent. Reporter has suggested that apple is in fact losing share in that region. Is apple using the buyback as distraction to get the investors to look away . Did we just buy that today in terms of the stock popping today . No, its not a distraction like tesla. Apple should get the b
Premarket. The price for paramount. Sony and apollo submitting a cash offer. That includes debt. I will bring you up to date with the very latest reporting on this saga. Lets get the Market Reaction to this mornings job numbers. We were looking for 240. Negative revisions of about 22,000. Bond market kind of sniffed this one out, jim. It did. This is one of those moments where i think youre sitting there and saying, well, think about the narrative we had on tuesday, that tomorrow, powells going to lower the boom and talk about how, yeah, the chances are we could have a rate hike. He would have looked very foolish. Instead, now people are saying, did he have the number . No, it was a pretty tightly kept secret, but when i look at this, i say to myself, all right, we probably will get a rate cut if things get a little bit lighter and that the market is very poised to have a run here, which is really amazing. Yeah, the tenyear right there tells the story, doesnt it, jim . Sure does. Falli
Different meeting. The first annual meeting since Charlie Mungers death at the end of last year. It raised questions of what Berkshire Hathaway will look like after Warren Buffett. Those are the things that shareholders have been asking about and the types of things we see reflected in the media. Big questions, obviously, thrown to Warren Buffett and greg abel and jane who will be on stage this weekend to answer those questions. Well talk about those over the next few hours. Some of the issues surrounding berkshire. These are issues that Warren Buffett was direct about in his annual letter to shareholders. He laid out the disappointments they have seen. Bnsf was a disappointment on earnings. Earnings dropped significantly from a year ago. Buffett laid out how its railroad has fallen behind the other five major north american railroads in terms of margins. He talked about bhe. Berkshire hathaway energy. The major Utility Company Berkshire Hathaway owns as well. Laid out the issues on th
Its global sales. Plus, chips take a hit as amd and skyworks fail to impress investors. Police being called to the campus once again, arresting dozens of propalestinian protesters and clearing occupied academic buildings. It a is wednesday, may 1st, 2024, and youre watching Worldwide Exchange right here on cnbc. Ja good morning and welcome to Worldwide Exchange. Were coming to you live from cnbc london. Thank you for being with us. Lets get you ready for the trading day ahead. The s p is coming off its worst month since september and biggest drop since all the way back in january. Take a look at futures in the red. The dow off of its lows, but it looks look it would open just about 30 points lower. All the major averages are down from their recordhighs. Its worse for the russell 2000, which is now more than 19 from its alltime high. April also responsible for wiping out the majority of gains from the First Quarter of this year. Were talking 87 for the dow, 39 for the s p, and 34 from t