Despite strong sales during the shutdown, especially from walmart. And times of trouble in the Housing Market u. S. Home building dropped by the most ever in april a lot of talk of a bottom has those housing stocks up as well today. Absolutely. But as you said, the Broader Markets near the session lows. Coming up on todays who, well speak with Eric Rosengren on the back of that congressional testimony from chair powell and secretary mnuchin. Well get his read on the economy and whether weve reached a trough in the data plus, well speak exclusively with jim fiterling as the Company Releases a return to work playbook but lets focus in on the big stories were watch ing today. Mike is tracking the Market Action courtney has highlights from retail earnings. Mike, you and the market just selling you have a bit, but of course only lightly following yesterdays big rally. Actually today is i think the narrowest range intraday for the s p 500 in three months and by the way, three months to the d
Biggest loser. You just heard from courtney, after missing on earnings and slashing that forecast joining us for the full first hour, wealth management. Josh, as we just mentioned, fedex down a full 10 on earnings whats your take on that its important to point out that this trend in fedex stock actually began in january 2018 its been falling almost two years straight with very little respite on the way down. At this point, i think the answer, what you do with fedex, differs if youre a trader or an investor if youre a trader, youre not buying the stock i dont think theres any Material Support looking back at a tenyear chart until about 119, 120 that was prior resistance. It broke out it has retested that level before successfully. Thats where i would look at a tradeable bottom were not quite there yet. If youre an investor, you have to look at this moment to say this is maybe conceivably the most confluence of events. Having trouble integrating the tnt acquisition, thats a headwind ther
Ahead of the open on the unexpected and welcome profit beat. Getting set for the latest on Consumer Prices and what it could mean for the fed decision next week. Its friday, april 26th, 2024. Youre watching Worldwide Exchange right here on cnbc good morning and welcome to Worldwide Exchange. Were coming to you live from cnbc london. Thank you for being with us on friday morning lets kickoff the check after whipsaw action yesterday with the major averages closing off session lows offer the weaker than expected gdp print and what was the busiest day of the First Quarter earnings season. Look at the beats. You see they are in the green. Nasdaq up 1 the dow looking like they would open 60 points higher. S p up. 75 . The big story is big tech led by alphabet and what you could call a triple crown Earnings Report First Quarter revenue and net income ahead of estimates. 17 billion in Free Cash Flow announcing the Quarterly Dividend and 70 billion Share Buyback program. The stock is popping af
Africa is a fascinating story. Votes are being counted for the election. It looks like the more market friendly candidate is going to win. The u. S. Dollar is weakening against the rand. We will catch up with that later in the show. Peso, a big day for emergingmarket elections. It is viewed as market friendly. It is also viewed as looking at the next index down, despite the fact we are getting so much information about the tax plan, about different political developments. David nothing well bring the vix up. Lets get an update on what is making headlines. Trump will do clot declare china a competitor in a speech. His speech will be heavily influenced by his views on trade and economic relations. He is expected to outline economic actions that could target china. In atlanta, power has been restored at one of the busiest airports after a blackout that caused thousands of flights to be canceled. Power says a fire caused extensive damage in an underground facility. Delta says it will opera
Check things out today because we have now seen already 69 record closes for the dow this year if there is another record close today, as you would indicate if you see these gains again, this would be the most record closes weve ever seen in any year for the dow. Last record watts set in 1995 and that was a record of 69. The s p is already in record territory. Weve seen 61 record closes for the s p and thats compared to 18. The dow indicates almost 24,800. You see what im looking for. I cant see your screen. Its a map of south america because the train the sorkin train was oh. No, no. You said san paulo. I was down in san paulo where am i now youre down across from the falklands. The train is. Youre still here youre here i missed the train, as you know youre still in jersey, i think, camden or something not even. I havent left the island of manhattan. Seriously. Im stig thinking im like just hanging outside of penn station. The sad thing is, i had to look to figure out which one i knew