Amazon big quarter josh lipton live in san francisco. Besides the bottom and top obviously investors concentrate on the q 4 guided are guidance light. Between 86 and 86. 5 billion. Obviously for investors thats critical q 4, the Holiday Quarter dy just have a call with amazon cfo brian osafe ski. There are onetime items he mentioned weighing on q 4. He mention add consumption tax kicking in japan, from 8 to 10 . That created prebuying in september having a net negative impact in q 4. But the central question for investors is going to be the bottom line guidance well below what the street was looking for. On the call he fielded a lot of questions about that is it all oneday shipping he made it clear they are in investment mode and do believe where they need to be. They believe there is cost in the short run. He believes thats where amazon needs to be and there is evidence he says its paying off. Good increase in purchase behavior from prime members. Theyre buying more products, more oft
Somebody on the hook. Clearly i questioned this for weeks, incorrectly today all you need to know is at one point azmodan down about 3. 5 4 . Nasdaq higher at the time. Amazon closes done a percent or so something benign. Nasdaq grinds high are i mean its incredible to me that in the wake of what i think is some serious negative news around the globe the market pushes high are. Well know more next week. For me the most important day of the week is wednesday is when you hear from apple and facebook but even on bad earnings stocks seem to want to go high are. That tells you all you need to know. Caterpillar wasnt such a disaster on the stock price reaction. Performancewise. Compared to the report. Which is remarkable. Another examples. Earnings and guidance were not great. Then the reignition of the semi trade. Look, intel what they told you about demand last night in terms they have to beef up spli this is exactly the opposite what they told you for at least maybe one if not two quarter
Earnings season when theres too much to keep track of and the action seems to stop making sense. The dow gained 46, the s p advanced and the nasdaq climbed up, you have every right to be extremely frustrated stocks that should be going up are going down stocks that should be down are going up human sacrifice, dogs and cats are living together, mass hysteria theres a method to that markets madness you need to understand it. Otherwise, youll have no idea whatsing if on whats going on a close investor is a bad investor so let me walk through some of the craziest examples. Im going to start with caterpillar. Caterpillar, the stock huge shortfall in response of course the stock correctly plunged 6 in Early Morning trading. Well, i thought it was a bit of an overreaction, nothing unusual about a stock going down in disappointing numbers is there its what happens next thats should we take our cue from this hard to explain. Cat down 6 and slowly rebounded. If you saw it near the low, this is a
Something i know its something we didnt see as an ideal tool in our institutional context. And i think, you know, different Central Banks around the world did Different Things and we can observe how those things work, but i dont think we regard that as a firstorder tool or something we would be likely to use. There are other things that we need to look at. And i would say yield curve control, sort of shortterm yield curve control is something thats worth looking at. Not at all something that we havent looked at it, but it will be something that we look at when the time comes and the last thing ill say is, you know, i think our tool kit, well use it aggressively to the extent we need to. Yeah. To achieve our mandate. So one of the questions i got from someone today, who knew i was going to be asking you questions, was, is there an unintended consequence of in a reasonable growth, low employment near the target rate inflation rate, is there an unintended consequence of easing into that e
Highlights. The senators blasted Dennis Muilenburg time and again on a wide variety of issues some accused boeing and the ceo of not being straight with them, outright lying in terms of questioning about the 737 max. Others basically said to him, youre the ceo, how could you let this happen . Youre the ceo. The buck stops with you. Did you read this document and how did your team not put it in front of you, run in with their hair on fire saying we got a real problem here. Those pilots never had a chance these loved ones never had a chance they were in flying coffins. I was walled walk before getting on a 737 max i would walk zbra there is no way just a few of the comments from senators asking Dennis Muilenburg and also offering their opinions in terms of the 737 max more Dennis Muilenburgs time he said time and again, look safety is at the core of our mission. We are committed to making sure the max is safe when it returns to flight and that the Company Makes changes that are necessary