Weather pattern could mean for commodity prices. And the end of the dreaded annual performance review. Why it is now falling out of favor at so many more u. S. Companies. First, though, lets check in and welcome sarah eisen. Hi, sarah . Hi, tailer. Well begin the show with the housing market, Home Building rising to the highest level since 2007, a key measure of future construction plunged. Diana joinings us live from washington with all the numbers and back numbers. This is stocked full of contradictions. Single Housing Starts took a nice move up, nearly 13 for the month. Multifamily down 17 . Look at the big picture from whens we came. Single family construction is 25 below the 30year average. Multifamily is trying to make up for a decade of underbuilding. The Single Family construction surge in july much needed, yes. And it plays into the home depot numbers that were so stellar. Even when people buy new, they fix it up to their own liking. Some say the retailer needs to play to prof
Oh, snap, oh, oh good morning and welcome to Worldwide Exchange on cnbc im sara eisen. Good morning from me as well. Lets check in on Global Markets, show you what Global Equities are doing after the nasdaq outperformed the three major averages, which were little changed, though you did see big moves, lower for instance in retailers. Walmart was the biggest drag on the dow yesterday. Prime day kicked off last night. Well get to that in a moment. Dow futures are higher, though s p futures are little changed, down less than half a point. And nasdaq futures are down about five points. As for the 10year treasury note yield, lets show you where we stand. We had yields come off recent highs yesterday, though not meaningfully, and were still sitting below 2. 40 on the 10year yield. Still multiyear highs. Yields moving up again today. Seemed like yesterday in europe it was single day of yields slipping a little bit. Data out of asia car sales returned to growth in june with total vehicle sales
Like caterpillar, ibm and walmart. Check out gopro, twitter and 3d systems catching the bid here. Is this the dash for trash. Do you buy the trashing names into the end of the year. Guy, what do you say. This is a quick trade. Whole foods markets up huge. Abercrombie and fitch off a huge move up again today. So is there still room on the upside . Probably yeah, because the shorts are still covering and people absolutely chase. But these names have been beaten up for a reason. And the cream rises to the top and the opposite is true as well. They will come back to earth. Specifically ibm. I think abercrombie and fitch is getting toward levels you want to pull the rip cord as well. And you cant fade this. Because day like tomorrow, light volume, buyers typically have their way, they will have their way tomorrow. It was light volume today. You pointed out that, dan. Low volume. Since the day after thanksgiving. We know the market or stocks had pressure, poorly performing in this month. And
Other advertisingbased names like werner, disney and the growth broadly. Tgif what an epic week. We start our show with amazon shares they are surmging after reporting better than expected q2 results painting a bright picture against the macro back drop. Basic Consumer Spending has remained strong. Management adding overcapacity concerns something that dragged down the stock in the first half of the year are now being solved. They do warn, however, inflationary pressures remain and could be strong in q3. A negative on the quarter, amazon taking a 3. 9 billion hit on its investment in rivian which resulted in 2 billion but there was a 12 billion gain a few quarters earlier this is basically the ceo saying, he knows this playbook he watched jeff bezos, figure a lot of the stuff out amazon went from one of the worst performing mega caps this year to maybe in the best position for the second half of the year and i have to give you credit when a lot of the street was getting bearish on the
Investor john calamos here with his take on what investors should be doing right now. Could apple help pull this market out of the funk. Apple due out with earnings at 4 30. Well have the crucial numbers the moment they cross with the analysis they need. Apples results will be watched closer than ever. Regardless, it will have a huge impact whatever apple does because of the size of that company. It will have a big impact on markets tomorrow. Lets look again at this hour of where we stand. The tenyear u. S. Treasury yield is pretty flat. As a result earnings moving the indexes to some extend. We have caterpillar contributing in the range of 40 points to the dow which is up 47 at this hour. Take a look at the nasdaq. This the underperformer today and its the social media names which we have to watch. Its off about 0. 4 or 16 points. And the s p 500, as mentioned, is fighting to return to positive territory. You can look there at the chart and see this turnaround weve had since midday. L