Deal. No let up in germany. Angela merkel ruled out further loosening of measures after europes largest economy records the biggest spike in cases in four months. Asian stocks trade mixed following a fresh record on wall street. European futures point to a positive open. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to the program this wednesday morning. Lets have a look at terms of breaking news. Notes coming through mace maersk. The fullyear numbers, 6,000,000,0007,000,000,000. This is new guidance coming through. That is interesting in itself. The guidance we previously had in the year had been withdrawn by this business which operates 20 of the world container fleet. They are giving us this new guidance here. Looking at the underlying profit numbers for the second quarter. This is the backward looking part of it. The underlying profit data is 359 million dollars. They have done better than the estimates. We will be speaking into the management of maersk later on in programming. We have u. K. Ct
S p 500 few you ares up 15 the nasdaq with a gain of about 1. 7 all because of what is happening with four big horseman check out shares of apple, facebook, alphabet and amazon. They went before congress two days ago and came out with earnings that knocked it out of the park on every one of those counts three of the four are trading sharply higher apple up 6. 1 , facebook up 5. 8 , amazon up 5. 4 alphabet did beat earnings estimate did post the first revenue decline and is down 0. 67 . More on those in a second. Lets kick it over to wi will everyone wilford. Good to be back extraordinary numbers, as you said well discuss those in a moment. First check out this mornings agenda as we are closing out the week well bring you results from cat, chevron, exxon and merck. Kol gate, underarmor and others. The late day of july lets check out the market score card owl three major indices on track for the fourth straight gains. Nasdaq the big oner up 18 month to date up 5. 2 . This past week, back
Jobless claims, though, 4. 4 million, bringing the total to 26 million over the past five weeks. Oil bounces, and the european pmis remain historically low 16 in france no, 10 in france 16 in germany. Jim, though, your tone this morning is relatively hopeful. Look, i am a creature of who reports and what they say. And i can literally i find it hard to remember as Many Companies as saying good things, even as obviously were in nidest of a pandemic, and i dont think theyre all clockeyed optimists. These are large cap companies. These are not the companies that the government is trying to protect. These are arguably the winners the companies that are going to get stronger i listened to lee, and Lee Cooperman was talking about what its going to look like on the other side i look at my desk. I have reports everywhere here these are all companies that are going to come through with fewer competitors. And that may be bad for the u. S. Consumer, but its good for the stock market david, would y
Also take a look at whats happening in the treasury market 10year is yielding 1. 816 counting zeros here four commons 12 zeros Google Parent Company alphabet now has 12 zeros, also four commas becoming the fourth u. S. Tech company to reach a 1 trillion valuation joining apple, microsoft and amazon, amazon has since dipped below that mark cramer last night talking about another member is microsoft. Weighing in on the controversy on apple and how much it should aid Law Enforcement by opening locked e locked iphones or maybe creating a backdoor for Law Enforcement you cannot be cool. You have to be cool on your own. You have to take pride on the digital capability you have built. No press release with us or anyone else will do it you will need to build your dig call capability and by the way trust. There is a conversation about privacy already. We have to engender the trust. You as retailers are the keepers of the most important data you have to build trust. Whether importance or privacy
And we hear from the viagogo chairman and founder after that stubhub cash deal from ebay. First, our top story. Five years ago, alibaba pulled off its biggest ever ipo on wall street, and today, it rang up the biggest share sale in hong home in hong kong in 10 years. The listing is being seen as a triumph for a stock exchange. Stars toyears it lost u. S. Rivals. This comes as prodemocracy protest have gripped the city for weeks. Joining us from washington, john freeman, Vice President of Equity Research at cfra. If you take a look at the company raising an additional 11 billion, where do you see that company in terms of that use of cash . Thank you for having me. It will be interesting to see what they do with the extra cash. I think that brings them to about 43 billion in total, 21 in net cash. I would like to see them invest more heavily into the Cloud Business, which is 8 of revenue now, it was growing 64 yearoveryear growth in the last quarter. We have seen this movie before, how t