Its up another half a percent. Well get disneys earnings after the bell today. Apple is thought of as sort of the lead dog. Its the Largest Company out there. I think disney is the company to watch these days. What a performance it has turned in. Meanwhile, aetna out with earnings this morning. Its getting a big boost from medicare and medicaid these days. We have a first on cnbc interview with ceo mark bert bertolini. Breathtaking consolidation in that industry. Really looking forward to that. Also rock star and actor Rick Springfield is joining us at the New York Stock Exchange. Well talk about his latest film with meryl streep and what he thinks about taylor swifts harsh words for spotify. Ring springfield has sold 25 million albums in his career. Thats a lot of potatoes. Im sure he has some comments about streaming these days and whether or not that is a way for a musician to want to get paid whether the compensation is enough. Taylor swift says its not. As soon as you said he had
Certainly a good year for studios. Good for the movie business except for tomorrowland. Well wait for the star wars the force awakens set to debut december 18th. Interesting to know when they will release it in china. Why . Because the Chinese Market is increasingly more important with regard to film studios. Well look at espn. That is about 30 , makes up about 30 of the stock price for disney, espn. There are suggestions when they spin it off into a streaming service, basically, continuing with the cord cutting theme. Lots to look forward to in the report comes out, twice. Well be all over it. Melissa absolutely. You mentioned the stock at new alltime high. Up 28 before that. Really richly priced. Ashley, thank you very much. Well get back to you as soon as the number comes out. David disney on a roll. New fox news poll highlighting breakouts and shifts in support for top president ial candidates heading into thursdays crucial gop debate. Blake burman with the numbers from d. C. Blake
Have built up pretty steadily. There was a gain for wti. Its down a dollar. And heres whats on the agenda economically. Tomorrow, look for july new home sales, followed by existing home sales and thursday, thats why its called weekly jobless cams and on friday, its the second estimate on the Second Quarter gdp. Two for two. Second estimate on the second. First on the first. Third on the third. Symposium in kansas city. Oh, no, its jackson hole. And i guess luhoyia was taken. Hp, tole brothers. And now to the latest on the battle over control of viacom. It looks like this battle is over. And i believe dauman will be sticking around unsill september 16th. And redstone removed dauman from his trust and planned to sell paramount pictures. His daughter largely behind much of this. Hes going to receive about 72 million under the settlement agreement. This was probably the way you had to imagine it went with the redstones owning 80 of the vote. Check out shares of viacom. Theyre up. And final
10year note yield around 1. 6 and crude oil the story as oil prices down, as you see it right there. Maybe we get the fed moving before the end of the year, right as we come out of the jackson hole meeting. A look, though, at wti. Lets get to our road map this morning. On this late august monday. Mylan, the controversy continues. The Company Announcing a generic version of its epi pen. It is going to be enough to satisfy critics and congress . The herbalife Hedge Fund Drama man here we are, year three, four, five, ackman, icahn, going yet another round. On this battleground stock. Well have news from williams by the way responding to activist pressure and the proxy fight that is looming for the company. It nominates three new independent directors to its board. I will give you updates there in terms of what we can expect on that front. First, though, lets get to the broader markets. Economic data to consider this week includes fridays key job reports especially after yellens marks at j
Theyre flat in the uk. Weve taken that apple money and applied it immediately to the stock. They are. Theyre also still buying bonds up like crazy over there. Put the money theres so many weird things going on theyre actually hoping to fund the transaction by which denon is buying bonds. Any way, lets get to bonds, you answered, 158, crude down today and you can see brent nearing at least 50 a share. Weve got the latest s p 500 case chiller report, showing home prices rose 5. 9 . And thats why unemployment are strong, and paychecks, doing consistently strong business. We keep running into these numbers that are somewhat positive. Well get to conversations about the broader market. Want to get to the roadmap, as well and it starts with apple, which is the market also. The european ordering the company to pay over 14 billion in back taxes. Plus, any hopes of a deal off. And a bid for hersheys, saying there is no actionable way forward. Ill give you the details on what exactly went down t