Our road map begins with macys down double digits on the earnings miss. Shares of kohls taking a hit. Shares of snap also plunging more than 20 after its first public Earnings Report. Didnt go too well. But well dig in on the quarter. Fireworks expected on capitol hill later this morning. Acting fbi director Andrew Mccabe will take the stand in place of james comey. But first, comps are below consensus, down 4. 6 on the owned plus licensed basis. Macys says it expects the sales decline for the full year. This is nine straight quarters, jim, they have had comps in the red. Yeah. Ive got to distinguish macys from kohls here. I thought kohls was a decent number. Kohls got better and better and better and they have lean inventories. Macys what can i say . They dont have it. They are the ones when you try to figure out who exactly is in the crosshairs of the moment, i come back to macys. I just feel like that the you could floor by floor. Aisle by aisle and theyre being challenged. And it i
Of the month. That being about 80. We are moving higher. You see this morning. Our road map starts with what you might expect. These markets are surging overnight on central bank action. China unexpectedly cutting Interest Rates. Mario draghi promises more aggressive stimulus in europe. It is a big morning for dan loeb. Dow chemical and third point reached an agreement. Management changes at hertz and sothebys which loeb is on the board of also expecting to change their ceo soon. On the earnings front, gap cuts its profit forecast. That stock is moving lower. And the president announces executive action on immigration. There are vast economic consequences. House Speaker John Boehner will respond in a few minutes. Want to start off welcoming back my friend. My dear friend. Thank you. Thank you for being back. Your dad wants you back at work. Bop loved you. You know that. You knew that for many, many years. Pop loved you. I did. He loved the work we did and he wanted you to get back to w
Yesterday as many people said the decks are so hot that their shoes were melting beneath their feet. Five people have died and many were injured among the 478 passengers and crew. Among the other stories we are watching today, sony says the Playstation Network is back online although it is still having problems. Playstation has been dealing with three days of disruptions that began on christmas and a group of hackers calling themselves the lizard squad is claiming credit. Speaking of sony its controversial movie the interview made 18 million in the opening weekend. And i think it was mostly independent theaters. The total was 15 million in online sales and another 2. 8 million in studio sales. The firm was purchased or rented online more than 2 million times on the four days through saturday. Four days after a competitor apple is now making the interview available on itunes. And in news watch today, oil clashes in libya smoking worries about supply from the opec member. A fire caused b
We have a team of people at headquarters helping us out. 18,005. 81. Dow back to 16,000, thanks to that jobs report this morning. That sent the stock market soaring, 205,000 jobs netnet created and Interest Rate goes back to fiveyear low at 7 . Well talk about all of that coming up. Well get reaction to all of this from the chief Financial Officer of deloit, frank friedman. Hell give us a view on the ground of whats really happening and when the fed will ease up on the gas plgdz and what it means. Do you know how many people deloitte hires every year . 18,000 to 20,000 every year. Is that unbelievable . We should have a good sense of what theyre looking for and what job conditions are like. Remember last summer, Dominos Pizza floated the idea of drone delivery for pizza. They even did a video. It was sloughed off as a publicity stunt. It was actually this time around when jeff bezos at amazon did the very same thing this is week on 60 minutes that was taken seriously 100 . So why the d
My take is dont get too excited. Why . Because we just found out why weve been going up. Weve been going up, s p, people trying to figure out why. You have good employment. You have workforce growth and the hours not that great because of the weather, but i think you say to yourself, well, why is the s p going up every day . Oh, employment has gotten better and thats a major switch would it shock me if the market takes some profits in this . No, because its been going up on anticipation of something good and then we got the big enchilada good. I kind of like it. The s p has rallied the past ten jobs fridays in a row. Some say thats a ridiculous metric, but maybe its time for a reversion to the mean. No metrics are ridiculous if they just look, i forgot to wish the bull market happy birthday. Of course, it never happened, you know that . You know the bull market has never happened. Jim has been on a tear lately of the haters of this market, right . Yes. The haters will have to asterisk