Borenstein. Amanda lets check in with our Bloomberg Team for indepth coverage. Miller in berlin as german low, andp to a record andr current enda curran simin demokan. David we begin in london. Mario draghi and company have begun buying Corporate Bonds. Lets bring in guy johnson. What do we know if anything about which bonds they are buying . Guy they are looking for the most liquid bonds. This is a new phase for mario draghi and the ecb. It is looking to step up its program, boost its Balance Sheet, trying to get money in different areas of the economy. It is buying the most liquid names in the corporate sector there, anheuserbusch. They have been buying spanish telephone companies. Liquidig names with big pools of Corporate Credit that they are stepping into. The Bond Buying Program has been rippling into other assets so you see it affecting the equity market. Affect also. Year buy aroundoking to 5 billion each month, and we will find out where. That the market has been front running
Apple news today. Company getting a big investment from Berkshire Hathaway, the Ride Sharing Service he just invested in there could be looking for a u. S. Ipo. Shares of yahoo up on quicken loans founder part of a Consortium Bidding for the company. Warren buffett says hell back it. Major m a deals, pfizer making a 4. 5 million purchase. But first, Berkshire Hathaway has revealed a new 9. 8 million stake in apple. Meanwhile, apple ceo tim cook visiting china in an effort to reinvigorate sales in that country. Hes expected to meet with chinese officials and is already met with the president of didi just days after apple announced that billion dollar investment in the ride hailing startup. Met with some other startup creators as well, posted waebo which has gone viral already. I think the story is the app store. 7 billion in business that regular Chinese People have done on the app store. Between that billion and billion last year and i think what thats about is to say you may think tha
Share, all crash. The deal is expected to close this calendar year. Jim, you just talked to andrew, becky and joe about this. Yeah. You know when you go back over the arc of linkedin, obviously going into the february quarter there was a belief that things were continuing to accelerate. You had 30 growth. You really felt like there was very, very little economic sensitivity. Then you got that incredible shortfall, going from 192 basically down to 9,800, and it was entirely because of the lighter guidance. The guidance, they use the term seasonality. Well, were not used to hearing seasonality with linkedin, 30 going down to 20 . There really wasnt any line item that was good. You saw deceleration in core hiring, you saw challenges in marketing solutions, you saw macro fx headwinds. We dont want to hear that. The last quarter reported at the end of april was quite good. And every one of those items went back up, and thats why the stock was able to recover. But they are getting microsoft
Today . Speech therapy, trying to deal with the mutiny that was coming as a result of Bernie Sanders supporters who did not want to give in. After a storm calls for unity is the headline in the philadelphia inquirer. As the night went on it looked like the bernie supporters had finally calmed down. You heard john harwood report earlier about how Sarah Silverman told them they were being, quote, ridiculous. And that seems to have helped. Lets see what happens tonight with the big headliner. Former president bill clinton, historically hes always a crowd pleaser. But, guys, he has run into trouble with the black lives matter protests as hes been on the campaign trail a couple of times. But you can assume this is probably going to be a pretty friendly crowd tonight. Lets get over to brian and tyler back at cnbc headquarters. All right, michelle, thank you very much. So a ton in the Business World going on as well. Your power lunch menu seems very appropriate today because mcdonalds is the
This story and much more. Along with Lieutenant Colonel tom mcinerney, judge Andrew Napolitano and bret baier as well. David quite a lineup. Back to the markets. Dow stocks turning positive in the final moments trading. With very market movers. Phil flynn, Price Futures Group watching oil and gold from the cme and lori rothman on the floor of the new york stock exchange. Lori, youre looking at more retailers feeling the pinch. Lets start there, david. Retailers feeling the pinch, particularly vera bradley, the handbag maker. Despite betterthanexpected earnings they have analyst downgrades. Vera brad did i reported sales down 6. 7 . Dragging down in sympathy, kate spade off 4 1 2 . A better report from amazon. The report from the floor, if youre keeping track or keeping store, another lifetime high for amazon. This is the third consecutive session amazon hit a new high. You will recall back to the Consumer Spending report. Biggest jump in april in spending in many years. Everyone is loo