Thoughts on apple and the hot investments that he missed. Its a merger monday. Comcast and charter, theyre not merging, dont worry. But they have an announcement. Kate spade and coach, yeah, they are. Plus other deals brewing. And france has decided what the new president means for the u. S. And the global economy. First up though, Warren Buffett sharing his latest views on investing this morning. This is what the oracle had to say to becky earlier this morning on squawk about stock valuations. The most important item over time in valuation is obviously Interest Rates. I mean, if Interest Rates are destined to be at very low levels, not necessarily as low as they are now, but very low compared to the 100 year averages or 50 year averages it makes in i stream of earnings from investments worth more money. Buffett said bonds is a terrible choice relative to stocks. Take a listen to that. Anybody that prefers bonds to stocks is making a big mistake. I have been saying that year after year
November. Ibm is set to weigh down the dow today. Notching the 20th straight quarter of year over year revenue declines. Plus, a border tax replacement. The white house considering a elimination of state and local deductions needed to pay for tax cuts. Some drama at 21st century fox as advertisers flee. Reports that primetime star bill oreilly is now all but out. It would be the third major departure for the network in the last year. Ibm bills down sharply in the premarket. The miss on the quarterly revenue overshadowing the sales beat. Down for 20 straight quarters. Ibm had an 11 quarter streak of opening lower on earnings. That was broken last summer. Now appears to resume. Yeah. Look, this was a kind of quarter where they actually didnt close certain business anded that they closed and had they closed certain business, you know what, things are on target. The Gross Margins are not done as much as they were. The signings are surprised that they did misit miss it. We accept it for qua
The u. S. Stocks set to surge at the open. A hectic agenda on capitol hill with President Trumps 100 day milestone looming. Taxes, health care and avoiding a Government Shutdown all on tap. Robot warnings. Alibabas jack ma is predicting that robots will make many irrelevant. And first up though, global rallies in place a day after the first round of the french president ial election. Macron and le pen set to square off in a runoff may 7. Shutting out frances traditional ruling parties. Polls show macron as favorite to defeat the antieu le pen in second round and win the presidency. These polls, jim, somewhere 6436. Some argue this was one of the best outcomes the market could have hoped for. It is, but i wanted to distinguish between them and us. I think that we should not go up as much as they did. They had a lot more at stake. I think were going to quickly revert to what has controlled us which is oil. Which is already sinking. The Interest Rates which need to go higher. And our earn
The nasdaq is down by 40 points. Just about 1 . The s p 500 right now is also trading in negative territory, down by about threequarters of 1 . Sitting at 1,967. Vix has been moving sharply. Biggest oneday gain for the vix. It is now up 21 , even higher now. It had retreated as the market talked about this potentially being an accident. But now weve gotten more reports, the vix approaching that 13 level right there. Many developments coming out of the ukraine today surround being the malaysia airplane crash. Nbc news correspondent Pete Williams has been track being the story all afternoon for us. Pete, are there any new clues . There was talk earlier in the day this may have been an accident because there hadnt been much activity over that airspace. But what do we know right now . The number one theory emphasize the word theory of the u. S. At this point is that it was in fact shut down, but there is no hard evidence to confirm that. Statements by the ukrainians, the coincidence of whe
Government buildings. And disney shares plummet as they announce a 1 billion capital euro hike. Youre watching Worldwide Exchange bringing you Business News from around the globe. We just got a brief budget through. Its come in for 2015 showing gdp growth at plus 2. 9 driven higher by private consumption. It seems the risks to the committee are coming from abroad and unemployment seen falling to 22. 5 from 24. 5 in 2014. So still a very high level, but moving in the right direction. The primary budget seen at 2. 9 of gdp. Public debt at 316 billion euros, which is 168 of gdp. Moving on to brazils probusiness candidate, he surprised a rally in the election. He will make it to the second round this month. Silva came in third at 21 . Brazils main stock market is expected to get a boost when it opens later today. Six days ago the polls suggested that his winning margin would be 68 . A big close in the coming days. Its no surprise on who the investors and wall street is supporting. The oppo