0. 719 andrew and we have numbers to bring you this morning from United Health group just out with its quarterly numbers. Reporting Quarterly Earnings of 3. 51 per share. It beat the consensus estimate of 3. 09 revenue also above forecasts, saying that medical care trends that had been disrupted by the pandemic are moving closer to normal you are looking at that stock up just marginally this morning and we have three more financials, bank of america this hour, Goldman Sachs in the 7 00 hour and then wells fargo in the 8 00 hour. Joe. Thankthanks, andrew. Another Clinical Trial halted over safety concerns, eli lilly late stage trial has been paused by u. S. Health regulation tors it used a Health Sample from one the first patients recovered from coronavirus ill given you more details. Because it leaves out something important. Of the trials ongoing of the antibody, they decided to add remdesivir along with the antibody and that is when they had to halt the trial for some kind of safety
Nasdaq off by 35 we have been thinking the new deal would be by december 15 the huge question is do those new tariffs come into effect the market has been punched in the mouth twice since yet yesterday, futures were up almost a full percent. The first china news yesterday that things werent looking great for december 15. These new comments imply phase one is not nowhere but if people are still thinking december 15, thats hard to believe yesterday, the pull back was the worst day weve seen in months but still talking about a decline. The dow up 4. 2, s p up by 5. 5. Well see today while the move yesterday wasnt too significant, volatility spikes more dramatically that implies that todays move was not unexpected we may see bigger moves in the days ahead we have the sound bite. Getting to the comments from willem marx in london. The president arrived here late last night. Stayed at the u. S. Ambassadors residence. He gave some Public Comments including on china saying he wants to wait unt
Bid 140 a share or over 5 billion scluting debt. The apollos offer was accepted. The later offer accepted by tech data as the better offer and buffett says he does not intend to make a higher offer a little bit about tech data, it is a global distributor of Technology Products and services it supplies Small Companies with Technology Software and hardware made by larger companies, larger technology companies, a middle man. This is evidence of what has been happening with Berkshire Hathaway as the cash ward has grown. Topped over 128 billion according to most recent s. E. C. Filings from the company this move is interesting pivot for buffett, he rarely goes up against private Equity Companies and doesnt like to get into bidding wars it shows how hes going further afield to try andlook to deplo his large stash of cash that he has on hand. Hes known as being a cheap guy. Somebody who looks at prices he doesnt like auctions. Doesnt like auctions, doesnt like to get into the fray what is int
Regulatory changes, but firms are also changing their own Risk Management practices in some sense in some cases in a more conservative direction. We have seen an increase in algorithmic and High Frequency trading. That may be leading to changes in market trading practices. In the Corporate Bond market there have been increased reporting requirements that may be reducing the desired sizes of trades. All of these factors could potentially account for whats going on but we have not yet been able to figure out what the contribution of each is or just how serious. The concern is while daytoday and normale time of most measures of liquidity seem to be roughly unchanged, there is a concern in stress situations it may be and weve seen some cases where its less available. In any market you need risk and liquidity, do you not . You dont have a market would you the . We need liquidity in markets. Maybe even highleveraged banks were exposed and providing high liquidity and vulnerable if liquidity
One fed member indicated that he or she believes rates could rise a half percent at the december meeting, not just a quarter point. Surat, can stocks and rates both rise at the same time . I believe they can. The reason being that the fed has been actually pretty good at telling us what theyre going to do those expectations are baked into the market. The market hates uncertainty so whats driving this market and whats driven this market since last july are earnings global earnings are doing better and i think theyre going to continue to do better. And if rates move up but they dont move up faster than expected, i think you will see the market go up multiples might not expand because i think theyre pretty high levels, but if earnings expand, then stocks grow into those earnings. John, listen, in 1994, the Federal Reserve raised rates by 2. 25 . In 1995 the dow rose 33 can we do it again we can. Can or will i think we will first of all, can we go up when rates are going up weve done it be