The biggest mover when you get sort of adjustments, well, a little bit. But not really. 2. 35. Kind of hanging in there. Crude oil has been one of the bigger stories of the week of course with its significant drop over lets call it the last week or so. Oh, its a crash. Crash. I would put it when you have its almost one of the things that we have to talk about was there two hedge funds somebody didnt liquidate it. 53 or 54, straight line, i think it borders on a crash. Straight line. One of the stories were following this morning. Lets get to the others and our road map it starts with of course the u. S. Employer employment picture. U. S. Employers picking up the pace of hiring. The Unemployment Rate fell to the lowest level in nearly a decade. Plus oracle of omaha, is r ouring is osouring on ibm. Jim and i may wonder what took him so long. A warning to the Trump Administration. Ges jeff immelt calling on government to try harder to avoid the protectionist policies and to level the Play
All in the name of raising money for paid yediatric cancer and research. We have a number of speakers joining us live here throughout the next couple hours. There they are. We have nascar champion jeff gordon and cliff robins of bull harbor group, and a unique way to play streaming media, and, yes, involves teletubbies. Oh, boy, looking forward to that coming up. Green Light Capital statement e einhorn, bringing you all the headlines of what he talks about as soon as we get them, but we begin with apple crossing an important milestone today in terms of value. Bertha is at the nasdaq with that side of the story for us. Reporter yeah. Apples market cap today crossing 800 billion in market cap. It crossed 700 billion after blistering 37 gain the prior year. Already this year, apples up more than 32 notwithstanding iphone sale numbers in the most recent quarter. The stock is up 100 a share since tim cook took over as ceo in 2011. A gain of nearly 200 , and apple is a big catalyst behind th
In europe, things have barely budged in most of the major markets. Cac is flat. Dax is up 0. 1 . The ftse up almost 0. 2 . Crude oil prices continued to climb yesterday. This morning giving back just eight cents. But there is a thought that with supplies in the United States experiencing an unexpected draw down, and with more countries looking like they may support saudi arabia in terms of continuing that production cut, we have seen prices that have stabilized well above the lows weve seen earlier this week. Wti trading at 47. 76. Some big corporate stories. Retail wreckage continues. Department store chains taking a major hit. Nordstroms posting better than expected earnings and revenue, but the stock dropped on a samestore sale miss. Theyre the latest Department Store to get hurt by a slump in clothing because of online shopping. Macy shares dropped 17 yesterday during the trading session after Quarterly Results missed. It was the worst day for macys shares since 2008. Well get anot
There moderate economic growt d and little to know in that environment, a company with good Growth Prospects that executes wealth, should produce a positive return. When we hear from the Federal Reserve, when were in exactly that sweet spot i just described, so that while the industrial and financial dow only gained two points, the nasdaq actually declined 2. 4 . The Federal Reserve needs to raise rates by a quarter of a percent as it continues to get out of its emergency footing because theres no longer an emergency. As someone who got in this business when rates were at 14 . Im not going to sweat the program at 1 and change only younger people do that. However, we have a gigantic Cottage Industry of second guessers who constantly critique the fed and find it wanting. Frankly i find the second guessing to be totally other worldly. Think about it we have a government thats incapable of getting anything done because of strife we have horrible partisan activity, the worst since the civil
Uk cpi hits 1 , the highest in almost two years. As for our own core cpi, 2. 2 is just a shade light. Netflix shares soaring. Reid hastings said it will double down on original content next year. Goldman sachs beats both the top and bottom line. The shares, get this, theyre up in the premarket. Visa ceo Charlie Sharf resigning, saying he can no longer spend enough time in San Francisco to do that job effectively. Netflix surging after blowing past expectations. Quarterly subgrowth of 3. 6 million. The company also out with betterthanexpected earnings. Reid hastings last night on the earnings call. Its time for me to apologize for the volatility again. You know, this time its good a good direction. But i think more and more investors are able to look at the multiyear picture and they see the patterns emerging. And so then it would be less and less about our guidance. Stocks on pace for the fifth biggest gap on earnings. I wonder if hes going to apologize for the volatility this time . T