Amazon. And its stock is paying the price. The Online Retail behemoth earned a dollar a share. That translates into its largest quarterly profit in its 19year history. But investors wanted more, a lot more. Expects were 1. 56 per share. Revenue came in shy of estimates despite rising more than 20 from a year ago. And as for its shares they were punished initially after that report. John ford has more on amazons results. Big number to watch in amazon earnings is the top line revenue wall street was looking for, 35. 9 billion in revenue, they got 37. 7 billion. Eps missed also. Its overall growth thats been driving the valuation for amazon. Amazon web services did well. That actually beat despite high expectations. But the stock fell after hours on that topline number. Well have to see the impact is on other highvaluation stocks because this is certainly one of the ones that gets a lot of notice. Guys, back to you. John ford reporting. A different story altogether for dow components microsoft and visa which both topped profit expectations. First microsoft, its growth drive anyone part by strong results from its cloud business. The Company Reported earnings of 78 cents a share, 7 cents better than estimates. Revenue came in slightly better than expectations, though it was down a bit from a year ago. As for shares, they rose initially after those results came out. Josh lipton has more on microsofts quarter. The big number in microsofts report, 25 billion. That is what microsoft reported in deferred revenue. Its an indication of future business, a gauge of consumer and commercial demand, and it beats the streets forecast of 23 billion. Fbrs dan ives says it shows momentum is building for microsoft in 2016 rather than slowing as it is for other enterprise tech companies. What is driving that good news . Microsoft continues to execute on its Cloud Services meaning office 365 and azure, which is its answer to amazons cloud business. For nightly business report, im josh lipton in san francisco. And now to fellow dow component visa which also topped expectations on higher payment volumes. The Worlds LargestPayments Network operator earned 69 cents a share, one penny better than estimates. Revenue rose to 3. 5 billion in the quarter, up from the year ago period. Shares got a lift initially in afterhours trading. Mary thompson reports on the one key takeaway in visas results. Visa reporting strong fiscal First Quarter results. The payments giant reaffirming its outlook for the fiscal year though it warned the strong dollar and subdued dem stick activity across all geographies could prompt a change to that forecast. Still the news welcome. Rival American Express cut its outlook for this year and next and discover posted weak numbers. Visas adjusted earnings beat wall streets forecast by a penny. Its revenue came in line with expectations. Visas results helped by a 12 increase in payments volume growth as more and more consumers across the global are choosing to pay with debit and credit cards instead of cash. The fees that visa generates by processing the 1. 3 trillion in transactions . Well, that helps to deliver strong results for investors. For nightly business report, im mary thompson. On wall street stocks rose as oil prices climbed. Jobless claims fell and Companies Reported those mixed earnings weve been telling you about. By the close of Dow Jones Industrial average gained 125 points to finish at 16,069. Nasdaq up 38. And the s p 500 added 10. Oil prices also rose nearly 3 on Production Cut speculation. Even though opec delegates reportedly said there are no plans for supply talks. Caterpillar was the biggest gain over the blue chip index today beating wall street earnings estimates. Shares rose more than 4. 5 . However, the Company Whose earnings are often used to measure the health of the Global Economy reported a sharp drop in revenue and warned of a tough year ahead. But for many investors those results could have been much worse. With the commodities crush literally digging into its bottom line and currency headwinds pushing back on Profit Margins, caterpillars fourthquarter loss and lighter than expected sales figures were hardly a surprise. From the companys point of view, its adapting to changes in the Global Economy, cutting costs and its outlook hardly rosie, is perhaps not as bad as some had feared. 16 is going to be rough and challenging again, i think. Given all the things going on around us. But im very happy with our performance in 15. Reporter the costs of change, restructuring, are what some accountants will tell you to example near. In caps case, ignore those costs and earnings actually beat expectations. It is still spending on things like r d, digital applications to mine for the kind of data that can help the buyers of cats heavy machinery save money in the future. Thats the kind of positioning analysts will parse carefully. I think it was a sigh of relief more than anything going into 63. Reporter in china for instance cap sees growth, even if its less growth than before. I think theres an overhang of lots of things. From commodities to you name it. But it will work out. Theyre growing at 6 to 7 a year. Reporter the slowdown in china includes drastic decline in construction, lower demand for commodities, coal, iron ore and oil, and lower prices for caterpill caterpillars heavy machinery. Cats total sales peaked at almost 66 billion in 2012. But are expected to fall to 42 billion in 2016. Weak sales in brazil arent helping either. If cat is seen as a proxy for a Global Economy we may be in the roughest patch wife seen in at least five years. I have no overweight ratings in my sector. So im not recommending that investors buy into machinery stocks at this point. And thats a first for me through the course of my career. This is a unique period of time for investors, particularly in cyclical stuff. Joining us to talk about caterpillar and what lies ahead for it and its industry is joel tiff, managing director of research at bemo. A tale of two companies. The late report today about amazon, profits were record for the company but it missed estimates. So the stock goes down. Today caterpillar goes up because they Beat Estimates even though revenues were down. And profits were really nothing to write home about. What do you expect Going Forward for this company, caterpillar . I mean, we are getting close to a bottom here. The earnings peaked in 2012. So 2016 is already going to be the fourth down year for cat in their whole 90year history, theyve never had four down years. Were closer to the bottom than to the top. But on some of the earlier comments about estimates better than expected, theyre 70 cents of pension games in that 4 of 2016 guidance so its not as rosy as the surface looks like. You also think as the company said, its going to be tough. The next year is going to be tough. You would agree with that. But what makes you feel as though the stock is nearer to a bottom than some others on the street . Well, i mean, if you look at the mining industry, used to be 25 of cat. Now its a very small part of the company. But weve had, you know, like i said, we peaked in 2012. Were four years into cutting capacity, trying to get supply demand into balance. Their Power Generation business is another 15 , 20 of the company. Thats been down for the last five years. Construction equipment has been weak for the last three or four years. And theres a lot of places on the planet. Brazils been very difficult for two years. Chinas been declining for two or three years. The whole Eastern Europe and russia has been very difficult for the last couple of years. Weve already taken a lot of pain here. Youve got a target price of 60 on it, today was about 58, that suggests a pretty flat year if im quoting you correctly. Are there other companies in this Big EquipmentIndustrial Area that you like better for stock plays for 16 . Similar to what ann said earlier, that the two that i think are my top picks are itw and carlisle. Those are more diversified industrial companies. Theyre growing somewhat through restructuring, somewhat through acquisiti acquisition, a really had some of the best managem teams. The more cyclical companies, theres not a lot you can do, just waiting for markets to get better. Kind to have dove tail on what tyler was saying, as a longterm investor would you be moving into this stock at this point . If you have a longterm time horizon . Or no, not yet. Its a little early. One more shoe to drop, for investors to feel 2017 is going to be another down year. Thats probably going to be in the may, june, july time frame. And once that capitulation happens, i think were a hot closer to a buy than we are to a sell. Joel, thank you very much. Very clearly expressed, we appreciate it. The global slowdown extends far beyond china. Canada, our northern neighbor and largest trading partner, is also feeling the economic chill. The report from vancouver. Dirt or steam or not at all at these prices. Cauliflower is taking canada by storm. Not for its taste, for its price. This vegetable has become a National Talking point, selling for as much as 8 Canadian Dollars ahead, thats almost 6. Add in cucumbers and celery thats triple the price of a year ago and thats one expensive salad. The Canadian Dollar, known as the looney, is near 13year lows thanks to the economys dependance on resources and measurement in oil prices. As canada scrambles to diversify its growth, british columbias finance minister Michael Deyoung says it could stay that way for a while. I look at other parts of the world, some of the challenges we see emerging out of the middle east. Theres a lot of factors and variables that go into this. A lesson, of course. Dont put all your economic eggs in one basket. Reporter now the canadian economy is on the venge of falling back into recession. The low looney may be driving up the cost of groceries but its also making Canadian Real Estate more attractive for outsiders. Tony sing is a vancouverbased realtor. The vancouver Real Estate Market is huge, it has been the last little while. I think as the Canadian Dollar value falls, weve actually known this to increase in the actual achievable sales prices. Reporter as Chinese Market volatility continues, many are looking for a safe place to park their cash. And for many, that place is vancouver. Aside from the low dollar, its just a very safe market environment for us for others to invest in. The volatility in the Chinese Markets today, you see canada is a very safe political and personal safety place to invest capital in. So thats not going to change either. Reporter but some say an increase in already whitehot prices is further fueling a bubble. Between controlling that bubble and rebalancing canadas resourcedependent economy, policymakers are scrambling to prevent the great white north from heading south again. For nightly business report, vancouver, canada. Still ahead, follow the money. How much of your charitable contributions are going where they are intended to . Facebook shares soar closing 15 higher today. That strength came from an area where alphabets google has always dominated with youtube. The new threat that facebook may pose to the bigger search company. Facebooks result soaring. In part an explosion on video views and the ad possibilities they bring. Customer viewing of video on facebook continues to be really strong on our platform. 500 Million People are watching videos every day. In terms of our business, that creates real opportunity for us. Because we want the ad format to match the format of what consumers are doing. On facebook, Mark Zuckerberg talked about a new way facebooks quantifying demand for video. Now 100 million hours of video are watching daily on facebook. Weve been testing new experiences like suggested videos which enables people to discover more videos they might be interested in. Were also exploring ways to give people a dedicated place on facebook for when they just want to watch videos. Analysts saying facebooks strength and video Growth Potential for facebook to draw eyeballs and ad dollars from the biggest video destination, youtube, as well as from television. At the end of the day theres on amount of ad dollars. Were seeing a shift of that largest bucket tv ad dollars coming over and facebooks a beneficiary. Although googles mobile ad network may be the only one still bigger than facebook, facebook has real advantages to help it make gains. Who has almost no revenue coming from social advertising. You look at the ad landscape, look at how much market share facebook is taking, advertisers want to have their messages placed within social media and google doesnt really have an offering for them right now. Its not just advertising where facebook and google overlap. Both companies are investing in virtual reality. Facebook has its oculus headsets and google its cardboard headsets and both have vr app stores. Theyre both investing in Artificial Intelligence as they fight to make their Consumer Experience the best. Under armour runs past wall street targets and thats where we begin tonights market focus. The nations secondbiggest sportswear maker Beat Estimates for quarterly profit and revenue in the latest quarter helped by strong demands for its steph curry basketball shoe line. That helped drive a 95 increase in foot wear sales in the quarter. Under armour shares spiked 22. 5 to 8407. Chirch thatbased ali baba posted a 23 jump in merchandise volume. The growth was the slowest in more than three hours. Ali baba shares fell nearly 4 to 6692. Shares of oshkosh were hit today after the maker of military, fire, and emergency vehicles saw profit plunge 58 in its latest quarter. The company says although sales of its vehicles were higher, it wasnt enough to offset a drop in its access equipment segment. Shares of oshkosh fell about 7. 5 to 31. 23. Eli lilly beat forecast helped by strong sales of topselling insulin drug. Revenue was flat hurt by a stronger dollar. The company maintained its fullyear outlook. Lily said it is upbeat about this years prospects based on half a dozen fda approvals in 2015 and a number of successful latestage trials. Shares fell 6 to 76. 81. Harley davidson topped estimates with Fourth Quarter profit but revenue was a bit low. The motorcycle maker gave a cautiously optimistic outlook for 2016 noting they expect Macro Economic conditions to continue to beat challenging. Harley up about 4 to 38. 92. Fords earnings beat expectations and the automaker reiterated its fullyear pretax forecast would be equal to or higher than 2015. Ford also said its European Business returned to profitability last year with the asiapacific region posting its best ever annual profit. The company did warn its 2016 north american Profit Margins may not reach 2015 levels and that was enough to knock off more than 1 of fords stock price today. It finished at 11. 71. The video game publisher Electronic Arts profit beat wall street expectations thanks to strong sales of its new star wars game. But the Company Issued a disappointing forecast for the Current Quarter with both earnings and revenue coming in below estimates. Electronic arts shares fell sharply in extended hours after finishes up a fraction at 69. 79. Strong sales of its blockbuster arthritis drug enbrel helped amgen beat earnings and saw them rise 40 . The worlds biggest biotech drugmaker raised its outlook for 2016. Shares initially rose in extended hours after falling more than 1 today to 148. 35. The Wounded Warrior project that supports veterans has come under fire for its lavish spending. According to the Charity Rating agency Charity Navigator only 60 of Wounded Warrior projects money goes towards helping veterans, compared to similar charities who spend significantly more. How do you know if your charitable contributions are really going where they are intended to . Michael thatcher joins us, president and ceo of Charity Navigator, joins us now. Nice to have you here, welcome. Thank you very much, a pleasure to be here. Wounded warrior pushed back on the various news reports about their spending saying, in order to raise significant amounts of cash, you have to spend. Is that a valid argument . Or not . I think its a valid argument if you can also show the effectiveness of your spending. So am i as im investing in different projects, what are the outcomes and results of those projects . And being able to articulate that is something thats important for donors and they need to know this. How do you grade them on that metric . Today were rating organizations based on their financial metrics, the accountability and transparency metrics of the organization, and were in the process of bringing on results reporting or impact reporting. Today when a donor really needs to be proactive, engaged with the organization, and find that out directly from the organization. So you basically say there are three things that you should look for, if im reading you correctly, when you want to donate to a charity. Overall, their overall score, quoteunquote. Their financial score. And thei