Loss overall to the quarter. The stock is trading higher in the market, up over 1 as you can see there. Heart,me karen it will who covers g4s. Ge for us. So it comes back to power. Margin, 2. 8h a 3 percent, which was totally surprising. Sales were down 15 , really bad. Voters are down 25 , so this will continue. The order of magnitude is worse in terms of profitability. David when you we knew they were struggling with power. Is this worse than what the market expected . , 6 operatingy 5 margin was expected and we got 2. 8 , so not awful, but not going in the right direction. And that is the big ugly, nobody knows how bad it is going to get, and it is the biggest business for ge. So what does this tell us about plans going forward, spinning things off, consolidating . Does this bad performance point in a new direction . Karen i think they have already laid off 18 of the people. They will need to do more on the cost cut side there. Were worried about a goodwill writeoff. I do not think
Slightly higher. At the low, down more than 100 points. All on pace for the worst day of the year. That is only true for the tech heavy nasdaq. Really weighing on the nasdaq, the Philadelphia Semiconductor index down 2. 4 . Still on pace for his worst day since december 4 of last year. Lets dig into one stock weighing them all down. Apple down 1. 6 . Its worst day of the year. This appears to have to do it to death and analysts. Jpmorgan is cutting the estimate, Sales Estimates for 2018. That is based on deteriorating iphone demand. We also have bernstein saying the iphone estimates for the march quarter, the street is looking at it right now, and it may be too high. It is interesting to see when the Company Reports what does come up. Broadcom trading lower in 70. Lets look at some of the homebuilders. We have some weakness here. D. R. Horton, all lower after existing home sales for the month of december missed the survey a little bit. Daca have to do it tax reform. Investors not likin
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The immigration ruling. Were expecting video any moment. President leaving the white house, taking America First but not alone message to the world stage at the Economic Forum in davos. More what we can expect from this key trip abroad. Ford Motor Company out with Quarterly Results in moments, on the heels of disappointing guidance last month. Are we in for a big surprise . We have numbers as soon as they come out. Ford cfo bob shanks will break it down for us. Joining us texas ag ken paxton, judge andrew napolitano, New York Post columnist Michael Goodwin, the hill editorinchief bob cusack. Melissa that is a good show. Im looking forward to it. Back to the markets. The dow staging a major come back this afternoon. Lets go right to Nicole Petallides on floor of the new york stock exchange. Nicole, what are traders saying about this huge move today . We did have a big move. At the top we were up 180 points. Down we were down over 103 points. We had a big swing. It was solid day, up acro
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