Administration looks at the reopening of longshuttered trade routes mean for u. S. Business, not just israel and of course these other nations, but u. S. Business and could saudi arabia and maybe even iran be next to step up . The president s director of trade and Manufacturing Policy, Peter Navarro, will join us live on what this relationship might just do to boost trade in americas struggling covid economy. Rivalry on the baseball diamond still in full swing. Game three of the world series set for tonight. The Major League Baseball organization is going high tech to help you light up your social media with grand slam videos of your own. Find out how the mlb film room is taking a place in the google cloud. Narrow tech trading in play as the prospect of a stimulus deal remains on mothballs on capitol hill. Dow jones industrials down 61 but the s p just popped up to positive territory, better by three. The nasdaq up nearly down nearly five points. All of the major indices appear to be h
Number for the company. Quarterly sales were down 43 year on year. The stock is pretty much flat, though. The bad news now, just how bad would let actually be . Sales roseommerce about 74 . They still need people to come into the store to really make a lot of money. Their comp sales were up by over 10 , if you backout fuel. Clearly a lot of stocking up. Clearly good for walmart. Kohls suspended its Share Buyback program. That stock now off by about 1 in the premarket. Overall, no doubt we are obviously going to take a bit of a pause as we digest earnings and that monster rally. The question is whether the new was that or a bear market rally. Is that really being reflected in equities . We need the Economic Data to really match. Lets get to the news from overseas, as well as here in the u. S. We want to start with the walmart numbers and look ahead to fit your jay powell. Michael mckee has more. Just in case we werent sure that people were hoarding toilet paper, we get walmart. Michael
Post nine at the New York Stock Exchange Carl Quintanilla is off, jon fortt is on assignment but were going to begin with wework losses balloons to 1. 25 billion in the last quarter. Roger mcnamee joins us, along with Business Inside henry blodget. Good morning roger, i will start with you losses at wework, the turmoil continues. The thing that scarce me about we work, it could be a trigger of other issues in the market it is huge the scale of investing in unicorns that were i think at best unproven, maybe at worst not real businesses is such that as the stuff implodes, it could take softbank with it. Softbank is big enough to trigger all kinds of issues for the market. Youre scaring people saying it could take softbank with it significant losses, no doubt thats a few steps down the road the saudis are 45 billion in, theyre getting 7 deferred return, and then other investors, it is not clearly softbank at risk in the way you if they blow through enough money, it signals a fundamental c
Housing data rebounded with Building Permits at their highest levels in 12 years we are set once again for record time close on the nasdaq anything positive, of course, is a record the s p has just dipped negative the dow has been negative for most of the afternoon. Joining us for the full first hour of the show, steve weiss from short Hill Capital Partners steve, very good to see you. How you doing . Good to see you what stands out as to whether or not were going to issee a meaningful move higher or lower . Its all about trade. Home depots announcement aside, which wasnt terrible wasnt terrible or was terrible was not terrible. And the stocks appropriately are saying, theres lots of people buying it into the earnings. And home depot, lets face it, theyve delivered remarkably over the last decade, particularly since new management came in but i dont think its really a referendum this report on the health of the consumer, which is what the market is based upon. And appropriately, were b
I guarantee you built at least in part using workers david weve heard that before. Im david asman. This is bulls and bears. Joining me is jonathan hoenig, kristina partsinevelos, steve moore and gary kaltbaum. 2020 hopeful warren escalating her war on the wealthy this time targeting four successful billionaires in the new ad that includes money manager leon cooperman, Td Ameritrade founder, former Goldman Sachs Ceo Lloyd Blankfein and a venture capitalist. They have all denounced warren and her wealth tax plan. Heres how billionaire mark cuban responded on mornings with maria earlier. Listen. I did the math and her 6 wealth tax would cost would require me to pay more after the first year and a half than i have in cash. And so i sent an email to one of the economists and i said look, did you guys do take into consideration liquidity when you defined your wealth tax . Thats a good question. They said no. David the question is will voters do the math . Will the Voters Decide the wealth ta