Alphabet. The stock which you may own in a fund or retirement account or individually initially fell by more than 3 when the Company Reported profits 28 lower than a year ago. That was largely because the company booked a 2. 7 billion fine from european regulators. Ongoing Regulatory Risk is apparently what spooked investors this afternoon. Overall, the business is clicking right along. Net revenue rose 21 to 26 billion. Clicks on ads jumped 52 compared with a year ago. Cloud revenue up smartly as well. Josh lipton has our report on alphabet, the Worlds Largest advertising company. Reporter 18. 4 billion, that was a big number in alphabets latest earning report, refers to google property revenue, revenue generated from search and youtube. Raymond james says its critical because thats the highest margin businesses for google and the revenue jumped 20 year over year. Kessler notes there could have been some disappointment in the report specifically with traffic acquisition costs, thats w
Just before the fourth of july. Our road map begins with jpmorgan this morning. The banks set to pay pay recordbreaking 13 billion Justice Department fine to settle lawsuits at the height of the financial crisis. The markets pointing to a mixed open after the s p closes to an alltime record high as they wave some better than expected earnings against some budget uncertainty. The stock falling in the premarket as global sales fall in sim september. Starbucks in hot water after being accused of charging china markets higher than others. Jpmorgan close to reaching a tentative settlement. Kate kelly caught up with jamie dimon as he arrived at work this morning. Good morning. Reporter this 13 billion settlement na jp organ more beg hammering out with justice. What happens in light of the settlement . I asked mr. Dimon about this just momenting as as he came into work. Here is what he said. Were going to try to resolve everything we can and then were going to move on and serve our clients. I
Porky pig. Overnight in asia, shanghai and hong kong down sharply, some disappointed in that fourday meeting of leaders and bank of england cutting its forecast for inflation. Macys beating profits, affirming on the year. And a fight with kraft ends up costing the coffee giant 2. 8 million. Tesla confirming there are no plan foors recall. Outlines his vision and fires back at George Clooney. And doubts continue to compound about completing fixes for the end of the month on baum care. Revenues beat consensus at revenues are up 3. 5 prgs. The ceo says numbers are extremely strong. Sales trends at bloomingdales doing well. Big name for my charitable trust. Ta Terry Lundgren has been able to go against amazon. In is always whos got the antiamazon game plan. He can move around merchandise. Hes got my macys, the regionalization. If you go there friday night in pittsburgh, you will find steelerlike clothes, raleigh, north carolina, its bow ties and sear sucker. The new york store is doing wel
As a Global Economic indicator. They see obviously a tough 2013. They talk about it being choppy in the first half. For this year 2012 they have lowered their numbers. Again, this is the second time they have put out a cautionary tone and having to change the numbers. They said maybe in the back of 2013. So that sort of feels like a long time to wait. Everybody wants some numbers here and now. We did see the stock move here to the down side, but it has recovered and moved back into the green, so its up 1 1 4 . But this comes on the heels of other Dow Companies that came out with some tough numbers last week including mcdonalds and general electric. Back to you. Nicole thank you very much. Its been a rough week for Solar Companies. A judge confirming solyndras bankruptcy plan earlier today despite protests from the government which stands to lose about half a billion dollars invested in that company. So this comes after two more Companies Subsidized by the Energy Department of our gover