Wework. Biggest bets, a drop in ad sales and what that means for streaming. First, our top story, the challenge to tmobiles sprint merger in a courtroom on monday. States and the district of columbia suing to stop the deal. But the latest, jennifer read, who was in the courtroom. Takeaway what is your big take away . Jennifer it started with a surprise because the judge said, we are not going to have opening statements. I read to the pretrial memoranda , lets go straight to the witnesses. The judges really intent on getting this done in two weeks. This was part of that, getting things moving quickly. We cut right into the first witness, basically got through 2. 5 for the day. Overall, the witnesses were pretty good. Documents some bad introduced with the first witness. Ands only two witnesses part of the third but overall, i think the day was pretty good for the companies. Taylor we got a headline that sprints chief marketing officer said in 2016 that he thought this merger would raise
The tv industry suffers its steepest drop in ad sales since 2009. What that means for streaming. First, our top story, the challenge to tmobiles sprint merger took shape in a courtroom on monday. The combination of 13 states and the district of columbia suing to stop the deal. With the latest, jennifer was in the courtroom. Day one, what is your big take away . Jennifer it started with a surprise because the judge said, we are not going to have opening statements. I read enough in the pretrial memoranda, lets go straight to the witnesses. That was a big surprise, particularly for the lawyers who spent a lot of time preparing those. The judge is really intent on getting this done in two weeks. This was part of that, getting things moving quickly. We got right into the first witness, basically got through 2. 5 for the day. Overall, the witnesses were pretty good. They were better than i thought they would be for the companies. There were some bad documents introduced with the first witne
Road map begins with teslas truck rollout, unveiling first all electric pickup. The cybertruck and it is nothing like youve ever seen before. Wall street looking to snap a threeday losing streak. Stocks seem to be set for a positive open as chinese president xi jinping says beijing wants to work for a trade deal and a roller coaster week for retail today it is gap, nordstrom, williams and sonoma and foot locker were going to start with tesla, unveiling first ever pickup truck last night elon musk says it will have a starting price of just under 40k. Production set it begin in late 2021 musk touts the futuristic design, the armored glass. As you might know by now, a demonstration to show how bulletproof the glass was did not go according to plan try to break the glass, please yeah sure . Yeah. Well, maybe that was a little too hard man, this is getting talked about a lot this morning stocks down, bernstein says it looks weird. Like really weird. What do we think well, i mean, since they
What your technology does. It only matter who uses it, whos the customer thats what i keep thinking. Today another sedate session, s p inched up. Nasdaq. 04 need a microscope here we keep learning this same lesson about technology over and over and over again in this elongated earnings season, and its pretty jarring, because normally we care about what technologies actually does, if its helpful, if it increases speed or accuracy or power or productivity, well, it tends to be a suchls. Buy, buy, buy if its clunky and dead on arrival sell, sell, sell not these days, though. These days wall street only cares about who your customers are. Good, bad, as long as youve got the right end markets, your stock is going to be worded. Lets use roku, okay, and cisco. Roku sells to the consumer, sells to you their Technology Helps you stream videos directly to your tv cisco is a networking company, a colossus that sells to what is known as the enterprise, giant complex companies that need to connect
What, what have we got here, 8. Revenue up, ad sales up, profits up, and there are now 2. 45 billion active monthly users. It was a spectacular report. Stocks up. These two stocks are helping the market but a statement from china has put a damper on things. Beijing says its doubtful that a longterm trade deal can be reached. China concerned about the impulsive nature of President Trump. Where did they get that from . The dow industrials down about 50 at the opening bell. S p down six, a fractional loss for the nasdaq. Then theres politics. Namely, the vote in the house this morning, starting the impeachment process. This has consumed the congress. It has not consumed the market. It seems to be ignoring d. C. Entirely. We will follow it and pay special attention to votes of moderate democrats from trum trumpleaning districts. Will they approve removing the president from office because of a phone call to ukraine . Cant wait to see. Stay right there. Varney company is about to begin. The