Closed at a record today after a rocky day of trading. It moved in a wide range. It rose more than 180 points on the open this morning. Downs that down about 100 points mid afternoon. Early optimism fade after a top apple analyst questioned their future. Shares of apple fell. The rest of the tech sector followed. And it capped gains for the market as well. When all was said and down the dow rose to 26252. The nasdaq was down by 45. And the s p lost one point. General electric didnt help matters. It was the worst performing stock on the dow index falling 2. 5 after disappointing quarterly results. And they had another surprise for shareholders. Call it another kitchen sink quarter. General electric missed expectations and announced an s. E. C. Investigation into their 15 billion insurance charge. They are saying the investigation is early and not unexpected given the magnitude of that charge. Still it spooked wall street. Even analysts with buy ratings on the stock found little to be op
Another 1 in europe, the impact of the euro, now it is 1. 20 yeah. Most of it happened friday i cant say it was that much of a move, felt like the cap stone of a huge move it was almost a parody earlier this year. Now at a buck 20 theres the euro, 1. 193 it was 1. 17 and change, just under 1. 18, then went up to 1. 20, led by a pound at some point, and all based on comments from jackson hole. Doesnt say things are awful, i guess the implication, take it another 10 higher. She didnt say things were great. People know all right. Well get to texas in a minute first, an important corporate story to tell you about after a bizarre ceo search, wasnt it . Finally chosen, uber has, expedia Ceo Dara Khosrowshahi to be the next chief executive, he has been with expedia since 2005, credited with expanding the global presence. He immigrated to the United States from iran in the late 70s. He says he was the truth pick for uber he has been very inquisitive, visionary, i guess barry diller met him whe
Tiles. The total number of the record for all time, 77, 1995 i thought you were going to say the total number of trading days we still dont have that no. But i was trying to think about it i think theres 53 days left which probably work out to 44 trading days for the rest of this year. I did the rough numbers yesterday 25 . Look, there were 220 i mean, there were 222 or something weekdays i dont know how many of those days were closed or trading sessions thats good enough. So its Something Like 25 25 of the time youve still got another potential up to 40 trading sessions left. Let the good times roll thats the bottom line yes bottom wlien is, we have seen a lot of record closer its not just here in the United States joef night in asia, green arrows across the board with the nikkei up by almost 1. 75 another 389 points added to the nikkei once again to a nearly 6year high jump just visits the area and this is the kind of stuff that happens. The hang seng up by 1. 4 . The shanghai up by.
Hang seng index was weaker down 0. 8 . The shanghai was flat. European equities this morning, if you want to look and see whats happening in early trade, green arrows across the board. The ftse is flat the cac is up by a half percent. The dax is up by 0. 2 . Crude oil prices which were up once again yesterday, weve seen at least six sessions in a row of gains, up to 45. 28. Here are the big stories. Good morning Tesla Ceo Elon musk tweeting again. When asked about speculation on the release date for the model 3, musk tweeted news on sunday the model 3 is teslas highly anticipated socalled affordable model. Starts at 35,000. Musk says the production version of the model 3 will be unveiled in july, but still no official release date tlaes has taken in more than 400,000 preorders for the car. James bullard is retreating further from his formerly hawkish stance on rates. He said weak data undermined the feds plan and the central bank should take a more reactionary approach, if and when it
Percentage point the shanghai up by 0. 4 . In europe in the early trading, you will see green arrows across most of the major indices. The dax is up by a half percentage point, the cac in france up by a quarter percentage point crude oil prices which were up sharply yesterday, are down by two cents. Wti about 47. A couple big stories were watching this morning. Shares of tmobile are moving higher the Company Reported earnings of 67 Cents Per Share beating estimates of 29 cents. Revenue Beat Estimates tmobile added 1. 9 million new cust nomers in the quarter. Facebook confirming its working on a subscription feature to let publishers charge for stories on the social media site this could take pressure off of them in terms of the battle with the news industry. The pay wall will be available through instant articles starting in october. It would likely kick in after a user reads ten articles in a month. Facebook shares up 15 . On the wall street agenda another flood of Earnings Report abb