Lineup of guests coming. Federal reserve vice chairman will join us exclusively in a few minutes for his first interview since last weeks fed meeting. Well also pespeak with the ceoo human there is a and a massive afternoon of earnings headlined by disney, ea, beyond meat and activision and well peek with actvisions ceo ahead of his Earnings Calls after the numbers come out as i said, were at 1. 9 with 59 minutes left lets moex fowlkes on the big stories. Meg has new developments on the treatment and vaccine front but mike, lets kick things off with you in the markets yeah, another day of fairly orderly levation in the indexes. Today its a broader rally even though its been led by the big tech stocks. A chart of the s p going 50 0 going back a year, were back up to the upper end of this crash levels last september, october, sort of going back to early 2018, an area where we gave a little friction to the rallies, but clearly, a market is acting as if big investors feel u underexposed to
To try to get there first and that sort of thing so im hopeful we will very much try to learn as much as possible from that facility and from all the other ones too we have a lot to learn here. So well certainly be trying to do that. In terms of fiscal concern, so, you know, for many years ive been before the fed i have longtime been an advocate for the need for the United States to return a sustainable path from a fiscal perspective at the federal level. We have not been on such a path for some time, which just means that the debt is growing faster than the economy this is not the time to act on those concerns this is the time to use the great fiscal power of the United States to do what we can to support the economy and try to get through this with as little damage to the longerrun productive capacity the economy has possible the time will come, again, and reasonably soon, i think, where we can think about a longterm way to get our fiscal house in order, and we absolutely need to do
Julia . Thats right. Disney cfo christine mckarther announced disney will be sustaining the dividend which will preserve 1. 6 billion in cash and this comes as the Company Announces that covid19 cost disney 1. 4 billion to its bottom line in the quarter and that includes a hit to advertising, movie delays and think, most of all, the closure of disneys parks. The disney parks alone had an operating income loss of 1 billion in the quarter due to covid driving a 58 drop in operating income now heres what the new ceo says about the plan that he Just Announced to reopen disney shanghai on may 11th take a listen. The approach we take may include implementation of density control measures as well as health and prevention procedures that comply with state and federal guidelines we are seeing encouraging signs of a gradual return for some semblance of normalcy in china the company talking about how before it began to close its domestic parks in midmarch they had been seeing an increase in both
Josh lipton standing by and gene munsters gearing up for facebooks call and we kick things off for Julia Boorstin for facebooks big quarter quite a move quite a move, Melissa Facebook shares up almost 10 on better than expected revenue and user growth. Cfo dave waner reassuring investors saying that while the outlook is uncertain, advertising is stabilizing so far in april were not immune to this from this crisis. We did see a steep decline in advertising revenue starting at about the first week of march, and that sort of continued weve seen some more recent stabilization as part of the Earnings Release we did include information on the advertising performance in q2 in april and thats about flat year over year. Facebook lowering its expense guidance for the year for 56 billion, as the company spends less on travel events and marketing as well as slower head count growth while the user growth and engagement did surpass expectations with 2. 36 billion people using one of its apps every s
Many rate hikes evening will come the next year and whether he sees a global turn around. If youre betting on a global turn around we will tell you which beaten down stocks could go from zero to hero next year and tell you whether facebook and netflix could flat line. We will have mike santoli on that coming up. Plus the new reports says wells fargo sales practices are under investigation. We will bring you the details ahead on the closing bell. Lets start with this cyber monday story. Courtney reagan is at one of amazons largest Fulfillment Centers in the whole country where i hear its kind of loud. What are you seeing there . Im actually standing right underneath a Conveyor Belt but it has a very busy day here at amazon if you will i willment center in new jersey. Last year cyber monday was amazons peak shopping day for the year with more than 43 million items sent out worldwide and the online ba home aught thinks it can beat that number this year. Amazon says black from i this year