Runs out and shares of Bed Bath Beyond are surging, the retailer reports comps of 6 , online sales soaring 89 , jim so earlier in the week, jim, and even last week you seem to be pessimistic about the prospect of a compromise coming together. Do you feel any different this morning . Look, i think the Airline Layoffs are looming large because with layoffs come a cut in roots, with a cut in roots is a pain point, but i think its the senate, we keep talking about mnuchin and we keep talking about speaker pelosi, but i think the senate is buying into the president s vshaped recovery and i think Mitch Mcconnell is buying into it which says why do we need more we have a v shape, its just Certain Industries that can be triaged. I know that the industries represent small and mediumsized business so im against that, but i would say in favor of the mcconnell position, at least if you are looking at the stock market, this set of earnings, now, that is not what they care about and i dont want to m
Dovish fed, the spread continues to steepen. That is more on tax reform, 78 basis points is the difference. The pound just turning positive. A macronmerkelmay lovefest over the past few days. I do want to bring in breaking news over the last half hour from ge, a huge mess on earnings at . 29 a share versus estimates that . 50 a share, and it cut its fullyear forecast. The oil and gas environment remains challenging for its spinoff of the baker hughes ge business. What was the huge mess on earnings and revenue came in stronger miss on earnings one revenue came in stronger . Typically on an earnings day it moves just about 2. 8 . What doesions about it do to flannery, the ceo . David it is typical for a new ceo to clean things out, but this is really a big one. Jonathan it says a lot what was going on and maybe for John Flannery, he has the appropriate whipping boy to drive things forward. It gets a decent position because these are just numbers and got his. David he has got to come up w
Of edged up yesterday. Jamie dimon am i too early in that promote . Yes, you are permeant yesterday, you got me all confused. Im all over it theyre producing a lot, but theyre not but they dont have the pipelines. Lets get to the road map this morning. Well get to oil but for now, were going to talk markets. The dows win streak is at 10. You saw their futures are looking, at least for a lower open plus, Michael Koors and ralph lauren delivering some upbeat news you got that right, upbeat for the Retail Sector. Both of those Companies Beat the estimates of the analysts. Follow them. Koors up a lot cbs coming in better than expected but they lowered guidance, so the stock is down. Basketball, ad sales. Oh, i thought you meant cvs no. Oh, you have to say channel 2. All the time on the trading desk, you never use the term cbs. You say ive got 50,000 channel 2 to buy too many people bought cvs and that stock is down never use cbs for cbv. Okay. And Charlie Victor was not. It was down it not
Capitalal has changed its business and cites among other things ge capitals exit of the u. S. And consumer businesses and transformation of its funding model. You might recall during the financial crisis ges finance arm almost took the company down and since that time, it has certainly changed that this or i should say last year undertaking an aggressive plan to reduce ge capital selling over half of its assets and, indeed, since that time, it sold about 166 billion or signed 166 billion worth of deal. Now keep in mind, ge is one of four nonbank companies that have been given this systemically important financial rating. Others include aig, met life and prudential and met life is involvedn a legal battle with the fed having, of course, received a favorable ruling earlier this year by a judge who said tFederal Reserve or the government could not designate it as that. That means these companies are subject to Federal Reserve reover sight and enhanced capital rerooirmts. The fsoc voted to
Between her views and donald trump. Lets head to the markets desk with julie hyman. Fore we have one record the moment today. That is the nasdaq, trading at least on the record on a closing basis at the moment. It did not touch the intraday record, but the number to beat actually, not quite at the level, but the numbers 55220 5. 48. Thes p 500 also touched record on the closing business and came back down and the dow jones a little ways away, but coming back, fairly broadbased rally, Consumer Discretionary and Energy Shares leading the way after turnaround in oil prices. Also watching a lot of individual stocks. This has been the story over the past month. Not a lot of Movement Overall on major averages but Dick Stockton moves. Lets talk about alibaba. The company has been diversifying, so on one hand, in thef 40 47 boost ecommerce business but that only accounted for 72 of revenue. It has been building their cloud business, just like amazon in the u. S. , and also building their enter