Lets get into these results from samsung. What was the offer . Not as impressed as the shareholders are. They seem pretty impressed. I think there is a lot of concern they need to be aware of. First of all, the chip business really fell off a cliff. Operating profit really fell a lot. The other thing is the smartphone business had a good quarter. It was the secondhighest sale on record for that division. Incomecompare operating versus a couple of quarters ago, operating profit was a lot lower. Margins a lot worse than it had been in the past. They said themselves this quarter, the fourth quarter, they would see a deterioration, not only in shipments, but also a have bees. What they ship will be the cheaper phones. Not the flagship stuff they had in the first quarter. The cheaper stuff. Those are the landmines investors need to be worried about as we go into the next. Components are weak and their products are week as well. It definitely is downbeat, a column this morning. You sum up by
Green, but seeing significant weakness in Consumer Discretionary today. Mcdonalds reporting relatively weak earnings compared to what the street was expecting. That is weighing on the indexes a little bit. We also got bad numbers out of ups. That is also weighing on the s p 500. Treasuries come of the dollar, gold all seeing bids come back into those. On that treasury yield, right now the bondholder undeterred after we had that selloff. They are back in the market today, looking around to buy. Hat dip seeing a little bit of strength in the dollar tethered to what is going on overseas with the pound, also with the yen. A lot of notes out on the future of gold, what is. Going to drive it higher weve been hovering in the what is. Going to drive it higher weve been huff what is going to drive it higher. Weve been hovering around 1500 mark. Guy in europe, we are watching the pound. Boris johnson says he will pull the Brexit Agreement if the timetable is not agreed by mps. Keep an eye on tha
Rating. Pivotal Research Calls the stocks first to our top story. Facebook has suspended tens of thousands of thirdparty apps that were using the companys developer tools as part of a review facebook started following the cambridge analytical privacy scandal. The number of suspended apps was at 400 in august of 2018. Facebook stated that not all of the apps were necessarily abusing or selling user data. Many were not live when they were suspended. I am joined by bloomberg out of d. C. And San Francisco. Is the fact they are closing down some of these apps showing facebook is finally doing enough . Its unclear if any of these apps were important or relevant. I do think it shows the followthrough. We are going to review all the stuff and take it seriously and see if we can find any apps that are violating these policies. They are actually going out in following through. I think its a good sign they are stepping in the right direction. What came out of those meetings . It was clear he was
The video streaming Platform Company sees its second sell rating. A pivotal reachers Pivotal Research calls the stocks first to our top story. Facebook has suspended tens of thousands of thirdparty apps that were using the companys developer tools as part of a review facebook started following the cambridge analytical privacy scandal. The number of suspended apps was at 400 in august of 2018. Facebook stated that not all of the apps were necessarily abusing or selling user data. Many were not live when they were suspended. I am joined by bloomberg out of d. C. And San Francisco. Fact they are closing down some of these apps showing facebook is finally doing enough . Its unclear if any of these apps were on were important or relevant. I do think it shows the followthrough. We are going to review all the stuff and take it seriously and see if we can find any apps that are violating these policies. They are actually going out in following through. I think its a good sign they are stepping
And rapid climate adaptation. Billionaire bill gates wants to help invest nearly 2 trillion over the next decade to help the world become more resilient. His thoughts on and potential solutions for Climate Change. For wework, it was the roadshow that was not this week. One of the most anticipated debuts of the year is now postponed until october. The shared Office Space Provider is looking for time to calm investor doubts about its dropping valuation, governance problems, and financials. Remember that, at one point, this was supposed to be a 47 billion company. That number is now 15 billion and could be perhaps even smaller. Joining me to discuss this all was phil haslett, cofounder and chief revenue officer at equityzen, a marketplace for preipo shares and bloombergs crystal tse. Crystal they have a lot to address before they can go out to the investors and ask them for their money. Like you said, they were looking for a 47 billion valuation, and now we are hearing it could be as low