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
Component earnings joining us for the hour is stephanie link great to have you here i think thats exactly where we should start we had earnings from walmart and cisco. Cisco is the drag on the dow how would you characterize how it reflects back to the Broader Market last quarter the same thing happened where cisco disappointed and walmart posted a better than expected number. This is what this economy swhat this market is enterprise spend is weak on trade concerns and uncertainty and thats not Getting Better any time soon versus the consumer being very strong those numbers are very impressive 6. 6 stack comp for walmart. It actually kratd. Ecommerce sales 41 . Estimates are going up for walmart and going down for cisco and i dont think theres a lot of visibility at cisco even if you listen to that Conference Call they were disappointing across the board. You got to pick your spots of where you want to be well dive deeper into each of those Companies Reports ahead. Stephanie will be wit
Says military cloud contract win. And Restoration Hardware surging at the open, Buffetts Berkshire hathaway revealing a new stake in the furniture retailer stocks are looking to make more history a day after the s p posted its 21st record close of the year futures up on comments from larry kudlow about progress of trade talks in china, upbeat news about the consumer adding to positive sentiment. Retail sale s rebounded in october. 3 but strip out gas, it is a miss. Strip out autos and gas, it is a miss as the threemonth average continues to slow. Jim . Look, i there is just the mixed picture keeps making it so it is bullish. It is amazing. If it were too strong, we would have to say that jay powell has they still play by jay powell there is just enough tease with trade talk i have my view on what is happening now and it is not as sanguine as what people are saying this is about farm, about ag, and it is about this is my understanding, not necessarily about soy. A lot of pork involved b
Good monday morning. Welcome to squawk alley. Obviously watching the dow down 142. Oil is the story of the day. Prices surging following attack on the Worlds Largest Oil Production facility in saudi arabia, disrupting the Global Supply of crude. Brian sullivan in houston with more on this hi again, brian. Reporter hey, carl, good morning. Playing a little zeppelin rock and roll there the market is rocking and rolling. So many effects from the attack, moments ago the u. S. Telling saudi arabia they believe they came from iranian soil lets put size and scope into perspective. I know you talked about how big this outtake facility really is, and it is not completely analogous. Heres a good example. We showed it earlier 5. 7 Million Barrels off line, facility is 7 million total barrels, 10 million all together there were two attacks so the two attacks outcake is what the market is focused on they hope to come online slowly the next couple of days. If you factored in five of the biggest refi
Road cbs and viacom finally inked a merger deal. We speak to buy comes a ceo about synergies and the road ahead. And chinese Online Retailer alibaba defies the slowdown of missed a trade war with sales surpassing expectations. First to our top story, it was a big week for tech ideas with fleet work and cloudflare filing to go public. The Web Security Company cloudflare has been in the news lately, given its relationship with controversial message board, 8chan. Three alleged gunman posted manifestoes on 8chan before three Mass Shootings in the united states. Cloudflare stop providing services after el paso, texas, less than two dozen dead, largely taking the platform offline. So, is now the time to go public for cloudflare . Like many other tech ideas, especially in software, it is not profitable. It has a pretty good growth rate, though. Its really trying to look at its competitor, fastly. Fastly went public earlier this year and is doing ok. There have been some sources who were askin