the show from aerial investments. rebound after late last night. hard to predict i guess what s going to happen given the trigger, this coronavirus. that said what about a pullback and have we seen enough to be comfortable about valuations a dangerous unknown, unknown stuff. wonderful in our business talking about known, unknowns, making predictions about things that you know are coming this caught us off guard look at history and what s happened in the past it is bad when you have full valuations to get this kind of black swan coming out of nowhere and makes us go back to our medical books and learn about death rates and mortality rates and that s frankly not fun. donald rumsfeld with us as well. as if, said it first. focus on the big stories watching today including the coronavirus, of course we have the latest on the outbreak contessa brier at jfk airport covering the impact on airlines and be brave in the scare tra bob ba san bob pisani is with us. and the cor
Hour the major averages have been Holding Steady on light trading. It is a holiday shortened week the dow transport setting another record high. Oil moving big crude and brent crude. Apple shares taking a hit down more than 2 thats the biggest drag on the dow. Reports of iphone x sales are slowing. Mallinckrodt up. Intel down intel will lose the crown as the number one chip maker for the first time in 21 years to samsung. Amazon saying it had its biggest season ever. The echo dot the top selling product across the categories and many factors we begin with retail the day after christmas is one of the biggest for returns. Kate rodgers checking out all the deals in west nyack, new york reporter retailers definitely have something to cheer about. New data out from master card showing that retail sales from november 1 gs through Christmas Eve were up 5 that is the fastest pace since 2011 ecommerce grew by around 18 overall the National Retail Federation Said sales are set to be around 682 b
Just a moment. And bond yields rose t a near fouryear high and that was enough to batter stocks. Falling the most since august. The Dow Jones Industrial averag dropped362 points to 26,076. The nasdaq was off 64. S p 500 was down 31. Babb pass any has more on todays selloff from the new york stock he can change. The steep selloff continued today on wall street bringing the dow down 4100s after session lows. We havent seen that for a long time. Energy sem i conductors, industrials, key economic benchmarks wdae all down toy. Whats going on . Er there are s risks to the market right now. Call it a stew. Ri ng Interest Rates continue to be a big story. Bond yields are hovering aund fouryear highs. And with a potentially more aggressivehi Federal Reserve year, investors are starting to get a little bit nervous. Second there is the earngs question. Some would argue that the acceleration in Earnings Growth thatowered the markets higher will slow down the market next year. Finally sentiment lel
President s address and the monthly jobs number. We got shares of dr. Pepper and keurig is buying the maker apple continues to move in the opposite direction of the market another report of the iphone weakness as the month heads into the home stretch, s p 500 on track for the best january since 87 busy earnings calendar including results from all, you got the president s address tomorrow night, yellens last meeting as chair of the central bank and the jobs number on friday. 271 is getting peoples attention. There is some theory that yellen is more hawkish on this run. She ought to be hawkish i look for weakness in this economy and i cannot find it consumer is strong and corporate spending i got to tell you, tax reform is working. The more ceos that i speak to or everybody in the Overall Community lets call it the more you realize, there is still not in any way full appreciation and even only a slight of appreciation at this point for what the ramifications are going to be. Many words a
Sara eisen, jon fortt at microsofts edu event in midtown, manhattan. First up this morning, apple is going to have earnings after the close tonight. Stock hits another record high, its cash hoard could swell to a quarter of a trillion dollars. Josh lipton joins us from apple hq in cupertino with all the details. Hey, josh. Well, carl, apple stock surged more than 60 from its low last may. So can tim cook keep those bulls in charge . After the close today, the street expects apple to report eps of 2. 02 on revenue of nearly 53 billion. They are expected to ship 52 million iphones in the quarter. Thats because many iphone fans could be delaying upgrades as they wait for that new iphone in the fall. He says the wild card this quarter, gross margins, apple could get stung by higher component prices, but could also benefit as is now withholding royalty payments to contract manufacturers in that ongoing brawl with qualcomm. Beyond the hardware, a lot of attention paid to Apple Services which