Covid surges to its highest level since 2018 disney jumping after hours julia . Better than expected top and bottom line results. Ending the quarter with 73 million subscribers. The company also announcing it will forego its next semiannual dividend and thats due to the cause of coronavirus. Disney shares giving up some of those gains, now about 3. 5 . The ceo saying in the call going on right now, the disney direct to consumer business is its bright spot. The growth of disney plus speaks volumes about the strength of our ip, our unparallel granting franchises and creators, all part of the disney difference that sets us apart from everyone else and when you look across our full suite of streaming services, we have exceeded 120 million paid subscriptions worldwide. Meanwhile, a smaller than expected loss. Losing 2. 4 billion due to covid, but down from the 3. 5 billion. The Company Also Reports that they are reassured by booking trends at Walt Disney World and urging california to allow
Dow 30,000. 2009,were you march 10 of while you were up 16 per year on the dow . Spx i believe better as well. There have been reasons along the way to go to cash, and yet here we are with solid doubledigit returns across 13 years. Jonathan and some houses got it right. One of those houses, Morgan Stanley. It was really uncomfortable to make the call coming out of march 2 remain committed to the recovery in the u. S. Economy. It took some real confidence, and one thing that has frustrated me over the last couple of months is every time someone says the easy money has been made. There was nothing easy about going long in early april during lockdown. Lets be clear about that. We are going to keep this short with mr. Wilkinson keep wilsonort to get mr. Of Morgan Stanley, but we are not even seeing the version of those trends, are we . Jonathan not yet. Bank of america proposes holding the bonus pool flat for traders, this on a year where in the first of nine months, revenues or bank of am
Market another major selloff on wall street. Stocks temably tumbling s p tumbling but check out what happened on the year this has only happened 17 times before going back to 1962. Brian kelly, what does this tell you about the market well, it tells me we are in for some tough sledding, a lot of turbulence. What is interesting, that bonds and stocks did Different Things than they should have done there are a lot of people in the market, when stocks are down and bonds are supposed to be up. They used that as part of their port foal yoan when things get out of whack, they have to balance that. This feels like the end of february, beginning of march gold didnt do well, bonds didnt do well the only class that was up was bitcoin. That seems to be a safe haven. Jeff, what did you make of that when we talk about safe havens, it is not necessarily negative health care outperformed and utilities outperformed so it was the usual suspects but tech not being a safe haven, that speaks to the statis
The s p closed at a new all time high the dow is within 100 points of its own record airlines were up, cruise lines were up. Is the consumer back in business despite the long list of headwinds that are still out there . Brian kelly, kick it off if you look at this kshape recovery, i think part of the consumer is back in business and i think part of the consumer is stocking up again. So the real question is, as we go into the winter and cases surge, how does the consumer behave is this the last push to the time when the consumer locks down or are people going to go about their lives as usual i dont know the answer. As far as the market, it doesnt seem there is a lot of riskreward because you dont know what will be the dominant factor over the next six weeks to two months. We just heard from President Trump in the rose garden to say he expects a vaccine as well as treatment to be given approval for emergency use by the end of the year if you are in a state where infections are rising, yo
Headwinds for the consumer and continued layoffs and Economic Uncertainty and the lack of additional stimulus from congress so can this consumer remain resilient. Pete, throw anything at the consumer and it seems like he or she will continue to spend it does seem that way its amazing mel by the way, its good to see you. When you break it down its about a couple of Different Things and stimulus is out there and by the time they get into two or just after the elections i think well start toy so more stimulus if we dont see it sooner than that, that will help, but anybody thats got ecommerce exposure and they have it on the Positive Side like target, like walmart and home depot, lowes and so many others and they have the digital side and retail is doing very, very well. If they dont, then many of those are definitely struggling and i dont know how many of those will survive and you have to have the ecommerce arm if you want to compete in this environment. Curbside pickup doesnt cut it for