Theyre dad better be thankful were going to take you there live power lunch set to come out of oven right now strong gains on wall street this hour. The dow is up triple digits. The s p costing the 2600 mark for the very first time. Its been more than two weeks since the s p was able to screen back to back gains the best performing grews. Check out some individual movers up 4 on its earnings. The food Company Early morning its grocery and Specialty Food business the company missing top and bottom line estimates. Dsw plunging double digits also missing profits in sales estimates. As a Virginia Tech hokie, calling me a turkey is the greatest compliment you can give thank you, michelle. Gobble up. We begin with a cloud of uncertainty hovering over one of the biggest deals in media history. The Justice Department slapping at t and time warner with a lawsuit saying the 85 billion deal is quote illegal and harmful to consumers at t Ceo Randall Stephenson fighting back against the doj decisio
And shanghai up 18 points. The dax up by a half percentage point. Similar gain for the cac in france the ftse in london up by a similar amount the yield in the to twoyear, up 1. 763 also look at gold prices because they were under some pressure yesterday gold down about 1. 6 1,27 1,279. 50 lowes is recording 1. 05. Above the estimates of 1. 02. Three cents above estimates. The revenue number that im looking at, at least sales, 16. 8 billion thats a bit above looking at this forecast company sees fiscal year eps of 4. 20 to 4. 30 if thats not an adjusted number, its below the 4. 50 on the estimate here. 1. 05, three cents ahead. The company is supposed to earn 87 cents next quarter that would have gotten the company to 4. 50. They beat it by three, so they only need84 cents in the fourt quarter to hit that number maybe thats adjusted. If its not adjusted, its below the forecast maybe theres something there. The adjusted number may be different than the 4. 50. Looks like theyre lowering
Factors them out, and either way the markets continue to advance. Weve got market watcher heather with us and dow jones news wire editor glenn holm. Heather, lets begin with this expectation that were going the see the big tax cuts, and corporations particularly are going to be the biggest beneficiaries of the biggest tax cuts;s that is, taking the existing rate from 35 presumably to 20 . I guess the only detail is when it would take effect. What if they dont do what theyre expected to do . What if they dont pour it into equipment and jobs, etc. , but just into boosting their dividend . Things they can do, its their money sure. Neil what would fallout be of that . That would be very good for the stock market. If it doesnt invest in plant, property and equipment, but if youre still buying back shares and increasing dividends. But if you dont own stocks, it may take some time for the economic effects to play out because you Want Companies to use that cash to hire more workers and for dom
Stocks have been driving all of that action within technology. Justiertodate, look at the lens of exchangetraded funds, the spdr, the s p, up 16 , very respectable and take a look at the tech sector spdr, xlk, 32 so a doug over its competitors within the market. Take a look also going all the way back to 2009 this was the last time that we saw this kind of outperformance by technology overall. That gap is just widening out as we see that performance. We took a look within the xlk, the spdr technology action, so we looked at stocks over 100 billion in market capitalization and have posted better than the index returns. Check this out nvidia no surprise there doubling so far this year. 129 billion company facebook, we talked about it earlier on the show. Up, a 526 billion and broadcom, 112 billion market cap. Everybody talks about apple all the time, nearly 900 billion of market cap 50 upside there and match the card 47 , its 160 billion company so a lot of names out there driving on the
Yeah. Didnt scrooge send over a turkey at the end . He did something. He sent over dinner. And tiny tim was like, wow, its the best christmas. I dont know if that was the book version or the movie version. Im getting a little wait a minute there was a book huh . Yes, charles dickens. I know you know this we had this discussion there was a book it wasnt just a movie some people we know get all their news in tv which we hope is you at home. We hope you are getting your news here today. Look at the u. S. Equity futures. This is after major averages closed at record highs the s p 500 closed above 2600 for the first time as we saw this technology rally. This morning things are mixed. Dow futures up by 12 s p is down by a point and nasdaq down by 3 points. The major averages have been up three of the last four sessions. The dow had its 60th record close of 2017. The s p 500 saw its 54th record close of the year. Guess how many times, if you want to get to the record, 54 so far this year. The