Said 7,000 jobs will go. Sending shares higher. Oracle takes on microsoft taking on tiktok working with groups to go up against microsofts offer. Democrats and some republicans take aim at President Trump in the Democratic Convention with a headline speech from former first Lady Michelle obama. Donald trump is the wrong president for our country. He has had more than enough time to prove he can do the job but he is clearly in over his head we have about an hour of trade under our belt here. Lets give you a sense of how the european markets are moving. I have to say there has been some improvement in the tone here we are about seven tens of one percent. We break that down, that gives you a sense of where weve seen some improvement the ibex 35, the spanish market in positive territory with the german dax a little under two 10s of one percent and the ftse and the cac trailing in their wake thank you, geoff. Travel and leisure underperformed up about half a percentage point overall. In cou
Ive taken this quarantine times to update a couple of bathrooms. Not. Light bulbs i have always wanted to be handy. These numbers are expected to be insane i did change a couple of light bulbs. They are all different so finding the right one for all the Different Things my wife has, it is not easy. I have changed a couple of them but thats about it. Rising to the challenge, im sure before we get those numbers from home depot, lets start with the overall markets. The s p 500 finished the session just shy of the high just shy, we are talking 4. 15 points away from the record it is sitting at at this point. 3,386. 15 is where it closed. The record from february is 3,393. 52 the record close of 2020 up another 1 to 11,129. Looking at record futures. Two dow components reporting home depot and walmart big numbers expected from both of those dow futures up by 64, nasdaq up by 40 and s p up by 7. Dow component reported 4. 02 a share. Consensus was 3. 71. I noted revenue gain was over 23 . Com
The election conversation right now. Speaker pelosi calling the house back into session for urgent action, she says, on the matter. So urgent they are not coming back until later this week. Meanwhile, the market shrugging off any possible chaos from the election. The s p, in fact, could hit an alltime high today. Goldman sachs is raising its forecast on the s p to 3600 by years end. Its also a big week for retail as well. Several Big Companies reporting profits starting with walmart and home depot tomorrow. Lots to talk about. Im Ashley Webster. Yes, stuart is back tomorrow. Varney company is about to begin. Its been run horribly and were going to make it good. Now, what am i supposed to do, let it continue to run badly so if you fix it they say oh, hes tampering with the election. Were not tampering. This is a con game by pelosi and schumer. Look, the post office, theres 25 billion sitting there but they really want 1 trillion to bail out their badly run states. Ashley yeah, that was
We layout top moves by executives buying up their own companys stock. Data you are only going to see here on Worldwide Exchange. It is friday, july 17. You are watching cnbc. Good friday morning, afternoon or evening and welcome to wherever you may be watching. We have a lot to do. Here is how your markets look. Slightly in the red but they could turn around. A very good week for your money, especially the small cap stocks. Russell 2000 are up 3 alone well see what happens today it is very early one of the big stories today is netflix with a mixed picture there. Stocks down 6. 5 the guidance worrying investors. Netflix says growth is slowing as viewers get through the initial shock of covid and also announcing that coceo officer is being promoted. Likely the main stock well talk about today. Stocks wrapping up in asia. Continued tension between u. S. And china hanging over the region early trade in europe. Investors keeping a close watch on something you might have seen on this show, w
Andrew is out, so i have to find a way to annoy you what you asked for. Your birthday is tomorrow, right . Tomorrow, not today tomorrow. Its friday. Everybody deserves to be embarrassed. Well do it anyway this is the last day youll be 19 23. Exactly. Anyway, lets check out the futures this morning as joe mentioned, youll see the dow down slightly by about 26 points s p down by four s p off by eight getting ready to wrap up another week the dow up by 2. 5 over the last four days. S p is higher. On track for a Third Straight positive week. A little different story for the nasdaq tech has been on an incredible run. Many of those names have pulled back not by a lot nasdaq down by 1. 4 this week. If you are watching it, the index is up nearly 17 for the year thats about 58 above the march 23 low and above the march intradate high we hit on monday. We are continuing to watch that. The 10year is the one we watch so closely it looks like the 10year is sitting at the 0. 604 . The bottom level o