You must be 68 because im 66 thats tom cruise talking ive been told we have to interrupt this briefly to get to walmart numbers which have just crossed. Walmart is out with Fourth Quarter and full year earnings 1. 38 adjusted versus estimate of 1. 43 141. 67 billion. Analysts expecting 142. 488 billion. The majority of stores in chile have been disrupted and some totally destroyed. Theyll be holding an investor day discussing this more in depth. Shares are down 2 in early going. In u. S. Comparable growth streak does continue 1. 9 also below analyst expectation of 2. 3 for the quarter. U. S. E commerce net sales grew 35 . Coming year expectations to grow at least 30 speaking with the cfo, quote, the quarter started off and ended strong despite softness in some categories like media and gaming on the coronavirus, they are monstering the situation and focused on the safety and wellbeing of customers and associates he says sales are still okay the fear is mixed towards food walmart is not
Even, this was hovering a little north of 1200. Through crises and noncrises alike gold continued to steady climb you really cant ignore. What is interesting this is spread across a lot of the commodities. Look at silver front, up an additional 2 3s of a percent. Here is eyepopping. Palladium, so crucial in manufacturing processes, futures market close up to 5 . That is alltime high for palladium prices at 2442 an ounce. Well get into that in more detail. One thing for investors to hedge their bets, go into bonds and all, this Development Goes on regardless of crisis mentality of coronavirus virus. Particularly when it comes to gold. Now to pa late yum. Well get into that in a second. As we rifle through big numbers. Susan li on i latest trend producing them. Susan neil, shock across markets. Floodgates according to one analyst because of impact of coronavirus. Apple warning they will not meet sales targets because factories are closed in china because of the coronavirus. Workers are s
Next, officials from the fai Justice Department, Homeland Security, and u. S. Election Assistance Commission testify on election infrastructure security. And how each agency is working to protect voting systems and coordinat coordinate with state and local officials. This house judiciary hearing runs about 2 1 2 hours. On judiy welcomthe judiciarywill come to. Without objection, the chair is authorized to house subcommittee on the judiciary will come to order, without objection. The chair is authorized to declare recesses of the committee at any time. We welcome everyone to this mornings hearing on securing americas elections part two, oversight of Government Agencies. I will now recognize myself for an Opening Statement. Last month this Committee Held part one of a series of hearings on securing americas elections. In that hearing, three witnesses who had been jointly selected by the committee testified unequivocally that our nations elections are under attack. Deborah plunket, former
Mueller will testify under oatht for at lea five hours day. President trump repeatedly called the Mueller Investigation a witch hunt. Today Robert Mueller, the lifelong republican and now a private citizen wil have his say and the consequences could be enormous. Well be followinghis all throughout the day and standing by to help us is our team correspondents and analysts. I am going to start out with kasie hunt on the hill for us. A hisric day, t years in the making savannah. Well see Robert Mueller in a few short mutes here sit down with the House Judiciary Committee thats going to begin at 8 30. Thats the larger of the two committees. There are 41 members on theig intellce committee. Each one is going to get about five minutes to speak. This is going to focus on alged obstruction, volume two of the Mueller Report. You will see all of those instances laid out and the report during the course of the hearing then well have a little bit of a break and the intelligence will take over. The
Want to listen to. Apple making it easier to transfer data between phones. The Cupertino Company has a new feature allowing you to transfer almost everything wirelessly. All you need is to connect both phones to a wifi network, select transfer from your iphone option. Those apps are the only thing that dont actually transfer. So android by the way has had a similar feature for years now. New this morning, you can customize your own doughnut. Krispy kreme is opening its first store you can have it your way. Pick your bow nut, glazes, toppings and drizzle flavors and also a doughnut ice cream sandwiches. The new store opened yesterday in concord, north carolina. Not concord, bay area, and check out the line of people that were standing in tripledigit temperatures just to order, do a little dance waiting for that special doughnut. Moving from breakfast to your snack, how about a wine and cheezit combo in one big old box there . The brainchild of a wine maker, house wine, and of course che