Uncertainty. Coming in below estimates. Oil making a move higher for a change today, snapping a fiveweek losing streak, turning in one of the best weeks of the year nanny taylor is here welcome to ladies hour here. Girl power. You say tech is the key do you mean fang or something broader . I mean something broader than that we started to see the Economic Data ticking up, yet local p miismt its mi is moving up, small by, Chinese Consumer precoronavirus. So we have to see what is going to be the impact, farreaching impact i think thats good for stocks so i think stocks are less risky. So were looking at tech as if it doesnt work, nothing works right now the total confirmed cases are topping 64,000, the total death toll is nearly 1400. In the u. S. There are 15 confirmed cases with eight of them in california Many Companies are continuing to speak out about the impact the virus is having on their bottom lines. Today british drug Maker Astrazeneca reported quarterly results, warnings a hit
Different meeting. The first annual meeting since Charlie Mungers death at the end of last year. It raised questions of what Berkshire Hathaway will look like after Warren Buffett. Those are the things that shareholders have been asking about and the types of things we see reflected in the media. Big questions, obviously, thrown to Warren Buffett and greg abel and jane who will be on stage this weekend to answer those questions. Well talk about those over the next few hours. Some of the issues surrounding berkshire. These are issues that Warren Buffett was direct about in his annual letter to shareholders. He laid out the disappointments they have seen. Bnsf was a disappointment on earnings. Earnings dropped significantly from a year ago. Buffett laid out how its railroad has fallen behind the other five major north american railroads in terms of margins. He talked about bhe. Berkshire hathaway energy. The major Utility Company Berkshire Hathaway owns as well. Laid out the issues on th
By a fraction of a percent crude oil, this is the one weve been watching very, very closely. We have wti down by 1. 6 brent it down by 1. 5 . This is quite a rebound from the lows back in june. We are up by 12 from june 21st lows so staggering move in just a short amount of time weird. Weird to see the dow so strong and the nasdaq so weak thats been happening more the nasdaq had been stronger on a relative basis then the rotation happened. I dont know what it means. Maybe its healthy this is scary and not healthy. Maybe the meeting is good, but the reason for it frightening. The u. S. Requesting an emergency u. N. Security Council Meeting today after north korea tested an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile. The missile could put all of alaska, so mainland i dont know if you call that mainland, but pretty close late yesterday the u. S. Military said u. S. And south korean troops fired missiles into the waters off south korea in a show of force back that way apparently it can reenter the
Big day for retail. Walmart announcing the best quarter in more than four years. Home depot beating estimates. Kraft drops its 134 billion takeover bid. Irene rosenfeld will join us later. New records. The dow up more than 4 since Inauguration Day. How long can the trump rally last . First up, walmart reporting a better than expected quarterly profit. Revenue just shy of consensus. Online sales up 29. Home depot beat its Quarterly Results. Boost the dividend. Macys posting a revenue miss earlier on squawk today. The ceo addressed speculation the company is up for sale. First of all, youve heard it talked about, rumors of the Company Buying us. Yes. Youve also probably heard the rumors that were buying them. Yeah. So what i can tell you is this, that were going to do the right thing for our shareholders and were not going to be a highly leveraged retailer. Those movies never turn out well, and weve seen that before. A lot to chew on here. A lot of discussion as far as macys goes as far
Charlie Munger was praised as a brilliant man. He was an example of how hard work and dedication can result in wealth and prosperity. But let’s be honest: this isn’t entirely true.