Positive by 0. 5 . It is all about the calendar this week, all about the tech earnings. Tuesday, tomorrow, tesla. Wednesday, meta. Thursday, google and microsoft. Lisa its going to be interesting to see whether even a beat is a disappointment to market because so far that has been the tone. Weve gotten the biggest selloff going back to late 2022. Have we already priced out that potential disappointment set out for a positive upside surprise, or is this a pivot point at a time and a lot of uncertainty . Jonathan lets talk about tesla. Downline 2. 4 this morning. More than 40 yeartodate and we start this week with another round of price cuts. Annmarie a string of bad news is coming to tesla and some tomorrow they are supposed report first revenue decline in four years. A challenging Earnings Call for elon musk. Not just the cuts. Across the board, china, europe and the u. S. , but also the job cuts. The fact that they are trying to basically pin the future on this robotaxi that remains a
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Nasdaq at 5,120. S p 5002,087 and the russell down almost a full percent. But we begin now with the big deal in health insurance. It is official. An them agreeing to buy cigna for 188 per share in cash and stock. An enterprised are value of 54 billion. Straight to bertha coombs. Combined anthem and sigma would unseat United Health to become the largest u. S. Health insurer with 150 billion in annual revenues. More than 50 million members covering nearly 1 in 5 americans. Anthems ceo joseph swedish aide mitts put admits putting the two big firms together will be challenging but with that scale they can generate operating savings and make them more affordable. It will improper our ability to serve customers across commercial medicaid medicare and International Markets and create greater efficiencies and afford ability for our customers. But the anthem deal taken with aetnas proposed merger with humana would result in the big five insurers becoming the big three. One antitrust lawyer tell
With congressional interns. The report says kushner was responding to a question about special counsel Robert Muellers investigation into whether the Trump Campaign colluded with moscow. Including suspects generals in military pilots went on trial in turkey today. They are accused of leading last years failed coup. Theey blames followers for coup, and will try him. It killed at least 249 last july. The u. S. Secretarygeneral is urging all venezuelans to prevent further violence and push for lyrical dialogue. A Spokesman Says he is convinced the only way forward is a political solution. More than 100 people have died in protests against the president. Leading opposition figures were also taken from their homes last night, accused of violating terms of their house arrest. News 24 hours a day powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in over 120 countries. I am mark crumpton. This is bloomberg. Live from bloombergs World Headquarters in new york. We are 30 minutes from the close
Im bill griffeth. On track for another record close. We came within 12 tantalizing points of dow 22,000 this morning. Weve since pulled back and the s p is trading close to its record levels. Grasso would know what that level is, that record, but well goat that in a few minutes were about a point away. Thank you youre welcome. Coming right up, apple has certainly been a big catalyst in the dows rally this year, but can it last . Coming up, we debate whether you should buy or sell this hot stock ahead of its Earnings Report which is due out today after the close. I love it when i get to be here for apple. Youre here every time we do Apple Earnings just works out that way. And President Trump is set to host a Small Business event at the white house called Small Business, the engine of the American Dream as son as it gets underway well take you there briefly live. What the president has to say on what has turned out to be another newsy day. The dow is inching ever closing to that 22,000 2