Financials all higher by 2 or there abouts shares of Sonic Automotive up 200 from the march low as the demand for used cars skyrocket during the pandemic. The ceo david smith will join us well welcome him as power lunch begins right now thanks the stocks are still on track for a week in the red bob was more on the moves for us we were moving down quickly at the open. We turned around at 10 00. Thats when we got the headline that the regulators were easing part of the rule we had word that texas was pausing the roping plans we drifted lower again thats what i mean about dualing headlines that we have been seeing its been drifting lower they are delaying the california theme park they have been on a down trend for a while. Nice to see Energy Bounce back we had a bad day yesterday on energy as oil dropped about 5 they are all bouncing back today. Thats helpful all five of the big names advancing, theyll be up on the day. Back to you. Lets go to the bond market where yields are lower rick
We will name names and later a prediction so wild and bold that honestly we question if we would even talk about it and bring it to you we debated it. But we are bringing it to you and you will hear it coming up true story all that ahead in the next 60 minutes. But nike bouncing back a bit after the steep post earnings drop lets get the numbers, talk about china with seema modi. Talking about her hometown heroes, nike, seema. Thats right, brian sthars of nike turning around after slipping as much as 2 in extended trading a solid beat on the bottom line. But the company said margins were negatively impacted by higher input costs primarily due to incremental tariffs in north america. Sfratly nike reported Greater China sales of 1. 85 billion up 23 this quarter but a slower pace of quarter than last quarter when sales grew 27 . Still, nike has been able to steadily grow revenue in the country over the past five years. Targeting the Chinese Consumer using platforms like alibaba to sell sho
Good thursday, everybody welcome to power lunch lets take a look at this record rally. All three major indices at new high the dow is up 21 in 2019. The s p up nearly 28 and the n nasdaq up 33 just this year were in the green today check out some of the new highs across the board micon, citigroup and kellogg joining that party ty thank you very much with a few trading days left in whats been the best year for the market since 2013, bob is at the New York Stock Exchange with a look at what worked in 2019. Hi, bob. A lot worked. Thats the good news the rally has opinion fabeen fa but dont kid yourself top 23 stocks in the s p 500 all were up. All 23 were up some of them were up really big. How big . S p 500, up 28 . The top ten stocks by market capitalization were up more than 40 . That means as they get bigger, those stocks have more and more influence on the s p number one, nothing knows bigger than apple this year look at this, 77 . Thats not a typo. How much is that thats 800 points
Week price premier will lead negotiations for china is telling dignitaries his offer to the u. S. Will not include commitments on reforming chinas industrial policy. These are some of the big demands the Trump Administration has been making in the trade talks. Update now on the crisis in hong kong. The city is struggling to recover after a night of violent clashes. Protesters defied government threats with Wearing Masks and were met with tear gas they were threatened with a year in prison for hiding their faces. Police arrested dozens of protesters and bussed them away under new emergency laws chinas military threatened to arrest protesters who aimed laser lights more protests planned for tonight. Some grocery stores, other businesses have reopened after closing early yesterday. The metro is only partially functioni ining hooch of serious and in the just dont tweet about anything anymore section of our news today, also making news the general manager of the Houston Rockets of the nba h
Now we are at 29. 80ish we have been going side ways most of the year in 1997, the year started at an alltime high and went up. It is true. You think about where we were Christmas Eve and we had taken a huge plunge. We got it back interesting on the performance. Similar to the u. S. But china lagged significantly where we are in the trade war. Who is hurting more or less. Down about 4. 7 china has closed today but something to keep your eye on treasury yields are up part of that because of a weak japanese option not exactly for risk on reasons. I wonder if the new quarter means youve loosened up a little bit looking even at absolute levels, a lot of that has been weak. At the end of the quarter, it hasnt money too significant well be a bit of a head wind. Still talking about growth from 6 yesterdays day was fractionally better the eurozone manufacturing and final print was a tiny bit of expectations still the worst to october 2012, the Global Growth out look does not look particularly