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
Futures up by 253 points this comes after the dow was up yesterday by 230 points. The s p up by 27 points and then the nasdaq up by 92. The gains we saw yesterday were happening even though you continued to see pressure on yields in the treasury market. See how your Energy Prices and that did move stocks in the Energy Sector higher yesterday but again the idea that china is now basically confirming what President Trump was saying, things seem to sound better than they did last week for sure. Hearing both sides come out and make the arguments have been helping the futures this morning. They kind of said were not going to immediately match the new additional tariffs that he was right. So actually we would like existing tariffs to be going down. But both sides are willing to compromise and negotiate and thats a pretty significant deal. But it was their initial matching of the ones that he did. Yeah. Even though they really cant unless they raise the number they cant really match it anymor
Against the dollar late yesterday. The u. S. Treasury in the day labeling china a currency manipulator. Since then Chinas Central Bank has stepped in we well speak with white house chief Economic Advisor larry kudlow in a few minutes. You and i were talking yesterday, jim, about what we might expect in the market during the course of the day the move down in yields and the 10year in particular also caught a lot of peoples attention. Here we are a day later. We looked like wed be down sharply after other markets opened down. We have now rebounded at least in the futures market. What are your expectations i think that you cant buy enough opening there was a lot of money committed on the sell side i dont know how much short, between when we announced there was going to be designation and probably right to the special last night apple 185, microsoft down 5, facebook down 20 these were very big prints over and over they just kept hitting the bids, hitting the bids, hitting the bids they wer
Probably one of the biggest in terms of Enterprise Companies going public during this ipo vintage. We awere here last year for the uber ipo slack today. Well bring you lots of news about it its a different type of listing, its a direct listing well talk about all of the dynamics around that for now, back to you we talked about that direct listing earlier this week. The pros and cons to it again . There are some pros and cons. You can only do it if you have a lot of cash on the Balance Sheet. This is a company that does. If youre trying to raise money, it doesnt work this way theres no additional money that gets raised the way uber was raising money and wework will be raising money. Well see if it becomes a model. Spotify did it successfully. Slack is doing it. If there works, theres a question on whether airbnb, the next ipo on the docket in the future, theres a question if they go the same route it has a huge implication for wall street, wall street fees and the ipo structure. Andrew,
I am Maria Bartiromo it is wednesday august 16, your top stories, 6 00 a. M. On the east coast. Retail setting the tone with target in t. J. Maxx reporting that earnings ahead of the opening bell, we will have all the numbers and preview of the big walmart quarter as the august selloff deepened this morning. Take a look futures are flat after fitch warns of a possible cut to big banks including j. P. Morgan all of this as we preview housing data and the Federal Reserve minutes coming out today, 2 00 p. M. Eastern from the july meeting, european markets are mixed, take a look at the eurozone where we look at a mixed s p 100 is negative and the cat crown is higher, and asia red acrosstheboard, the chinese want falling to the lowest level since 2007. All the men enter major embassies in asia overnight lower. Back in washington, President Biden touting bidenomics at the white house marking the oneyear anniversary of the inflation inductor react as the president tries to save face on his la