Whatsoever theyre pure slight of hand. Do i have more pencil . Stocks are also exactly what we need to help keep this market moving higher like we did today with the dow gaining 290, s p jumping and the nasdaq 2. 13 because apple and tesla gave you fantastic news about what it should be a 4 for 1 and 5 for 1 stock split respectively again, no new value but boy, do people love it theres a reason we have to feed the bull with more nourishing stock blitz and ill tell you why. Years ago individual investors deserted the stock market with the implosion of 2000, 2001 and financial crisis of 2007, 2009 they gave up on the asset class and started tiptoeing back, looked enticing and something would go wrong 2015 mini crashes. But in the past few years, beaten down individual investors, a lot of younger investors intrigued by low to no commissions. Finally started buying stocks again. Despite all the gray beards telling you its impossible to beat the market, despite the supposedly brilliant Mone
Thats what we are trying to achieve. Roche sees profits and sales fall in the first half but a turnaround has already begun helping with the full year outlook. Since june and now july, hospitals have opened again and patients are returning to hospitals. We see our sales recovering. Thats why we returned our initialo initial outlook. Sales of unilever as sales of ben and jerrys and more in north american sales the outbreak continues to weigh in many markets. I would say latin america is in the throws of it. We are seeing significant increase in africa and south asian continents topping the stoxx 600 sending shares in the french ad firm and the british rival wpp higher a very warm welcome to strooinz lets kick off what we heard from roche maintaining the full year outlook. Blaming the 4 slide in sales and 5 contraction on the decline of net hospital visits due to the coronavirus pandemic. Telling cnbc earlier that company has started to see hospital visits recover. You had seen a strong
S p 500 few you ares up 15 the nasdaq with a gain of about 1. 7 all because of what is happening with four big horseman check out shares of apple, facebook, alphabet and amazon. They went before congress two days ago and came out with earnings that knocked it out of the park on every one of those counts three of the four are trading sharply higher apple up 6. 1 , facebook up 5. 8 , amazon up 5. 4 alphabet did beat earnings estimate did post the first revenue decline and is down 0. 67 . More on those in a second. Lets kick it over to wi will everyone wilford. Good to be back extraordinary numbers, as you said well discuss those in a moment. First check out this mornings agenda as we are closing out the week well bring you results from cat, chevron, exxon and merck. Kol gate, underarmor and others. The late day of july lets check out the market score card owl three major indices on track for the fourth straight gains. Nasdaq the big oner up 18 month to date up 5. 2 . This past week, back
Good morning. This hearing will now come to order. I am pleased to welcome our distinguished panels of Witnesses Today on the economic subcommittee focusing on a very important topic and i think theres a lot of bipartisan interest in and that is the economic geostrategic challenge with the rise of china poses for the United States not just today but in the future. The calmness party led peoples republic of china through unfair treatment practices and intellectual property theft market manipulation and very prominently in my view not reciprocal treatment not just in the economic realm but in many realms has been a force in the Global Economy that undercuts the resiliency of the u. S. Economy. Its been one of the worlds fastestgrowing economies averaging close to 10 growth from 1979 to 2015. In 2014 china overtook the United States as the Worlds Largest country in reducing power according to the International Monetary fund. I believe there is a strong bipartisan interest and hopefully we
Its up 9 you think about the Digital Infrastructure for fitness, a time when its kind of hit or miss whether people can gather inn provides some of that not just in the bikes but in the apps spotify up almost 7 twilio, which provides payment and tracking services, data services, those apps up 7. Service now, amazon up considerably most of those stocks also up quite a bit over the past few day days youre right on peloton, wedbush puts them at 66 saying a blowout quarter is possible. Mark may joins us this morning to talk more about this. Mark, good to see you. Welcome. Thanks for having me back after a week when people wondered if this trade was still fresh, is today another reminder that its hard to keep this narrative down sentiment in the tech sector among investors varies depending on the time horizon especially now with earnings. Investors in general in tech are bullish. I know that for the most part Stifel Research analysts are bullish over the medium to longterm. There are differ