Amd to buy xylinx. Is there more room to run on amd . Well explore that one when power lunch begins right now earnings season is supposed to be a report card for companies. Lets go to bob pisani for more on this lack of guidance bob . Kelly, once again, the Fourth Quarter, another quarter with the lack of guidance its a bit of a problem because the analysts again having a hard time figuring out what the right numbers are. Remember, the earnings numbers have been coming in very well, generally weathering but again, big companies, no guidance from caterpillar, 3m, xerox, Stanley Black and decker. Others like Harley Davidson didnt give guidance either. Raytheon, corning. No guidance from companies. Analysts have a tougher time and theyve been very conservative and wrong so far fortunately wrong on the conservative side. Look at all these companies out there. 83 are beating for the Third Quarter and theyve been beating by almost 20 . Its an amazing beat and shows you the analysts have been
Deal. No let up in germany. Angela merkel ruled out further loosening of measures after europes largest economy records the biggest spike in cases in four months. Asian stocks trade mixed following a fresh record on wall street. European futures point to a positive open. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to the program this wednesday morning. Lets have a look at terms of breaking news. Notes coming through mace maersk. The fullyear numbers, 6,000,000,0007,000,000,000. This is new guidance coming through. That is interesting in itself. The guidance we previously had in the year had been withdrawn by this business which operates 20 of the world container fleet. They are giving us this new guidance here. Looking at the underlying profit numbers for the second quarter. This is the backward looking part of it. The underlying profit data is 359 million dollars. They have done better than the estimates. We will be speaking into the management of maersk later on in programming. We have u. K. Ct
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
Reported. New york state reported its highly daily death toll highest daily death toll yet. President s briefing will start at about 5 30. U. K. Prime minister Boris Johnson remains in the icu in the british hospital for the third day in a row. And nasdaq are climbing today. I want to bring in keith. One day is up, one is down. The only thing we know for sure is the daily case counts. What indicators are you watching to determine what kind of day its going to be . Keith its amazing, the daytoday swings and the volatility. Weve seen since chutess are some green shoots. We are watching search interest in real time to see if there any indication of that picking up, and weve seen that come down week over week. Has positive development come against Monetary Policy that is just quite extraordinary, where the feds increase in Balance Sheet of near 1. 5 trillion would have boosted valuations in our framework by quite a bit. Served against a backdrop of very underweight positioning, where inves
Plus an increase in News Coronavirus cases, declines are being led by tech. Microsoft, amazon and apple all sharply lower today. Thomas peterffy is the chairman of Interactive Brokers hes our closer today coming on the heeled of the tieup will he now sell his companies well ask hem later in the show. Clearly coronavirus, again still only down just over 1 the markets overreacting i think if you do the math, basically if you lieu that only represents about 1 of the earns of the company no indication that this is nothing but a shortterm problems lets get on the base stories. Seema mody Steve Liesman tells us what the fed is talking about. First, lets start with seema. That safe haven play is certainly evident in different parts of the market. One standout is shares of the post 5 a new record high, up 7. 6 certainly outperforming on a day. A pause in the u. S. china trade relations. According to our ceo deere did address the coronavirus, expecting freight costs in the Second Quarter relate