All starts about 8 30 a. M. Eastern time it is the busiest day of earnings season bringing you reports of 3m, hershey and more like comcast september durable goods orders and the latest read on home sales. Tesla shares soaring. Earning 1. 86 per share versus a loss of 1. 82 per share they have reported producing 300,000 vehicles the company saying it is ahead of schedule with its new giga factory in shanghai and on the long awaited model y cross over and expects that launch by next summer what ceo elon musk said on the Conference Call for demand of electric vehicles. When flat screens came out, it was a big step in demand because now getting a flat screen was much better than having a small crt screen tv weem see the same thing instead of just buying a car because their last car wore out, theyll buy and electric car because it is fundamentally a better car. Big numbers for investors to a large degree on prediction of when this motdle y will come and when this factory will be on board.
Biotech getting a bounce in the back of biogen two names you need to watch in the space. Halftime report starts right now. Welcome. Good to have you with us our Investment Committee today, joe, stephanie, josh, brynn is back lets begin with this big day for earnings stefrl dow stocks are moving this hour. Lets talk about some of those right there. Stephanie link, you go first mcdonalds is a drag comps below. They had the first eps miss in two years. Oh, my goodness, your sale completely out of this Company Earlier or later last week, whenever it was, looks good today. I actually thought it was going to be worse than what they put up today a 5. 9 global comp is impressive but the problem is they have to investment invest substantially to keep up with the competition. While i liked the story a while ago because of the Digital Initiatives and the ceo and all the things he has been doing they have to spend you dont get the operating leverage positively i was looking for. I got lucky, but i
Without getting technical, the shift in Interest Rates has raised the risk of recession. Bad news for investors. The dow is going to be down 370 points. That means we are down about 1,000 points from the middle of last week. The s p 500 down maybe 45, 1. 5 , and the nasdaq, thats on track for its longest losing streak in three years, down bigtime across the board. Look at this. Talk about a flight to safety. Money pouring into u. S. Treasury bonds and yields are tumbling. The tenyear, the benchmark Interest Rate, now yields just 1. 78 . If theres any Silver Lining here, its the likelihood of even lower Mortgage Rates in the immediate future. The price of gold, that is a sixyear high. That is also part of the flight to safety. Bitcoin, bitcoin, money is flowing in there, too. Its back to 11,800 per coin, up more than 20 in the last week. Heres what we have to start the new week. A currency war, a prolonged trade fight probably, a stock market selloff bigtime and a universal flight to so
[inaudible conversations] the committee on Health Education and labor and pensions will come to order. Senator murray has an important meeting right now and she is asked me too proceed with the hearing because we have six excellent witnesses and we want to make sure we hear from each of you and we want the senators to has questions of each of you. So patty should arrive at about ten. When she comes we will interrupt and let her make her Opening Statement and we will resume the hearing. Good morning senator murphy. Nearly a year ago doctor brent james from the National Academy testify before Senate Health committee with a startling statistic up to one half of the American People spend on healthcare may be unnecessary. Let me repeat that, up to half of the 3. 5 trillion, the United States collectively spent on healthcare in 2017 was unnecessary according to doctor james and many of the other witnesses at our hearings agreed with that. That is 1. 8 trillion, three times as much as we spen
Its busy friday. Lets get started. Heres tonights top story. Brad pitts photobomb and his new interview with leo. In my next life, who should i come back as you or you . Ha, i dont know about him. I shine up pretty well, but its pretty dicey on the inside. Brad joked, and in a photo shoot had a blast joking around with his once upon a time in hollywoods costar. Thats Margot Robbie attempting a pose. That jump also rare glimpse of the tattoo on brads stomach. The cast sits down monday with the today show. We did start on the same Television Show growing pains. Were talking decades ago but did you ever do a scene together . No, no. They just missed each other on growing pains. You know, its a pretty good first day at my new school. Brad was on the show in the late 80s. Leo, early 90s. Well, whats not to like. Dicaprio was 16 years old when he joined the cast and e. T. Was on the set. It would be hard adjusting but they really nice to me. That shared sitcom time helped brad and leo bond.