Hi, there. Welcome to your business, the show that champions entrepreneurship, giving you tips and advice to help your Small Business. Year ago super storm sandy decimated the coast causing billions in damage to countless homes and thousands of Small Businesses. One of the Small Businesses was surf side bagels in Rockaway Beach in new york owned by Scott Edwards and tim keenan. Is suffered flooding and it pretty much destroyed their store. We brought in our Makeover Team to help them get become on their feet, turning this terrible time into a time to rebuild their business into Something Better than it was before the storm. We helped them with the new men row designs and they took the suggestion and offered a Customer Loyalty program and hooked up with a fooder delivery service. We are happy to say all of this resulted in a 15 increase in revenue since the summer with a much more consistent flow of customers and they are not alone. With the great strides, other businesses destroyed by
Expected. What the whisper, the real benchmark that must be beaten is . No. Its because i have a really bad back and i cant stand carrying all those printed out versions of the Conference Call as i shlep from downtown to my office here in englewood cliffs. Tonight i want to do something different. I want to help you this earnings season. A new way to use earning season to put it in perspective because most of you watching the show are not these day traders that are hijacking a lot of the thinking. Youre not trying to game a given quarter. Its become so difficult to predict and often the initial moves arent even accurate because of the press coverage or because something nasty just occurred in the overall market because of europe or something involved in the election. In other words, other than for those who are shorting or going long stocks ahead of the quarter, these Earnings Reports need a context to make you money. They cant be relied upon anymore because they arent as predictive of
Amazon. Com. We are counting down to earnings. While disney, groupon and Electronic Arts and activisionblizzard. We have all of that reporting after the closing bell on street smart. Off 15, the p nasdaq down more than one percent. I want to go to julie hyman. Couple oftioned a them, aig topping the list. Financials have dropped the most, aig out with earnings and profits were down 27 because of higher claims cost and that is pushing down the shares sharply today. The worst performer on monday financials. Among the financials. Twitter is at the lowest price since the ipo. We have been awaiting the expiration of the share lockup. For saleon available today, that is quadruple the amount available for trading. Some insiders have said we are not selling but the market is. We are seeing a lot of selling in twitter today. And Discovery Communications leading the Consumer Discretionary stocks after reporting revenues that trailed estimates. Though shares are down by the most in that Consumer
S p climbing. The fed is not going to get in the way of a good holiday season. You know what . Heres something you can never do, you cannot fight the fed. And thats led to this bull markets continue rejoouf nation. I think next week the same getting closer and closer to year end. I have to remind you again that of the four times weve come into november up more than 20 in the s p 500, we have never been down for the combined months of november and december. Thats a big reason why earlier this week when the end of the world came out i gave you my whole story handbook on bull markets. All happy bull markets are the same. And you have to buy them on any weakness. No wonder tulsa was one of the few richest in his time. Whats your game plan for next week . First, on monday we hear from perhaps one of the most Impressive Companies i have dealt with in ages and it is called orkday. We spoke to coceo of workday and i was blown away by the ambitious nature of what his company is accomplishing. T
Behind me. Pg and e crews im told are repairing it, by replacing it with spare parts. The good news is a half hour ago, a supervisor told me the order was given to resume all train service. He says its safe, because the line has been secured. But it was a long commute for many passengers on this chilly november night. We found hundreds of people in the dark parking lot at the caltrain station. Al patiently waiting for buses to bring them to another station, so they can board a train. How long have you had to wait . I got on the train in Mountain View a little after 5. And now its what . 8 00here . About three hours. More than two hours since i got on the train. And then weve probably waited for more than an hour on the train. What were you doing to try to kill time . Read. Reporter buses to nearby train stations, the lines were long, but orderly. We found this woman offering free rides to stranded passengers. I just came to pick up my husband who lives on the train. We live in San Fran