This morning. Yield curve continues to flatten and of course the fed minutes are on the way 2 00 p. M. Eastern time. Road map begins with target shares plunging after the Company Issues guidance. Call will begin in just over an hour. Goldman sachs downgrading equities saying theres no particular reason to own them. And fed minutes are coming out later today as the dollar hits a sevenweek high. Four years ago today facebook went public at the nasdaq. Shares priced at 38, now closer to 120 on a day where Mark Zuckerberg is set to meet with some u. S. Conservatives. First up, mixed picture on retail, target beats on quarterly profit but revenues and comps miss, Current Quarter guidance, lows better than expected results, comps up 3 surpassing home depot for the First Time Since 2010. And staples beats on the top and bottom line. Hard to remember a time where lowes its routinely the bridesmaid here, not this time, jim. Used to be for about four or five years during a period before frank bl
Members. Profittaking could be a motive and remember oil rallied 27 in april. Drug prices are under fire on capitol hill. As you well know, glak glak sews an dry witty will be talking. Jackie deangelus has a story from us from the nymex. Good afternoon. Closing under 45 dlp a barnlts. You mentioned opec. Thats certainly the big story today. Analysts sur vaved expected to see opecs production going up from march. Traders tell me theyre not surprised by that at all. If we do see some sort of a freeze or accord, of course, these producers want to freeze at record levels so they can continue to pup its economic for them. Whats going to influence oil within the next month or so, certainly supply. The dollar weve been discussing all day as well. Thats another piece of it. The dollar index is support ivg of crude prices. It could take us higher, especially if the dove continues to be. I know youve watched the gas prices closely. Theyre going up. Consumers are expecting to hit the road. Theres
Care so far in the quarter. They are experiencing a modest pullback. If you are looking at the leadership so far, there it is, and the energy, and the financials, and the materials and health care, and the s p is largely flat, and they are pulling back on the stocks that have made the most money, and this is a garden variety pullback, and this is 2100, and that is what you have to keep in mind here, and at the end of april 2100, and 51 point, and this is a 2 pullback, and this is nothing terribly noticeable, and i would note that the weak dollar is not helping the commodities, and the weak china manufacturing numbers are putting the pressure on commodities, and that is the bigger story, and looking at brazil, and south africa down big, and exploration of the production down on the weak oil numbers that we have been seeing in the last couple of numbers and oil is on the downside. So it is the commodity play and the weaker china more of the big story here. And also, iron ore gyrating all
With it. And it all started with these comments. When i read the stories, it seems like people think its over. How can it be that you cant have this system . I think thats a huge overreaction. Look, we just had a actually, an incredible quarter by absolute standards. 50 billion plus in revenues and 10 billion in profits. To put that in perspective, the 10 billion is more than any other company makes. So its pretty good quarter. But not up to the streets expectations, cleefrl. Thats tim cook with jim cramer exclusively last night. The tim cook turnaround. Thats what happened today. It was very oversold. A lot of negativity about it. It was due for a bounce here. The fact that tim cook had to go up to ec to sit down with jim cramer to get that bounce is a little concerning. If i was an investor, it wouldnt make me feel that well. And get like a 1. 5 bounce today. It just wouldnt. I think today it smacks of desperation. Bounce in a bad tape. Stock down 10 on the year. Even in a shortterm
Growth and uncertain growth. The aussie dollar is falling sharply on that news. Australian stocks, on the other hand, rallying more than 2 on the news. In asia, japans markets were closed for the Constitution Day holiday. Chinas Managers Index shrinking to a 14month for its 14th month coming in below forecasts. A bit of a mixed picture. Shanghai compost up 2 . And hang seng almost the lower. All eyes on . Yeah, go for it. Moving forward, in pretty negative territory. And germany is lower than 2. Ftse lower than 1 . Italy and spain off by more than 2 perhaps because the eu trimming its 2016 growth forecast to 1. 8 from 1. 9 . Its 2017 growth forecast from 1. 9 to 2 . Also cut Inflation Forecasts despite their efforts to do Everything Possible to try to lift inflation. Watching european financials, ubs reporting a sharp decline in management wealth business. Which was supposed to be all the european banks going into wealth management, they were going to be smoother when it comes to their