Mosaic day where lots of stocks went their own way based on the whims of traders, not investors. The nasdaq climbed 0. 2 . Well start with the stock of kroger up 11 today for ages the market has been brutal to this Supermarket Chain writing it off but kroger had an Analyst Meeting and mercy mercy me it got up after its been guiding down for years just when everyone started to give up on this one, fleeing from the stock because of competition from costco, from walmart, from amazon, by ail dlalinddi they tell us theyll earn 230 to 240. The street was looking for 219 it makes sense that kroger stock roared higher. When i spoke to rodney mcmullen, a true gentleman he made it clear many of his longterm initiatives that hes talking about to win customers are working, especially the restock kroger brand i know it sounds simple but rodney said theyre telling the story about food kroger is food first he regards it as a distinct competitive advantage and had success with personal finance initiat
Drowning when the wave actually breaks options action starts now. Lets get right to it its been a rocky road the group transfers out following 3 take a look at some of this weeks worst performers, delta, ryder, norfolk southern. American airlines. Our chart master says this could be the beginning of a bigger branch out ahead just that imagine a recovery in the market transports are down 3 it says a lot about a lot of things a one decade chart doesnt tell you much, most everything is up over the past decade relative performance from the transports to the s p, we are basically, weve undone the entire thing we are back to where we were in 09. That is the issue that is the problem its this persistent and chronic slide. Even as the index, itself, has had advanced all right, take a look at one or two things another what i to look at it more immediate rather than a ratio chart is a comparative chart. So over the past five years, you see the two colors, the two lines. S p here of course, trans
Lays out plan to ride without drowning when the market breaks less. Lets get to it, a rocky road for the trrps as the group closes out a worst week of the year sitting in correction territory. Look at sonl of this weeks worst performers delta, rider, nofrls southern and American Airlines leeting the path lower. Our chart master says this could be the beginning of a bigger breakdown ahead carter, take it away. Just that imagine a recovery in the market and yet transports down 3 says a lot about about a lot of things lets look at a few charts a one decade chart doesnt tell you much most everything is up over the past decked decade but relatively performance to the s p, we are basically undown the entire thing back to where we were in 09 thats the issue, the problem. Its just this persistent and chronic slide, even as the index itself has advanced. Look at one or two things. Another way to look at it, more immediate rather than a ratio chart is a comparative chart the past five years you
York stock exchange. Very monday morning and its going to be a very busy week were going to start with some talk about technology and antitrust. Our next guests latest column says, are we finally getting serious about big tech monopolies is it too late cnbc contributor kara swisher joins us this morning. Good morning, kara good to see you. Hi. Good to see you. You ask, are we finally getting serious about mo monopolies and then you go on to say, youre not holding your breath and no one in Silicon Valley is holding their breath no, were not theres been so much suggestion about the ftc and the justice department, i just wanted to point out some information for them about how much of a cheap date consumers have been to these Tech Companies and whether we need morecompetition. Its something ive been talking about the idea that we should have a new social network, that we should be able to have a new Search Engine and have some choice and theres very little choice in many, many too many sec
Unemployment rate rises slightly. Yields fall. Stocks surge. Is it really any more complicated than that . Its not. And, you know what, i thought we had i wouldnt call it a Perfect Press conference from powell, but i think we had a really, really good one, and i would say very dovish. So you take that, you take the report today, and thats why the market is up. The market has been up the last few days, and, frankly, now that were out of the woods, at least for now, and were always going to be, like the fed, data dependent, you sort of have the all clear Going Forward because theres nothing really something can pop up, and thats always what hits markets. But overall, the base case has to be the markets going higher. Shannon, lets sort of take stock, if you will, pardon the pun, of where we were at the start of the week to where we are today. We came into the fed meeting thinking, okay, the risk, and maybe a likely risk, the fed claire will be more hawkish than we really want. The market