Lag last years reports. What that means for the markets. Softbank buying arm holdings for 32 billion in cash. Well give you the details, some insight and context on this massive deal. Republican National Convention kicks off in cleveland. Whats on the agenda and what surprises could be in store . But first up futures on the rise to kick off the week. The dow and s p near alltime highs. Markets largely shrugging off the attempted coup in turkey and on a busy week of earnings, b of a beating on the bottom line, 36 cents versus estimates of 33. Deposits up 5. 8. Some of the metrics not matching those of its peers, jim. But still, this is a grind out quarter. Return on equity, getting double digit. What i liked best about it, really, this is kind of interesting, this is a company thats well ahead in mobile and you have an amazing decline in branches from 6,000 to 4600. Yeah. And that is because people are rapidly adopting mobile. Interesting brick and mortar story where you have still one
Win streak. Data coming out as well. Ibm kicking off its investor day. Ceo ginny rometty. An exclusive interview. Net neutrality, the fcc taking up what has become a contentious issue. But waiting on important details for Internet Companies like google and netflix still to be determined. First up wall street digesting Economic Data ahead of the opening bell. Consumer prices down. 7. Strip out food and Energy Prices up. 2. Durables nice, above expectations, above 2. 8. Weekly jobless claims jumped to 313,000. Dow closed at record high. Nasdaq ended the tensession winning streak. Within a stones throw of 5,000. A level at which its closed only two times in history. Take it out today because theres a lot of good chatter in individual tech names. I would tell you we had a gauntlet this morning with the runthrough. When you get through a gauntlet nothing that is earth shaking, whether claims durables, inflation. Ive got nothing earth shaking. I dont feel its going to do anything other than
Intensifying. New data showing that the economy slowed at a pace than originally anticipated. Nasdaq starting off at a a closing high, and 14year high. And the guidance says it is experiencing severe disruption from the winter, and gap suggest suggests gaap suggests it will fall more than expected. And on mad mad money last night, cramer talked about raising investments. And we will hear from apples tim cook. And in the first full year results are lower after discovering fraud in the subsidiary in mexico, and they go into detail, jim. This is not a minor story, and i know that when you look at the big revenues of citi you say, so what, but this is a major client with a checkered history and it is a 360 million and they say, 230 million, but 360 million pretax the. Okay. And you think it is important because you look at 360 million pretax fraud resulting in a 235 million aftertax writedown and it gets complex. It is complex. But related to transactions between penmax and vanimax who is
Watch. Jpmorgan today says buy the bounce. Well talk a lot more about that later this morning. Our rolled map begins with the markets trying to hold their ground after one of the worst days for equities. Like we said, in eight weeks. Dells profit falls 72 as the Company Looks further out to that potential future under private ownership. And described as an unusually stylish geek. Yahoo s ceo Marissa Meyer is in vogue, literally. First up, more signs of wait for prompter here. Seemingly weak economy, Housing Starts up at zoom but below consensus. Mike, how much damage was done yesterday with dow below 50day moving average, the stocks, financials, the transports, all the same . The market ak acted ragged but yesterday it hit it. To me its not just the fear of the fed taper. Its a fear of the fed taper at the same time that Everything Else doesnt look unequivocally great. I also find its interesting how the market doesnt like when labor market data is better than other Economic Data becau