Morgan brennan, jon fortt at post nine of the New York Stock Exchange record highs all around the board. Dow, s p 500, nasdaq, but well begin with news regarding ford forward looks to do apples to apples with tesla. Elon musk tweeting a response, quote, bring it on and calling into question the physics behind musks video of the tesla towing the ford f 150. Is this really where we are . My mom might be watching, i am going to keep it clean, this is a classic measuring contest if ever there was one. Morgan, do you know of any woman watching this tug of war with any kind of great interest mary barra is probably not even watching this. This is classic like testosterone driven man versus man type thing. The nerd truck narrative lives. The truck will be sold to nerds, right . Thats the niche product theyre aiming for i wont call it nerds, but if you look at the numbers, the number two, two top states for electric vehicle registrations, use that as a proxy for tesla, california and new york.
Ten year 182 road map begins with the record one for stocks dow set to try to climb above 28 k at the open. S p in the midst of the biggest longest rally in two years executive shakeup at tmobile as ive been reporting for months now, john ledger is set to step down as ceo. Next year. The shares are moving lower ahead of the open. Fedex versus the New York Times. Fred smith challenging the papers publisher to a debate after its expose alleging the ship giant paid no taxes in 2018. Next hour, an interview you wont want to miss snap Ceo Evan Spiegel joins us exclusively. Lets start with jim and his big week in san francisco. Jim, the guys on squawk just asking you how you got out there so quickly after the eagles game last night. Well, philadelphia too has red eyes and my eyes are red from crying because the we had a chance to be able to really seal our fate and we sold it already in the wrong way. You want to come out here during dream force. Everybody who is anybody does come out and i
Travelers. Biogen, set to seek Regulatory Approval for a treatment for alzheimers for early next year. U. P. S. Shares sinking ahead of the open, despite a pretty nice ecommerce boost to profit. The ceo will join us later this hour. The ceo of verizon as well will be here at post nine in a few minutes. An interesting announcement, another guest as well, but i guess it is a mystery. Well wait to solve it in a few minutes. Lets start with earnings, dive right in. Tale two of dow components, p g up, quarterly beat helped by Strong Demand by premium Beauty Brands and mcdonalds falling on an earnings miss as growth on us comps came in below forecast u. S. Mcdonalds 4. 8, looking for 5. 2. Jpmorgan told us the quarter would run light. Im glad you messengered that a lot of people are saying this is a big surprise, a negative surprise if you listen to what jpmorgan said, you would have been ready for exactly this number, which basically to me says not as bad as feared. 5. 9 , thats a number th
Climatefocused policy. Boris johnson and the new government. The key is the vote that comes withgoing to have to work after the after that. Not the conservatives, but the that is a vote for mps to agree National Democratic party or the green party or some combination of that, maybe even the block. To the accelerated timetable the Prime Minister and his the withdrawal he also had this pipeline that he is in the middle of. Agreement bill to go through in the houses of parliament. Climate on one side they wanted to reach all its stages in the house of commons and the pipeline on the other side of the government purchased by thursday, if not by the end hes got to figure out whether of the week. That is moving ahead. This is the vote that is proving to be more controversial. There are some mps who think these minority governments are this is too little time to debate and pass a piece of only single tenuous because you can always are always a little tenuous because you can legislation as big
China, which has chinese stocks bouncing today weve also got another big announcement as well dont miss the debut of a new segment here on closing bell today. The market zone is coming up into and after the close well bring you the stocks and stories every investor needs to know and it will look a little different as well. Joining us for the hour is mark tepper from Strategic Wealth partners mark, thanks for being here. Thanks for having me. Looking at the dow today, were up 154 points. The s p is also hovering right around 2980, it looks like a decent last day for the month of september as we head into these final three months of the year, what are you watching the most closely . I think the biggest catalyst right now is a potential trade deal all eyes are looking on this meeting next week between the u. S. And china, because if you think about it, its really, really difficult for ceos of publicly traded companies to execute on their growth plans if they have no visibility as to what