Numbers coming out on the Holiday Shopping season. Look at those numbers today kohls now up 6 , performing well all session, the retailers. Not under armour, though the ceo reportedly telling its team 2017 sucked with the stock down 50 this year, although its up 1 today well tell you which one of planks adventures is reportedly doing well. And for some people, thats the problem, that the other ventures doing better bitcoin rebounding from fridays selloff we have a debate on whether its still worth investing in the crypto craze oh, joy. I cant wait for that. But we start with the move on apple today, again weighing on the dow and getting hit on reports that the iphone x sales are slowing. The Company Reportedly telling suppliers sales will be 30 Million Units versus the 50 Million Units previously forecast. Joining us right now, our friend russ gesht gerbeert kawasaki and matt wolf from Disruptive Technology advisers happy new year, guys welcome back. Thank you. Happy new year. Ross, i
Its up another half a percent. Well get disneys earnings after the bell today. Apple is thought of as sort of the lead dog. Its the Largest Company out there. I think disney is the company to watch these days. What a performance it has turned in. Meanwhile, aetna out with earnings this morning. Its getting a big boost from medicare and medicaid these days. We have a first on cnbc interview with ceo mark bert bertolini. Breathtaking consolidation in that industry. Really looking forward to that. Also rock star and actor Rick Springfield is joining us at the New York Stock Exchange. Well talk about his latest film with meryl streep and what he thinks about taylor swifts harsh words for spotify. Ring springfield has sold 25 million albums in his career. Thats a lot of potatoes. Im sure he has some comments about streaming these days and whether or not that is a way for a musician to want to get paid whether the compensation is enough. Taylor swift says its not. As soon as you said he had
Analysts weve got the number within analyst in biotech here to give us his favorite two names in that space. Yeah, the big cap and the small cap. In that order. You really have to know biotech. You really have to know. Im looking forward to speaking with him. Plus the man that won the paper called half man, half god, for his marketmoving calls. The number one equitylinked strategy will join us coming up. Think thats on his Business Card now we start, though, with the clock the stock powering the dow higher today, that would be walmart, shares surging 5 after some key announcements during its analyst day in bentonville, arkansas Courtney Reagan has some of the details from cnbc headquarters courtney reporter hi there, bill. Investors are pretty happy as you can see with walmarts forecast, two year 20 billion share buyback. Walmart shares up more than 5 hitting highs not seen in more than 2 1 2 years so walmart reaffirming its current year forecast which brackets analyst expectations. Al
The fed decision is behind us, at least this one. Now were counting down to the earnings in less than an hour, numbers from facebook, tesla, qualcomm,shake shack, and many, many more. Well tell you what to expect, break down those numbers as soon as theyre released. Here we go again its going to be a huge afternoon. The house tax bill was supposed to be released today now its expected tomorrow morning. We do have a strategist who says the best outcome for the market will be if tax reform does not get done at all. Hes doigoing to explain why shortly. We start with the dow, s p, and nasdaq hitting intraday highs earlier in the day the dow was up 140 at its peak, but all have pulled back from those highs. The dow no, nobody is in record territory lets get to our Closing Bell Exchange diane swan, robert frost at post nine, sitting next to keith bliss, and Rick Santelli checks in from the cme in chicago diane, im going to start with you. No surprise. I asked Rick Santelli yesterday if anybo
Candidates tonight in las vegas. Morgan stanley wabeating the street. Well look at the state of financials. And this leaked salesforce document shows acquisitions the company considered targettarget. Are more big buys on the horizon . First up, Hillary Clinton and donald trump square off in their final president ial debate tonight. Clinton does lead most polls with 20 days to election day. Bloomberg has her up nine ahead with men for the first time, that poll was tied in september. Jim, the market hasnt adjusted as much as some of these polls have. No, and i think that one of the combinations here is labor, bank stocks have done well. Has reaction been great . Theyve been okay. But if the if Bernie Sanders gets elevated to go to the senate, goes democratic a lot of talk about Budget Committee what that would mean. Yes. And Elizabeth Warren becomes more of a force than she already is, then i think a lot of these banks are going to be back in this, well, lets relook at what happened at w