Fears and german retail sales were no good either. The roadmap begins with the market and were set to open deep in the red with dow futures down triple digits and the stocks are on track for the biggest monthly drop since february of 2009. And walmart set to open in the red after lowering guidance for the Current Quarter and amazon and google going in different directions. Amazon slipping after Fourth Quarter earnings miss while google moving to the upside after revenue topped those expectations. Well start, of course, with the markets. Signaling a steep drop at the open as stocks aim for their first down january since 2010. Investors still worried about the emerging markets after a drop in euro zone inflation shows recovery overseas is still weak. Thats not counting walmart, mattel, mastercard saying not such great things about the consumer. Mastercard had expense issues. I really love that company so i want to separate that. I think walmarts doing poorly. But i think, carl, unless th
Apparently there are not enough people there to buy their products. Others having second thoughts about making Big Investments over in the worlds most populous country. First to sue at the new york stock exchange. We will start with the raging california wildfires. Just a few miles east of los angeles. Governor brown has just declared a drought state of emergency. More on that in just a moment. Some 1800 acres have been scorched, more than 1,000 firefighters are on the scene, and governor jerry brown is expected to speak any moment now. Heres the weather channels julie martin. Reporter the good news is the colby fire did not spread overnight. Firefighters worked around the clock to contain the fire and put out hot spots. It still stands at 1700 acres, about the size of two central parks, and as far as containment, about 30 . However, the Incident Commander on the scene tells me he does expect containment numbers to come up today, though it will still be a few days before full containme
The market. Big surprises already this year, in this young year. Gold and treasuries not acting the way anybody thought they would. Absolutely. Speaking of earnings, its a huge day for earnings today. The biggest day of the season. We get some big names after the bell that could have an impact on the market tomorrow. Amazon and google will be out with their results in just about an hours time. We will get you the numbers first. We have a ton of experts standing by ready to break it all down. These are widely held names. Gotten a lot of read through. No doubt about that. The neverending search may be ending. Our partners are reporting the microsoft search for a new ceo could be coming to an end within the next week. Who could it be . Whos behind that question mark right there . Why is it taking so long . And a reminder, heres where we stand across the major indexes right now. The dow up about 110 points. Its off session highs. The nasdaq adding 79 at this hour. The s p 500 up 21 points.
With u. P. S. The stock going to take a hit this morning after lowering their Fourth Quarter guide ax, a hangover from the Holiday Shipping fiasco. And shares of intel are sliding after Fourth Quarter earnings missed estimates and warning of flat revenues for the rest of this year. And speaking of earnings Morgan Stanley, General Electric, and amex making big moves today, well break them down with you. But first up, u. P. S. , the Package Delivery Company Expects Fourth Quarter earnings of 1. 25, well below forecasts. U. P. S. Said its been negatively impacted by higher costs driven by a surge of shipments during the Holiday Season. The company said it deployed 30,000 more temporary employees than it had planned for. Their peak delivery day volume up 7 1 2 from what they expected. As i just said on twitter, their models, jim, nowhere near on plan. I want everyone to go to u. P. S. Kicks off peak week they put out a press release. December 16th, 2013. Where they said, look, our peak day
Who might be more. And natural gas higher by 15 year to date raising heating costs across country including in my household. Turning to down to 52, i think, at night. Today were heal from wall streets weather forecaster. A meteorologist who doesnt work for your local tv station. Hes not about snowapocalypse. Whats he saying about february and march . The temperatures. How you might be able to capitalize. Find out in six minutes time. Meanwhile to sue at the new york stock exchange. At the floor, a triple digit advance for a nice change in the Dow Jones Industrial average. Up 154 points, under a 1 gain. 15,892 87 on the dow. S p up 23 points. 1 snishgs 1 3 gain at 1797. 62. And up better than 2 , 81 points and change for nasdaq. Look at transports. A triple digit gain now. After a very rough week. The transports last trade, tick down here, 134 points to the positive side. The tenyear note, weve seen yields drop, edging up a little this morning with the turn in the Dow Jones Industrial a