Lutnick and doug cifu to tell us how the increase in passive investing is impacting their businesses. And macys is reportedly considering putting a part on the Flagship Store in new york city. Were so desperate for grass, i think people will go anywhere in this city, central park gets a little crowded and 34th, they could use some grass in that area. Go up to macys now, you can find it. But is that the thing thats going to get people into the store if theyre going up there . Anyway, the reason we showed you a picture of daymond john, hes with us today, of course, from shark tank and a very, very successful entrepreneur on his own, especially when it comes to branding. And were going to talk about branding in retail among other areas, coming up with daymond in a little bit. But first, we begin with this decline in oil today. Here go the inventory numbers, wreak havoc in the oil markets again. Jackie deangelis is at cnbcs commodities desk with that. Jackie d. . Hey, bill. Crude oil break
New fears about north korea weighing on the markets. Three major averages down for a second straight day. The latest round of earnings, also a fear factor here, disney accounting for a good chunk of the dows losses in todays session. Investors meantime are looking for safety and theyre finding it in gold prices are sitting near two month highs. Thank you very much, melissa. I am Michelle Cabrera and heres what else is happening at this hour more than 85 of the companies of the s p 500 have now reported earnings, 73 have beaten estimates, 18 have missed fbi agents raided the home of former Trump Campaign chief Paul Manafort last, month comes amid the probe to influence the 2016 election. Ford is sending out several teams of investigators to Police Departments across the country theyre looking into concerns about Carbon Monoxide seeping into Law Enforcement vehicles. Michelle, thank you very much welcome eastbound, im tyler mathis and we again with the north korea threat and the rhetoric
He was here when you were out one day. Andrew was out. Antimatter and matter together. Were both gentlemen. Okay. After another down day yesterday, its been five out of six down sessions for the dow and the s p 500, it looks like things are turning around in the early hours. Right now dow futures are indicated up by 43 points. S p would open up, so would the nasdaq. Overnight in asia, the nikkei ended flat. The hang seng was up by 1 . Shanghai was flat as well. In europe, as france prepares for elections, the cac is higher by 1 today. The dax is up as well. Ftse slightly lower. If you check out crude oil prices, this was the big story yesterday. After a slide of 4 yesterday, things are picking up this morning. You can see wti up to 50. 79 a barrel. American express posting better than expected q1 profit. The positive results helped in higher spending by card members i feel like our family helped them there. Amexs guidance indicating it was starting to mitigate some impact of losing key
The energy is up over the last month or three months, and that is why we are here, right . It is a big portion of why we are here, and of course, a lot of folks have mischaracterized how much the American Public would save if you have basically took a look at the gasoline, judge, and figured that you would average family consumes 600 gallons through the vehicles and so forth through the year, and gasoline prices are up a dollar from the lows, and in m some parts of the country, they are, and that is 600 in additional what would have are been savings in the year earlier in january and now the savings is it still goes up, and you buy the stocks . No, they are topping out here, and many of the oil e p plays are topping out. One of them that i added to the portfolio that i will talk about la later that has legs, but e ps is topped out. And who is on the other side . Energy itself . Yes. Nt i dont believe we are topped out for energy itself, but what has happened in the beginning is that Mo