Policy while mayor is trying to get the minority vote. By the way, third in Morning Consult poll. And then theres this, Bernie Sanders, you think he looks sheepish on the flight there, why sheepish, because the socialist was flying first class, lets get to the market, nice way to open the show on valentines day i think, a long weekend coming up. Some traders on wall street are going to be thinking, wait a minute, do i want to hold stocks over long weekend, i cant fix anything until tuesday morning, who knows what will happen with the virus, in advance of that, we have the dow down just a point, not Much Movement there, s p down 2, nasdaq, im sorry, s p up 2, nasdaq up 14. All right, now this, china continues to report a surge in new cases and deaths from the virus. 121 deaths, chilling number for you, 1,716 medical workers affected since virus erupted in china, 6 of them have died. Carnival cruise lines have canceled 18 cruises in asia, lets get on with it, its friday, Varney Company i
But the 52 billion man, Mike Bloomberg, was not in the debate. All in all, it was rather subdued affair, especially sense it came just hours after another day of impeachment hearings. Oh, how different from the highly rated Republican Debate four years ago that featured donald j. Trump. Thats that. The debate. Lets get to the money. Macys profit went up, sales went down. The retailers very much in focus as the Holiday Season gears up. So far, Department Stores like macys have been struggling. They are largely based in malls and malls are getting clobbered by online shopping, amazon in particular. Macys stock will be down about 4 . Look at this. Charles schwab, number one discount broker, talking about a merger with number two, ameritrade. Looks like they will become a very big bank that offers free stock trading. The whole brokerage world, really shaken up. Both of those stocks up significantly. Overall, the market is still yanked around by trade headlines. The president says this, the
What, what have we got here, 8. Revenue up, ad sales up, profits up, and there are now 2. 45 billion active monthly users. It was a spectacular report. Stocks up. These two stocks are helping the market but a statement from china has put a damper on things. Beijing says its doubtful that a longterm trade deal can be reached. China concerned about the impulsive nature of President Trump. Where did they get that from . The dow industrials down about 50 at the opening bell. S p down six, a fractional loss for the nasdaq. Then theres politics. Namely, the vote in the house this morning, starting the impeachment process. This has consumed the congress. It has not consumed the market. It seems to be ignoring d. C. Entirely. We will follow it and pay special attention to votes of moderate democrats from trum trumpleaning districts. Will they approve removing the president from office because of a phone call to ukraine . Cant wait to see. Stay right there. Varney company is about to begin. The
Despite it all, were close to record highs. Free speech is in the news. Nba commissioner, he stood up to china. They wanted the Houston Rockets general manager fired after he tweeted support for the hong kong protesters. Adam silver told them were not going to do that. Free speech item number two. Facebooks Mark Zuckerberg, he says hes not going to Police Political speech, and hes not going to ban Donald Trumps tweets, as Kamala Harris demanded. Big deal. Big show. Youre going to hear what the president had to say at his big rally last night. The brits, well, theyre on the brink. The brexit vote is hours away. And alec baldwin slams the demonization of wealth. What . Varney company, the very special friday edition, is about to begin. After decades of economic surrender, i have taken historic action to confront chinas rampant trading abuses and weve made great progress and our relationship with china is fantastic. But now were taking in billions of dollars. Theyve had the worst year the
Last quarter but not enough to move the stock. Its down right now, higher shipping costs hitting the bottom line and a lot more we will discuss there. Wait until you see what happened during my interview with senator Marsha Blackburn. Varney company is about to begin right now. This is what people want to see done, and i got to tell you, summertime it might be hot but people are pretty happy campers. Charles real quick, you mentioned are you okay . Yes. Charles oh, my goodness. You just never know whats going to happen on live tv. That was my interview with senator Marsha Blackburn from yesterday. A pretty rousing interview to say the least. Going to be a rousing start this morning also. We just got the latest read on the economy. I want to bring in David Mcintosh with club for growth. David, just your initial reaction to these gdp numbers which i should let the audience know, the official consensus was 1. 8 . The wall street whisper number was 1. 3 . Obviously significantly better tha