What your technology does. It only matter who uses it, whos the customer thats what i keep thinking. Today another sedate session, s p inched up. Nasdaq. 04 need a microscope here we keep learning this same lesson about technology over and over and over again in this elongated earnings season, and its pretty jarring, because normally we care about what technologies actually does, if its helpful, if it increases speed or accuracy or power or productivity, well, it tends to be a suchls. Buy, buy, buy if its clunky and dead on arrival sell, sell, sell not these days, though. These days wall street only cares about who your customers are. Good, bad, as long as youve got the right end markets, your stock is going to be worded. Lets use roku, okay, and cisco. Roku sells to the consumer, sells to you their Technology Helps you stream videos directly to your tv cisco is a networking company, a colossus that sells to what is known as the enterprise, giant complex companies that need to connect
1 it is not the fed. Its not the trade talks, its demand demand for money demand for homes, demand for processing, demand for cancer drugs and programming and demand for cell phones and demand for planes and of course perhaps most important, demand for stocks yet if you listen to most of the experts you here a lot of fury about ow the Global Economy has gotten weaker because the trade war has shut down international trade. I dont want to sugar coat anything the Global Economy has absolutely taken a hit yearoveryear and the tariffs are part of that but here is the thing. Many stocks were trading like were about to get an even more stringent round of tariffs and that didnt happen instead the president started negotiating with china and that allowed a host of flailing stocks to get their mojo back. The tariff made it strong that without the averages demand would have never made it this far. Let me walk you through the places where that demand is m t most palpable first there is demand for
Some pessimism over in europe. The bond rally echoing what we saw yesterday in europe. Yields down by about four basis points. Bank earnings are kicking off this morning. Beats onp reporting everything except equities and trading. Sonali they did not be dont Equities Trading, but they did beat on fixed income, so that is good. They want to be the number one Equities Trading shop, so not beating there is not a great sign. Average loan growth a little sluggish. Jamie dimon put some notes of caution in the initial statement, saying that Consumer Sentiment might be strong, but generally a lot of weakening sentiment here. In the initial statement, they dont give the outlook for Net Interest Income. However, if they revise downward once again, they already revised downward last quarter, that could be a big deal as well. Alix Net Interest Income is 14. 23 billion this last quarter. Walk us through what we did now. Billion . Ed it to 57 to 57. 5he revised it they revised it from 57. 5 billion
Somebody on the hook. Clearly i questioned this for weeks, incorrectly today all you need to know is at one point azmodan down about 3. 5 4 . Nasdaq higher at the time. Amazon closes done a percent or so something benign. Nasdaq grinds high are i mean its incredible to me that in the wake of what i think is some serious negative news around the globe the market pushes high are. Well know more next week. For me the most important day of the week is wednesday is when you hear from apple and facebook but even on bad earnings stocks seem to want to go high are. That tells you all you need to know. Caterpillar wasnt such a disaster on the stock price reaction. Performancewise. Compared to the report. Which is remarkable. Another examples. Earnings and guidance were not great. Then the reignition of the semi trade. Look, intel what they told you about demand last night in terms they have to beef up spli this is exactly the opposite what they told you for at least maybe one if not two quarter
Is this a turning point for yields around the world. Well get fed minutes later on today. Road map begins with retail earnings, target and lowes soaring in the premarket on their results bucking the downward trend in retail. One week since the dows 800 point drop were close to recovering the losses well take a look at the wild ride over the last week. And what you can expect next. As the september 1st tariffs aapproach, well take a look at the companies that may be in your portfolio with the most exposure first up, target set to open at all time high, lowes surging on the better than expected quarterly earnings, revenues and comps. Digital sales drove more than half of the growth in q2 comps lowes reporting positive comps in all of their geographic regions in the United States and outpacing depot for the second consecutive quarter. We got to focus on execution. And risk taking. Both Marvin Ellison at lowes and Brian Cornell at target took big risks. Some people say they blew up the way