Good friday morning. Welcome to squawk alley with Morgan Brennan and jon fortt at post 9 of the New York Stock Exchange obviously watching these markets here dow is down 331 after yesterday, deep in the red. The dow, the s p, and the nasdaq are all on pace for their worst week of 2019 tech names getting hit pretty hard, apple, alphabet, facebook, intel all down around 2 , guys this is a period in which trade concerns might result in selling thats a little more indiscriminate than weve seen in recent months and among the tech names, a look at cisco thats down closer to 4 . Some other cloud names not doing so well. You see, dell is down more than that you know, Network Appliance well, that one has its own issues but certainly, hp down 5. 5 a lot of these trade issues rippling through not just the names that have higher valuations or have high flyers, but some of these core enterprise tech names, vm is another onedown almost 8 in this trade if you look at all the major averages, were now
Which is how you get to the dow today where it lost 129 points, 5. 3 of the nasdaq nose dive 1 . But the first two weeks of earnings season things were pretty straightforward sure this economy might be slowing down, but the consumer was doing so great backed by a strong job market, higher stock prices and i have to tell you, it was offsetting any industrial weakness hallelujah. This week its a totally different story. The markets no longer on its meds while twothirds of our economy is consumer oriented indeed, the other third has gotten so bad so fast its crying out for some kind of government intervention. Thats what caused todays weakness because the nonconsumer economy is plain worrisome. Tonight were speaking to electric power thats the largest Transmission Power Company in the whole country. If youre trying to get a read on the economy, theres Nothing Better than getting the power datd a it took my breath away when they said the biggest economic head wind we have at this point is
Since President Trump and president xi met at the g20 last month. The uk ushers in its new Prime Minister, but can it get brexit back on track and your stockof the day snapping back. Shares of snapchat roaring in premarket trading. Could it be a sign of better times ahead for evan spiegel and the Company Overall . Its wednesday, july 24th. Worldwide exchange begins right now. Good morning welcome to Worldwide Exchange. Im dominic chu in for Brian Sullivan we have Team Coverage on all the manger sto major stories impacting markets. Ylan mui has all things big credit technology. Patrick palfrey is on set with me digging into the earnings story and eunice yoon will have the latest on the u. S. china trade talks. We started in ylan in washington with big tech and the juscrutiny they face. Reporter the review will scrutinize online leading platforms to see if they are harming consumers. In a statement it is said without the discipline of meaningful market based competition, digital platform
Accusing facebook of misleading investors as the doj launches this antitrust review. Corporate earnings going to be weighing on some stocks at least this morning boeing and caterpillar disappoint trade worries remain u. P. S. Shares sinking ahead of the open. Profits soaring more than 13 for the quarter. David abney joins us first on cnbc this hour facebook up first. Three different Government Agencies today, the ftc formally announcing that record 5 billion settlement with the company over privacy violations, imposing new requirement oz on Mark Zuckerberg and making structural changes to the board the s. E. C. Simultaneously announcing 100 million settlement accusing the company of misleading investors about the misuse of user data. And lastly, last night, the doj is opening a broad review of Tech Companies, that will scrutinize leading Online Market platforms. Didnt name any specific companies, but obviously facebook, amazon, alphabet are all in play. Of the alphabet soup, what is mo
Good wednesday morning, welcome to squawk alley. Im carl quintanilla, obviously a big day for earnings were watching the hill, the ftc and facebook is the big news a News Conference on that 5 billion fine over data privacy issues is going to start in awe if moments. Were going to take you to washington when that begins, but the swirl of agencies circling the company, ftc, who knows what the doj has in mind and well get a clearer picture of what the quarter looks like tonight. I dont know why it feels like something shocking is happening. Weve known this fine is coming for a long time, a big fine, but somehow to see 5 billion written down then more interesting to me, the restrictions and the oversight, the committee within facebook that looks like maybe its been structured in a way where Mark Zuckerberg doesnt have total control over this piece, you know, the ftc making the case that Mark Zuckerberg has to certify this privacy compliance every quarter, and this time if he slips up, ther