Effect for all of the northbay. Gust of 240. Clinical conditions. I will time it out for you coming up. Is a busy drive. We have a broken down vehicle causing a bit of a delay. We are seeing some stop and go conditions. You can see all of that right there. Under 25 miles per hour. A trouble spot is there on the southbound side. Looks like they will issue a traffic alert. The number 3 lane from the left. We do have a trouble spot. Crash blocking lanes. Heads up on that. That 880 drive pretty slow it go. Reports of a new crash in this out there. Was like all of the activity is over to the right shoulder. The hours away from deciding to turn power off 2000s in the bay area. Our reporter is live with the latest turn. The potential for another Public Safety shut off is what closely tied to the weather. This latest update is good news. The number of customers who may be affected by potential shot of his dropdown. Including nearly 35,000 cross number. Is how it breaks down. Almost 27,000. San
Guillotined as the action in the bomb market indicating the economy is improving we dont need those kinds of stocks anymore the market is constantly trying to predict the future, takes inputs, aggregates them, the consistent growers are out and the cyclicals are in thats right, the companies that can build big numbers when the economy is in shape, theyre back theres just one problem, the random set of inputs and outputs is missing a key ingredient, emotion. If you want to be a successful investor, you need to check your emotions at the door and right now thats not happening. Let me show youwhat i mean why dont you take a stock we all know, merck, then amazeingl it spent two decades lots in the wilderness until they discovered keytruda mostly lung cancer, in trials for many types of tumors, the strength of keytruda breathed new life into merck stock. Now merck has dropped five bucks in two days with the darn thing coming back down to 81 at its hideous lows, it was down nearly 10 from la
Investments ever. Were closing in on new records in the markets, this amid new optimism for that potential china u. S. Trade deal as you saw stocks are set to open higher. And the tech lash heads to the states a major multistate investigation into antitrust practices at google, set to be announced later on this afternoon. David, kick us off on t. Interesting here. In so many ways. 3. 2 billion as you said the stake from elliott, the largest single investment i believe they made at the company, a long letter comes out this morning detailing the reasons why this could be a 60 stock within lets call it three years or so, 2021 is what theyre talking about. 65 or so upside to todays stock price. They believe 5 in dividends and 55 stock price, you could get to 10 earnings per share grower with significant margin improvement, what theyre calling for. And buyback. Something i want to make sure people understand here, it is interesting, people who know the company well, but sort of are vaguely
Underneath we saw a radical devaluation of all sorts of stocks we were forced to reconsider how much well pay for a certain amount of stocks now and certain amount of growth now and how much we will pay in the future or do we sell . Most dramatic example. This morning an activist group Elliott Management took a 3. 2 billion stake in at t, gigantic, and sent a letter to the board of directors stock trading at just under 37 they think they can get it to 60 plus by the end of 2021 if the changes are made that will be huge. At t has been a real lager at t blames ill advised decisions by management, like overpaying for directv what would the failed acquisition of tmobile which ended up jump starting their competitor with a gigantic breakup. With some changes elliott argues at t can be worth a great deal more than its selling for they want the company to distract itself from side businesses cut the fat. Emphasize changes. Stop doing willynilly acquisitions at every turn put it altogether and
They were a little lighter than estimates, but still up by about 1. 6 . This is on the heels of Dollar General, that really crushed it. Heres a negative. They might see earnings on the higher end for the full year. They do not see revenue on the higher end for the full year. They see 43. 6 billion. They had seen 43. 9 billion. That could be a marginal weakness. David stock is up in the premarket a little less than 1 . You mentioned Dollar General, which has a strong showing. Alix blew outcome a really. Raised their guidance, they see fullyear sales forecasts rising. They did point out there are a large number of sales in their lower margin products, so margins will be an interesting story for them, but i think it always is for the Dollar Stores. David absolutely. The beat on earningspershare for the Second Quarter, and comp sales were up 4 . You can see they are up about 6. 5 in the premarket. Alix this will add some early optimism in the markets. S p futures up by a solid 1 , over 290