Skyrocketing a heart thumping 50 its not all rainbows and butterflies. Ibm was caught in a bad romance. The separation sending shares up 6 today more on the big blue breakout. Ibm has seen a little love from investors over the past decade so it is splitting itself in two and saying it will list its it services as a separate company next year. Investors initially cheering that move sending shares up about 6 but the ceo reminded inversers that it i ddivested in the 90s they didnt play into the value. Shares have under performed through the broader if he can sectors to broader names like or cal. But two years ago ibm was about watson and tech. It is said watson is barely mentioned on earning calls ibm was late to the game and still far behind amazon and google back to you. Lets trade this. Question, guy. I will start with you. When you start with a question, it always confuses me. Does this spinoff actually further ibms turn around plan or is this just Financial Engineering . The latter.
Becky is off today all breaking fivemonth win streaks with the dow the big loser. Still a good quarter i should say a very good quarter. The dow gaining 7. 5 take a look at u. S. Equity futures this morning lets show you where things stand as we speak. The dow up triple digits s p looking to open higher nasdaq about 140 points hire overnight, Tokyo Stock Exchange suspended trading after a glitch blaming a hard wear problem followed by a failure to switch over to a backup device. The first fullday closure of the tokyo markets since trading began in 1999. Too much partying like in 1999 also in 1999, the year after was the year 2000. That was the last time the nasdaq had two quarters as good as this. It has been 20 years the nasdaq was up 45 . So it has been pretty unbelievable yesterday, we had worries about coronavirus. Even in new york and elsewhere where there is high infection rates. We had sort of just the aftermath of the debate, which people said was unsettling just watching then
A look at back at the biggest stories in the last 7 days but 1st stay with us for the kaiser report. Oh hi im max foster this is the kaiser report you know there seems to be a bit of panic in the air. Play lets check in with Stacy Herbert i dont more max as you know weve had 4 years of a lot of political turmoil and starting to spill out into the streets everywhere you look not only in the United States but around the world and Rand Corporation might have an explanation for this now remember Rand Corporation if youre if you were around in the seventys they were part of the pentagon papers right it was identical ellsberg released the hundreds of pages of research they had done on the debacle that was the vietnam war and now they have basically done some research on the debacle that is fed policy of creating can tell you an heiress since 1971 so the top one percent of americans have taken 50 trillion dollars from the bottom 90 percent and thats made the us less secure this is according t
Any new stimulus in sight. And that tiktok trade, you cant really trade it, can you, because its not a public company, but bytedance is formally seeking chinas approval for a deal with oracle and walmart, those are two publiclytraded companies. Yes, they are, jim lets talk markets lets start with that. You know, its funny, i dont know what you make of the pull back today, to the extent we are going to have one or what weve been seeing in apple lately. I keep wondering coming back to that softbank option purchase that we kind of we talked about it for a day or two and then we moved on. Right. You know, a number of people have come back on it with me, jim, and sort of said maybe it had a bigger impact than we realized in terms of the run up of some of these names. It did jack the market up in 1999 fashion which, you know, you know, led to 20002001 which was a disaster and it was frankly unnatural other than zoom almost every one of those stocks that they took up have been crushed apple t
Yesterday. It ended with new records for the s p 500 and the nasdaq, check out this nasdaq, up 86 points, three quarters of a percent, s p 500 up 12 points at 34, 43, unchartered territory. Violence erupting in wisconsin for a third night in a row, the gun battle in the streets leaving two people dead. Weve got the latest. Hurricane laura a category 2 storm, it is gaining strength, barreling towards texas and louisiana. Well take you live to the gulf coast this morning. How far did it go . New details in mcdonalds investigation into steve easterbrook, examining if he and other employees covered up misconduct. Peloton ready for the ipo, giving investors a look at its finances. Finding your happy place, the surprising spot more americans are going to relax. Mornings with maria is live right now. European markets this morning are mixed, take a look at the fq100, down 9 points, the cac is up 8, the dax in germany up 60 right now, about one half of 1 . In asia overnight markets were split,