Points. Oil is about the only asset thats not participating today. In our road map this morning tech trifecta, amazon, microsoft beating expectations. And jack dorsey taking onethird of twitter shares and dishing them out to employees. Futures up sharply as Chinas Central Bank cut Interest Rates. Lowered by 25 basis points. Reserve requirement reduced by 50 basis points and comes a day after a rally which included a jump in the dow hints of further easing by the ebc. Look the communist mean business they wont let this economy slow that much more. They are trying to change thing. Were getting hints consumer is spending more in china. Chinese stock market, we used to talk about it every singling day, had a nice rally. Europe, draghidraghi. He manages to get the dollar to soar on just talk. Hes the pied piper of higher stock prices. Last night some quarters that are thinning like the new york mets. I talked to mr. October last night. Saw him at a party. The actual mr. October. Daniel murp
He was he was krzyzewski before krzyzewski. Sir Alex Ferguson shares his secrets to successful leadership. Indeed. But we do begin with that biggest tech deal of all time with dell buying data storage and security giant emc for 67 billion. The ceos of both companies on cnbc speaking about what this merger means for them and for investors. But this mega deal also raises questions about who is going to be next. I hope youve been doing some digging and you have some answers for us josh lipton in san francisco. Well, mandy, lets walk through first just how this deal will actually work. So dell will pay 33. 15 a share for emc. Thats cash plus tracking stock linked to emcs interest in vmware. Michael dell will lead the combined company as chairman and chief executive. The deal, which needs approval from em c shareholders expected to close next year. The company will be a powerhouse in the data storage industry. Thats a 36 billion market according to idc. Brent braceland, an analyst at Pacifi
Divide at the Federal Reserve. But we do begin with fears about the worlds biggest retailer. Shares of walmart tanking right now after cutting its threeyear outlook. Were currently down by 8. 3 at 61. 16 a share. Walmart executives meeting with analysts at this hour, as we mentioned, and Courtney Reagan has all the details of it. Hi there. Walmart investor meeting, the analyst q a wrapping up, the group asking for more clarify on the warning on longterm guidance but not much more clarity was given. Executives highlighting that the Major Investments they continue to make for the earnings per share impact. Fiscal year 2016. Walmart now expecting sales growth to be flat due to Foreign Exchange impact. Also for 2016, reiterating the earnings per share guidance of 440 to 470 but 2017, thats when the he have yet guidance comes in. Eps down between 6 and 12 from prior year, walmarts guidance given. The impact really lies in the fiscal year 2017. Walmart says its the second year of heavy inves
Our road map begins with with jack lew speaking out about trouble in china. Shares in Morgan Stanley sinking on its earnings. Is there more pain to come. And first up, the major indices coming off three straight week of gains. S p up almost 6 since the beginning of the honesmonth. Chinas slowest growth since 2009. Still above consensus. And then jack lew addressed chinese currency valuations earlier this morning on squawk box. I think you have to make sure that china understands that its very important that they keep their commitment to let the rnb go up as well as down and the snapshot today is not the test. Lew also talked about the debt limit, warned us about some accidents coming on that perhaps. And then on the china data, we also got Industrial Production six month low, retail sales maybe a little bit better than expected. I continue to think that domestically china is a little bit better. There was a lot of good commentary on the honeywell call on friday. An otherwise just not a
The mining for bauxite. How it affects the People Living here an their environment. Saudi arabia has announced the form formation of a new coalition. The saudi government says it wont just confront i. S. I. L. But any group threatening its members. Gerald italian has the details. It was a rare News Conference from the Saudi Defense minister. The announcement was the coalition of a new alliance of mainly islamic nations. Coordination and support of efforts to fight terrorism in many part of the islamic world. Islamic world vigilance, so it can be a partner of a group of countries fighting this disease. The socalled disease is widespread. The alliance will confront i. S. I. L. s growing influence in iraq and syria. It also aims to combat the rise of armed groups from mali and nigeria to libya, pakistan and afghanistan among others. 34 nations are part of this coalition. It includes established military heavy weights such as pakistan and egypt as well as economic ones, qatar and uae, nota