Maria big show this morning, joining the conversation fox business Dagen Mcdowell, benchmark capital kevin kelly and forbes media chairman steve forbes is here. Good to be with you. Maria a lot happening on the china front, futures indicating a lower decline, lawer move at the start of trading, dow industrials down 91 points, s p declining 8 points and the nasdaq lower by 16 as tensions between u. S. And china ramp up. Here is the latest, washington added 28 companies to an export blacklist over their role in that countrys crackdown on the Muslim Minority group, beijing warning of retaliation to stay tune, highlevel trade talks to begin on thursday, the president weighing on a potential for a smaller agreement yesterday watch. I would much prefer a big deal, i think thats what we are shooting for, maybe, who knows, probably unlikely. So i would say you heard the story here first, 1 Million People in china who have muslim religion, they have been rounded up now for months, a lot of peop
Of digital competition thats slamming into so much of retail . Have we gotten a little more rational about this issue . On a day when the dow lost 33 points, breaking its tenday winning streak thats largely because president trumps statement about meeting north korean threats with fire and fury surprised investors arent in love with the idea of nuclear war. I think the market is starting to behave logically when it comes to many phases of retail, which had been in a bear market. Take the relationship between amazon and its brick and mortar competitors. Just a few weeks ago, the consensus was that amazon was poised to destroy everything retail i mean, everything every brick and mortar store and every supplier we stopped discerning among different parts of the retail food chain and assumed its game over for the whole sector and look, no one is denying that amazon is incredibly powerful, but many blind sided retail ceos have finally begun to come to terms with the new reality, and now the
There have been significant pockets where people have been buying aggressively now. Last week, home depot. They were buying aggressively on friday. Stock is exploding to the upside. Caterpillar, john deere, there are areas people are chasing and catching. Youre in caterpillar. Must be pleased with the share. Is this a bellwether because they talked about a sharp bounce in energy and transportation. Think rally is about earnings. It started when financials reported better than expected earnings and didnt rally on the news. They were kind of sideways. Maybe got a bit of weakness in some days. I took advantage of that and bought some. Then youve had betterin earnin in discretionary and housing. 74 are beating. 14 are missing. Thats a good rh owe. Stocks follow profits. If profits are going higher, because fundamentals are strong, theyre, the market is going to go higher or those stocks are going higher. Im encouraged that cyclicals are leading. Im going to soupd like a broken record becau
Can we do about it plus four stocks to trade those global water fear approximates. We begin with shares of General Electric hitting sevenyear highs on the back of its latest earnings. The stock has not closed at 29 or above since yawing august of. Its slightly below that and moving higher, about 12 so far this year. Is all the restructuring working. Mary thompson breaks it down for us. A lot of investors are at least betting it will work. Ge in the midst of a massive restructuring and it delivered stronger than expected profits for the thirty quarter even as revenue missed estimates. The better than expected earnings helped by strength in the aviation and transport businesses and the news it plans to sell its majority stake in the Consumer Finance arm has helped to push shares to the highest level this is seven years. The exchange will lead to a 20 billion buyback, twothirds of the 30 billion in capital ge is returning to shareholders this year. 2015, of course, has been a transformati