Good thursday morning. Im Carl Quintanilla with jon fortt, sara eisner and with us is henry blodgett. Amazon officially closing its acquisition of whole foods google and walmart are teaming up on a voice shopping nasdaq slightly up this morning looking to avoid its fifth negative session in six. A retail analyst on yesterday who called the day of that announcement amazon whole foods a day that will live in retail infamy now getting one step closer to theyre going to close this thing in the second half. Yeah, which is great. A lot of us amazon and whole food shoppers are exited another bold step from amazon. Well be excited how they do it. How your characterizing the responses companies have you take your hat off to walmart. Theyre being very aggressive. They made a huge bet acquiring jet. They are being superaggressive its a smart idea with google. Does it immediately counter amazon no but the whole idea of ordering stuff through your home voice device, walmarts are Something Like an a
On what crossing this milestone might finally mean. We sat here a few weeks ago. Right. We got within a third of a point. Ill tell you the difference is the way you cross it. I mean, when we got there last time, i think a lot of people felt, wow, all these stocks are so stretched. Its really the banks that are doing it and thats not sustainable because banks have gotten way ahead. You look at the charts. And most of the of the good numbers that were in are more animal spirit driven. This is the biggest week of earnings, big week of earnings last week and were putting together a proctor, an american express, we look at ibm, 3m, which i know some didnt think was that great. It was fine. We look at United Technologies and boeing and say, geez, these are companies doing pretty well. So maybe its not all smoke and mirrors. Maybe its not all animal spirits. Maybe its not all trump inauguration. There was also a tremendous short base put in because people felt like no matter what happened its
Speaking of d. C. , as President Trump closes in on 100 days, not getting a boost with this market rally. Thats nnenergy. Its the worst performing sector. Theres a debate on whether its time to buy the losers. Meantime, we got a whole in fact, this would be the busiest earnings week in a long time, but its kicking off tonight, we got alcoa, express scripts, and tmobile reporting. John legere is here as soon as results are out. Of course, john, a colorful interview. We look forward to the comments coming up. John legere, jim cramer together. Fire. Payperview if anything. Beginning with wall streets rally, driven in by the French Elections, results there, showing the leader now going into that final election coming up in two weeks, bob, and michelle is in. The market is holding up, all the european banks rallied. Deutsche bank up 11 p close 20 a 52 week high, its amazing. Come over here. We are having huge numbers of stocks with 52 week highs, close to 250 today. Industrial stocks like 3
In the u. S. They were expecting 300,000. So 370 was 20 more. But last year in the same quarter they added 900,000 or 800,000. So wall street journal is making certain points. And then to almost double the bottom line when youre at hundred times earnings thats good but is it still pennies. What was the actual number . Pennies per share. Still pennies per share. Im sort of surprised the international, do they have the content around the world that people will pay for. They havent spent a huge amount of money yet on True International programming in the new languages and what it means is actually that american programming or u. S. Programming with ghienglish is working. They have a benny hill type show ready to go or monti python. Do they know the cultural . What youre finding is narco is working in a lot of places. Its working here and in south america and parts of europe. Its working. What does a billion dollars more spent on content mean in the number of shows and how many, how much n
Hillary clinton will capture the white house tomorrow. It is the best day for stocks in eight months. But the question here is, are investors getting ahead of themselves and should you sell this election rally. Guy, what do you say . Im inclined to say you fade this move because it takes us back to levels in may of 2015. This is a 2130 level. What was support becomes resistance. And does that mean it cant trade another ten handles higher . If she wins, people will say she might not be as friendly towards the market as a mr. Trump, for example. And i think this rally we saw gets faded. And brings us back to where a week ago when we had the first fbi letter. So im not sure that todays rally necessarily was a predictor that Hillary Clinton will win. Its just a the odds are back to where they were a week ago. So i wouldnt read too much into that. Although im with guy in that, if Hillary Clinton wins, im not sure economic policies are that great for the market and economy. The other puzzlin