Employee. And shares of under armour under a lot of pressure, a federal probe of the Accounting Practices. And wall streets record rally on the heels of both the s p and nasdaq the dow is on track for new highs at the open. Well start with that stunning news from mcdonalds, the company has fired Ceo Steve Easterbrook after he spent more than 4 1 2 years on the job. Mcdonalds says he violated Company Policy by having a consensual relationship with an employee the new ceo is Chris Kempczinski, president of mcdonalds usa in an email to employees, easterbrook admitted the relationship violated policy, saying this is a mistake, given the values of the company, i agree with the board it is time for me to move on. Already today, jim, one downgrade, piper to neutral, says changes of this magnitude tend to be disruptive. I think thats why i hate to say this, the stock was down badly on friday. I would like to know more about when and how long they have known this this is one where it is pretty
Third, boy, is it ever in the way even with record numbers after a day with the dow losing 79 and s p advancing and nasdaq gaining, the last two both records. You need to understand that the government has become the one wild card in this market and does reek havoc on all sorts of stocks last fall the fed created its only personal bear market because he told us he might need to raise Interest Rates over shooting to stamp out inflation, which at the time was nonexi nonexiste nonexistent totally out of touch and crushed the market powells rookie mistake almost gave us a recession but came to his senses in january and changed course but we never should have been in that position to begin with thats what keeps happening. We never would have gotten in this mess with janet yellen. She was day to driven and understood the power of her words but even though president trumps tweets are about lower Interest Rates and maybe having some effect, i dont know. Remember what he did he sat janet yellen
On this afternoon. In asia, the nikkei was down the hang seng was up 0. 23 for european markets, the dax is slightly lower you see slight gains for the cac, the ftse 100, stocks in italy and in spain look at the Treasury Department. The tenyear is yielding 2. 090 . We have a very busy day going on in the markets. From wall street to washington, lets get you through the squawk planner. On the earnings front, three big banks on the docket starting with jpmorgan that will come at about 6 45 a. M we have Goldman Sachs coming in with its earnings. Those should be announced around 7 30 wells fargo earnings should cross the tape at 8 00 a. M Johnson Johnson will also report at 6 50 a. M. Eastern time well bring you a first on cnbc interview with the cfo right after that report. On the data front, we will be getting june retail sales, import and export prices as well that all hits at 8 30 a. M. The other big event on the planner is big tech is back in washington today the house judiciary subco
Accusing facebook of misleading investors as the doj launches this antitrust review. Corporate earnings going to be weighing on some stocks at least this morning boeing and caterpillar disappoint trade worries remain u. P. S. Shares sinking ahead of the open. Profits soaring more than 13 for the quarter. David abney joins us first on cnbc this hour facebook up first. Three different Government Agencies today, the ftc formally announcing that record 5 billion settlement with the company over privacy violations, imposing new requirement oz on Mark Zuckerberg and making structural changes to the board the s. E. C. Simultaneously announcing 100 million settlement accusing the company of misleading investors about the misuse of user data. And lastly, last night, the doj is opening a broad review of Tech Companies, that will scrutinize leading Online Market platforms. Didnt name any specific companies, but obviously facebook, amazon, alphabet are all in play. Of the alphabet soup, what is mo
Week the s p is tracking for a third week in a row of losses, down 1. 3 nasdaq futures up 73 points. Weve got a lot to talk about on a summer thursday. Our road map starts with earnings walmart posting better than expected results fellow down component cisco gets a lift, beating with its Quarterly Results and talking up a. I. Ceo Chuck Robbins will be joining us here. Plus, investors continuing to digest fed minutes released yesterday. The tenyear note yield hitting a fresh high were going to begin with walmart, raising fullyear forecast the retail giant benefitting from customers seeking bargains. U. S. Comps up by a better than expected 6. 4 and ecommerce jumping 24 led by pickup and delivery theyre clearly taking share because theyre out comping their competitors and the industry theyre crushing it i want to straighten some things out here when you have ecommerce up 24 , when you have advertising, which is just free money, what are the Gross Margins there, 35 , much higher margin. F