Anything widespread, but netheless, dont be surprised to see the flakes flying, especially this afternoon. Heres the forecast for today. Mainly seasonable temperatures, increasing clouds with flurries. There are a couple more chances for snow in the forecast. Details in just a few minutes. Police have a issued a warning as a Group Promoting violence flurries. There are a couple more chances for snow in the forecast. Details in just a few minutes. Police have a issued a warning as a Group Promoting violence meetings in iowa. Des Moines Police posting a safety alert to warn people about the group knows as the return of kings. The website lists des moines s nd cedar rapids as two meet up sites across the country. The concern were encouraging people not to go for the obvious safety reasons. He definitely advocates violence against women and thats nottomething wed d the group apparently canceled its meetings scheduled for this saturday. But des Moines Police say theyey still takkng the poss
From california. Tim who turned out to be tim from cupertino, also known as tim cook. From apple. Were not done. Tonight, we have mark beniot and taught me the importance of social, mobile the cloud and now connectivity. Lets not get ahead of ourselves. This market just doesnt act the way i want it to. It was down really big at one point. I dont like the way its intraday acting either. This whole week big moves up and down then up then down. And boy, we were down today at one point a couple hundred. And we tumbled 146 points at the end. S p sank. 61 . Was down a full percent at one point. And nasdaq fell. 44 . And thats just not what a strong market does. It doesnt gyrate like that. Whats ailing us . Well, heres the good news. Its nothing here in the United States or at least nothing we can feel. Which is what makes things so darn difficult. Its the strong dollar that you wouldnt even know about unless you went over to paris or something thats shaking everything up again. The big hedge
Fido and friends. Were down to two dogs. Were thinking about it. Another German Shepherd . Possibly. When you get door stops or something you always get bookends. His and hers. So they can sit by the edge. Id like to get a brother. Of zara. Yeah what a dog. All right. Well talk a little bit about the Second Quarter. It begins today and the bulls are hoping it starts better than the First Quarter ended. It was a rough session yesterday down for the year by closing down about 200 points yesterday. This is the first down quarter in the last four for the dow. But they ended up. It was slightly higher. The nasdaq is on a nine quarter winning streak. Thats the longest winning streak ever going back to its inception in 1971. Check out the futures this morning and at this point they look like there are green arrows. S p futures up marginally and the nasdaq up by over 7 points. The stories, the big ones were watching today the deadline with the talks for iran have been extended by a day. Were s
On sale. It says 62 of buyers purchased the less expensive sport model which started 349. Weve been talking to analysts in the last half hour about all of this. We may get numbers from apple themselves. In global news, chinas exports charge dropping a larger than expected last month. Stocks in china rallied today as the weak data added to expectations that the government will unveil more stimulus moves and speaking of china the world bank is trimming its growth forecast for the developing east asia citing a continued chinese slowdown. Activist Investor Jana Partners is urging qualcom to consider a break up. Jana wants the company to look at spinning off its chip unit from its patent licensing business. Jana is one of qualcoms largest shareholders. And symantec has been looking for buyers for its Storage Software business. Reuters says an interest from an potential enquirer has been limited because of a tax burden associated with splitting company. U. P. S. Plans to invest more than a b
Nasdaq,. 68 . Most nonprofessionals dont necessarily understand all the ways that stock can go higher. Sure, sure, they understand when a Company Reports sales and urge that the analysts will raise their earnings and boost their ratings. Incites more buying and less selling and a higher price. This he understand if the company gets broken up into little pieces like sarah lee, fortune brands, conico. They are much easier to understand than unfocused con glam mer ats. Much easier to buy than for ceos to manage. They get when an activist comes calling with walgreens or darden. Board room shakeups that produce terrific results for everybody. Pressure can be a good thing. Do you know what can propel a stock higher than you havent thought of . How about panicking short sellers who bet against, sell sell, sell the stocks of companies that you own. Then have to go buy those stocks back to extend their losses when events dont pan out negatively and real owners dont feel the need to dump their s