From apple yesterday plus, jim, fedex and adobe to kick around from last night. Wow i mean, these were congratulations gentlemen and ladies calls because the numbers were so unbelievably good, much better than people expected. Now, this is rather amazing, carl why . Because there were firms that upgraded and pushed and raised numbers for weeks and yet they were dramatically exceeded, fedex because of e com, 96 of the growth is e com and adobe because its how companies are able to digitize quickly, particularly retailers, in order to be able to take advantage of this this amazing wave, this amazing boom of ecommerce to the home because of the pandemic so how can there be such a structural thematically strong story behind ecommerce and packages and growth and the targets that fdx has pulled forward by years and all the good news today on vaccines and therapeutics well, i think whats really convincing here with fedex is that theyre talking about how theres actually a weak economy in the S
Three months 9 million jobs added after losing 22 million in march and april. Right my fear is that this may make it so that the negotiators for the package drag things out because things are better than expected so it looks like you could make a case lets be more considerate about this that would be bad because this number does not include a lot of reclosing, the biggest increase line item was bars bars and restaurants and we know that that backfired. So i intend to i think that its really important to keep the fire to the feet of these Congress People because, boy, i just dont think i think this is the last good one bloomberg is going with the headline that says the talks last night were rancorous and really no signs brink of collapse is one of the headlines out of bloomberg. Yeah. You dont think that the strength of jobs number today, jim, gives the democrats any incentive to blink ive been debating that all morning and i think that you heard you heard Speaker Pelosi on our show tha
Hear from mike roman later on today, july has been very good i think you will continue to get a positive from housing, this horton number is the number people should be focusing on because it was stellar you will get a lot of people talking about how there is a lot of good news in anything involving personal fun, polaris, but just were just in such dim tidings when it comes to aero space thats what im focused on greg hayes, 2023, oh, my. You were just talking about that and then iata, the International Air transport association is saying 2024 for precovid traffic levels they also point out that airlines are adding capacity, jim, ahead of demand which is coming back slower than they thought. Personal travel, people want toful tra, we know that. Great Conference Call by American Express on friday about what people want to do, but the Business Travelers is where they make all the money and the Business Traveler is zooming they just arent going i dont know what its going to take to bring t
Struggle just to keep up. Look. I think that all of these have one thing in common. They all believe that the future is a little bit better and a little bit faster to come than many of us believe it is rather remarkable to see a consensus overnight from companies that basically say, you know what . Darn covid full speed ahead that includes boeing boeing has what i regard as being a very bullish scenario involving good cash, involving the possibility of returning to much more flight in, lets say, the next year. And even after 1,600 flights of the 737 i dont think theyre going to call it maxx anymore i dont know i think were growing to have a hard time keeping us down today unless faang keep us us down because the hearings go badly. We have a couple of guidance. Ebay the other one that raised guidance. Starbucks had a lot of things to say analysts recommend stocks its an exciting time. In a lot of ways, youre with a tesla call it turns out tell la sla is goi be a big car company thats no