Take a hit. The covid consumer, walmart, home depot and kohls among retailers reporting earnings today. Walmart says ecommerce sales up 79 . And elon musks billions, tesla getting a spot in the s p 500. It is among the highest valued companies to ever enter the benchmark index and musk is on top to become number three, that is the third richest person in the world. Indeed, guys. Well start with the retail picture this morning, jim, youve been vocal as to the investor response on home depot and walmart. I guess thats related to the news out of amazon. Look, by the way, those stocks do tend to run up in the quarter and sell off thats nothing new a more aggressive amazon is always something we have to Pay Attention to i remember when amazon bought pill packs, the drug stores got killed i also point out that walmarts online david, thats not going to go away you can argue someone is going to argue thats the peak i would argue that amazon and walmart have taken so much share in this country,
High. It is still heading toward its Third Straight winning streak, up 65 points. S p better by 22. The nasdaq up 148. You could argue that the dow and the s p are hamstrung by some serious weakness in financials, particularly regarding citigroup. That stock is taking a hit right now. Its down about 4. 7 . We are watching all the financials. Goldmans down i believe we also have Morgan Stanley down and some of the other big names. Tempest fugit when unveiling more than a dozen new offerings. Apple time flies event just ended with multiple bangs. We will start with the sizzle but theres a lot of steak here. Lets get with the apple watch to begin with. You got to do the colors, right . This is sort of the lighthearted stuff. Blue, a new blue, a new, i dont know, kind of rose gold watch, theres a bright ferrari red, you can see that right there. Then sticking with the sizzle, they hired an artist who came up with customizable faces for the new sixth generation apple watch face. It is calle
Go from tech giants to taxi giants air travel slowly comes back the its a administrator will be here and the billionaire tilman. Hell tell us how the economy could get worse before it gets better welcome, everybody power lunch starts right now money cant coming out of the bond market. Those yields remaining pretty low. Rick has the bond picture. Well go to him on that. Bob has more on this market. The important thing is were at new highs intraday bp well see if we close there. We have our old Friend Technology stocks pushing the market forward tech, Consumer Discretionary but thats largely because of amazon and maybe sochl the ame of the s people the s p is going to have a hard time going down big. Kohls down. Gap down you see these declines this is not about the second quarter. This is about comments being made about whats going on in the third quarter. Look at walmart ceo. He said consumers are spending money but not at the pace they were in the middle of the quarter. Its off to a sl
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Week yeah. This is the expiration day so what happens is you actually its tomorrow, but people are trying to prep it what happens is rusty braziel explains to me, the rollover from the may contract to june occurs tomorrow. The reason that happens is because the may futures price converges with cash and expiration so in other words, youre looking at what the real price is its not the futures price so what happens is that imagine if youre producing at 32 a barrel, 33 a barrel like occidental, thats just youre hurting nobody can make any money at these prices rusty points out that after seeing this, the next month, it might go to zero and thats i think a lot of it is because where will you put it maybe keep it in the ground. It is extraordinary and jarring. And i think its causing the decline. Carl, whats so amazing, it was completely predictable thats why maybe the decline isis really overdone if its based on oil if its based on other factors, i dont know it looks like oil is bringing th