Bloomberg. You mentioned housing and todays gdp data when you look at that, do you believe that you have achieved a soft landing or are achieving a soft landing in the sense that removing to trend growth the rest of the year and next year that is our outlook overall, is for moderate growth of around 2 , pretty close to trend. Thats our outlook could be better. Could be worse you know, you never say youve achieved it. But thats our outlook we feel like our current stance of policy is appropriate as long as that remains broadly our outloo outlook. Donna borak with cnn. Chair powell, setting aside expectations for todays rate cut, obviously 97 sort of expected this would happen today, can you tell us more about the rationale behind moving at this particular meeting as opposed to waiting six weeks and cutting in december and if there was any discussion about that around the table . Thanks. Yeah. I think this seems to be the right movement you can see we had our usual range of prospects, ra
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
Remains solid. Joining us for the hour is stephanie link what do you think the theme is here we started the day up almost triple digits on the day then loss were down triple digits now were somewhere in the middle crazy with earnings nonstop. The theme today is the shift right back to growth from value. Thanks to paypal, thanks to microsoft, thanks to service now, and value is under performing because i think its all about 3m and what they said. Weak china, weaken you a, to no green shoots after yesterday where caterpillar gave us some hope and boeing gave us hope today took it all back some commentary from the industrials so far, honeywell last week as well, some of the commentary has been a little bit better around china so i wonder how much of this you think is 3m specific and where their end markets are focused versus the broader sector especially in electronics i do think they have high variable costs at 3m so they have some Company Specific issues. They didnt take production down
Line with policy decisions with Market Expectations. And tech leading the charge with apple high on the back of bullish markets that are higher. S p up 1. 2 . Dow is up 232 points near the session highs joining us, mark tenler. Mark, trade was the mover as it was yesterday. More of it, day after day, the thing that continues to drive the market is the most recent news about trade. So, yesterday, there was less optimism about there potentially being a deal the market sells off today, theres less optimism, so the market rebounds but nevertheless, were stuck in this trading range of 28. 25, and 30. 25, right and i think its very unlikely that we break out of that range unless and until we actually get a trade deal and i think the likelihood of us getting a broad deal is unlikely i just dont think thats going to happen. It all depends what that narrow deal looks like. Or the october tariffs removed if theyre removed for good, thats bullish forponed all that great. Lets focus on the big sto
Key read on manufacturing in the next hour. Plus, streaming wars, apple launching its tv plus platform today. It is the latest volley in the original content battle between media and tech giants. And pinterest plummeting, losing a third of its value since peaking in august. And the Growth Strategy for starbucks, Kevin Johnson will join us first on cnbc this hour. Lets get to the jobs number, october payrolls well above expectations at 128k despite the gm strike. Unemployment goes down goes up to 3. 6. Wage growth 3 from a year ago jim, hard to find things to quibble about this month im going to come back and say youre going to have a the beginning of cracks in manufacturing. There is still two economies the twothirds of the economy that is consumer is doing very well the other third is not doing well and we can i dont know how long we can go with only twothirds i think pretty long. But when you if if they shut down boeing 737 max, youll see very different numbers i just think these num