Forecasts. The top lines are up. Revenues up 4 if you look at the activities. Despite the impact iag luke to raise 3 billion euros and klm unveils an operating loss sending both shares into the red. Six years of growth wiped out in spain as gdp drops in the Second Quarter but the French Economy shrinks less than expected down 15. 8 . Happy friday welcome to street signs. Weve got a lot of earnings to get to lets talk gdp first weve heard from france and spain. Now numbers from italy preliminary q 2 gdp slank quarter on quarter less expected a value. Theyve advised their q 1 estimate of 5. 4 contraction quarter on quarter and 5. 4 year on year. Slightly worse than anticipated. Q 1 marginally worse but q 2 better than expecting. An unprecedented slump for italy but the takeaway better than analysts had feared. Not quite as grim as the market had been bracing for looking at the euro gaining ground currently trades around 118. 77 we have the france and spain numbers. Spains economy shrunk
Whatsoever theyre pure slight of hand. Do i have more pencil . Stocks are also exactly what we need to help keep this market moving higher like we did today with the dow gaining 290, s p jumping and the nasdaq 2. 13 because apple and tesla gave you fantastic news about what it should be a 4 for 1 and 5 for 1 stock split respectively again, no new value but boy, do people love it theres a reason we have to feed the bull with more nourishing stock blitz and ill tell you why. Years ago individual investors deserted the stock market with the implosion of 2000, 2001 and financial crisis of 2007, 2009 they gave up on the asset class and started tiptoeing back, looked enticing and something would go wrong 2015 mini crashes. But in the past few years, beaten down individual investors, a lot of younger investors intrigued by low to no commissions. Finally started buying stocks again. Despite all the gray beards telling you its impossible to beat the market, despite the supposedly brilliant Mone
Permeate. It has largely been driven by the concern that we dont have a handle on the virus and we dont have a handle on a solution for this difficult situation we are now seeing involving washington. It doesnt seem to be at the moment a landing zone for the democrats and the republicans. They are significantly far apart. The fact that you heard such partisan briefing suggests we are no closer. Thender at some point markets will have to shift from focusing on the dollar to shifting to other Asset Classes as well. That has been something we have been watching very carefully over the last few days. We have been watching carefully what has been happening in europe. Offpean equities are sold because of the resurgence in the virus count. That doesnt make sense if you believe that we are going to see a story developing in the United States. We will try to get an assessment of what is happening with the economy throughout the program as we continue to watch what happens in the United States.
Corporate results come fast. The hiring trend on Second Quarter impairment and the cost of the pandemic. 6 00 a. M. In london, 7 00 a. M. In germany where siemens numbers are crossing the bloomberg terminal. This is amidst this is a beat. 1. 79 billion on the industrial businesses. The estimate was for 1. 19. They are reaffirming the 2020. They still reaffirm refrain from giving guidance for 2020. It is still very tough for them. The estimate on the numbers was for 1. 1 billion overall. Let me try and get those for you. Still no fullyear guidance. They see it comparable to crime this year. Still a moderate decline for 2020. Refraining from the guidance. Third quarter Free Cash Flow is 2. 46 billion versus 134 a year ago. 434 a year ago. It is a different business to the one they took over in the early 2010s. 2013 is when he was there. You have got a little bit of data to get through. We will talk a little bit later on. He is the ceo of siemens. Firstns us for the interview of the day.
Good thursday morning. Welcome to squawk on the street. Im carl kint nia and jim cramer still over 1 million for the 20th straight week ahead of the jobs number. Leader mcconnell will join us on the stimulus talks that continue on the hill followed by Speaker Pelosi later this hour, jim, as we continue to get reports that the two sides are trillions of dollars apart. Yeah. This is a day where we have to find out in our interviews whether theres any hope for compromise because if there isnt, youre going to see a full open business that will make the unemployment numbers very rearview mirror. A lot of people recognize that theyre trying to figure out, is washington playing partisan politics do they genuinely want to deal maybe they dont we will find out during this show. You think well find out . Well talk to mcconnell first, jim. Yeah, i do. A billing part of that is sort of the fragility of the republican caucus. As mcconnell has said this week, jim, he has 20 senators who feels we hav