And twitter which report after the bell. Well also get a preview of what you can kmpt. Tmobile shares on the rise this morning after strong earnings. John legere will join us onset fresh after his Company Analyst call. First up, beating the street with Quarterly Earnings on squawk. Saying did help results. If you look at the margins, core gross margin up 270 basis points. Core operating margin up 300 basis points. Thats net of the fx headwind. So its really giving us the ability to continue investing in markets to continue to serve consumers and hopefully to reaccelerate top line growth. That is key. Organic sales up one, which is not as good as unilever or lo real. Does more merging growth. They have these divisions that have been bad for ages. Grooming is bad again, decreased 1 , u. S. Offset international. Beauty plus one. I mean, baby sales decline. Thats that kimberlyclark price war, but they take the Gross Margins up. The junk, the stuff you can cut, the stuff that costs you mone
President obama and ted cruz have defended natos role in keeping the world safe. Do you think nato is a good u. S. Investment . Republicans call in at 2027488001. Democrats, 2027488000. Independents, 2027488002. For those outside the u. S. , 2027488003. cspanwj and facebook. Com cspan. We are talking nato this morning. The u. S. Role in the 67yearold alliance. We are talking about the u. S. Contribution to nato which equates to 500 million a year, according to Defense Department budgets. Not role has become a concern on the campaign trail. This from the Washington Times this morning. Secretarygeneral Jens Stoletenberg said he welcomed more attention to nato and nato related issues in the u. S. Bit of Donald Trumps recent comments in the Washington Post editorial board. [video clip] donald trump i see nato as a good thing to have. I look at the ukraine situation ad i say, so, ukraine is country that affects us far less than it affects other countries and nato. Yet, we are doing all the
S p up by 8. The big headline we should tell you about, the biggest, of course, joe was making a joke before it began. We wont make that joke on air. Pfizer in talks with the wall street journal, with allergan. It would be a blockbuster deal if this were to take place. You are arguing whether there are synergies. There are definitely synergies. It is basically taking the marketing machine. I know where youre going with this. A marketing machine that is pfizer and allergan. The real issue is whether the regulators would allow this. Both stocks indicated higher. It continues with the trend we have seen about the Companies Even trading higher. What would regulators see here that would i dont see what market youre trying to corner. Its not me. Youre going to use your helmet equation again . What is that . Thats eurequation. You know all about that garner share. Matt meantime, back to the debates. Two rounds with the gop feel. Senator Lindsey Graham stole the show. Then frontrunners ben car
Trap. A soccers suckers game. Dow gaining and s p growing and nasdaq growing 2. 3 . We didnt see a lot of buying today. We saw an absence of selling. A pause in selling can take us higher but not so high it is worth plupging in with both feet. Thats because we are in a bear market. It is like a fever. It does run its course. This is my ninth bear market in 35 years of investoring. And [ inaudible ] was right when he said that all happy bull markets are the same but all are each unhappy in their own way. Still love it. So applicable. Most of the bear markets had to do with overvaluation coupled with shocks to the system that created a tore of stocks for sale. This is similar to those to a degree. The market did get expensive but because Interest Rates were low, valuation was not weightless. Not in this country, but overseas, it is running high and spilling over on to our financial stores before and before and before. And that is why im adam mant is the 2011 bear market where the s p 500
Showdown between political allies. It would be one of the largest tickers of all time. Pfizer and allergan are in preliminary discussions about getting together. Our first look at Third Quarter gdp, coming in at 1. 5, slightly lower than estimated as yesterday is in the red first up, a lot of action during last nights republican president ial debate. The candidates discussed numerous topics, the economy, taxes, the fed and entitlement reform. One of the biggest moments involved former governor jeb bush and senator marco rubio. Marco, when you signed up for this, this was a sixyear term. You should be showing up to work. Literally, what is it like a french workweek and you get three days where you have to show up. You can campaign. Just resign and let someone else take the job. There are a lot of People Living paycheck to paycheck looking for a senator that would fight him each and every day. I dont remember you complaining about john mccains vote record. Someone has convinced you that