Year despite a rather uninspiring session today. The dow gained more than 400 points from last fridays close as concerns about china and oil took a back seat, at least for now. Today the dow industrial average fell by 21 points, closed at 16,391. The nasdaq gained 16, s p 500 basically fact. Smallest point decline for the s p since august 2012. For the week all the major averages rose 2. 5 or more. And as bob fasani explains there may be a key milestone for the market. Reporter this was an important week. Going into monday we had a oneday rally going. The s p 500 was still down about 9 for the year. The trend was down. Four trading days later the s p is up nearly 3 for the week. And the shortterm trend is sideways. Thats an important change. And its been notable bounces in the most beatenup groups. Old school tech names like hewlettpackard, ibm, cisco, had notable bounces and big global industrials like Northrop Grumman and Illinois Tool Works up 4 , 5 for the week, outperforming the m
Year despite a rather uninspiring session today. The dow gained more than 400 points from last fridays close as concerns about china and oil took a back seat, at least for now. Today the dow industrial average fell by 21 points, closed at 16,391. The nasdaq gained 16, s p 500 basically fact. Smallest point decline for the s p since august 2012. For the week all the major averages rose 2. 5 or more. And as bob fasani explains there may be a key milestone for the market. Reporter this was an important week. Going into monday we had a oneday rally going. The s p 500 was still down about 9 for the year. The trend was down. Four trading days later the s p is up nearly 3 for the week. And the shortterm trend is sideways. Thats an important change. And its been notable bounces in the most beatenup groups. Old school tech names like hewlettpackard, ibm, cisco, had notable bounces and big global industrials like Northrop Grumman and Illinois Tool Works up 4 , 5 for the week, outperforming the m
Year despite a rather uninspiring session today. The dow gained more than 400 points from last fridays close as concerns about china and oil took a back seat, at least for now. Today the dow industrial average fell by 21 points, closed at 16,391. The nasdaq gained 16, s p 500 basically fact. Smallest point decline for the s p since august 2012. For the week all the major averages rose 2. 5 or more. And as bob fasani explains there may be a key milestone for the market. Reporter this was an important week. Going into monday we had a oneday rally going. The s p 500 was still down about 9 for the year. The trend was down. Four trading days later the s p is up nearly 3 for the week. And the shortterm trend is sideways. Thats an important change. And its been notable bounces in the most beatenup groups. Old school tech names like hewlettpackard, ibm, cisco, had notable bounces and big global industrials like Northrop Grumman and Illinois Tool Works up 4 , 5 for the week, outperforming the m
A barrel. Up a gain three quarters of one percent. Our road map today starts with netflix. Shares down big this morning thanks to weak guidance. What Ceo Reed Hastings had to say about the companys earnings. Goldman sachs ceo blaming the challenging operator environment for less than stellar earnings. What you need to know from that report coming up. Also dig into earnings from dow components Johnson Johnson and United Health care. Lets begin with netflix. Shares are falling in the premarket despite Quarterly Results that beat the street. The company issuing weaker than expected subscriber guidance for the Current Quarter especially on the international front. Meantime ibm out with q 1 results. Jim, lets start with netflix. You said last night you expected downgrades to come, low and behold you have seven firms this morning at least cutting their price targets. Many reaffirming their positions as buys, but taking their price targets down. You had bob on last night. That was fantastic a
With heearnings season around t bend wont i be dis appoiappoin with what i hear . Today the averages started strong before pulling back. Dow slipping 21. S p dipping and the nasdaq. 36 . Its a good day to tackle the question. I was with my fabulous daughter all weekend and couldnt give anyone an in depth answer. I apologize. If i had a chance i would have said the action, the stock action is dictating my attitude. The action that has so many stocks hitting new highs in the last week alone. Some of it tends to happen right before you go higher. Not right before you fall off the cliff. Consider the stocks that made the new high list last week. First we had the consumer packaged goods plays. I would say they are too numerous to mention. Listen to this. Es today lauder, kimberly clark, cocacola, altria, conagra, general mills, johnson johnson, kelloggs, mckor oh miracle, molson. What do they have in common . They take raw commodities and make them into something. They refine them, package,