Quarter declined because people assumed health care was going to create a delay. Without further delay, lets go to scarlet on home depot. The earnings just came out, a beat, secondquarter earnings per share of 1. 52. Expectedthan bottomline number. Sales topping estimates as well. Depot confirms its fullyear sales forecast. Adding to its buyback program, overbillion Share Buyback the remainder of this year. He moved to engineer a higher earnings per share number continues. With adam parker joining us in the next hour from Morgan Stanley, use of cash. The pressure to deploy cash. You see that in the bhp billiton restructuring. What are we going to do to distribute cash to shareholders. 838 on the the 16 dow. A distinction between home depot and lowes, the Bloomberg Industries team pointed out sales will likely come in stronger. An estimateds 4. 4 . Home depot doing it more effectively than lows. Medtronic and t tj maxx report earnings as well today. Hasuple items of note it been 10 year
Exclusive. Some of the biggest names in bank arrange at the global summit to rethink banking models. No small topic on the agenda today . Yeah, the future of finance and there are some big, big questions. We talked a little bit about credit provision. When you compare and contrast what happens heres have in the United States. You look at the United States, some of the big fines imposed and there is a risk of regulatory overreach. Are these banks becoming overwhelmed . Something that doug also flint talked about recently Douglas Flint talked about. Ill be talking with him and then i have Andreas Dombret of the bunde bank. Well talk about his role on the supervisory mechanism. We have to be clear about this. What are the difficulties here in the eurozone . I know he has something to say on what he calls reform fatigue. Look at for that one, anna. Interesting when you consider just how much banks are spending and should be spending on regulation when we have witnessed some enormous fines