Obviously a busy morning full of trade and tech news, jon. Indeed. I can take no blame or responsibility for those headlines, but many of them clever all about google thats where were going to start at both larry page and sergey brin step down from their operating roles at the companys parent action alphabet, needing both chief executive roles to be filled kara swisher joins us now on the phone. Kara, i was just talking about this last hour in a way this just smells fishy to me if youre a shareholder looking at the precedent this sets these guys are young, 46 i dont know that weve had any precedent for a tech company, a giant of this size, a controlled company, where the founders say, hey, we still want absolute say over what happens, we just dont want an operating role or to be chairman of the company. Have we seen this before, kara well, in little places. The founder of ebay left the company and put it in the hands of meg whitman and it was a Significant Company at the time and he we
The day. This is sort of translating over into the equity markets as well. The risk off tone continues after a 3 selloff yesterday. We got some of that tension in the last two hours or so, with china saying we violated the agreement given the 10 tariffs. They are vowing to retaliate. We have a read now on the u. S. Consumer. Walmart earnings are coming out. Let me jump over to that. The risk off sentiment continues. David earningspershare was a beat, 1. 27. Their target comps beat estimates, samestore sales. International sales were down a bit 1. 1 ,. A little bit of a leavening there. Also a beat on the revenues. Good numbers here, and it looks like in the premarket, it is up well, that has it down 3 10. My terminal has it up. Taylor i think it is because they are boosting their fullyear growth target. Analysts were hoping for a beat, hoping for them to shrug off some of the trade concerns and tariff concerns and boost that fullyear adjusted earningspershare growth. Indeed, that is wh
Heres where we stand today. The dow was up about 150 points on the open this morning, but thats been wiped out for the most part. The s p driving into negative territory. The nasdaq getting hit the hardest, down about half a percent, but look at the staple stocks today been hitting new highs cal bells soup jumping as much as 10 to its high es level in more than a year tyson foods, pepsi, both prints record highs today thank you, bill as stocks race back to highs, the countdown is on to new tariffs in a couple of days. Bob pisani is watching that at the new york stock exchange. Bob. Hello, kelly. You know the markets lost some steam here after a broadbased rally this week. Were still higher on the week and only 36 stocks in the s p 500 are down thats remarkable. A big win here the other 464 companies, theyre all up just shows you how broadbased this rally has been. Heres the problem many see the rall y as tenuous and tentative. Theres wide disagreement over how much slowing the school s
Theres probably a 40 chance of a recession. Eurozone bond yields hit fresh record lows as the ecbs olly renn signals the bank is ready to hit a significant someti stimulus package. And hong kong prepares for more protests. Good morning its friday. We made it to the end of the week its been a volatile week for markets. Mostly in fixed income space but also u. S. Equities yesterday, looking at the u. S. Equity close, you would think it was a muted session. The dow was eking a gain of 0. 4 s p slightly up in the green nasdaq slightly in the red that belied a lot of the intraday volatility we saw yet the theme was bid for fixed income a lot of fear gripping the market as we see money pour nothing tha pouring into that space. You may notice theres a lot of black behind me. Thats unusual the reason thats the case is ftse 100 has not yet opened due to a technical failure we dont have the opening levels the rest of the heat map is trading solid. Definitely a lot more positive than on other day
Last years revenue went through china. Alibaba moves a step closer to a share sale in hong kong. The impending offer could raise as much as 20 billion. Shery lets get you started with a quick check on how markets closed. The s p 500 finishing at the highest level in five weeks. The nasdaq, the highest level in a month. Reversingtors yesterdays office to gain ground in yesterdays session. Most were in the green. They were led higher by Energy Stocks. Take a look at wti. Wti prices gained as much as 4. 5 at one point. Apparent attacks onto tankers on two tankers building up the tension in the persian gulf and leading investors to get worried about supply around oil. And we saw now on crude, jumping 2 in the last two sessions. U. S. Futures at the moment unchanged. Lets see how we are shaping up to the asian markets. Sophie this friday, were facing a mixed session with type and commodity sectors in focus. Get activity data from china later this morning. Investors will be watching to see i