The roadmap begins with the markets looking to recover after logging their worst february start since 1982 for the dow and for the s p. Michael kors trounces estimates while jcpenney reports its first quarterly samestore beat in years. The parent of kfc, pizza hut and taco bell adds its recovering from the lingering fallout of food safety concerns in china. And apple is reported lie by the wall street journal and quietly laying the groundwork for a vast internet infrastructure capable of delivering a lot of data and content to consumer. The dow tumbled 326 yesterday and growing concerns of a weaker u. S. Economy surrounding emerging market worries and the nikkei down 42 overnight and the worst loss in nearly six months. That index is down i think 15 for the year to date, jim. Rough, rough. Terrible. When i see adella, your man might be in there. Your man, no one knows him very well. Exactly. Were out of data. Weve had nothing but notsogreat data. Its going to snowstorm tonight and this
With u. P. S. The stock going to take a hit this morning after lowering their Fourth Quarter guide ax, a hangover from the Holiday Shipping fiasco. And shares of intel are sliding after Fourth Quarter earnings missed estimates and warning of flat revenues for the rest of this year. And speaking of earnings Morgan Stanley, General Electric, and amex making big moves today, well break them down with you. But first up, u. P. S. , the Package Delivery Company Expects Fourth Quarter earnings of 1. 25, well below forecasts. U. P. S. Said its been negatively impacted by higher costs driven by a surge of shipments during the Holiday Season. The company said it deployed 30,000 more temporary employees than it had planned for. Their peak delivery day volume up 7 1 2 from what they expected. As i just said on twitter, their models, jim, nowhere near on plan. I want everyone to go to u. P. S. Kicks off peak week they put out a press release. December 16th, 2013. Where they said, look, our peak day
Train continues philip morris, kkr are among the names to watch before the bell today. News corp. , activision. The ecb will announce its policy decision later today. The market is hanging on those two reports. Kayla, thank you very much. Weve got some big Corporate News for you this morning. Twitter, that was your top corporate stories. Shares getting slams slammmed. The stock is down big time, about 17 . Wiping out basically a sixth of the companys value. Earnings and revenue did beat the street. That was not the problem. This was. Slowing new user growth and a severe decline in timeline use. Thats when a user refreshes their twitter spaj, being used as one of the key measures of how active users are. Ubs out this morning cutting price targets from 55 to 35. What does this say about twitter . These crazy valuations. I dont want to say they havent revolutionized the world. They have. But is it possible that this is the beginning of the bubble getting ricked . I was thinking about this
Lets get to our roadmap this morning right back here in the good old us of a. Twitter Major Concerns over user growth sending shares down sharply after the social Networks First Earnings Report as a Public Company. While twitter is slumping Green Mountain coffee seeing plenty of green, rallying after coke agreed to take a 10 stake in the company and help launch an athome cold beverage system. Shares of gm down a bit this morning after earnings and revenue were well below wall street estimates, although restructuring maybe a part of that. Gm january sales also fell 12 . That was thanks in large part to what they said was the bad weather. Of course we had that news earlier this week. All right, lets start with twitter. Shares are down sharply. Lets see. Right here i got 51. 26, 51. 34 bid despite posting betterthanexpected Fourth Quarter results in its First Financial report as a company. Concerns about the user growth is weighing on the stock. Twitter said it averaged 241 million monthl
As well as a look ahead to jcpenneys results after the bell. She is looking at the entire troubled state of retailing today. Here in the studio for the next hour, my guest house, restructuring guru who oversaw Hostess Brands and is now heading a wide range of companies that he will give his take on turning around retailers to overhauling taxes to hiking minimum wage. First, to you on this data breach and the impact on target. It definitely had an impact on target. Not only did it take charge to fix the data breach, the bridge of credit card information at the comedy, but in addition, a depressed traffic, because people, after hearing about the data breach, did not necessarily want to shop at target. The company is a saying in the Statement Today that it is not sure what the future effects are going to be. It is not sure how long this is going to last. All of this said, the companys earnings did top profits estimates. It seems like that is. Share this morning. In addition to the fact th