Chuxing. It is chinas and the Worlds Largest ridesharing company. It also offers Services Like bike sharing and car rentals. Alibaba, apple, and softbank are among her investors. Didi also has investments in other companies around the world. I am pleased to have jean liu at the table for the first time. Welcome. Jean thank you for having me here. Charlie we have so looked forward to this. You have said a very interesting thing. You said it is really a worldclass dilemma how to move around 800 million urban chinese. How are you solving this dilemma . Jean yes, actually that is one of my biggest motivations joining this Company Three years ago. Ill give you a story. Right after i joined didi, there was a coder coming to my office saying that she wanted to resign. When i asked her why, she said because she got pregnant. I told her, you can still work here if you get pregnant. She said it was the commute that was killing her. She was spending three hours switching between buses and subways
This morning. Yield curve continues to flatten and of course the fed minutes are on the way 2 00 p. M. Eastern time. Road map begins with target shares plunging after the Company Issues guidance. Call will begin in just over an hour. Goldman sachs downgrading equities saying theres no particular reason to own them. And fed minutes are coming out later today as the dollar hits a sevenweek high. Four years ago today facebook went public at the nasdaq. Shares priced at 38, now closer to 120 on a day where Mark Zuckerberg is set to meet with some u. S. Conservatives. First up, mixed picture on retail, target beats on quarterly profit but revenues and comps miss, Current Quarter guidance, lows better than expected results, comps up 3 surpassing home depot for the First Time Since 2010. And staples beats on the top and bottom line. Hard to remember a time where lowes its routinely the bridesmaid here, not this time, jim. Used to be for about four or five years during a period before frank bl
Well, you know, some people just get so tribal about the politics. It is a hate hillary or a hate trump, and we refuse to look at the actual data, and we refuse to look at the actual issues. We make these things flashpoints and then we stop digging if in. You know, i have said it before about donalds campaign, and it is the seinfeld campaign, the c campaign about nothing. He se smart, because the more he gets into the details the more the followers and the tribe, their eyes glaze over and so it is to his benefit not the do it, and hillary is just battling crooked hillary and battling the pejorative comments about her, and we never get into the details. Mark, it is Carl Quintanilla and good to have you on the phone. Hi, carl. Good to have you on. Sure. And we had Travis Callan from uber on, and he said, look, give us a break, we plan to be around for 30 or 40 year, and we are e early in the life cycle, and so easy on the pressure to go public. And tell that to travis employees who have
Out, you can see that japan, the nikkei was flat, too. The hang seng and shanghai deposit down, too. Japan, the flat market there, japan avoiding a recession in the First Quarter gdp expanding by an annualized 1. 7 . Much more than a 0. 2 increase forecasters had predicted. Take a look at whats happening in european equities, the modest dines for the dax, cac, ftse. Down by 0. 25 . Take a look at crude oil price this morning, kruld is unchanged got all the way up to 48. 31. Brent crude is down six cents to 41. 42. Finally check out currency, across the board after comments from fed officials making it sound like june is actually a live meeting. Well debate this. The euro is at 1. 1266. The yen at 109. 41. Weve got top stories including political news, Bernie Sanders winning the oregon prime but nbc news is reporting that Hillary Clinton is the winner in kentucky. 99 tallied. Shes now within 100 of the delegates needed to clinch the democratic nomination. Goldman sachs downgraded its eq
Bazos. Chairs of intrexon down. The company ceo will join us live to respond on the back of their earnings, too. Thats coming up. Lets get to whats behind this selloff. Mike santolli joins us. There was nothing too specific in terms of news but all day the markets traded a bit heavy. I think you want to point to the flattening of the treasury yield curve. Rick santelli has been talking about all day. Twoyear yield is up. Longer terms are down. Thats a slow growth signal. Also a signal the market is sniffing out the strong retail sales data along with the good jolt of Employment Data this week maybe puts the fed back in play. Fed speakers have been trying to focus the market on two more fed rate hikes later this year. Meantime, the market doesnt feel as though the growth picture is all that strong. Maybe thats what we can infer. Thats hurting financials. You mentioned, bill, the staples were one of the losing groups today. Thats an overbought sector. People have been piling in. I would