The final hour and we did get some strong earnings from industrial names like Rockwell Automation and speaking of the president s speech, we will have the first reaction from the white house right here on closing bell. A live interview with top economic adviser larry kudlow in just a few minutes from now. And we will ask him for some clarity on china and the status to have the trade negotiations joining us now for the hour is steve grasso from stuart frankel. Kind of a quiet market day here, but perhaps a little bit of upward bias for a while until just the last several minutes. I think its about everything that you just touched on i think its the majority was President Trump, the expectations coming out of that speak that speech at the Economic Club. Was he going to unveil anything that the market didnt already know so once you get through it and there was nothing new that the market could bite into, the market sells off sort of an anticlimactic feel to the whole day. So we had some a
6 00 here are the results just reporting. 2. 53 a share. A penny above estimates. Just short of 27. 52 billion here are the keys for Guidance Company now expects sales to grow by 1. 8 the previous guidance was 2. 3 1. 8 versus 2. 3 comps are 3. 5 previous guidance was around 4 . Lets bring in senior analyst. So the Forward Guidance is below where it was previous . Yes quickly looking at these numbers, there was a sales miss in the quarter also lowering guidance for the rest of the fiscal year. Sales guidance Sales Guidance. Im not sure whether that is a total company or domestic. The street was around five that is a point and a half the street is a full point above where the company had guided the company had guided four. For the quarter ill look at the quarter first the street was around five for the year, the company had previously guided for four they missed roughly a point, point and a half in q 3. They are taking guidance down about 50 basis points. The real message here. It is a
Nordstrom, one of the retailers that defined expectations this week, it seems like the market is all over the place with these retailers, to put out a positive vibe for the holiday season. Earningscame out with that pleased the street. A lot of shortsellers likely to get squeezed today. Other consumer goods were up 6. 5 . Smuckers has been punished with the likes of conagra and campbell. Guy in europe, we have stocks higher. Volume looks all right. The pound trading lower. In terms ofk services and manufacturing. We saw a week data coming out of the eurozone. Christine lagarde has been talking in germany, talking about the idea that we need some joined up thinking when it comes to Government Spending and monetary policy. Will that actually deliver . We will wait and watch. Vonnie lets get to hong kong. U. S. Legislation supporting protesters has been drafted and agreed to by both houses. As for President Trumps signature, he is counting amid trade talks with china. I stand with hong ko
Certainly has been weakening i know businesses spending on software purchases technology purchases, but do you think now businesses are sitting on cash because of the uncertainty around trade. That is what we hair travel around meet with businesses, farmers are absolutely nervous suffering from low prices you are hearing manufacturers nervous some export nervous about trade wars some nervous about globe environment we know that europe is slowing we know china is slowing so i think there is a general level anxiety that is causing people to pause. What can you tell us about minneapolis are you seeing weakening there i know there was some worry or speculation that maybe Unemployment Rate was ticking up. The minnesota rate kicked up from very low levels i am not hearing businesses saying laying off workers i am hearing caution about how many more they are going to hire, so o i am hoping just noise in the data but something we are paying close attention to is this upcoming week getting anot
Certainly has been weakening i know businesses spending on software purchases technology purchases, but do you think now businesses are sitting on cash because of the uncertainty around trade. That is what we hair travel around meet with businesses, farmers are absolutely nervous suffering from low prices you are hearing manufacturers nervous some export nervous about trade wars some nervous about globe environment we know that europe is slowing we know china is slowing so i think there is a general level anxiety that is causing people to pause. What can you tell us about minneapolis are you seeing weakening there i know there was some worry or speculation that maybe Unemployment Rate was ticking up. The minnesota rate kicked up from very low levels i am not hearing businesses saying laying off workers i am hearing caution about how many more they are going to hire, so o i am hoping just noise in the data but something we are paying close attention to is this upcoming week getting anot