September, and if you havent paid attention tesla shares are down 10 this week alone only two trading days. If they had gotten ai from oh. Well talk about that, a war of words, openai is firing back at elon musk. Theres 1 chance well talk about it. Publishing emails appear no show the tesla cofounder did support creating a for profit entity. Lets begin with the markets and the testimony from the fed chair today. Jim, got some news on what he will say in terms of written words. Yeah. Look, i kind of when march is off the table, i think this is, obviously, one of those, i want to get a little more expansive and getting tired of the game of what month instead, what i see is a man who said listen, were not going to have a hard landing or soft landing. Were fine if it gets weaker well cut. Its kind of a Great Central bank essay about what you need to do in order to be able to get out of an inflationary period. David, i think hes becoming more of a, lets just say a true statesman how far to
Fivemonth wing strning streak o far. Its the busiest week of earnings season with more than 160 s p 500 constituents reporting. Merck, pfizer, uber, jetblue, marriott, caterpillar. Weve got a lot of different earnings reports to get to this morning. I mentioned caterpillar. It did top estimates also lower sales and potentially tighter margins in the Third Quarter. The companys ceo will join us later. That is just the bearish they had a great number. Well talk about the fact that they dont even have enough product. The bears like to get to it very early. This is routine. They did it before they took the stock down from 230 all the way down to 206. Jim, what we spoke listen, the bears didnt know what they were doing then the stock went straight up to 265 im absolutely happy to deal right at the front. 2 top line revenue growth, 22 . Thats called good. I didnt mean to get right into im not disputing its good it is good the only question is whether or not the stock has already accounted fo
End down today, it will probably still be a strong july wall streets eyeing what would be a fivemonth winning streak thats very impressive. It is we have some downgrades today on the research front. Ford, ge, csx, u. P. S. , salesforce, thats just a few. We will dig into some of the reasons why. And twitter left its heart in san francisco, but elon musk saying the newly branded company, x, will still call that city home despite its downward spiral, as he says ill be out there next month. You will . Well, september, for dreamforce oh, dreamforce. Im a big believer in the city, and i was out there in september and was i dont want to say i was horrified. But its mnot the city that i remember were going to talk more about that, but i want to get to the markets as we start our coverage for the week. Today is our last day of july. As we said, fifth straight month were coming off what was a fairly strong week sure. And what seems to have been generally speaking, and of course, we got a lot mo
More than a decade earnings in focus, state of texas, ea, match, humana and amds chief lisa su will join us later this hour. Apple sports books reportedly reaching a new streaming deal with the pac12 lets begin with the fitch downgrade. Downgraded the u. S. To aa plus you talked about this last night. Is the market shrugging it off or not i think it has to in some ways, its just an upgrade of the way we run our country, and i think you want to go back and think, well, what happened in august 5 of 2011 when the s p downgraded us s p was at 1,119 it had gone down to 1,095. So, there was a big decline. Then, one year later, it went up so, in other words, if you just take the worst case scenario, which is what happened in 2011, it was an amazing buying opportunity. And when people looked at it, i think they said it was quizzical. Tim geithner was very angry, said it was wrong. This one says, youre a completely dysfunctional country, and we recognize that but all countries are dysfunctional
Im melissa lee. Always good to have you, rebecca. And we start off with the sea of red on wall street major indices all down over a percent ahead of tomorrows fed decision investors seeing a more than 80 the central bank will raise rates another quarter percent. The big banks and regional efts hitting their lowest levels since late 2020. Pac west, western alinls, and comare ka down double digits the oih dropping 6 , lowest close since october, as crude tumbled back to the 70 mark investors blocking to the safety of gold. Both the Precious Metals and the miners offering some refuge amid the volatility the banking crisis not solved, the fed set to hike yet again, and a new xdate for the debt ceiling now just weeks away, not months so, theres a lot going on here, guy. Feels like people just want to be riskier not a trifecta you want to win. Bank of america, whisper of its 52week low. Not trading well and dan mentions it all the time the banks are so vitally important, its interesting, whe