overnight. the market bounce back, stocks bounce to a higher open after friday s 600-point rout, despite the chinese suffering biggest declines in years. coronavirus claiming more than 360 lives, more than 17,000 confirmed cases worldwide and the question for the markets is just how fast could this spread around the world and hurt the world economy? and facebook ceo preparing for a backlash, what the social network is planning and why mark stuckerberg says it s going to piss a lot of people off. stocks are looking to recoup some of friday s big losses. the market impact of the coronavirus was evident in china overnight. the first trading day since the new year holiday, shanghai closed down nearly 8%, wipes out nearly 400 billion in market value. friday s sell-off drove the dow and s&p into negative territory for january. the nasdaq up 2% for the year but everybody s talking about the degree to which china s shut down and how responsible though are for global growth. i
Lets see how things did overnight in asia. Asia was leading the declines yesterday. This time a little different story. Nikkei closed up by 1. 5 hang seng was up by 0. 6 shanghai was flat. In europe, at least at this early trading hour, there are green arrows across the board. Barely hanging on for the ftse the dax and cac each up by better than 0. 6 looking at crude oil prices, at least right now, crude oil looks like its down 7 cents 55. 26. Couple big stories were watching, mattel has rejected a takeover approach from rival hasbro reuters reporting that mattel believes the offer undervalues the company and doesnt take into account the potential for regulators to rejected the deal on antitrust grounds reports saying mattels new ceo who took over in february may be trying to drive a harder bargain in talks with hasbro the company cut its fullyear revenue outlook. You are looking at both of those stocks now time inc is reportedly restarting talks to sell itself to publisher and broadca
The dax in germany up by. 2. The cac in france is up by a quarter percentage point the ftse is flat crude oil ended down by about 19 cents for the week last week this morning its down another 17 cents to 56. 38. A couple big stories were watching geopolitics. Germans chancellor Angela Merkel said efforts to form a Coalition Government has failed. Merkel has been working for more than a month to work with the, quote, free democrats and the greens after losing ground to a far right party in the september election if a coalition cannot be formed merkel could form a minority government or call for a new election youre looking at the euro down. Big questions about whats going to happen in that country. Also, in Corporate News, Marvell Technology is reportedly nearing a deal to buy chip maker cavium for 6 billion. Its going to create a bigger competitor for chip makers like intel and broadcom it would be comprised of 50 cash and 50 stock valuing cavium at 80 per share. Possible deal was firs
And shanghai up 18 points. The dax up by a half percentage point. Similar gain for the cac in france the ftse in london up by a similar amount the yield in the to twoyear, up 1. 763 also look at gold prices because they were under some pressure yesterday gold down about 1. 6 1,27 1,279. 50 lowes is recording 1. 05. Above the estimates of 1. 02. Three cents above estimates. The revenue number that im looking at, at least sales, 16. 8 billion thats a bit above looking at this forecast company sees fiscal year eps of 4. 20 to 4. 30 if thats not an adjusted number, its below the 4. 50 on the estimate here. 1. 05, three cents ahead. The company is supposed to earn 87 cents next quarter that would have gotten the company to 4. 50. They beat it by three, so they only need84 cents in the fourt quarter to hit that number maybe thats adjusted. If its not adjusted, its below the forecast maybe theres something there. The adjusted number may be different than the 4. 50. Looks like theyre lowering
Yeah. Didnt scrooge send over a turkey at the end . He did something. He sent over dinner. And tiny tim was like, wow, its the best christmas. I dont know if that was the book version or the movie version. Im getting a little wait a minute there was a book huh . Yes, charles dickens. I know you know this we had this discussion there was a book it wasnt just a movie some people we know get all their news in tv which we hope is you at home. We hope you are getting your news here today. Look at the u. S. Equity futures. This is after major averages closed at record highs the s p 500 closed above 2600 for the first time as we saw this technology rally. This morning things are mixed. Dow futures up by 12 s p is down by a point and nasdaq down by 3 points. The major averages have been up three of the last four sessions. The dow had its 60th record close of 2017. The s p 500 saw its 54th record close of the year. Guess how many times, if you want to get to the record, 54 so far this year. The