After yesterdays strong rally following on the heels of wednesdays strong rally, were up about 1 on the dow. I dont like to talk about the dow but unless the s p stronger. China did all right. Shanghai up 1. 8 . Shenzhen up, and nikkei at a 3 gain. We were below 2 at one point on monday in the craziness, but now were hovering in the 1. 2. Crude had its best day in many years. Well above 40 again. Monday, we fell below 40. It has been, to say the least, a volatile week in many markets. Lets get to our road map this morning, and it starts with the last trading day of this wild week. The dow coming off its biggest twoday point gain ever, not percentage but point gain. Equity futures, slipping. Carl icahn has his next target. Why commodities . Why now . Well talk about a company weve talked a lot about and mr. Akahcarl icahn himself, and the takeover continues. Pa perrigo is saying were not interested. Ill have more on what to expect as the Companies Battle it out. Futures moving to the do
Football but i take it way too seriously to go by that fictional rubric tonight after another decent day for the averages, s p fansi fansing. 57 a new alltime high for the nasdaq its time for me to show my reality, not fantasy, but reality stock team in my head last night, while i was busily putting together what could be a championship ski daddy ski team which competes in the mad money slump, i am hoping after being bounced in the semis last year, to go back to my dynamic form i know i have the makings of a strong squad all there on twitter to see. But this is cramerica. Not slump a decka. Even though we all know better to draft in the first round, unless theyre tom brady, we all know that apple is the tom brady of stocks. An ageless, unstoppable force. The rap against apple is its just mobile. Apple is the greatest Consumer Product of alltime, as i look at brady as the greatest quarterback of alltime. Even though tim cook went to auburn while brady was a walk on at michigan, cook is
Already. I have enough people begging me for negatives. Dow gaining 20 points, s p rising 1. 2 , nasdaq advances. 0 i feel like i got to lay out some worries and woas. Now told you how erin tweets dysfunction tax policy, the rocket man create a hideous back drop at any moment something yelling out of contractor like Interest Rates and rock step that will be a real blow to the bull cause. But those are all big think issues kind of thing that drives me a little crazy steams me because its total thumb sucker journalist since were casting it requires nothing thats out or even like homework, im letting the others naval gaze im covering my with a tie my daughter got me, and a tshirt underneath if there was one thing i learned at Goldman Sachs is you have to preserve your dress shirt with a tshirt. Now youve learned something from today little different than what you came for its always worth considering things from the bearish point of view i want to play definitelys advocate that hits the r
Small cap russell index is often seen as a proxy for tax reform that index is underperforming again today. Well have the latest on any changes to the house tax plan, and we have an update on the senate tax plan. Which is still to come lets start, though, with todays earnings parade that is driving big moves in the market. In various stocks. Bob pisani joins us now with the highlights from this morning and we have a preview of whats still to come here tonight, bob. Retailers coming, bill, but remember 75 done. Still a lot of retailers just want to companies in general, just take a look at royal caribbean, nice move up here beat by 9 cents. Despite the hurricanes and the issues, they gave a terrific 2018 outlook thats why the stock is up almost 3 . Move to the left, remember coach, well, its now called tapestry, that i had a decent number here. The small beat, revenues were short. Remember, now, they now own kate spade. So theyre merging the company i would call this a transition quarter
Busiest earnings day of quarter. The treasury secretary on the tax rollout. And the ceos of dow chemical and Southwest Airlines in the next 60 minutes. First up, the white house is pushing what it calls the largest tax cut and reform in history. This morning on the today show, the treasury secretary was grilled about how the plan will be paid for. And mr. Secretary, would you be willing to raise your right hand and look at the American People and say, i Steven Mnuchin promise you that this will be revenue neutral and deficit neutral . So right now, were working with the house and the senate. This is now about taking the president s principles and turning them into a bill that we can get passed and the president can sign this year so we can create Economic Growth. And were going to work closely with congress to get this done. So matt, yes, our principles are, we want to pay for this with Economic Growth and with reducing lots and lots of special interest deductions. Ive got to get your