Average of the three. European markets this morning, lets take a look. We are in the whoa. Gave us a few more there. Look at that. They added italy and spain. Getting a little creative there in the old production booth. Thanks, guys. Always wanted to know whats going on there. But the three we look at are all down and there is the 10year note yield at 1. 52. Crude hanging there above 42. It has for the last few days as you also see brent. Lets get to our road map this morning. And it starts with the earnings out from yesterday from disney, which topped estimates, making a billion dollar streaming bet as well. We will take a look at the companys video plan and hear what ceo bob igor has up his sleeve. Major Retail Stocks on the move after earnings. How the retailers are handling the pressure that keeps up in that industry. And Michael Phelps making history last night. We will go live to rio and get carl to bring us up to date on all the latest action, including that amazing and very clo
Going to be up at the open. It would appear at least judging from the futures. European markets have had more or less reasonably decent day. Good, love to see it again. Thanks everybody. Thats going to be a constant now. You see the one outlier is the ftse 100 in the uk. 10year note yield and crude oil, crude was a story yesterday going down, 10year note yield around 1. 5 and now crude up a bit but did seem to take the market down a bit yesterday. As it weakened in the session. Alibaba reporting its earnings this morning and they did top estimates. Overall revenues were up 59 year over year. Gross merchandise volume jumped 24 . Joe tsai is the executive vice chairman of alibaba and he joins us now from hong kong. Its always nice to have you, joe. Theres a long delay, i should let our viewers know. I will talk and then you talk. Not sure were going to be able to talk back and forth as much as we might want to. Let me start with this, joe. Of course a very strong quarter. You did report
A new holiday began in 2014. Part of the move to force people to take vacation days. They dont like to do it over there so they keep making more and more national holidays. This is about encouraging people toll of appreciate japan hes mountains. Shanghai was down half a percentage point. In europe and some of the early trading there, youll see most of the markets are in the green. The dax is up half a percentage point. The cac in france is up. 70 . The ftse down just. 30 . Crude oil prices as scott mentioned, look, its a pretty big deal. Iea warning its going to take a while to work it off. Wall street journal says saudi arabia hit output. Wti down this morning. Scott. On the agenda today. Kohls and macys reporting before the opening bell. Join in the 8 00 hour. Then after the bell, nordstroms releasing results on the data front. Weekly jobless claims are out. 8 30 eastern time. And export prices for the month of july. Among the stocks were watching today. U. S. Prosecutors have opened
Stop. How is spain doing your ask, italy doing . We dont have it today. Oh, my gosh. My kids are there, the italian gdp is going to come out. Come on, guys. We were lower in europe. Back to the big three. The joke has been the last few days weve included spain and italy, not that they are inside joke. Thank you. When the show starts. Yeah. Im sorry. Were in the show. Okay. 10year note yield hanging around 1. 5, where its been. Were a bit below that today and wti had been up there was a rally when for some reason people believed the saudis or their jawboning. To our road map this morning and it does start with the markets. The dow, s p, nasdaq closing at record highs yesterday. Where do we go from here in big Retail Stocks on the move this morning after some earnings. We also got overall retail sales. We will break down the busy week for the sector and go live to rio, of course. You saw carl, the u. S. Racking up a lot of medals. Carl is talking to the athletes and will have a lot of go
Getting you more prepared if the fed decides to take action this month. You can protect yourself with a little more cash than you currently have, but not anything wholesale, not anything dramatic. I am not in favor of that. If anything, i suggest you stay the court if youre a home gamer. I want to explain to you why i feel were facing a decline of moderate proportions, one worth riding through if you can stomach it. Only the super nimble need to take action on what im about to tell you. Let me explain to you how i envision the risk reward versus some of the other declines weve seen in the last eight years. We have had several major selloffs during that period, and each one has had its own coloration. But only one was worth selling a majority if not all of your holdings into. The actual decline that cut the averages pretty much in half. Yes, the Great Recession decline. Thats the tremendous one that occurred when so many of our institutions, mainly household financials but also many ind