Boone pickens, another bloomberg exclusive. Welcome to Market Makers. I am Stephanie Ruhle p or and i am matt miller in for Erik Schatzker today. You know why he is not here . Today is the 41st birthday of matt miller. Happy birthday, big boy. Thank you very much. After what i can only describe as a blood bath last night for the democrats, republicans won just about every disputed race in the country, capturing the u. S. Senate in the process. President obama will hold a News Conference about what this means administration. Lets go to White House Correspondent Phil Mattingly in washington, d. C. The president is pretty clear right about what occurred last night at what that means Going Forward for his agenda is a couple of things. I think youre going to hear some conciliatory remarks saying he wants to bring republicans to the table, he wants to find issues they can work on, but he also wants to have a delicate balance to her he will say he will keep moving forward on executive actions
My producers will once again try to stump me with tonights mystery guest. All of that and more. First, let us get headlines from my radio cohost carol massar. Netflix out with its earnings after the close. The Worlds Largest Online Subscription Service had its net income more than doubled. The stock is slightly higher in the afterhours trade. In the meantime texas , instruments forecasting thirdquarter profits that may top estimates. The company is seeing demands in machinery and consumer electronics. The stock is slightly down in the afterhours trade. One stock that is jumping in the late trade is chipotle mexican grill, rising as much as 10 . They reported Second Quarter results that beat estimates. Back to you. Thank you. Another headline today is from billionaire investor bill ackman. He is the head of Pershing Square Capital Management and promising to reveal enronlike fraud at the company herbalife. Market makers anchor Erik Schatzker and Stephanie Ruhle interviewed him today. Er
Sectors including the consumer from mcdonalds to chipolte. Breaking down verizon, dupont, and, of course, netflix. We sit down with the ceo, the presentation on the company slated for later this morning. First up, food and drink in the earnings parade. Mcdonalds misses with the second kwaurtd numbers, and flat with the period, up sharply on stronger than expected q 2 results and then theres coke with a slight earnings beat and revenue miss for q2, unit case volume up 3 globally, but flat in north america. The ceo was asked about results in the region earlier this morning on squawk. We were pleased with our north american results, first because cocacola grew. Secondly, because our pricing was very strong in this Second Quarter that just passed in north america. Our price makes sparkle beverages up 3 , three points. I think when you take the totality where we are in north america, i think were making steady progress. Thank goodness for china and india, up 9, 10 . They call it a low quali
Gasparino, david asman and greg rayburn. Thanks for joining us. Charlie, what do you think . I said this yesterday, bill ackman is very good investor but when it comes to this stock his bark is always bigger than his bite. Melissa how about the tears . This got a little bizarre. You talk about your parents, people get emotional. Lets be honest here. He is attacking the company. Calling for a company to be put out of business. Is attacking the cfo, the executives of this company as people perpetrating a fraud. Melissa i called it a criminal enterprise. I want to know. Well have the cfo on to respond. If you do that my guess you probably stay away from sentimentality involving your great grandparents that emigrated from eastern europe. You dont go there. This is a serious thing. Melissa yeah. He is basically trying to put a company out of business. Melissa as a ceo of a public company, having been in this seat, how would you respond . I actually think from what ive seen and your guest wi
Between the government and the opposition. You are looking at video of that fight right now. We have a reporter on the ground in key of, joining us right now on the phone. What is the mood there . Todays mood is a mixture of relaxed compared to before. A little bit. There was no victims were injured people since this morning. A couple of fights during the night, according to some of the protesters who were wearing protective gear and were armed stakes and selfmade weaponry. For the moment, it is called here. People are gathering on the streets. There are several thousand people in the center of kiev. What is the sense as we head into the weekend here . Two people on the streets feel like there is an opportunity for things to get done . Or do you get a sense that the tension is melting . Its a mixture. Calmension its like but the feelings are like the storm is coming. There was a moment of great excitement in the street when people decided that the president would resign. They took his