Sales rose during the month of february. Is a weathert story. I know youre sick of talking about it. Jpmorgan chase estimated that in january we spent 24 billion dollars extra just staying warm on gas, electricity, money that did not go to dining out and two dresses and things like that. Were going to look to date to things like building materials. Do we buy more snow shovels, snowblowers and salt . It might give us a rough indication of whether we kept spending, but clicking the mouse at home instead. You mentioned the cars. They stole sold more units, about dollar volumes, it includes service and cost of parts. That category could go either way. Watch coreg to retail sales. Leave out cars and gas. You have what goes into gdp and that will tell us something. How ishe weather, this report . We talked about how much a shift towards internet shopping there is. Havees seem that investors figured this out. They do not care about it as much as some other numbers. It is always heavily revise
President of the cox communication. That is followed by a Research Analyst interview. Here is john skipper up first. What is the biggest competition for espn and in 510 years now what do you see as the biggest competition . There is a lot of competition and always have been. The leagues have their own networks. A lot of attention is playing because fox sports is going to have a new station and nbc launched one a year and a half ago. There are conference networks. Turner, cbs and we have a lot of competition and mostly competition for programming right or talent for advertising dollars and eye balls as well. Where does it go from here . Oh, i think it will get more complicated and competitive. Everybody understand that sports and live sports is the sweet spot of media and almost the only thing you have to watch live. And it might be social media sites doing tweeting about sports. Other Cable Networks and everybody understands the rights are valuable. And espn available on all devices .
This week on the communicators, we focus on the future of television. This past year, we attended the cable show and spoke with espn Resident John skipper and pat esser, the president of medication. That was followed by our the ofsident of communication cox communications. What is the biggest competition for espn . And five years five years from now, what do you see as the competition for espn . The lease of their own networks. Right now, there is a lot of attention being played because one. Ill go digital sports nbc lost the channel a couple of years ago. Network. A conference turner, cbs, plenty of competition and it is mostly a competition for programming rights, more talent for advertising dollars and. Ltimately for eyeballs so where does it go from here . Hi think you just get more public internet and more competitive. Everybody understands that sports is the sweet spot of media. It is almost the only thing that you have to watch live. That has increased its value and i think ever
Washington for urgent talks with president obama. With eachalking other. The german chancellor and american president speak about an aggressive russia. We will bring it to you live at noon. Welcome to Market Makers. Im stephanie ruhle. Erik schatzker is out. Im joined by the well manicured matt miller. Cure ifd to get a mani you were going to be on set with me. It is friday. Jobs day. The headline number is the best it has been in more than two years. Payrolls rose by 288,000 in april, far more than estimated. Unemployment dropped to its lowest level since before the collapse of lehman brothers. But there is a lot beyond the headlines. I want to bring in michael mckee. You are the man who delivers the real deal. Walk us through it. The headlines look great but the market is not excited. No champagne. The headline number is good but the details are not as good. That is why we are seeing markets back off from their initial excitement. A a tale of te it is tale of two surveys. We are comi
I matt miller. Im matt miller. Im Cristina Alesci. Perfect timing for us worked out pretty well. Certainly did. Breaking news on the economy. A key gauge coming up. Mike mckee in the news with the headline. This will be a good news stories as well for the markets today. The isam report for the month of april comes in at 54. 9, more than expected and up from last point seven. The economy and manufacturing continuing to get together from the freeze we saw this past winter. Thanks so much, mike. I want to get straight to the big news out of order this morning. Ford officially confirmed what we have known for a long time, mark fields will be the next eeo. Here he is at his News Conference earlier this morning. Aboutm very passionate product and i share built by the vision on leading the industry through innovation, because it is exciting and it is great for our customers. Is the product and innovation that first brought me to fort hood five years ago. Before wef years introduced the taurus