From apple yesterday plus, jim, fedex and adobe to kick around from last night. Wow i mean, these were congratulations gentlemen and ladies calls because the numbers were so unbelievably good, much better than people expected. Now, this is rather amazing, carl why . Because there were firms that upgraded and pushed and raised numbers for weeks and yet they were dramatically exceeded, fedex because of e com, 96 of the growth is e com and adobe because its how companies are able to digitize quickly, particularly retailers, in order to be able to take advantage of this this amazing wave, this amazing boom of ecommerce to the home because of the pandemic so how can there be such a structural thematically strong story behind ecommerce and packages and growth and the targets that fdx has pulled forward by years and all the good news today on vaccines and therapeutics well, i think whats really convincing here with fedex is that theyre talking about how theres actually a weak economy in the S
Southwest, at t, dow and Union Pacific this morning, jim, the hard thing today, jim, is going to know where to start. Yeah, i mean, look, i think last night the news flow was, as you said yesterday, heavily weighted toward microsoft which people regarded as disappointment i think that disappointment is not having the greatest quarter in the world, lets just say that today i think that the focus is whats going to happen when these benefits end and which companies are going to be able to continue to deliver the numbers. For instance, chipotle had a great number, will that be impacted whirlpool had a great number last night will that be impact snd what are we going to see with southwest air we had a fantastic interview with american and then secretary mnuchin i felt once again sounds like theres some room to get a deal done. We need a deal or else were going to find ourselves with a consumer who is too strapped and i think that thats what im looking at for next week and then of course im
Im Andrew Ross Sorkin with joe kernen and melissa lee becky is off again we are about 111 points up now s p 500 looking to open about 11 points higher. Flip is around and show you we are at. 952. Still under the six handle i always wonder what the bond vigilantes are thinking now relative to our little equity world. Worth noting we are still 3 well away from the february record highs some highlights. The ceo of Tractor Supply, auto nation venture capitalist, treasury secretary mnuchin, house leader and twitter ceo. A huge lineup straight ahead thats a big show yeah. You guys always have a big show but this is particularly large. For you because you are here people said, melissa will be on book her i think they wanted to do it for you but i think they were scared if they didnt do it of me thats the feeling they got they didnt want to disappoint you. I doubt it thats nice to say but i doubt it im not a scarey person. Im not. Maybe to you nows this morning out of washington. Reaching Comm
The nasdaq by 173. There are reports of a new vaccine in the works word of anything setting back the virus is great news. Over the long weekend, people were out summer is around the corner. People are starting to feel that and that is showing up in the market again some big gains the last week of may treasury gains pushing up. 10year up 0. 7 . Right now sitting at 0. 695 . The big news is whats coming from that Biotech Company weve been talking more about. Absolutely. Hope everybody had a great weekend. U. S. Biotech company novavax said it started the first human study. The initial results they are saying in july the marylandbased firm saying upon completion of phase one, phase two will be conducted in several countries include ug the United States. That stock up more than 20 premarket but really giving rise to markets across the board as well as to what becky was saying all of the folk fols out and ab this weekend giving some optimism at least for a period well see. Maybe there is so
Restrictions, giving us clues as to how consumers may react durables down 14 june wti holding at 17 as energy is the only positive sector for the week a lot of discussion about 2,800, are we range bound where is the ceiling now markets giving all kinds of important clues. A lot of analysts, we follow them for a long time they wait and wait until theres a moment where they can go negative theres enough companies that have done well, i have every piece of research in front of me i dont have an upgrade. I have downgrade, downgrade, downgrade. Because the stocks have run, it gives these analysts a chance to say, uh, im so lucky. It went from 29,000 down to 18 it bounced back, and now i can get off and not look bad and thats the whole tone of this morning i find it curious. I think that in general the companies have done a pretty good job just they like to pull their forecast because who the heck knows. If dr. Gottlieb doesnt know what will happen, why should he expect these guys to know wh