Profit that Beat Estimates. The world passes largest retailer in the u. S. Raised its fullyear forecast. We will talk about what this means for housing and the u. S. Economy later in the program. And Standard Chartered is settling claims of new york regulators over failure to flag potential Money Laundering of its clients. It may have to pay 300 million and will likely once again get a stern talking to. Lets get back to bhps spinoff announcement. We are joined with details. Tell us about the biggest spinoff in mining history. Why now . Question. A key this could represent the end of the commodities super cycle. That is the first sign of it. Capital bhps return on two years later, 13 in just two years. The reason why you can now argue the assets are finally cash flow positive, they are expecting prices to rise somewhat, metal could also rise, you could argue they are valued about 15,000. Not the worst time to do it. What this winds up reflecting is how horrible the Mining Industry then
Quarter declined because people assumed health care was going to create a delay. Without further delay, lets go to scarlet on home depot. The earnings just came out, a beat, secondquarter earnings per share of 1. 52. Expectedthan bottomline number. Sales topping estimates as well. Depot confirms its fullyear sales forecast. Adding to its buyback program, overbillion Share Buyback the remainder of this year. He moved to engineer a higher earnings per share number continues. With adam parker joining us in the next hour from Morgan Stanley, use of cash. The pressure to deploy cash. You see that in the bhp billiton restructuring. What are we going to do to distribute cash to shareholders. 838 on the the 16 dow. A distinction between home depot and lowes, the Bloomberg Industries team pointed out sales will likely come in stronger. An estimateds 4. 4 . Home depot doing it more effectively than lows. Medtronic and t tj maxx report earnings as well today. Hasuple items of note it been 10 year
Same. Were pretty much at session highs. At the high today, the dow was up 90 points. So, again, we are at 85. Yesterday we saw some buy orders on the close, so well keep a close eye on it here, and on apple, tyler, in particular. Yeah, it could close at 100 or so for the First Time Since splitting 7 for 1, and that means apple would be back at 700 on a presplit basis. Say that five times fast. Well monitor how apple finishes during this final hour of trading. And could we see dow 18,000 this year . Professor Jeremy Siegel thinks so. Hes here exclusively, with no surprise, a pretty bullish market call for this year, and for perhaps beyond. Well get into the details with him and talk about valuation as well, coming up. And how about that new deal from sprint . Did you hear about it . 20 gigs a month of data for 100, but there is one catch, youve got to be a new customer. So, what about someone whos been with sprint for years . Why do they have to pay more . And this isnt unique to sprin
For a hundred reasons, but i think ive got the one that people understood is we bought l. A. Beach front, not seattle beach front. And ballmer gave out his email address to 4,000 plus fans that were in attendance. Were going to talk more about sports later in the hour. Also coming up, our dom true. He sats down with rory mcilroy last night. It was a busy need for rory pep appears on the tonight show. Tiger, will you be be my coach . Yeah. Im hitting the ball to find out for you. I love it. Youre my caddie. This is the best thing ever. Theyre in new york for the start of the barclays and the fedex cup. So a little bit of fun. Ive seen that interaction before. I guess he doesnt remember when we used to jump around like a monkey. Same act with microsoft and the stock prices stuck at 25 for like 16 years. If you buy a team, thats not really a new job. Its a team. His job is sitting on the floor and having starlets come up, dont you think . Yeah, you buy a team you want it to win. Hes a sal
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