Gbis our decision zone will bring you live coverage from nbc affiliates across the country. Real time news and analysis as the results come in but right now lets get you caught up on todays business stories as we get ahead. Before we start this is a nice way to think about this. Did you see this cover of the New York Post today, vote for the one you dislike least. But that already irritated me. Already irritated you. One is pro trump, one is pro clinton. For daily news, what do they get . Stop the don con. They need to stop this lying orange facsist. So they get a total we hate do you get anything comparable on the other side. This is the objective version. Yes. This one is im with her and all through it. They get a full throated endorsement for hillary with this tabloid. All you get here is pick the so your gripe is with rupert. He has been a hillary person for awhile i think. Month theres no correlary to the daily news anywhere. What about bright guard. I just heard it didnt matter.
Exchange on cnbc from susan li, taylor swift and myself. Susan in for sara again today. Susan, lets get up to speed on the markets this morning. Basically we were basically flat. Nasdaq down, the other two indices slightly up. Now, they were below flat. Today week just above flat only ten points on the dow. Less than one point for the s p. The nasdaq is up a couple points essentially as i said we are flat in the premarket. Lets have a look at the bond market. The tenyear note this morning trading at 1. 70 . The main market were seeing that is the german bond which well be getting to in just a minute away. Also more on markets. First, breaking political news overnight, Hillary Clinton and donald trump taking victory laps. Nbc news projects that clinton will win a majority of pledged delegates following yesterdays final super tuesday of this election season. Thanks to you, weve reached a milestone. The first time the first time in our nations history that a woman will be a major partys n
Steady. Road map on a busy day for earnings including apple, coke and boeing. Apple surging in the premarket on the sfwheets more from the dnc. Less discord from inside the convention. President obama, joe biden and Vice President ial nominee tim kaine are on tap to speak today. Another tough quarter for twitter and jack dorsey, the stock plunging after results disappoint. What happens to the company next. But first up, apple shares are surging after the Company Reports a beat on the top and bottom line. Revenue did fall for the second straight quarter. Iphones saw the steepest sales decline year on year but that number was less than what the street was expecting. Analysts expecting an uptick in iphone sales when the new 7 is released later this year. Revenue guide not too bad. Jim, cost control, margin guide, okay. Yeah. I think there are probably people at home saying how could they have a huge decline and the stock run. The answer is in the number of iphones that they sold a lot of
Laggards, wti declines 3 . Joe Consumer Staples and telecom leading the way, classic defensive sectors. Matt some individual stocks moving down. Bank stocks taking a hit. Pretty decent losses for heavily weighted stocks. Right aid rose the most this year, up 6 . Point 25 after earnings yesterday, initially down, then coming back today. Up, at 13 , massive move least four analysts have upgraded yelp. Some interesting things in the Government Bond market, particularly u. K. , new lows on the 10 year yield, but action as the boe has trouble with its reverse auctions, not enough bids. Better, but all time lows in 10 year yields. I want to go into the bloomberg to talk about mongolia. Bondis a mongolian euro that matures in 2022. That is higher rates on a Government Bond. They said we are running out of money, major crisis. I think investors have forgotten that Interest Rates can go up and there is sovereign risk. Matt other governments would just print more money, right . Joe the problem i
Hour the nasdaq now negative for the week putting to danger its six straight weeks of gains. The best performing stock on the s p 500 right now ralph lauren, the worst is perrigo. Much more on both of these names straight ahead. I am brian sullivan, melissa, thank you. The Labor Department says more jobs were available in america and more workers were hired in june. The monthly jolts job opening and Labor Turnover survey report says the number of open jobs up 2 from the prior month with hiring up 1. 7 . The trial to determine whether aetnas buyout of humana will go through, the judge in the antitrust case says he expects to rule by midjanuary. The two companies wanted an earlier trial date. Team usa continues to lead the medal count at the rio games. Ten of them are gold, some of them are won of course by Michael Phelps. More on that in a bit. We have a very busy show ahead when we start with two things saying a lot about you, the consumer. They are burgers, and they are bags. Thankful