Today will be the tiebreaker at least but it just tells you a lot about the month. Its been up its been down. In fact an even number of times. But whats also interesting, lets all remember this is the day before the fed announcement and usually you get a very quiet day ahead of that and youre getting anything but right now. Triggers arent taking a stand either up or down ahead of the fed meeting. Final hour of trade begins with the dow down 129 points after a strong session yesterday. Interestingly, its not like yesterday where all the indexes were up by about the same amount. The dow is giving up almost 0. 75 . The s p doing better only off 6 points. A third of a percent. And the nasdaq did turn green on the session. Its up by almost 7 points to 4,936. Some interesting moves. Lets see what oil has been doing as well. Down another 73 cents or 1. 6 . Were sitting near sixyear lows for the price of oil, and i happen to know also that the price of gold has been very volatile in todays tra
Now focus turns to tomorrows report from walmart and kohls and whether a key compress of the economy is softening. A turn to apple, a company you probably never heard of is trying to beat apple in its game. The place china, the weapon a cheaper smart phone. That and more tonight on nightly Business Report for wednesday, august 14th. Good evening everyone. Cisco with earnings that top estimates and solid revenues but this quarter is worrying investors. John chambers is warning its revenue will be below wall street expectations and lay off 5 of its work force, thats about 4,000 people. Shares fell as much as 9 in after hours trading. Jon fortt joins us from san jose, john . One of the things that John Chambers said on the call is that cisco is having fits reading the Economic Data and that summarizes the after hours action analysts questioned about what exactly cisco is doing. John chambers said the Global Growth and lack thereof shows inconsistency. The switching business looks good. Th
Good afternoon, am tori campbell. A 10yearold girl is recovering after gunshots were fired into her hayward home, Claudine Wong is live there to tell us why police have a lot of questions about the shooting. Reporter good afternoon, still a very active seen out here in hayward. Take a look at the crime scene unit processing evidence. Police tell us this 10yearold girl is going to be okay. She was asleep in the front bedroom of this home around 2 00 this morning when shots were fired and there were multiple rounds the car had its windows shattered but here is the confusing part. Police tell us no one called 911 when this happened, not the neighbors and not the parents, in fact police didnt know it happened and the girl wasnt taken to the hospital until hours later and it is still unclear why no one called, police are interviewing the parents, the little girl is in the hospital. What we can tell you is there was six people inside the house tote. Two adults and 4 children from 8 months to
Game. The place china, the weapon a cheaper smart phone. That and more tonight on nightly Business Report for wednesday, august 14th. Good evening everyone. Cisco with earnings that top estimates and solid revenues but this quarter is worrying investors. John chambers is warning its revenue will be below wall street expectations and lay off 5 of its work force, thats about 4,000 people. Shares fell as much as 9 in after hours trading. Jon fortt joins us from san jose, john . One of the things that John Chambers said on the call is that cisco is having fits reading the Economic Data and that summarizes the after hours action analysts questioned about what exactly cisco is doing. John chambers said the Global Growth and lack thereof shows inconsistency. The switching business looks good. The routing business except the edge looks bad. Certain geographies, northern europe, north america look good but japan, china dont look as good. What chambers said is cisco is commited to delivering on
Behind us, we can go back to our regularly scheduled earnings. No, we cant. Ill give you explicit instructions about how to handle the stock, but overall the damage i expected from the too hot opening meaning an opening that was much hotter than i would have liked wasnt that threatening to the rest of the market. The average is worth much more in anticipation of alibabas open bug it wasnt that unhealthy. Not that much Collateral Damage given the deal speculation on the floor of the stock exchange. Which brings me to the game plan for next week because i think we can focus on events at hand and not just ipos. Although theres an intriguing now we take it for granted because credit is so hard to get and the average person cant take advantage of the low rates the trawl rich hedge funds managers cash in on. Id like to see the number that tells us the recent dip in ratespurred sales. We also hear from auto zone which has a history of selling off after it reports and almost instinctively rall