Some gains at the open expectations are high for the chip makers results after the bell watch apple. The midst of a sevenday win streak with a gain of nearly 13 so far this month. Lets begin, though, with target down sharply on this Quarterly Earnings miss and a sales decline. The retailer did say customers cut their spending on discretionary and grocery. Company did reaffirm fullyear guidance, jim. They guided comps down and came in 3. 7 when you talk to brian, hell be insistent that this wasnt anything that you should find unexpected the thing that im struggling with is he talks about the consumer, in tepid terms walmart didnt walmart told about a consumer thats in good shape and price rollbacks. We didnt get price rollbacks from target until this week. So, im beginning to wonder whether target is out of position versus walmart. Where walmart is really starting to walmart plus represent a bargain. Walmart can also subsidize sales because they have this terrific advertising business t
Were going to begin with this years biggest ipo, arm pricing its offer at 51. Thats the high end of the projected range and valuing the softbankowned chip designer at 54. 5 billion, fully diluted. Arm, whose customers include apple and nvidia, looking to ride this a. I. Wave, listing on the nasdaq today under arm, and david has this exclusive with renee haas and masa son. My understanding is that they could have gone 52. Thats what i have been told by any number of people, but masa said, lets do 51 with the prospect that that will position it better for some sort of positive open, and thats important here, given the importance of arm to the overall ipo market given the size of the offering, the focus on it, and the fact that we are expecting more to follow. If it doesnt perform well, that might leave not a particularly good taste in investors mouths. The hedge funds been pared back, long only. Sovereign funds and stepped up and converted from what was interest to actual buying power. W
Rate decision. Apple also in focus as wall street reacts to its launch event, including a new iphone lineup. Meantime, china insists it has not issued a ban on the companys flagship product. Were going to get into all things a. I. With tech ceos meeting with lawmakers on capitol hill to what Salesforces Marc Benioff told jim about that technology. Lets begin with cpi. Obviously, core, bit of a disappointment to the bulls, jim. Gasoline is more than half of the headline, up 10. Car insurance, up 2. 5, but lodging away from home down 3. I was listening to Steve Liesman break it down, and i agree with what steve was saying, its just empirical. Theres nothing that says that gas and oil and have necessarily trickled into the rest of the combination. We do know ive been talking with major insurers who are using, believe it or not, Artificial Intelligence to actually get prices to where they are lower, and i wonder whether that wont filter in as part of a larger conversation about trying to g
Cramer. You can see the dax, which is not having a great year is up. France and the ftse is down ever so slightly. 10year note yield and wti right at 50 bucks and brent a bit above that. The yield at 1. 854. Lets get to our road map this morning. It begins with more painful retail. Were going to break down all of the big earnings that are out this morning on that front. And is the ipo market back . There are Six Companies making their debut today. U. S. Foods we just mentioned here at the nyc, set to be the second largest initial Public Offering on the year. I think Mgm Properties will be the largest still. And what role will apple play in the future of television . The deal, i dont want to say it, were going to talk about this fun story. Its fun. Its never going to happen. Kim jong jim if you havent seen that one. I dont think of you as the fearless leader. No, and i havent spent a lot of time with Dennis Rodman either. Crude surpassed 50. Stock futures also up following on the gains
That s p 500 declined, nascar lostering with need on address an important question. Do we have too many of everything . It sure feels like that on a day like today. Too many stores, too many trucking companies, too many airlines, too many banks, and nothing can be done about it except survival of the fittest. For the longest time the free market took care of itself. The big fed on the small. We had rational markets based on companies able to combine and take out costs. But in the last couple years, the federal government has turns violently against these deals. Were starting to see the havoc as company that grow are no longer given higher priced earnings and the government has chilled the whole darn process. I think it is a back lash to the justice departments willingness to bless too many Airline Mergers with the straw that broke the camels back with the u. S. Airlines deal. That raised prices and it changed everything. It has been downhill for mergers ever since. Think about what has