All starts about 8 30 a. M. Eastern time it is the busiest day of earnings season bringing you reports of 3m, hershey and more like comcast september durable goods orders and the latest read on home sales. Tesla shares soaring. Earning 1. 86 per share versus a loss of 1. 82 per share they have reported producing 300,000 vehicles the company saying it is ahead of schedule with its new giga factory in shanghai and on the long awaited model y cross over and expects that launch by next summer what ceo elon musk said on the Conference Call for demand of electric vehicles. When flat screens came out, it was a big step in demand because now getting a flat screen was much better than having a small crt screen tv weem see the same thing instead of just buying a car because their last car wore out, theyll buy and electric car because it is fundamentally a better car. Big numbers for investors to a large degree on prediction of when this motdle y will come and when this factory will be on board.
Road map begins with china trade concerns, retails biggest sales decline in seven months, corporate earnings in focus. B of a rallying on a beat, futures point to a muted open. Capitalism under fire a bit democratic president ial hopefuls square off and taking aim at big business and personal wealth. And billionaire marc benioff will join us at post nine. Well talk tech regulation, capitalism, ipos and who he is eyeing in the 2020 race. Stocks are on track for a modest open a day after the dow close the above 27 k for the first time in almost a month s p finished shy of 3,000. B of a beats the street with quarterly results. On the economic front, retail sales were down. 3 in september. Revisions were better. Gas stations down. 7 people say maybe this has to do with gas prices. Perhaps it does when i take a look at what is going on, if you read between the lines with bank of america, which is just a gigantic bank, gigantic consumer bank, talking about 5. 7 growth in Consumer Spending ye
The half. Im scott pop ner the next flicks numbers hours away now, those earnings coming up can the beaten up stock get back on track it is 12 00 noon and this is the Halftime Report. Announcer netflix facing its final quarter of calm before the streaming wars with apple and disney begin, but investors need to tune into retail sales falling for the first time in seven months are cracks beginning to form in the consumer and what does it mean for the market . Amazon getting a huge price hike ahead of its earnings next week the traders take their position. The Investment Committee is ready to go. Halftime report starts right now. Good to have you with us on this wednesday, our Investment Committee, joe chenova, steve wise the count down to the netflix numbers, competitors lining up to do battle with that company pete, you own it. I do. I think you are the only one on the desk who does doc, you do. John, pete its not the same we have a lot of different strategies going on. There is competi
Morgan brennan and jon fortt at post nine. Market improving on headlines from larry kudlow. Facebook, amazon, alphabet trading 7 to 15 below peaks on that, we turn to mike santoli about what it says about big tech valuations. Valuations moderated, sentiment has turned i think mostly were talking about alphabet, facebook, and amazon opposed to netflix. Analysts talk about potential some of the parts type valuation. Break up value Type Analysis of the companies, not because they think theyre likely soon to be broken up, want to surface the idea theres value not recognized in the markets. It was emblematic, saying google cloud partners is worth 225 million. If you buy into that, is Amazon Web Services worth all of amazons market cap . You can go on with the conventional wisdom that facebook was somehow broken up, someone some of those off, maybe the sum would be worth more than it is now, right so i think this is mostly a wall street exercise. But it shows you that faang became faang beca
A couple of big stories this morning. Peloton pricing the ipo. Price tag at 29 a share raising about 1. 6 billion now valued at roughly 8. 1 billion makes about a billion in revenue but loses 245 million annually. Now under the ticker pton. The peloton ceo will join us live this morning. If you have questions sen them in peloton. 245 million in losses well talk about the math of that and where they see profits and what it all means. Does anyone know about the treadmill . I do. It is expensive. It is about 4,000 the bike is about 2,000 plus. I have one. The bike is quite a piece of equipment. It is heavy. It is really well made i just got one two weeks ago. You can have someone screaming at you you can go outside. It is there, all free. Eamon javers is with us the hardware is a highmargin product. Higher now than an iphone. It is the services and the investment and the media component costing them they are doing a lot of build outs is that recurring cost or eventually be built out . The