Such a streak. U. S. Equities close at 1 00 eastern. Road map begins with the santa rally. Nasdaq with nine consecutive record closes, longest streak since 1998. Retailers bracing for that last minute rush on this final shopping day before christmas. But Delivery Companies also under pressure from the late push. And weworks cofounder may have big reasons to smile this Holiday Season a report says his 1. 6 billion exit package could get sweeter well fill you in. With markets in record territory, investors are in a better mood. The 2018 Christmas Eve period saw the dow tumble 653 points. S p down 27. Nasdaq 140 drop. Since then, those stocks have surged the nasdaq leading the major indices with a 44 gain since then we forget, december 26 we came in the day after christmas, and the dow and the s p rallied 5 it was wild a year ago. I remember vividly sitting on Christmas Eve, watching this show and i probably shouldnt have been doing that on Christmas Eve. I was, and it was plungingsinki t
Die. Thats the mantra so many businesses out here. The tsunami of invention disruption reaches far beyond this intense city and the valley that abuts it. The storm clouds darkening the fortunes of others in the inevitable riptide of creative destruction. The reverberations rattle whole industries with a wake so brutal they often determine the direction of stock prices in whole segments on a day where the dow dropped 55 points, s p lost. 16 and the nasdaq decreased. 24 lets just deal with the news. Take the biggest stock news of the day, the possible combination between shop and Td Ameritrade with the former buying the latter in a 26 billion combination that would create what might be an unbeatable 5 trillion online colossus these two companies have been sworn opponents ever since electronic trading became the way of the future more than 25 years ago. They have been in a battle for assets come on, its been incredible. And assets and commissions, the latter knowing no bounds with pervasi
Bolton and mike pompeo as folks who were complicit in these arrangements the testimony of Gordon Sondland had been widely anticipated because hes one of the only witnesses being called who has spoken directly with the president. There is uncertainty over how many times he spoke with the president , but hes someone who appears to have the president s thinking and now in his Opening Statement he will say that he believes there was a quid pro quo. Guys, back to you. Really quick, the times this morning also adding another layer that he kept the secretary of state mike pompeo perhaps more informed than we were previously led to believe. Any sign of that in the testimony that you have seen reporter the testimony itself is 19 pages long for his Opening Statement. So were still digging through it and, of course, well hear him deliver it in just a few minutes. But one thing we also do know is that he largely confirms the account of a state Department Aide who says he overheard Gordon Sondland
What your technology does. It only matter who uses it, whos the customer thats what i keep thinking. Today another sedate session, s p inched up. Nasdaq. 04 need a microscope here we keep learning this same lesson about technology over and over and over again in this elongated earnings season, and its pretty jarring, because normally we care about what technologies actually does, if its helpful, if it increases speed or accuracy or power or productivity, well, it tends to be a suchls. Buy, buy, buy if its clunky and dead on arrival sell, sell, sell not these days, though. These days wall street only cares about who your customers are. Good, bad, as long as youve got the right end markets, your stock is going to be worded. Lets use roku, okay, and cisco. Roku sells to the consumer, sells to you their Technology Helps you stream videos directly to your tv cisco is a networking company, a colossus that sells to what is known as the enterprise, giant complex companies that need to connect
Europe is steady powell makes some remarks later on tonight road map begins with megadeal monday lvmh announcing a deal to acquire tiffany. Charles schwab buying ameritrade, 26 about the all stock deal it will combine the companies the two biggest publicly discounted brokers will have more than 5 trillion in client assets ebay set to sell off stub hub for 4 billion david has details on that. Lets start with this Historic Deal in luxury goods lvmh will acquire tiffany. The deal is worth 135 a share, two Companies Expect to complete that deal by mid2020. I assume you can fill us in on what is going to happen to the brand, synergies and all of that. Listen, i mean, it is an important transaction for lvmh, which tried twice before as my understanding and not been able to get there had done it privately. From a m a Strategic Point of view, this went about as well as sort of it had been could have been hoped for from both sides. Seasoned advisers on both sides, who i think i thought they wou