Up 2. 4 in terms of cocktails. Comp sales. The estimate was 2. 2 . It is the beginning of the backtoschool season. We will see more from the press release in terms of the year forecast. Adjusted earnings per share for 60475 460475. That is a raise. A pretty good outlook for target. We are seeing shares spike in early trading. They are now up to a three quarters of a percent. Olivia thank you so much. Time now for this mornings top stories. Greeces third bailout has cleared a hurdle. The parliament overwhelmingly voted in favor of the package in germany. There are now 30,000 firefighters battling wildfires in the west. They are being assisted by 200 soldiers. Five states are battling 10 wildfires each. The worlds secondlargest homeimprovement chain. Lowes posted secondquarter profits. The rebound and home prices led to Consumer Spending more on their houses but that did not translate into robust sales. Do it model being imported into china will make gm the first detroit automaker to sel
Letsthings first, quickly check on your markets. First of all, i wanted to have a look at the yuan, this is on the back of what we heard from china. Stocks in europe in to be drifting sideways a touch. I think investors are trying to figure out what the next catalyst is. Draghi is due to speak today. And then, the independence claim is tomorrow. N, that thats the bloomberg dollar index, up a touch. Heres nejra cehic. Reporter donald trump claims tax reforms would be worth 4000 a year for the average american household. He asked for help so he could give the country the best christmas president of all. Today are business tax rate is 50 higher than our average economic competitor. This is a giant selfinflicted economic wound. Reporter the u. S. President has said he plans to choose from amongst five finalists to be the next Federal Reserve chairman and will make his choice soon, before he leaves for his 11 day trip on november 1. With canadawound up and mexico rejecting what they see as
One to watch today but if you look at the initial signals, we are lower on the stoxx 600. It was a strong session yesterday for the dax up close to 1. 8 , clearing fresh hurdles, well above that 13,400 level rough day to follow up on some of though gains. Lets see what were seeing elsewhere. Telco is at the top, healthcare is at the bottom most of the markets really showing sectors are declining out of the starting position in terms of that sector, couple of reports in there including sanofi the overall picture is a weaker one. Just outpaced to the down side by travel and leisure sliding by a quarter of a percent basic resources, a slightly weaker start up by a quarter. Utilities off by 0. 2 . The others, media stocks, weve had that sector trade down by 0. 10 . Utilities down slight declines in the early start of the session wayment to get to retail quickly. Next is falling again after a horrible trading session yesterday on the back of its concerns around unusual volatile patterns in
Welcome closing bell, everybody. Really important last hour of trade. Im mandy drury in for maria bartiromo. Im bill griffith. The dow erasing half of its losses following word that the house is scheduled now to reconvene sunday evening, and, of course, thats helping to spark a turnaround on wall street. The guess is that maybe they will have something to talk about by that time. Maybe they will have a deal to vote on, but were not going to get ahead of ourselves right now. The dow down 70 points and was down 140, something in the lows. Now at 13,044. Yes, we were below 13,000 for a time. The nasdaq is down 17 now at 2973. And the s p 500 index is down eight points right now at 1411. So the tax cuts and spending cuts, theres fear of another u. S. Debt downgrade by the major rating agencies. Will that happen, and will it derail any hopes of a real economic recovery . In todays Closing Bell Exchange lee munson and jared bernstein, cnbc contributor and former chief economist under Vice Pr
Along. There was a reaction yesterday to the fed raising rates in what scarlet is calling a dovish height. A dovish hike. Reaction, but today we see a little bit of a downturn in major averages. Stocks back to their holding pattern. 105 sessions know without a drop of at least 1 in the s p 500. Gopro is moving sharply higher after the company unveiled another round of job cuts. Fulltime and open positions are being cut. The company says it will be cutting expenses. Analysts largely positive, but they still wonder where the growth will come from for the company. Gopro shares up 13 . They are listing fitbit, as well. We are also watching momentum stocks, including tesla. The companys elon musk says he needs to raise about 1. 50 1 million more to bring the more affordable model 3 to market he needs to raise about 1. 51 million more. You normally see a drop and chairs, but because this raise was smaller than projected, we as somees jump, even analysts say the company will still need to rai