We have a forecast coming up. We start with the tail end of earnings and all those predictions that we would see negative Earnings Growth. We had the report and since then the s p 5 hundred index is up about. 9 . Bob pisani is live with where we saw gains and losses and what expected from retail this week. First up the answer to this question. Did we see growth this earnings season . We are pretty close to seeing an actual Earnings Growth picture for all of this season. Lets take you to the score cart. Through this morning, we have got about 447 of the 500 companies in the s p 500 that have reported earnings. Among those, 67 beat estimates. The caveat there as always is maybe its on lower expectations. They have about one in four will say close to 23 missed estimates. We talk about the idea that we might see growth if things go on track for the remaining 10 or 11 yet to report. We could see about two plus percent Earnings Growth. Thats not robust but we were expecting a decline into th
Lender lloyds, posting a profit bigger than estimated. For more, lets bring in mark and richard. Richard, lets start with you. In terms of what lloyds is doing, this is better than expected. Richard it is. These numbers are pretty good. There are no items really below the line, which we werent expecting. There was a charge for the tsb. However making a 1. 2 billion pound profit after that is still pretty good. They also said they expect to beat their own guidance for profitability margins this year. That is pretty good for a bank that is already producing some of the best profitability among british lenders already. Guy and theres francine and theres nothing in terms of provisions. Richard i think theres a feeling that it is just this quarter. Last year, lloyds didnt take any provisions. Last year, it took over a billion pounds worth of provisions for the payment protection insurance. That would probably help this year. Some analysts are expecting about one billion pounds of gain. That
Kellye lets find out what is ahead with the weather. Devon strong storms earlier in the day. Not as much activity since then. Kind of tropical right now. Graduation, George Washington university at the mall, the latest info, chance of scattered showers right when the procession begins at 9 30 and the ceremony at 10 00. Scattered showers and storms really hot. The one constant will be the humidity until the front passes tuesday afternoon. Later next week is cooler. Kellye [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] kellye a daring operation by u. S. Special forces killed a key leader of the islamic state. Jeremy roth explains how it happened and what it means against the fight in the fight against isil. Jeremy u. S. Special forces try to capture him live in syria. When he resisted, he was killed. He was a Senior Leader of isis responsible for their oil and gas operations, a key source of financ
The reality is there was no right of representation when i began. I remember calling up mike brown of the bengals to represent a player, and he said, we dont deal with agents click. That was that. Mostly players had their parents tore did it themselves. The roll of an agent is to serve as a buffer. Years ago i asked Steve Bartkowski in the first negotiation whether he wanted to hear every fact that went on between me and the general managers. And he said, sure, its my life, i want to hear it. I said steve, theyll say no so complimentary things about you. No, ill be fine. We get into the negotiation and the gm says, not so fast, his back is a little bad. This wasnt a strong craft in quarterbacks, but he was the best there was. I conveyed that to steve to which he said, get me traded. Part of my job is to get into the heart and mind of a young athlete, to ask him to rate his values, whether its short term, families or the ability to start. Men do not share, so its a question of peeling b
Epidemic. Plus his advice for Richard Sherman. He twerked his way into the national consciousness, taking a page out of miley cyruss book. When you started off the term super agent didnt exist. If you think about it player representation didnt exist as it does today. How did you start that, and why . The reality is there was no right of representation when i began. I remember calling up mike brown of the bengals to represent a player, and he said, we dont deal with agents click. That was that. Mostly players had their parents tore did it themselves. The roll of an agent is to serve as a buffer. Years ago i asked Steve Bartkowski in the first negotiation whether he wanted to hear every fact that went on between me and the general managers. And he said, sure, its my life, i want to hear it. I said steve, theyll say no so complimentary things about you. No, ill be fine. We get into the negotiation and the gm says, not so fast, his back is a little bad. This wasnt a strong craft in quarter