Pounds under pressure although german Business Sentiment did hit a tenyear high. The samsung saga getting worse. Galaxy note 7 smartphones permanently discontinued. How are the other players like apple being impacted . Well have the latest from twitter. Well give you the latest on the continued talks with salesforce. Alcoa shares falling this morning. Coming up we dig into that report and talk to Klaus Kleinfeld in a cnbc exclusive. First up, samsung has permanently halted production of its troubled galaxy note 7 smartphone. The recall could cost as much as 17 billion. Apple is poised to open at its highest level since december of last year. The stock is up 21 in the past three months. Were now on to a cycle where the replacement phones are catching fire. The company says if you have them, turn them off and were simply not going to make them anymore. I believe the company told people in china that it was the batteries that were the issue. They tried to make a little difference about th
The rallys sales. We only need a gain of about eight points for a new high. Were already up 60, and thats even off the highs of the day here, kelly. Thats right. So, were sitting at 17,120 on the dow. There are reverberations from yellens remarks, particularly in biotech, down today. That may speak all more to the strength were seeing across the Broader Market here. Obviously, keeping an eye on the big names involved in the mega deal you mentioned, we should note right off the bat, shares of fox are down almost 4 . Shares of time warner are surging today. Cnbc first to report that Rupert Murdochs 21st century fox is trying to buy the company, even though time warner is saying no. Murdoch is apparently pressing. We will speak with former universal chairman bob wright, who knows all the players involved here, about how this might play out. Will murdoch add to his empire . How much could it cost him when all is said and done . And does it make sense in this environment . Well talk to bob
Low. Our road map with stock futures in the red. Exxon and conocophillips moving some of those stocks. Sales force surging on the news it hired advisors to look at takeover offers. More of the apple watch dlis. A defective component to blame. Apple announcing another partnership with ibm. Well get to that in a minute. First up a lot for investors to digest on this final trading day of april. Consumer spending up 0. 4 last month. Claims down last week by 34,000 to 262,000. Thats a 15year low. Employment costs up 0. 7 . On the earnings front, exxonmobil did top estimates despite a 46 drop in First Quarter profit. Exxon revenue, i love these figures. Last year 106 billion. This quarter, 67 billion. You have to understand exxon had good production growth. People say no one got hurt buying the stock of exxon. This is why. Because exxon really hasnt done anything during this period. When oil was flying exxon did good not great. Oil goes down, exxon shows you the breadth of its products and w
Yesterday. Our road map begins with twitter taking a tumble after earnings leak early. Rick joins us first on cnbc later this morning. And starwood searching on a possible buy out down the road. Big reversal in go pro shares. Go pro guidance beating estimates. The u. S. Economy expanded by only point 2 in the first kwauter. This has businesses slashed investment and exports fail and Consumer Spending accelerates. They plan to wrap up their meeting a few hours from now. Investors will be paying close attention to some hints. Be sure to watch cnbcs special coverage today, 2 00 p. M. Eastern time. People are not expecting much jim, and much of todays data argues much so. Today is a surprising today whether every trend were looking at be for earnings or these numbers being turned on its head. When you see the gdp number if youre taking a step back what could the fed do to make the economy grow faster . This is a devastating number. Obviously, the future has went down a lot. People are so a
The latest legal battle between amppple and samsung begs today. A federal jury awarded apple about 1 billion earlier this year, but the judge tossed out 400 million in damages and ordered a new jury to recalculate damages for 13 samsung products that have been found to be infringing apples patent. In other technology news, the wall street journal reports that googles motorola unit is expected to unveil a low cost phone tomorrow. The announcement is said to come amid weak sales. Right now, lets get to the latest from typhoon haiyan. Sri joins us this morning from manila. We know the situation is dire. We wonder if theres any better insight that you can give us right now. Well, what i can tell you is that the relief operation is continuing. Its under way. But the distribution of goods and essential services, essential relief supplies, food, water and medical equipment is painfully and agonizingly slow. And thats leading to a lot of frustration, anxiety, and anger on the ground among the