Covid surges to its highest level since 2018 disney jumping after hours julia . Better than expected top and bottom line results. Ending the quarter with 73 million subscribers. The company also announcing it will forego its next semiannual dividend and thats due to the cause of coronavirus. Disney shares giving up some of those gains, now about 3. 5 . The ceo saying in the call going on right now, the disney direct to consumer business is its bright spot. The growth of disney plus speaks volumes about the strength of our ip, our unparallel granting franchises and creators, all part of the disney difference that sets us apart from everyone else and when you look across our full suite of streaming services, we have exceeded 120 million paid subscriptions worldwide. Meanwhile, a smaller than expected loss. Losing 2. 4 billion due to covid, but down from the 3. 5 billion. The Company Also Reports that they are reassured by booking trends at Walt Disney World and urging california to allow
Reporting doing some on Bloomberg News outside the old nike store. It is a pop up for tiffanys as they blow up their iconic fifth avenue 57th street shop. You wonder what the french will do with tiffanys. Its going to be fascinating. In new york, i know on bond street is a different layout. Icons arese luxury within literally two buildings of each other. It will be fascinating to see where they are after the pandemic. Francine same here, tom. Here it is bond street, and we talk about that segmentation, different jewelry categories for different segments of the population. Always a good it did to buy jewelry. Tom i thought schlumberger a was an oil company. Thats how dumb i was. Francine more luxury throughout the day, and politics. Lets get to first word news with ritika gupta. Zeta hasurricane weakened to a Tropical Storm as it heads through the southeastern u. S. , battering new orleans, left to Million People in the dark, and left President Trump to declare an emergency for mississi
Good thursday morning im Carl Quintanilla with jon fortt and Julia Boorstin is with us for the hour. Stocks in a whipsaw range, down a couple hundred up 100 here. S p 500 up 25 or so after the dows near 1,000 point loss yesterday. Worst day since june on pace for the worst month since march. But then you get a stock like pinterest. Good guide coming up, going against the grain. Julia, remarkable price target increases. Basically doubling what some analysts saw the stock trading to yeah. A lot of positive responses to those numbers there. Really a beat across the board, carl what is so interesting to me is what we saw in this quarter from pinterest is last quarters results were not just a blip but that this is a company that could stand to benefit over the long term from some of these trends were seeing during covid19 there is some surprising, funny Little Things like the fact that pinterest grabbed four million new users due to the fact that people are going to pinterest to find inspir
Stimulus bill. What happens if washington lets us down again and millions of people, especially in the hospitality industry, find themselves struggling to put food on the table . Does that mean we should use a day like today where the averages went up dow gained 122 points. S p climbed 0. 80 to sell everything into strength not so fast. Like i say every night at the end of the show, there is always a bull market somewhere, and even without a stimulus package, weve got a whole bunch of them that should do just fine as a matter of fact, theres a lost of breadth here first, the relentless bull market in housing. You can think tall brothers, dr horton, these companies are huge kinc covid winners. When youre stuck working from home, your housing priorities change who wants to live in a tiny apartment in the city to save time on your commute when you have no commute. This is the zoom economy, people you might as well move to the suburbs or the country where you can have more room thats why t
Protesters have created an opening for looters and police sometimes cant tell the difference between the two even from a purely business perspective, youd think people smashing up major retail destinations like the flagship macys would be bad for the stock market, right . Every time the market looks like its about to get clocked we get a stay of execution. Dow gained 268 points. Nasdaq advanced. 59 last night after president trumps fire and brim stone law and order speech, our futures plummet. Declaration of war replete with threatened deployment of the u. S. Army. Thats not the job, theyre war fighters makes you want to sell stocks for certain. Those futures looked ugly. All those images of looting didnt help. The futures stayed soft. I got up at 3 15 a. M. , expecting precarnage. Futures rallied again. An hour and a half later, the futures were up nicely you know what counteracted the pain a 4 rally in the german stock market with several of their borses not far behind. Yes, we actua