Line for q2 and the second half of last year was the strongest since 2003 and europe is trading much better than the nikkei would have suggested. Our roadmap begins with the market. Stocks are set to open in the green this morning after the major indices fell more than 1 in trading yesterday. The good gdp number helping sentiment after the economy grew as we said by 3. 2 . Speaking of green, shares of facebook are soaring after sales and profit topped estimates thanks to a major increase in mobile ads. Profit for the year totaled 1. 5 billion compared to 53 million in 2012 and what a difference two years makes. Google is selling motorola to lenovo for just under 3 billion. Just a couple years after buying the company for about 12. 5 billion. But well begin with the markets. Futures are pointing to a higher open after yesterdays selloff on the gdp reports and claims and the economy is growing 3. 2 in the last quarter shrugging off the effects of the Government Shutdown and the debt stan
The market. Big surprises already this year, in this young year. Gold and treasuries not acting the way anybody thought they would. Absolutely. Speaking of earnings, its a huge day for earnings today. The biggest day of the season. We get some big names after the bell that could have an impact on the market tomorrow. Amazon and google will be out with their results in just about an hours time. We will get you the numbers first. We have a ton of experts standing by ready to break it all down. These are widely held names. Gotten a lot of read through. No doubt about that. The neverending search may be ending. Our partners are reporting the microsoft search for a new ceo could be coming to an end within the next week. Who could it be . Whos behind that question mark right there . Why is it taking so long . And a reminder, heres where we stand across the major indexes right now. The dow up about 110 points. Its off session highs. The nasdaq adding 79 at this hour. The s p 500 up 21 points.
Business confidence there down for the first time in five months. Our roadmap begins with the nasdaq looking to turn around a second consecutive slide in biotechs, deterioration in what some of these momentum stocks we say. Cloud storage firm box planning to raise over 250 million in an ipo and list under the ticker box. Reports that manager knew of the gm ignition problems prior to the launch of the cobalt and withheld some vehicle data. First up the nasdaq hoping to rebound the morning after the selloff which saw the index closing at 5 1 2 week lows and biotechs took a hit and tesla and netflix. We talked about it yesterday, and wonder if this is a longerterm dynamic in terms of leadership. I think that gilead comeback yesterday was significant but a lot of the others didnt. You know, were going to be talking about box filing and i look at that offering and i say or drop box, too, i say, these are the kind of companies that are putting a lot of pressure on the rest of the companies.
This is the first time that a Motorola-Lenovo collaboration is coming to the public. Motorola recently got leaked for its latest ventures regarding a new smartphone called the "ThinkPhone," and this device is allegedly coming next year for the world to see and use.