Josh lipton joins us with a look at the incredible stock, the incredible year. Hey, josh. Reporter carl, thats right. As 2019 comes to a close, apple investors have plenty of reasons to celebrate that stock has enjoyed a remarkable run surging more than 80 this year. That means apple is on track now for its best year since 2009 another way, it added 530 billion in market cap this year. Thats the equivalent of two netflix, three teslas, with a few billion left over. The nasdaq is market cap weighted, given apples size, it helped to power the index to a record 9,000 level today, most Analysts Covering apple rate it a buy. Nearly 60 in part because they think tim cook with the current lineup of devices will be able to keep iphone revenue relatively flat the next few quarters, even as services and wearables continue to go strongly theyre betting that should be enough to drive Single Digits growth for the company what are the risks for investors to consider . I caught up with gene munster,
Since may. As we said, big beats from cat, 3m and utx zpl global same sales closing 6 for mcdonalds. And pipeline concerns before the ten orders again shipments may only be half of what was expected. Stocks are poised for a strong open help the by results dow components and caterpillar and others, a significant increase in demand for Construction Equipment, 3m and utx beat on the top and bottom line and upbeat guidance for the full year those are going to be the stars today. Some of pretty amazing, caterpillar appepared back the workforce. Its almost as if they pared exactly the right time when orders explode, you get that leverage and youre seeing earnings weve been waiting for caterpillar i would say since 1983 or 84, finally getting the breakout 3 m chugging forward greg haze, great organic growth. I dont want to overlook this Stanley Black and decker, tools up 9 . Some numbers are rather extraordinary and catching attention because these are the same numbers that say gdp will be mu
President obama is meeting with congressional leaders. Republicans say they want to work with the president but john boehner says the president is asking for trouble if you changes immigration without congressional approval. Have made clear to the president if he acts unilaterally on his own, outside of his authority, he will poison the well and there will be no chance for Immigration Reform moving in this congress. He also says he expects the house to vote again to repeal obamacare. President obama sends a letter to iran, asking for help to fight the islamic state. According to officials, it went to top officials. It says the two nations have common interests and putting the militant group. Officials say it makes one of the key point. If they agree to fight, it will not get any concessions on the talks on the nuclear program. World, Big Corporate Television contracts for pro basketball and football. It is cutting into profit at disney. Company posted Quarterly Earnings that beat wall
We are set up what may be a slightly lower open. Lets get to the road map. It starts with phone. Wallets, watches, apples event kicks off in just a few hours. Full coverage of what we will see, what it means for apple stock price hovering just shy of 100 a share. Buy organic. General mills buy annies for about 800 a share. Mcdonalds sales down almost 4 worldwide. Shares continue to struggle. Lets get to carl who 0 is in california awaiting that apple event. David, thanks a lot. You guys and me, weve been through a lot of apple launches together. There are a couple of Different Things about this one today. First one is the i watch has been relatively leakproof by most apple standards. The other difference is the venue. This is where steve jobs unveiled the mac 30 years ago. A watch would be tim cooks new product category as ceo. Apple clearly believes there is something historic about todays event. What do we expect . Lets go through the usual suspect. Iphone 6 in a couple of sizes. The
Overshadow jobs. Retail sales for november. Expectations are for an increase of 0. 6 . This gueives us a very good ide of whats happening in the early shopping season. Ahead of those numbers, the futures right now are indicated lower. You can see right now those dow futures down by 16. 5 points. S p futures off just over 2 points. And on the earnings front, lululemon is expected to record at 7 00 a. M. Eastern time. The expectations have been for 41 cents a share. This after the ceo was forced to step down after making comments about the pants arent made for everyone. Shares of lululemon right now, down about 6 cents. Lets get over to andrew with more of todays stop top stories. Good morning. Thank you, becky. As joe was mentioning earlier, Hilton Worldwide will begin its first day of trading. Hey, squawk box. Thats hot. Thank you very much. Youre pricing at 20 a share. Thats the high end of the expected range. The offering raises more than 2. 3 billion and its trading under the symbol