From apple yesterday plus, jim, fedex and adobe to kick around from last night. Wow i mean, these were congratulations gentlemen and ladies calls because the numbers were so unbelievably good, much better than people expected. Now, this is rather amazing, carl why . Because there were firms that upgraded and pushed and raised numbers for weeks and yet they were dramatically exceeded, fedex because of e com, 96 of the growth is e com and adobe because its how companies are able to digitize quickly, particularly retailers, in order to be able to take advantage of this this amazing wave, this amazing boom of ecommerce to the home because of the pandemic so how can there be such a structural thematically strong story behind ecommerce and packages and growth and the targets that fdx has pulled forward by years and all the good news today on vaccines and therapeutics well, i think whats really convincing here with fedex is that theyre talking about how theres actually a weak economy in the S
There and that continues, at least. No rally 37 bucks. So many different stories to choose from. Lets start with oracle. Those shares are jumping ahead of the bell. Apparently beat out microsoft and walmart in a deal for tiktok and jim and i will go over this and find out what represents a deal nvidia arm holdings. Jensen huang will join us later this and verizon ceo, yeah, why not. Talk to us about that deal, as well verizon buying track phone maybe as much as 7 billion with certain targets met. Jim, no shortage of m a and didnt even get to the gilead deal give me your take on where we stand on the markets before we Start Talking specifically about this tiktok transaction. I can argue i want older people who keep saying the market is too high to cover their ears i could argue that all these deals this morning add up to a market that some people think is too cheap. The amount of money that is going into stocks that i think many people felt were overvalued is astonishing, david. And i t
Shares dropping as much as 6 . What made this company take a turn for the worse the traders are here to break down theout look for in name and a lot of others. Were starting with retailers. That was the story certainly this morning when we were on squawk on the street at the beginning of the trading day, the etf tomahawk tracking the space falling nearly 2 . The worst day in more than a month as retail earnings kick into high gear tonight we bring you good, bad and ugly today. Wow. Sound effects and everything. Retail wreck. Lets start with the gold. Tj maxx bucking the trend closing in the green after a beat on both on the bottom line. But then there was the bad thats home depot. It did get hammered this amp missing revenue expect rations cut the 2019 Sales Forecast but the ugly, that is reserved for kohls, the shares down 19 posting the worst day in more than two years we shall also note we just got results from urban outfitters. You can see it the stock down as much as 14 in the aft
Downgrade. Apple and amazon set to report after the bell tonight. Speaking of earnings, were going to talk to shopifys president this hour on the companys latest quarter after topping some estimates but lets begin with tech as we look ahead to apple and amazon tonight the nasdaq, as we said, worst daily performance since february, jim. Are we going to use qualcomm as a read for tonight no, qualcomm is just pa theting i. I was disgusted with that quarter. Im so tired of their hype im sorry. I have a negative attitude about them im positive about other things. I mean, at the start, once again, they do this thing, its great, its great, its great. And then you get to actually, but you know what, its bad, and its weak. Its great, its great, well, its bad, its weak, and this is post auto and handset inventory buildup and, no, im making the samsung story, the solutions to apple. But no it is not a tell now, you could say, well, look, maybe apple is coming in too hot. I think theres a theres t
Stocks not doing much. Revenue forecast, certainly concerning. Well talk to jim a lot about that, and well talk a lot about snowflake. That stock is down dramatically this morning, both on guidance and the news that its ceo, Frank Slootman, will be retiring. Suboptimal. Yeah. Suboptimal. Lets start with the inflation data, sort of get that out of the way before we move on. Whats your take on this pce number . In line is cool. Thats the way i look at it. I think that there were a lot of people who thought after the cpi this one would be bad too, and when you look at the progression of the s p futures, david, it really is incredible how negative people are underneath. I mean, when frank was on, frank holland, this morning, he saw the futures just sinking as if the it was a foregone conclusion that the number would be too high. We keep seeing that, which is, i think, one of the puts underneath the market, is the actual negativity of the futures. Interesting. And to your point, there is th