Year not beating estimates. David it looks like their stock is down in the premarket about 2. 5 . Home depot before you so rudely interrupted me alix david is funny today. David not very funny. Per depot beat earnings share, a little light on revenue. They basically blamed a lot on lumber disinflation, basically. They are warning a lot about china. One is how they want to eat up the lumber costs, a 21 drop in the cost of lumber. At the same time, you have continued slowing homebuilding, but theres a lag for that. Home depot not necessarily feeling the full effect of that could weakness. Because of the price of lumber, overall sales are down. They took it down for the year. There estimates went down. Ls, theykoh reaffirmed their adjusted Earnings Guidance on that comp sales mess. We will dig into retail more over the next couple of hours. The equity markets looking a little bit soggy here, with s p Futures Party much flat. Dow jones off by about five. It doesnt feel like theres a lot of
Looking at the spread, the two tens, you would thought it would be flatter, it is steeper. Up 82 basis points and getting a by. 2 percent, longest losing streak for the index since may of 2016, the dollar regains strength. David yesterday Federal Reserve chair janet yellen spoke out saying although she still thought inflation was on its way, the model the fed has been using may be off. Shortfall and inflation is a mystery. As of february of this year, inflation was running just under 2 . Core inflation and then we have had a string of several months in which inflation was unexpectedly low. Dan turuollo has worked alongside janet yellen. Great to have you here. Daniel thank you, david. It has been clear for some time that there is not a working model that on a meeting to meeting basis can give any sort of the size guidance to the fed as to where inflation is headed. People understand directionally that removal of slack from the labor market and the economy more generally will stop pushi
You were out yesterday whether it was sorros, icahn, these german 10year threatening the zero bound. Yeah, i did a piece on mad money when the rich people who are big Money Managers have this kind of natural disposition to being negative, we cant necessarily take cue from them. I take my cue from oil. There is no doubt about it oils under pressure today. I dont take my cue from europe anymore because i believe that if the dollar is weak, right now you cant have a weak dollar because theyre buying so many of our bonds. But i keep waiting, thats the only thing thats popping up, the dollar. I do believe the yields are a little insane in europe. This is draghi doing it and hes having some success, and that is weakening the euro. Thats his plan. But i am again not i am more constructive than most because i just think when you look at the overall profile of the earnings weve been getting of late, and there havent been that many, theyre pretty good. But i recognize weve been up a lot. And its