Ahead of the open on the unexpected and welcome profit beat. Getting set for the latest on Consumer Prices and what it could mean for the fed decision next week. Its friday, april 26th, 2024. Youre watching Worldwide Exchange right here on cnbc good morning and welcome to Worldwide Exchange. Were coming to you live from cnbc london. Thank you for being with us on friday morning lets kickoff the check after whipsaw action yesterday with the major averages closing off session lows offer the weaker than expected gdp print and what was the busiest day of the First Quarter earnings season. Look at the beats. You see they are in the green. Nasdaq up 1 the dow looking like they would open 60 points higher. S p up. 75 . The big story is big tech led by alphabet and what you could call a triple crown Earnings Report First Quarter revenue and net income ahead of estimates. 17 billion in Free Cash Flow announcing the Quarterly Dividend and 70 billion Share Buyback program. The stock is popping af
Tech bouncing back microsoft and alphabet up sharply. Plus the Biden Administration is awarding micron 6 million in federal grants to boost production of chips in the state of new york and idaho. Were going to discuss all that with microns ceo. Hes live at post nine and the oil giants, exxon and chevron, both posting lower First Quarter profits. Mike wirth will join us this hour well go over those results. Lets begin with the markets and this mornings inflation data, highly anticipated, jim, not just core pce but best couple of months on spending in about a year look, this is a front frontsybacksy day versus what we got im going to mention somebody. You tell me if you agree pangloss pangloss. Panglossian number. Were taking the s. A. T. This morning . Thats where youre starting the show today on this friday in late april you want to explain that to everybody else the bonds are right i have to tell you, carl, last night im sending a note to ruth in the middle of the night, fantastic. Al
Strong results. Caroline jeff bezos and andy jassy deleting chaps amid an antitrust probe. Lets check in on these markets. This is a macro picture on the day and some earnings galvanizing a drive higher. Nasdaq up more than 2 then. We see the core pce that the fed so loves coming in line. We are not calling, but we are not exceeding expectations. The market is relieved and we are seeing about of good, healthy increase in certain stocks. A 10 year yield dives down onto the back of that pce number. Even though we see bonds indeed rallying coming yields falling lower, the dollar still resilient against the japanese yen. Will we see intervention from the boj . Moving on, have a look at what it is doing against bitcoin. Dollar strength against bitcoin. Crypto on the downside. Ed it is all about earnings. Intel is off session lows. And just a moment, ian king will give us the numbers and then we will speak to the intel ceo. Microsoft and alphabet are all about cloud growth driven by ai produ
Worst down by 1 the nasdaq off by. 6 . The s p down by. 50 lets take a look at treasuries now. You can see at this point the tenyear yield at 4. 68 yesterday on that data that we got at 8 30, the twoyear moved above 5 we have the pce number today squawk planner two reports before the opening bell chevron and exxonmobil in the next 90 minutes. You see two big interviews after those reports. Darren woods will join us at 7 30 eastern time this morning chevrons c, o mike wirth will be on at 9 45. Po we will get key Economic Data at 8 30. Core pce is expected to rise without food and energy. That is down from the february reading of 2. 8 . U. S. Secretary of state Antony Blinken meeting with xi jinping. He told xi there has been progress since the meeting with President Biden back in november there are still many issues that need to be resolved. The meeting comes as u. S. Officials have been raising concerns about chinas economic assistance to russia earlier in the day, secretary blinken me
Firm darktrace in a deal worth 5. 3 billion and airbus slides after the plane maker posts a miss after ramping up production in a bid to extend its lead over boeing if you look at our order intake for q1, which was 170 units. Half of that from the a350. That momentum we see to continue good morning happy friday yesterday, i was telling you we have about 300 Companies Reporting across the european continent. Today, you might be thinking is it a quieter day not really we have 100 Companies Reporting, but investors are monitoring data from the United States as well as the meeting from the bank of japan. With that context in mind, i want to take you to the stoxx 600 and how it is trading at the moment we have the benchmark in europe trading higher by. 6 . The index closed down. 7 yesterday. I want to take you to the boards because we have seen an interesting picture when it comes to the ftse 100. Today, we have the benchmark here in the uk trading higher by almost. 5 the index has been tra