68 points and the s p declined 22. 4 and the nasdaq fell fell. 70 . When it comes to everything from aerospace and elevators consumer packaged goods, coal oil and now computers and cell phones if its getting sold in china its getting obliterated i think china became the marginal buyer of everything the place where all hopes and dreams have come from in that thesis true or false is now fall apart because of that chinese stock market crash earlier this month. That was the sign that growth has peaked in china. Money managers now think that its all down from here. No, no china, mighty china is now regarded as a paper tiger. Lets take apple, the subject of endless, after reporting one of the greatest quarters i have ever seen in all my life. China has become a larger and larger part of apples growth and the ceo makes no bones about how it will ultimately become the biggest market and totally private Conference Call and with the ubs analyst Steve Milunovich about a potential slowdown in chin
Numbers, plus his thoughts on the minimum wage. Well see how those new oreo donuts are selling. Fbi cracking down on chinese corporate espionage. The economic bellwethers, caterpillar, 3m moving lower on the back of earnings. Caterpillar ceo was on squawk box earlier and spoke to the global head winds holding back not only the economy but his own business. For us to drive sales and drive employment we need 2. 5 to 3 . Having said that we are doing an awful lot of things internally to make sure we are strong strengthening our company for the future. Its all those things. Weve got oil price cut in half. Commodities are at their lowest for quite a few years. Global growth is slow. All those things combine for a lot of winds buffeting around right now in front of us. Joining us for reaction and how it impacts company our team. Doug isnt the only one warning about the Global Economy and actually showing the results from weakness in china, in brazil, russia and in india. Clearly, this is sha
2. 25. And oil, as you see, still below 50. A move made this week as we watched the commodity complex come down across the board. The road map starts with amazon overtaking walmart in market cap after reporting a surprise Second Quarter profit. The shares up 20 in the premarket. Star bucks shares also higher ahead of the open. The coo told jim last night. And anthem agrees to buy cigna. The price and the release is 188 a share. In reality, its a bit less than that. Well get to that deal. We begin with amazon reporting a Second Quarter profit of 0. 19 a share while wall street was expecting a 0. 14 a share loss. Sales up 20 . That was up by strength in web services. Shares of amazon surging in the premarket putting the market cap above that of walmart and making founder and the ceo about 7 billion richer. Thats right. 7 billion more just from the move up. Thats a side show. The main show is the numbers themselves. This Company Getting rewarded perhaps like no other for Revenue Growth. M
Nasdaq at 5,120. S p 5002,087 and the russell down almost a full percent. But we begin now with the big deal in health insurance. It is official. An them agreeing to buy cigna for 188 per share in cash and stock. An enterprised are value of 54 billion. Straight to bertha coombs. Combined anthem and sigma would unseat United Health to become the largest u. S. Health insurer with 150 billion in annual revenues. More than 50 million members covering nearly 1 in 5 americans. Anthems ceo joseph swedish aide mitts put admits putting the two big firms together will be challenging but with that scale they can generate operating savings and make them more affordable. It will improper our ability to serve customers across commercial medicaid medicare and International Markets and create greater efficiencies and afford ability for our customers. But the anthem deal taken with aetnas proposed merger with humana would result in the big five insurers becoming the big three. One antitrust lawyer tell
Fiveday losing streak for stocks in some six months. Worries about chinas market meltdown and earnings here at home unsettling investors. Josh, is that really whats at play and what has more weight on the psyche of investors, or china . I think the china thing is really weighing on the psyche of investors but its important to keep in mind whats happening in china is really happening against the backdrop of a weakening picture for the market and the reason why thats important to people outside of just a handful of technical analysts is that people actually own stocks and when they look at their portfolio every week, they see less and less of them green, more and more of them red. You see this in decline, highs minus lows, up volume versus down volumes, the percentage of stocks above their 200day moving average. That number continues to plummet each week. People feel less and less good about the advance. And now you have this eightmonth consolidation period where stocks essentially have