Break down the key sticking points and a Worldwide Exchange exclusive ed morse making phone calls the investment is his best bet right now. Youll hear it here on Worldwide Exchange on cnbc good morning, good afternoon, good evening from wherever in the world you may be watching. From here in the states, im Brian Sullivan kicking off with the big blue. No real rbi today. Lets call this the rbi. Ibm is up some 5 in the premarket if the gains hold there on ibm and they may not if they do, that could ad 45 points to the dow at the open. Ibm your rbi it is very rare that ibm rises after earnings according to our own earnings guru, this is the 23rd eps beat. Up bigly well call it ibm, your rbi and you are making investors today a little bit of dough. 70 of the time in the past five years, your stock appears to be down after earnings. This is the eighth straight quarter where sales are flat down on the year to those highe futures, the nasdaq showing gains right now. With the move yesterday, t
Indices as you can see up 2 and a half percent on the dow, 6 higher on the nasdaq and 3 higher on s p 500 for the week. The dow, nasdaq and s p 500 up better than 30 from the lows hit in late march. Well, a judge could officially toss the case against Michael Flynn out today according to his lawyer. Meanwhile attorney planning me that flynn go all the way to the top, meaning then president obama. The very latest fallout this morning. Elon musk going on after another twitter rant. Hes suing over restrictions that kept tesla from restarting production in california and remove the automaker from golden state. Disneyland opening to sellout crowd. Enters a whole new world and laying out a blueprint of what parks can be here. My sitdown with President Trump, the very latest on getting america back to work. Thursday morning right here beginning at 6 00 a. M. On mornings with maria, mornings with maria is live right now. Global markets this morning look like this. Ftse 100 down 21 points, cac
Date trade tensions resurface as china rebukes the decision to sign a bill backing protests in hong kong. And retail front and center as we get forecasts from adobe and the National Retail federation, forecasting strong Holiday Spending joining us for the hour is allied chief Investment Strategy lindsey bell here we go, a shortened day today but a lot of excitement. Whats driving the action . Well, you know, there is lower volumes today. Coming into the end of november, going into december, this is the seasonally strong period of the year earnings season was a good one retail sales pretty good retail earnings were good even though a mixed bag and so i think were in the period of pause until the new year. What are you paying close attention to today. Well, today, i think its really all about this is black friday about the retail environment and the consumer theyve been very confident, wages going up Unemployment Rate very low, near 50year lows can the strength of the consumer driving th
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