Analysts weve got the number within analyst in biotech here to give us his favorite two names in that space. Yeah, the big cap and the small cap. In that order. You really have to know biotech. You really have to know. Im looking forward to speaking with him. Plus the man that won the paper called half man, half god, for his marketmoving calls. The number one equitylinked strategy will join us coming up. Think thats on his Business Card now we start, though, with the clock the stock powering the dow higher today, that would be walmart, shares surging 5 after some key announcements during its analyst day in bentonville, arkansas Courtney Reagan has some of the details from cnbc headquarters courtney reporter hi there, bill. Investors are pretty happy as you can see with walmarts forecast, two year 20 billion share buyback. Walmart shares up more than 5 hitting highs not seen in more than 2 1 2 years so walmart reaffirming its current year forecast which brackets analyst expectations. Al
We get adp, weekly initial jobless claims and trickling out all morning, may auto sales. Fracturingsn and you manufacturing results. Jonathan for the last 24 hours its been all about the financials. Declining trading revenues. 3 wall st executives in 24 hours went into inspect haitians expect expectations management road. Mode. Jpmorgans cfo at good the sentiment. Bloomberg spoke with james gorman who is knowledge to he is seeing a similar trend. I think it would be hard to be anomaly. Have similar kinds if not the same in some cases. Theres enormous uncertainty which typically would read tremendous volatility and its not. Its was very passive perspective. The Downside Risk at this point is up weighing the offside risk. Now,han joining us Charles Peabody. Lets just begin with you very quickly. Anr take on what seemed like orchestrated move by 3 wall st executives to come out and temper great expectations. I think the expectation was that we would have some sort of seasonal slowdown. Th
Sarah eisen and andrew ross sorken joining us. Great to have you. Were going to have raul sud, the founder and ceo of unicorn and mike isaac of the New York Times as well in just a moment. Lets check on the markets. The s p 500 is coming off that record close yesterday and now back in record territory that weve gone positive on the s p 500. Doesnt take much these days its up about. 2 . Being led by the financials, utilities, and Consumer Discretionary thi discretion a direction airy negative samestore sales. Better than expected you got almost a 20 gain for stocks like kors the dollar is on the move at this hour. I got a jolt from the jolts report we find out that there is a record amount of job openings in this country 6. 2 million job openings and you see the dollar go from negative to positive thats popping much its up. 4 , john Something Different that we havent really seen a lot. The dollar is down about 10 so far this year. So does this change the whole vibe around the u. S. Econ
This morning. The dow logging another record high as it marches toward 20k. Day one of that fed meetinging. President elect trump announcing exxon mobil chairman and Ceo Rex Tillerson as his pick for secretary of state. Plus, microsoft cofounder bill gates speaks out. Trumps policies on trade, relations with china, Interest Rates, and a lot more. But first up, the march towards 20,000 continues. The dow is on track to open trading at an alltime high one day after posting its 15th record closing high since the election. We also have the fed kicking off the twoday meeting, many expecting it to result in a rate hike tomorrow. Jim, i assume theres no doubt in your mind about that. No. And i think that the banks have to have it. We saw the banks waivever. This is not an all trump stock day. We got china, good numbers. Italy, major recapitalization. I think there was another time this market would be up huge just recognizing these italian banks are getting their act together. Im worried abou
Over the next 12 months. Hildebrand is former president of the Swiss National bank. We will get his Investment Outlook for 2017. After a year of sluggish growth, low Interest Rates and mounting regulatory pressure. Could the worst be over for the Banking Industry . We asked the president of the bank of the institute of International Finance. And we will interview the chairman of europes largest bank, hsbc. At your markets. This is a picture of european stocks retreating a touch before the fed decision later this afternoon. It seems that caution is prevailing on the markets. This is what we are seeing, european stocks dropping. Crude also retreating on Industry Data showing stockpiles actually increased. Lets get to the first word news. Here is nejra cehic. Nejra Goldman Trading at a 10 year low ahead of the hotly anticipated Interest Rate decision. Investors are expecting policy makers led by janet yellen the Central Banks first type hike of the year, with records for the dow close to