Amd to buy xylinx. Is there more room to run on amd . Well explore that one when power lunch begins right now earnings season is supposed to be a report card for companies. Lets go to bob pisani for more on this lack of guidance bob . Kelly, once again, the Fourth Quarter, another quarter with the lack of guidance its a bit of a problem because the analysts again having a hard time figuring out what the right numbers are. Remember, the earnings numbers have been coming in very well, generally weathering but again, big companies, no guidance from caterpillar, 3m, xerox, Stanley Black and decker. Others like Harley Davidson didnt give guidance either. Raytheon, corning. No guidance from companies. Analysts have a tougher time and theyve been very conservative and wrong so far fortunately wrong on the conservative side. Look at all these companies out there. 83 are beating for the Third Quarter and theyve been beating by almost 20 . Its an amazing beat and shows you the analysts have been
The hospital fed chair jay powell told congress more stimulus may be necessary. A moment ago, looking at the dow futures. Up by about 67 or 70 points. S p up by 10. 50 and nasdaq up by 152. 10year at 0. 743 below yesterdays close. We have a huge line up again today. Amazing. Former Economic Advisor to president Obama Joining us about an op ed hes just penned. General motors Ceo Mary Barra with us. Investor Glenn Hutchens and Dallas Mavericks owner and netflix cofounder and ceo of netflix with Important News to share this morning some stocks to watch you might keep an eye on ar call revenue was a little short results would have been better but customers in hard hit areas postponed purchases including hospitality, retail and transportation clients shares of groupon reported a First Quarter loss that wasnt as bad as expected saying it was challenging, people turned to discounts on Warehouse Club members, flour delivery and e learning. I was willing to send some flowers. We waited up late
From the bloomberg terminal. A 2 trillion dollar wipeout. U. S. Equities see their worst rout in 12 weeks. Is there more to come . The precipice of disaster. Americas fourthlargest city but it may reimpose Steven Mnuchin says the country cannot close again. Plus, european banks close to Capital Requirements. Just under an hour away from the start of trading. Futureske a look at after the big drop we saw. Saw drops in asian stocks overnight. If you look at yesterdays cash a drop in the dax. 559 points. 559 point drop. In terms of u. S. Futures, we see a little bit of green on the screen. 1. 5 gains in s p and the dow. Can news on the u. K. Economy, lets get straight to that. The u. K. Economy shrank by 20. 4 . That is versus the previous month. Dropstimate had been for a of 18. 7 percent. 19 or so. It does show a stunning drop in output for the u. K. Economy during specifically the month of april. The u. K. Went into lockdown around the month of march. We are getting some other numbers
Signaling that it may need to do more to the boe, signaling that it may need to do more to combat lower growth. Bloombergs Francine Lacqua spoke to andrew bailey, the bank of england governor, following that policy decision. Gov. Bailey we are keeping options open on that. Im very clear on that. Other members of the committee thought it was a sensible decision to take in our next meeting, when we may have more information. Francine are we any closer to negative rates, or is that not an option right now . Gov. Bailey we are not ruling anything out because it would be unwise of us to rule anything out in terms of responses. I dont want to say we are nearer to negative rates, but we are not ruling anything out. Francine under what circumstances will we get negative rates . Gov. Bailey its a complicated question. You have to view it in the context of the times, also in the context of the financial structure we have, and what are the consequences of it. I just want to caution, we are nowher
Most incredible market stat that you will hear today. The dow now on pace for its worst month since 1931 on that note, welcome, everybody. I am brian sullivan. The market meltdown comes as Congress Scrambles to launch a massive aid package to help millions of americans who are likely to either lose their jobs or a good portion of their incomes. Well hear about all of this in moments. Senator pat toomey of pennsylvania will be joining us live exclusively he has been inside the 11th hour negotiations on the hill and well get answers on what the ultimate stimulus plan may look like and what aid packages are likely to come and whether regulators are considering banning shortselling and reinstituting rules and that interview is ahead lets break down this historic week and joining us now our friends guy adami joining us in moments. We learned that a big chicago firm, ronan capital was unable to meet its Capital Requirements and this forced the Mercantile Exchange to invoke emergency rules an