86point gain. S p and nasdaq also looking to be higher at the open. In other news, lebron james is trying to do damage control after criticizing the Houston Rockets general manager darryl morey for his comments on the hong kong protests. Wait until you hear what lebron is saying now. The democrat president ial candidates are in ohio for their big debate tonight. You can bet they are going to rip President Trump and promote their far left policies so how will that play in ohio, of all places . We are on that all morning long. And we have a lot to go at this morning, including Mark Zuckerberg meeting with some big name conservatives, walmart delivering groceries right to your fridge. That and so much more. Varney company starts right now. Charles hey, go happy birthday to you ashley go, baby, go. Charles stevie wonder, folks. Classic happy birthday in honor of fox business. Its our twelfth anniversary. The Network Launched 12 years ago today. Golly, time flies. We are of course thankful
That and so much more on making money. Charles earnings from cocacola, schlumberger, just to say a few. Tech stocks are falling out of the gate. The fed may end up being less accommodative. How should investors reconcile all the diverging trends . Phil blancato and jack ablin. All this anxiety is exacerbated near alltime highs a the love things going on. Start with the earnings picture so far . Happy with it . Better than anticipated . Yeah. Expectations were probably as low as a limbo stick. The fact is analysts have been calling for an earnings recession for the last three quarters. So we come into q3 with a negative 3 growth rate. What will likely happen is, that well adjust up close to zero. Analysts will lower their forecasts for next year. Charles here is the thing, phil. Big names have delivered. Also i think, i find it important to remind the office were comparing to the best year perhaps ever in earnings. Pullback is not the worst thing that can happen. Im not worried about fl
Start the week even the dow the first record close in almost four months. Is this a breakout or a fakeout, pete it certainly feels like a breakout and when i look at the options world, we see nothing but huge buying right now. And weve seen it kind of moving in towards this in energy, in some of the financials but today it was the emerging markets. And dan and i talked about this months ago they were buying the eem, 250,000 in a single print and 30,000 here, 30,000 there. Fxi the same sort of story so it seems like everybody is planning for a breakout. Volatility shocked me, by the way. Its still trading right aurnd need 13, like 12. 5, its amazing to me with the market weve got right now that people are feeling so comfortable, maybe too comfortable. So comfortable in a riskon sort of mentality. Im never comfortable whats the title of this game, breakout or fakeout thats the title. Breakout. You believe in this rally you have to believe the s p 500 is making a new high almost every day
Its back to 32 a share. Down 6. 58. Overall, the markets holding pretty steady as the profit reports roll in. In fact, id say stock prices are real solid and some of the profit reports, thats keeping the market at very high levels. No big pullback at this point. The dow industrials will open up about 40 this morning, s p up 6. By the way, the s p is only 22 points away from the alltime high. Whats that, just one big rally . The nasdaq, look at it go, up a half percentage point premarket. Big deal. Now let me lay out what we have for you. An important speech from Vice President pence on china. He may take a hard line. That could affect the market. And here comes amazon, perhaps the most important Earnings Report of them all. How strong is Consumer Online buying . Very important and we are going to find out today. Of course, we are going to watch apple hit new highs and unless something dramatic happens, we are hardly even going to mention impeachment. Here we go. Varney company is about
Growth in the apriljune quarter. The growth trend is only down very, very slightly. This was a positive gdp report. And here is the market reaction, fairly muted. Around 2 00 even this afternoon, well find out what the Federal Reserve is doing with Interest Rates. A quarterpoint cut widely expected, but its what comes after that, that has invest terse on edge. The dows up a couple of points, same with the nasdaq. Look at these stocks premarket, facebook and apple. They report at four eastern today. Well be watching to see how apple forecasts upcoming holiday sales. As for facebook, we want to know how many people droppedded off the platform with all that negative publicity. We also want to know if their ad revenue continues to surge. Facebook and apple up premarket. Youve got to look at this, california faces a real crisis today. The fires are raging, and today the wind picks up bigtime. Our heart goes out to the millions without power and the hundreds of thousands evacuated. Californi