The year where were overloaded with earnings information, most companies in the s p report this week. Remember that the professionals listen to every Conference Call check every model and do deep dives in each quarter which means that unless they get up at 4 00 a. M. And work until 11 00 p. M. They simply dont know about what should be bought and what shouldnt be, and i have to tell you, thats why a lot of mistakes are made. Thats why i tell you at home to stop, look and listen during these periods. As we try to run the gauntlet created by the cacophony of earnings season. Whats exactly in store for us for the rest of this week. Tomorrows all about apple and ten days ago the company made a major push into china and the worry is the sizeable chunk of buyers may have been margined out of this stock positions in the great crash of china and they migrate to the expense of iphone 6. Not this quarter, since it didnt include the chinese debacle and thats why it is so important not to trade of
Relocating out of catalonia. Will this be enough to get the catalans to back down . The pound extends is a drop. To sterling upside right now . We will find out in just a moment. Less than half an hour to go before european trading starts. To be a day about waiting for payroll numbers to come out later on. What is happening with the ibex . Yesterday up 2. 5 . Today it will be down 0. 6. There are some expectations that monday morning we will get news from the catalan authorities. We will see how people will see how people hedge their bets going into the weekend. Anything could change in the situation. You can see the move on the spanish ibex up 2. 51 . You are seeing rate cut expectation coming in. That is taking the shine off of the aussie dollar. Today is about two things. One is the payroll story and how asymmetric the response could be around that. The other is what is happening with the pound. The political story is being dominated by mays future. First word news update with julie
Welcome to power lunch stocks are mostly in the green but off the best levels. Nasdaq hitting new intra day record highs check out shares of walmart soaring more than 4 adding more than 20 points to the dour the dow he they bought back more than 20 million worth of stock and airlines are up 2 to 6 bullish signs fueling this group. We have the details just minutes away and im Michelle Carusocabrera here is what else is happening pfizer is thinking about spinning off its 15 billion Consumer Health care business. Honeywell also shaking up its business focusing more on aerosparroeros. And the imf raising its Global Growth forecast to 3. 6 this year and 3. 7 for next year. President trump right now having lunch with secretary of state Rex Tillerson. That is their first meeting since the reported moron comments eamon javers is live with the latest this one could be interesting. Reporter yeah, thats right. In fact what were told by the white house is this is not the first meeting, it was not
Good thursday morning, welcome to squawk alley. Im Carl Quintanilla with john fortt, sara eisen at post 9. Business insider, editor in chief, Henry Blodget dow is down about 47 half of that is apple after the first close above 23,000 apple is dragging the dow lower right now. It is the biggest lager on pace for its worst day since early august the Cellular Service for the companys new watch has been shut off for some customers as the Economic Daily news says apple is cutting supplier orders for the 8 and 8 plus by as much as 50 john, this is like perennial every new model comes with worries about orders yes none of this matters yet i mean, the china thing, its a concern. Theres a new type of sim card in the apple watch and probably the Chinese Government wants to be able to track it better, which youd expect in china, but this iphone 8 thing, the real question is what happens when the 10 comes out, because an unknown number of people this cycle are waiting to see the 10 before they dec
U. S. Equity futures at this hour have been a bit weak in the for the morning. You know what . Just the dow futures. That might have something to do with what becky is going to tell you about. The s p is actually up a point. The nasdaq is up about four. The nasdaq had some rough sledding lately. The dow is the index down today. Down about 21 points. Crude prices coming off a loss of about 5 . Wti posting the lowest close since november. Joe, i ae lewd eluded to it. Its sitting there at one price, then a totally different price. You think it has to do with the world we live in now . Absolutely. At 11 20 p. M. , oil is trading 45. 25 and the next hour 43. 76. How does that happen . Were the world is chasing alpha, when the quantitative models see an opportunity, which they see in oil, thats where all the activity is. It wasnt an overweight trader with fat fingers . No, and not pure fundamentals. Fundamentals are deteriorating for oil. It is seeing the opportunity, lowvol world. You go ar