Switch shares up about 24 this afternoon. Well look at whether that treasury move could help juice the market for ipos coming up. Meanwhile, the new blade runner sequel hits theaters this weekend were going to look at whether this film can revitalize the struggling box office. Lot of fingers crossed in hollywood here as they bring Harrison Ford back one more time. Well see. Good luck. Hope it works. Lets begin today with a jobs report, though. Eyeopening number hs this morning. Our senior economics reports Steve Liesman joins us from austin with a breakdown of those numbers. Steve . Reporter yeah, bill, you had to cast your eyes down on this number here. But whats happening right now is people are really throwing out the weak number on the top line and looking to the details of the report and they find strength here. Let me show you what theyre talking about here the top line number minus 33,000 quite a bit below the 80,000 estimate you have the revisions to the prior months which were
You. Thank you. So, when you were with us on august 7th, you said the market is fully valued. From then until then the Dow Jones Industrial average is up 6 , the s p up 4 we overvalued now . Not yet, no i would say that, you know, basically bull markets ended over valuation and i dont think were overvalued use whatever adjective you want to describe it the market is not cheap and its not expensive. So as i think ive been saying, i think were kind of approaching normalization, and to me normalization is a 17 multiple on earnings and the trick is what is the earnings youre looking at . You know President Trump and the republicans get their way, and we have a tax package, you can see earnings next year in the s p about 150 and the 17 multiple and 150, i think its 2550 that would be fair value, full value but fair values, and, you know, most bull markets end over valuations so took another 10 to 15 to that number. The trend is favorable and the conditions that normally lead to a big market
Four days. The story here, Home Builders and housing. Home builder stocks getting it hard on the proposal to slash the mortgage cap in half were going to give you more on that coming up with somebody angry about it as well three big stocks were watching this hour. Apple, Company Getting set to release its earnings tonight a lot of questions about the iphone 8 and x facebook shares down after Mark Zuckerberg said he is serious about facebooks russia response and he will boost spending to police content thats raising concern about future profit and margins. Time warner taking a hit much more on these three stocks ahead. Lets get straight to this big tax plan we have our oreporters covering every angle for you. Theres going to be four tax wrack ets. For households that earn over a Million Dollars of income. The next tax rate will be 35 . That will apply to income between 260,000 and a Million Dollars. The 25 tax rate will apply for income between 90,000 and 260,000. The 12 rate, the lowes
Shares of the morning times up. As the president would say bigley on the back of its strong earnings. The ceo of the nyt joins us live. Power lunch starts right now. Welcome to power lunch. Im michelle carusocabrera. Major averages are lower but Holding Steady ahead of the fed decision. This move in the nasdaq down 29 points. Right now thats the biggest drop in more than a month. The nasdaq still off lows of the day. Check out whats moving, a retail wreck this hour. Groupon and etsy leading declines on the back of their weak earnings. Groupon down 15 and etsy is down almost 10 . Melissa . Im melissa lee. Puerto rico announcing a historic debt restructuring on a portion of its 70 billion of debt. The move comes after talks with bondholders failed fbi director james comey grilled defending his decision last year, just days before the president ial election to reopen an investigation into Hillary Clintons email. And facebook making a major move to crack down inappropriate material. The so
Jeff bezos is within spitting distance of becoming the richest person in the world. The dow is down by about 20 points below fair value after six sessions in a row of gains. The nasdaq is down by 2. 5. Overnight in asia, well see that the nikkei was down by 0. 6 . Hang seng was flat. As was the shanghai. In europe and early trading this morning, as things get started, most of the markets are weaker. The dax is down by almost a half percent. Cac down by three quarters of a percent. Ftse up by 0. 1 . Markets in italy and spain are weaker. Crude prices are higher after dropping by 5 in yesterdays trading session. Analysts say that extension of opecs production cuts where they agreed to make the extension was already priced in the market was looking for cuts to last longer than nine months or deeper cuts. Neither of those things happened. This morning wti back up by 25 cents. It is below 50 a barrel. A couple big stories were watching. Jim bullard speaking in tokyo overnight and said the p