But a new target seems to be its retail customers. First, to our top story. That is last year, tim cook stunned investors when my company readjusted its forecast due to struggles in china. What a difference a year makes. Official Government Data shows the apple smartphone shipments in china grew 19 yearoveryear in december. That marked a big jump from previous months. It is particularly remarkable when shipments of phones of all brands were down 14 in the same period in china. For more, i want to bring in our reporter. Are you surprised by the amount of bullishness we have on apple and the iphone shipments in china . Certainly in china, that number is a surprise. Engine broad bush push in china to have consumers by phones instead of iphones. Has of the trade tension come down in recent months. Maybe that has something to do with it. I think more to the point, a device like the iphone 11 is a little cheaper, the battery life is very long. The photos you can take are better than the prev
Full. This model has been open for five hours. The line started at about 4 00 a. M. As the morning progresses, it is is certainly getting busier. The line started to get people into the mall. Giving out these free gift cards that drew the traffic. It is an outlet. 60 off off the entire store. You have to boys. I am sure they like sneakers. Look at this line for the nike store. The entire store 30 off. Because it is an outlet, you can walk out of here with sneakers as low as 20 bucks. A lot of action has in here today. It is black friday. This is what i will say. People are showing up. They are showing up for the experience. A lot of young kids, college students, gently. A College Reunion earlier in the day. Now there are a lot of families. As it gets later on, you will see more the baby boomers. Different generations making their way through. Brickandmortar is not dead, but online is really booming at the same time. If you have an experience like this one has, it will get crowded. I am
By the Options Market is betting on the bounce for one home depot. We start with the big countdown. And no. Which one is that. Hold on its not the countdown until friday its not the countdown until christmas. I hear i hear sleighing bells. They mixed ut santa with the record we are 18 days away from the next round of tariffs kicking in we heard today from two retailers today with two different takes on the looming levies dollar tree tanking after cutting guidance due to what else, tariffs, among other things best buy, though, it soared. Raised the outlook saying the impact of the tariffs has been factored in and dealt with so really with all due respect to dickens it was the best of times. It was the worst of times. Its a tale, guy adami of two retailers. I see what you did there. What story are you buying. Would you rather almost. First of all, i find it welcome. Welcome to breyen welcome to brayen. He is playing hurt tonight if you listen to his voice. Its grim its grim. But youre he
Hi, everybody. Glad you could be with us. Why not . Its a record rally. The dow is up about 200 points the s p right near its record high and it does briefly cross above its all time closing high. It is a day for the record books. Check out some of these housing related stocks they are one of the drivers in this market. I have all the paint you want, kelly. The u. S. And china making headway on a trade deal. Principals in u. S. China trade talks held a call this morning. A read out said the call made quote headway on specific issues and the two sides are close to finalizing some sections of the agreement. Discussions will g o on continuously china is asking for those december tariffs to be cancelled in order to move forward they like to see some reduks reductions in tariffs. They like to see some that are scheduled to go on very soon theyd like to see them not go on china really want to make a deal they will be buying much more product than anybody ever thought possible reporter behind
This after snap reportedly conjured up a whole chamber of secrets on facebook in a dossier titled project voldemort the document lays out all the ways facebook tried to thwart the competition and prevented snap from trending on instagram. Now snap is hoping the ministry of magic known as the ftc will step in. Will regulators be able to work any real magic here . Guy. That was one of the best openings in the history of the show. He doesnt know what to say anymore. Do you even know what she said im familiar with this harry potter thing there are like eight of these movies. Yes. Theyre its the sack same movie. The kids get older and run a dont spoil the end. It sounds like fast money. Its a scam run around with their wands good job. Back to talking. I want to dislike facebook in the worst way. I want to stand here and say, you know what, the stock is headed sl headed little headed significantly lower we said in july, you know what will happen, it will go back and test that july high from