And later, former saks ceo steve sadove markets trying to get back some of what was lost on tuesday. As you know by now, the dows worst day since july, up about 130 here s p continues to circulate now around 44. 50 you have a little bit more tame vix picture below 16 and that tenyear coming off of 4. 22 this morning. Tech is lagging after yesterdays selloff and now the more recent underperformance of tech after the outperformance of tech so far yeartodate can tech continue to rally as these yields, even if theyre pulling back, settle in at higher levels. And the debate continues about whether the economy is too hot to get rid of inflation for the fed. Just this morning, we got some housing numbers that were better than expected. Industrial production, a litter better than expected after yesterdays retail sales a lot of jokes about the magnificent one or two, as opposed to magnificent seven, although cisco tonight could give us a view at least of enterprise spend and whether that gets a
10year, we have Michigan Confidence on the way in an hour futures pointing to a lower open, the fate of tax reform and progress spooking some invest investors. Taking on netflix, disneys yet to launch screaming service. And forget black friday, the Worlds Largest 24hour Online Shopping spree getting under way in china today with more than 20 billion worth of sales forecasted futures are in the red looking to extend yesterdays sell off as uncertainty over tax reform appears to be taking hold on wall street the dows drop was first in eight sessions and both on track to post their first weekly losses in about nine weeks some of the coverage over the senate bill, mike says looms a showdown looms between the senate and house. I think the challenges are more in focus than maybe the potential opportunities. I do think yesterday interday, you definitely got that little ripple lower when it seemed like there was going to be delay in the Corporate Tax rate cut but in general, i think the market
Premarket. Microsoft and intel are moving lower. Weve got a first look at the economy under president trump. It was a weak First Quarter, the question of course is has growth picked up since then. Starbucks out with results, the stock is slipping. A live and exclusive interview with Ceo Kevin Johnson and now chairman Howard Schultz. On the tech earnings front, amazon as you may know by now surpassing forecasts, getting a lift from the Cloud Business. Alphabet also above consensus as mobile search helped to drive ad sales higher. Microsoft and intel beat on the bottom line, but miss on the top line. Jim, theres a lot to get to last night. Last night was incredible to listen to not to the amazon call because amazon said, our cash flow is fabulous. All true. But the alphabet call was about how were not a Search Engine company thats driven by advertising although our advertising is up 50 . They said over and over again as we talked about earlier this week were cloud, were cloud, were cloud
The biggest mover when you get sort of adjustments, well, a little bit. But not really. 2. 35. Kind of hanging in there. Crude oil has been one of the bigger stories of the week of course with its significant drop over lets call it the last week or so. Oh, its a crash. Crash. I would put it when you have its almost one of the things that we have to talk about was there two hedge funds somebody didnt liquidate it. 53 or 54, straight line, i think it borders on a crash. Straight line. One of the stories were following this morning. Lets get to the others and our road map it starts with of course the u. S. Employer employment picture. U. S. Employers picking up the pace of hiring. The Unemployment Rate fell to the lowest level in nearly a decade. Plus oracle of omaha, is r ouring is osouring on ibm. Jim and i may wonder what took him so long. A warning to the Trump Administration. Ges jeff immelt calling on government to try harder to avoid the protectionist policies and to level the Play
Giant. Plus, courtroom grilling the Trump Administration defending its use of executive power and the travel ban before a federal Appeals Court. Social medias in focus. Facebook and twitter getting some upgrades ahead of earnings tomorrow. First up though, a bunch of earnings to get to, time warner a beat on both the top and bottom line. Alaska air also beating the street announcing an increase in the Quarterly Dividend ahead of the meeting with airline ceos at the white house tomorrow. Big report focused on is disney, revenue falls short of consensus, rising costs as we said, declining viewership at espn weighing on the results. Here is bob iger last night talking to our Julia Boorstin. I think theres way too much pessimism about espn because espn is still in demand from three constituents you want to be in demand the most from, one, distributors, two, consumers, and three, advertisers. And the reason its in demand is the brand is still strong, the product is still good. Weve invested