Good thursday morning. Im Carl Quintanilla with jon fortt, sara eisner and with us is henry blodgett. Amazon officially closing its acquisition of whole foods google and walmart are teaming up on a voice shopping nasdaq slightly up this morning looking to avoid its fifth negative session in six. A retail analyst on yesterday who called the day of that announcement amazon whole foods a day that will live in retail infamy now getting one step closer to theyre going to close this thing in the second half. Yeah, which is great. A lot of us amazon and whole food shoppers are exited another bold step from amazon. Well be excited how they do it. How your characterizing the responses companies have you take your hat off to walmart. Theyre being very aggressive. They made a huge bet acquiring jet. They are being superaggressive its a smart idea with google. Does it immediately counter amazon no but the whole idea of ordering stuff through your home voice device, walmarts are Something Like an a
Street, the trading perspective. Roger from the economic perspective. Well bring you the results as soon as they are released. Kate kelly is standing by with all of that. How about twilio soaring on its debut. Its just under 28. Granted thats not saying much. But a hello they debut here for twill owe. Well discuss whether it could spark a new rush. Wow, did they leave money on the table. I dont know. In this climate . Priced above the range. Its the indication. Its a Business People can understand and theyll like. We will see. Lets start with our full Team Coverage of the historic brexit vote. Everybodys in london this week. Wilfred frost has the latest numbers for us. Kayla tausche also and sara ice never. The betting has moved. We were as long as 7 1 for an exit. Its now 5 1, implied probability expecting to remain, 83 . But a slight improvement. They havent had any polls for quite some time. Now its 4846, leave. What does the next few hours hold for us . As you said, polls close 5 0
Debate on deck tonight. Europe with minor losses and claims were slightly elevated. Well get ism services in about an hour. Of course, were just a day from jobs friday. Energy pioneer Robert Mcclendon dies in a horrific car crash. This is a day after he had been indicted. Were going to go live to oklahoma. What jay my dimon told cnbc about the lie of hitz bank. Mitt romney is expected today to deliver a harsh set of words on donald trump, describing the frontrunner as a phony and a fraud. First up, though, futures are a little changed as stocks hover and jobless claims rising. Thats a bit higher ahead of the number tomorrow. Jpmorgans jamie dimon joined squawk box earlier this morning and had a pretty upbeat take on the economy. Take a listen. The average economy, more people are working, wages are going up. Theyre spending money, their Balance Sheets in better shape since its been recorded, the consumer. Theyre buying cars at alltime records. Home sales are going up, home formations a
Good morning. Im sara eisner. And im wilfred frost. Right to the market action. Yesterday we saw slight declines. About. 2 for the s p. The dow called hired about 20. The s p 4 and the nasdaq by about 8 points, 2 points following some gains elsewhere in the world. Ten year phonote as well. Weve seen yields tick higher over the last ten days. Bang on now 1. 9 . Global stocks are moving higher in the early action. Ahead of Key Central Bank decisions and heavy earnings. Europe, earnings movers helping kill gains in early action right now. Bp on the move which will hit in a moment. There it is german dax. Fractional gains. France is negative. Ftsi 100 and italy both positive. Italy with a gain of about 1. 5 . Mostly declines in asia defined by a stronger japanese yen whichs something thats been plaguing the japanese stock market. Gains in hong kong and shanghai by about. 6 right now. Oil prices had a fantastic week last yeek. Gave up some yesterday but bouncing back today at 4. 84. Blent u
Jobs number friday. Markets slipping after weak overnight data. Present hitting new fiveyear low. The dow as we said within nine points of 18,000 and retreating today. Merck buying cubist more than 18 billion and cash. Comments late in the hour. Mcdonalds delivers another weak number. Sales missed the street, down 2. 2 worldwide. More than that in the United States. Well get to all of that later on. But first up, dow and s p, each posting a sevenweek winning streak since late november of last year. Blue chips within 48 point of the 18,000 mark. Futures falling on disappointing chinese trade data. Japans economy shrank more than initially estimated in q3. Crude falling to that new fiveyear low. Morgan stanley cut its forecast, oversupply to peak in the Second Quarter next year. But in their words, guys likely to get worse before it gets better. Once again, i mean, heres here we go. Theyre weak, thoi this is our strength. When europes down, by midmorning the money comes here we have the