Teams and teams and delivery of cars for 2020 and so forth. Were starting to get a clearer picture on whats happening in technology as well. This is a big earnings week in general but we got the alphabet earnings last night. And one of the stark things was the difference between direct response advertising and general brand advertising. We heard direct response is doing better we heard it from snap. Heres the general idea from alphabet, gives you a read through whats going to happen with facebook. There were other numbers that alphabet talked about that could have implications for apple, certainly for amazon and microsoft in their cloud numbers. So that data, that intelligence were getting not only for what happened in q 1 but the trends in beginning of q 2, morgan, are so important. Yeah, potentially read through for apple when we get those results after the bell tomorrow, too. We started the week talking about the outsized leadership of these names, microsoft, facebook, amazon, alpha
Crudes the january brent prices. Will we see another cut . Days, in the next two donald trump will speak to the assembl ons General Assembly. And we have janet yellen, fed chair speaking. Jonathan we are focusing on the annual u. N. Assembly where President Trump will make his first and biggest address to leaders around the world. President trump has already condemned the u. N. For its bureaucracy and management. President trump in recent years, the United Nations has not reached its full potential because of bureaucracy and mismanagement. While the United Nations on a regular budget has increased by 140 , and its staff has more than doubled since 2000, we are not seeing results in line with this investment. Jonathan im pleased to welcome a special guest, tony blair, former Prime Minister serving as leader of the labour party until 2007. Great to have you with us on the program. Tony thank you. Specific you have a knowledge of the workings of the u. N. Security council. How best to nav
Will propel the coiled spring of the u. S. Economy lets give you a snapshot of this group, which represents about 14,000 u. S. Manufacturers to show you why they are so optimistic first, they are mostly small businesses, who will get passed at the pass through rate their employees are compensated higher than the average u. S. Worker, but they pay nearly 20,000 per employee in order to comply with federal regulations. That is why the president s speech, according to Senior Administration officials, will talk first about deregulation, the various ways that he has and continues to plan to cut red tape for businesses. Then he will discuss lower rates as a springboard for manufacturing and for the u. S. Economy. And also this theme of onshoring, the incentives that they believe the plan provides to bring capital back from overseas to the u. S. By incentives such as repatriation treatment and also more favorable treatment of capital investment, which is so crucial to this group that invests
Snap has beaten up the social media stock. Scott devitt is injoing us by phone. Welcome back. Thank you for having me. This is a heavy call. People expected the stock to move lower why today with this move the lockup expiration i think is more and more internet cops have become public over the past five, six, seven years. Investors have become more educated on timing and pricing in the incremental supply and snap has been responding to the upcoming lockup expiration for some time now. But its important to note that its not just about the lockup operation. There has to be a fundamental story behind the stock and were more favorable right now. People are growing more conscious at a time when you seem to be growing more optimistic based on what metric we track things at downloads and engagement which is disclosed by the company and our view is that the narrative thats been created by instagram, Facebook Messenger continuing to add core features and functionality that the market is zero su
Recordhighs. Goldman, nike, cat, chevron, jp, having the most impact today. President trump came out, talked about that well have a tax plan in two or three weeks. That will be good to see. And heres what you have to say about President Trump. Hes lived up to everything he has said. I think theres been a major turn in that he could have gone after the chinese, but he didnt. So he sent a letter, and so then that gives, i would say, some respect for in terms of how hes dealt with his counterparts. You think thats in part for the gain today, along with his comment hes going to get to taxes in a couple of weeks. Hes going to have something on taxes in a couple weeks. Yeah, i think were on the same show. I just said that, right . Hes going to do taxes. Lets listen to it. Were going to be announcing something i would say over the next two or three weeks that will be phenomenal in terms of tax. Yeah, so its going to be half the things you say go in one ear and out the other when it comes to m