By and by down by the sleigh well wander, sweethearts you and i wait til the sunshines, nelly, by and by terrific. Merry christmas, everybody and one of the traditions is to bring children and grandchildren down on the floor. Theres a number of them here today. Tell me your name. Shannon youre the daughter of a retired member, right . Yes. His name . Michael spidaro do you know why the New York Stock Exchange is important . It makes new companies and businesses thats the right answer thanks mike, one of the big traders for gts does all of the Retail Stocks your work through the year, keeping the markets moving and keeping liquidity in the market. Thank you, bob. Merry christmas. Art cashin, 55 years, started almost this day, 1964. Thats correct. In the same book as John D Rockefeller and jpmorgan they were just a touch older than i am. Lets hope youll outlive them all by a long way thanks very much Merry Christmas. Thank you all for coming down for a great tradition that goes back 150
Good morning i am Carl Quintanilla with Morgan Brennan and jon fortt at post nine of the New Yorkstock Exchange were starting with disney in focus as shares surge post earnings Julia Boorstin sat down with bob iger after the call, joins us with more of that important conversation hey, julia reporter well, carl, while disney parks and movie Studio Division continue to outperform, the real focus this quarter is disneys Digital Future with disney plus, the streaming Service Launching tuesday. Without revealing any early subscription numbers for disney plus, bob iger told me he does expect the service to get off to a strong start. It is ready to go i am glad to say we tested it in the netherlands, well talk about that on the call, it was successful. It did not have original content but was well received, not just in terms of number of subscribers but the user reaction to it, very, very and a half navigable, great access to our brands and story telling. He announced new distribution, a deal
And nasdaq gained. 18 , how do we keep track of everything . I know one way you shouldnt we dont look at some aggregate tally that tells you 42 of the companies have beaten estimates, or 24 have the guide down. Dont buy, dont buy no, these surveys are useless because who cares if a Company Beats or lowered estimates it doesnt tell us anything. No, no to find out what matters, we need to go company by company. Who doesnt even know that were in a tough environment because there business is in such good shape . Lets call that one a winner who is able to thrive . Who is struggling to hold their own in the worst economy in two years . s in trouble . Who is in much better shape than you expect thanks to savvy management these are the real questions, and you cant answer them like saying 47 , you got to do homework so let me give you the scorecard to date. Well start with the joyfully oblivious companies that are oblivious to all the slings and arrows on the economy worldwide, the ones that do
Sell in part because were worried that theyll report not so hot earnings that includes early this morning when the market got severely oversold before rebounding the no one wants to own a stock unless it can report whats known as a bte, a bte meaning a better than expected quarter the tyranny of bte has cast a pall over this market. But now the earnings season has actually arrived with pepsico kicking things off, many stocks are down big from their highs, and im starting to think that theyve fallen so far that bte is the wrong concern [ buzzer ] instead, we should be looking for quarters that are not as bad as feared, or nabf, nabf yesterday wall street was concerned that pepsico would fail to deliver and the stock went down in anticipation of that bad number. If there is any degradation at fritolay, any market share lost to cocacola you have to believe that this thing would get clubbed like a baby seal but as it turns out, pepsicos results were not as bad as feared it was a nabf quart
Key. Trade tensions, not healthy matters. President trump opening a new front slapping dozens of new terrifs on goods coming out of the European Union and more road blocks for tesla a Record Number of deliveries was not enough to satisfied share holders. Worldwide exchange begins right now. Good morning and welcome. Shares of tesla setting up for a rough morning despite posting a Record Number. Tesla shares off by about 5 the stock has been struggling this year dpoun nearly 30 first, an october gut check for stocks, the dow plunging more than 400 points on the second day of trading in the Fourth Quarter. Over the past two days, the dow has she had 3. 1 the s p down 3 to start the month as well. This is the first time in its history, in its history the s p kicked off the Fourth Quarter with backtoback drops of a percent or more a piece. This morning, stock futures pointing to what could be a modest recovery at this stage. You see hear the dow especiallyiopening by just seven points. The