Premarket. The price for paramount. Sony and apollo submitting a cash offer. That includes debt. I will bring you up to date with the very latest reporting on this saga. Lets get the Market Reaction to this mornings job numbers. We were looking for 240. Negative revisions of about 22,000. Bond market kind of sniffed this one out, jim. It did. This is one of those moments where i think youre sitting there and saying, well, think about the narrative we had on tuesday, that tomorrow, powells going to lower the boom and talk about how, yeah, the chances are we could have a rate hike. He would have looked very foolish. Instead, now people are saying, did he have the number . No, it was a pretty tightly kept secret, but when i look at this, i say to myself, all right, we probably will get a rate cut if things get a little bit lighter and that the market is very poised to have a run here, which is really amazing. Yeah, the tenyear right there tells the story, doesnt it, jim . Sure does. Falli
Different meeting. The first annual meeting since Charlie Mungers death at the end of last year. It raised questions of what Berkshire Hathaway will look like after Warren Buffett. Those are the things that shareholders have been asking about and the types of things we see reflected in the media. Big questions, obviously, thrown to Warren Buffett and greg abel and jane who will be on stage this weekend to answer those questions. Well talk about those over the next few hours. Some of the issues surrounding berkshire. These are issues that Warren Buffett was direct about in his annual letter to shareholders. He laid out the disappointments they have seen. Bnsf was a disappointment on earnings. Earnings dropped significantly from a year ago. Buffett laid out how its railroad has fallen behind the other five major north american railroads in terms of margins. He talked about bhe. Berkshire hathaway energy. The major Utility Company Berkshire Hathaway owns as well. Laid out the issues on th
Future of this onetime pandemic darling. And later, sales of Novo Nordisks wegovy more than doubled, but the possibility of increased competition putting pressure on the stock today. Can the company tip the scales in its favor well go inside the numbers. Im melissa lee, coming to you live from studio b at the nasdaq on the desk tonight courtney garcia, karen finerman, dan nathan and guy adami. Start with apple 110 billion buyback, eclipsing the previous record set by apple in september of 83 billion. That weighing a 10 drop in iphone sales sharing are soaring 7 , adding 200 billion to the companys market cap the Conference Call just kicking off at the top of the hour Steve Kovachs got all the details. Hey, steve hey, melissa. So, yeah, top and bottom line beats for apple. And let me go over the other numbers here that are really driving the stock up higher. The dividend increase, up to 25 cents a share now. And like weve been talking about, the biggest buyback ever in corporate history
Say. [laughter] charles i knew i loved you for a reason. Liz charles, thank you very much. Breaking news as we kick off the a final hour of trade. Take a look at apple ahead of one of the most anticipated earnings reports of the season. Apple shares right now up 2 , very close to session highs right now. After the bell the tech giant opens its quarterly books to investors who, you guys know this, are very anxious to see the company reveal profits and sales. Now, Analysts Expect to see the biggest revenue decline in more than a year, but shareholders will likely cast the most scrutiny on iphone sales which do account for about half of the tech giants revenue. Thats where things could get ugly. China iphone sales have slumped s and globally iphone users have been holding their purchasing fire on a new device until apple incorporates a. I. Into its handsets. Sales could plummet by as much as 10. 4 although, let me just say this caveat, apple sometimes underpromises and overdelivers. Smart
When the 2 00 p. M. Deadline came and went. We will see what happens. These are happening not necessarily at this level, but all over at more campuses yesterday. South florida. You know, if you are watching, it could be any university at this point. Im not surprised to see it happening. Crazy. Everyone comes to these conclusions at the same time at every university. Very strange. Media news. Something that is easier for us to understand, i guess. This is not easy. Bob bakish is stepping down. Me merger negotiations with s skydance continue. Cbs president george cheeks and showtime Ceo Chris Mccarthy and Paramount Pictures chief Brian Robbins will be on the board. They reported 62 cents which beat estimates. We will talk more about the paramount news with rich greenfield later in the hour. To news about the Parent Company that Nbc Universal is prepared to pay 2. 5 billion a year to air a package of nba games. Warners tnt has been paying 1. 2 billion a year under the current deal, but fa