The private equity giant 3g capital sold 20 million shares but there is a reason behind it. Stocks are set to open slightly lower well start off with that wework news, of course sort of trickling out yesterday, after the close. A delay in the planned Public Offering that has been so, well, such a focus over the last few weeks. As the price at least that wework thought it would get for its shares has rapidly declined over concerns about its Business Model, over concerns about governance, ever since they actually issued the s1, which mr. Cramer didnt take a fancy too, a lot of this goes back to mr. Adam newman, the man who founded the company and runs it. And this has been a chaotic process. Having reported on it now for a couple of weeks, i can sort of tell you ive never seen anything quite like this in terms of the disarray in preparing for a Public Offering. And i guess what was clear and perhaps funlly made clear to them was they werent ready. They were not ready to actually face pot
Bidens age. Senator warren punted when confronted with middle class tax hikes to pay for medicare for all. Bernie sanders, same old, same old. Nothing new. Hes still humorless and very angry. Senator harris failed to break through. She accused the president of sowing hate. Beto orourke came out in favor of gun confiscation. He received cheers for that. If there was a breakthrough, it was andrew yang. He would select ten families and give them 1,000 bucks a month for a year. He calls it a freedom dividend. Lara trump will join us. Shes going to respond to the democrats calling the president racist and a white supremacist. Now look at this. Another rally and its likely going to take stock prices to new alltime highs. Probably today. Two items helping the market. President trump talks about china trade and seems to suggest that an interim small scale deal is possible. And this morning, china says its not going to put new tariffs on american soybeans and pork. That does sound positive. The
Joining us for the hour to break down the market action, keith bliss. Good afternoon to you. Thank you very much, wilf really good to be with you snapshot of today, why are we selling off . Number one, you have low volumes coming into july you usually have the spike in june on the weekly volumes were seeing that today. Listen, you got to say the news is really washing over the markets as it relates to boeing. The downgrade we had at apple, people are getting nervous about what fed chairman powell may say and may not do at the end of the month. I think thats why youre seeing a little selloff in combination with that is we did get overbought in the dow a couple weeks ago are traders talking about the fed and whether they may not cut at the end of the month . Youre certainly seeing that in the discussions that you have with traders and investors alike. Youre not seeing it reflected in the fed funds futures yet still an overwhelming majority of people think were going to get a 25basis poin
Earnings. And your earnings read is. Some are cloudy, some are bright, some are messy. We will try to find a signal in all of the earnings noise. Im alix steel here with guy johnson in new york. So interesting to see the stock reaction to earnings. Finally, earnings seem to matter, but are we having the right takeaway if you are an investor . Guy difficult to draw a comprehensive conclusion. You need to take every stock on a casebycase basis. The answer to the question about the signal is really hard. Is there a signal in all of this, macro takeaway, something that we can deduce out of this that is useful beyond investing in the single stock story . What is happening in tech is so critical. Alix did you see the chart . Sell google, by microsoft. Guy now we wait for amazon to see what is the deciding vote. Will they provide the conclusion to this narrative . The existing market has broken because of you. Alix thank you. Guy the new homes market is not. That is a market that continues to
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