Solarcity is a shameful example of the corporate gofr nance at its worst. This is a company headed towards financial distress and burning hundreds of millions of stress every quarter, and now a burden that the tesla shareholders will have to e bear. If you dont believe me, can consider this, the combined market drop in the value of both companies is more than the equity value of the deal itself which means that tesla shareholders believe that the t solarcity shares were worthless. Finally, it is hard for me to believe that this deal was not being contemplated when tesla and mr. Musk, himself, sold shares just a few weeks ago. Well, i have to give chanos credit, because a lot of us like to go with musk when he comes out to cheerlead the stock the, and has the distortion work, and you can see a noticeable bump, but this is a nobrainer, and nobody with a brain cell would want to put these two together. I dont know what the potential is putting these two together except for two thing, judg
Welcome everybody to power lunch. Im Tyler Mathisen. Glad you could be with us this afternoon. Lets take a look at the dow trying to break an eightday losing streak. That kind of streak hasnt happened since august of 2011. Right now the dow up 23 points or 0. 13 . Energy and financials leading the way. Oil back above 40 a barrel. Despite a surprise build in crude inventories. Brian. Hi, im brian sullivan, thanks very much for joining us. Heres what else is happening at this hour. Walmart reportedly in talks to buy web retailer jet. Com. Dow jones says the deal could have a price tag of up to 3 billion. Also, 33 u. S. Service members have been reportedly infected with the zika virus. All of those cases were contracted overseas. The magic apparently still alive. Scholastic says more than 2 million copies of harry potter and the cursed child were sold in north america in just the first two days of sale, melissa. Welcome everybody. Im melissa lee. Straight to the breaking news today in fac
European banks. This morning, things are shaking some of those concerns just a little bit. The dax is up. 75 . The cac in france up. 30 . The ftse is flat. Crude oil picked up. Pushed back above 40 yesterday towards the later half of the session and that did help stock prices. This morning, wti giving back about. 25. 40. 60 is like a c minus. Every time it fulls below 40 m people think ha is going on. We did get numbers on gasoline drawdowns. That helped some of the oil prices. Maybe the demand picture not as weak as people have been concerned. Well talk oil over the next three hours. Good morning, everybody. Also on your agenda today, bank of England Holding the policy meeting. Due out in about an hours time. The bank of england is expected to cut rates and could also launch a new round of quantitative easing so we could get some action around the boe coming up. In the meantime weekly jobless claims out. They are expected to hold right around 265,000. Then at 10 00 a. M. Eastern look
Is all about the data. China outperforming, that has helped the bid. Italy and france coming in light, a mixed field across the globe. Onhas a significant move Asset Classes. Coming up, we will delve into all of that. Take of Americamerrill Lynch head of economics joins us ahead of the jobs report. Plus, why he says the fed should overshoot its 2 inflation target. 25 hours until the important jobs numbers, markets wait and see but we got global pmis and a little bit of risk taken on. In the equity market, the dax off the high for the session but pmi cominga german in line with estimates and European Banks seeing a huge rally, the biggest threeday jump since july. A little risk, especially across europe. The fx market, the stronger the u. K. Pmi coming entity 10 month high, the other story is still going to be the relatively stronger dollar, the dollaryen 10369, now at a onemonth high, the dollar grinding slightly higher. , the china pmi coming in almost at a twoyear zinc,leading copper
Turned higher at this point despite eight despite a tough as caterpillar, general electric, microsoft. The nasdaq is taking the biggest tumble of the three major averages. It looks like energy is the best major group at this point. Because of financials as well, this is pulling stocks back up. You look at what is going on with energy, oil prices are up by nearly 2 . Southwestern energy, one of the energynergies companies to report its stock, has gone up. Within the financials, we have also had earning it news, and that includes suntrust and eat Tree Financial as well, 3. 5 eTree Financial at 3. 5 . David all right, some gains, but what about the tech stock . Have tech stocks do not an insurmountable problem, but still, it is a pretty tough slog. Microsoft, as i mentioned, projections,sts and visa, you dont think of it as text, it is coming out with earnings, but also saying its earnings have been delayed so that could create problems on the shares. Andot facebook, amazon, facebook is a