A weaker u. S. Dollar as well. 105. 38 to the japanese yen. Gold back about 2000. 003. 35 an ounce right now. Walmart benefiting from online orders but store traffic was hampered by the coronavirus. The companies cfo said comp sales growth slowed last month as the government relief waned. Lets bring in Morgan Stanleys Simeon Gutman. How did the Company Managed to get margins around 42 . Comp. they had a 9 rising tides lifts all boats, but they had gross margin in the u. S. Swing from down to 200 basis points to up this quarter. The primary driver is the mix of food and consumables, which tends to be lower margin, was mother in percentage, and a big shift toward general merchandise. A nice swing in gross profit to hire to cover those higher costs of operating, but the results were better sales and gross margins, allowed them to generate that growth. Vonnie walmart was only really getting going in the last couple of quarters. Did the digital improvements help out this quarter . What does
In terms of an after hours session for us it certainly is so many Earnings Reports coming out. And four giant Tech Companies among them coming up on this massive show, fresh off earnings this morning, an exclusive interview with david taylor shares hitting a new record high today. The company saw consumers stock up on Household Goods amid the pandemic and then at the close, well get earnings as sara mentioned from names like apple, amazon, facebook, and alphabet those companies represent some 40 of the nasdaq 100s total market cap that is all coming up today on closing bell. Lets start with the markets the dow more than 500 points intraday swings today. Now at the moment down by 200 points mike, an intraday recovery inspired by the european close this was soft. Once we got that behind us, allowed us to bounce a bit it is true. The markets absorbed that weakness in europe as well as, of course, the ugly economic numbers before the open. Also i tested the recent lows in treasury yields w
Congress now considering a temporary Unemployment Insurance extension. Ahead on todays show, as more government money flows into vaccine efforts, well speak with the ceo of thur ermo fishe. Plus micro Loan Campaign affirm striking a deal with shopify well teex wispeak with marks ln about that and a number of names are reporting after the close including microsoft, tesla and chipotle those numbers could move the market this evening. Lets get straight to the big stories were watching today mike santoli is tracking all of the action meg tirrell has the latest funding for pfizer and phil lebeau has fresh comments from the ceo of united about what a vaccine would mean for his business subdued summer choppy action the Market Holding up near recent highs the major takeaway from the action so far. The s p 500 on a oneyear basis, you could look at this and say were laboring to make further upside from where we got in early june that is true this looks like relatively defined uptrend. The questi
A lot to get to and discuss, everybody. Right now, though, a quick check on the markets because theyre higher across the board. The bottom right of the screen and come off the highs, the dow above 27,000 for the First Time Since june 10th on an intraday basis. S p 500 less than 5 from its alltime highs up nearly 50 from the march lows. 28 members of that index hitting a new 52week or alltime high and a cramer favorite stock, mccormick. The nasdaq is negative again there is a lot to discuss. Joe, we are off the highs. You can address that but also this the vaccines plural getting all the attention as they should. It only concerns, you know, all of humanity. But did Goldman Sachs numbers have anything to do with the earlier market strength . I think most of the early gains that we witnessed this morning you can credit to the vaccine optimism i do think, brian, that the Strong Performance from financials in the last couple of days, whether it be jpmorgan or a Goldman Sachs this morning, t
At one point, they were convenience not absolute indicated up about 300 points on necessity as in the activity that positive news out of moderna. The s p is indicated up about 13 couldnt be performed, so even if youre working out of your points and the nasdaq would open home in new jersey, new jersey says wait a minute were not by about two points after a giving you a credit because you performed the work here. Strong dayyesterday. We get to tax you too. So both sets of taxes. All of those states are facing severe crunches at this point so i would imagine all of those states will be pretty aggressive about it. When you say you could do the work some where else, new york city was closed down, offices the nasdaq was up by 1 . Have been closed down. Employers didnt want people back in the building lets look at the treasury seems like a little extraordinary during these times. Do you think eventually what happens the states gettogether you will see the 10year now and work something out whe