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Old law protecting google and facebook. The coronavirus is taking a toll with tech leading the losses. Apple card revenue guidance for the march quarter with the outbreak continuing to affecting the chain. Impactfulonavirus is but not permanently impactful. T is a temporary blip on the demand side longerterm for apple. We will see a nice rebound when this is over. Apple made a big bet on china. Contained,. Is not this will continue to be a problem. Could be a virus problem longer than the market thanks. Theres no better ceo to handle the challenges then tim cook. Iile it is very concerning think having him at the helm is very reassuring. It is hard to shift production in a matter of weeks. Myly reaction from colleagues to assess what he thinks the supply Chain Disruption will not hurt demand. Since apples announcement the demand it is really supply Chain Disruption. The markets are opening in china but people are being very cautious. There is an effect that will play out over the next
Dutyfree. Sounds a lot like falling stock prices, doesnt it the averages started strong. But after the news broke the dow ended up plunging 281 points s p plummeted. 90 , the nasdaq fell 1 . One fell swoop, President Trump has given the hard liners exactly what they want if you import goods from china, hes making you pay, no exceptions that includes the iphone no wonder apples stock reversed it went from up big to just, well, ugly because its the most visible importer suddenly everything either they need to eat the tariffs or they need to make their phones even more expensive relative to samsung, which does its manufacturing in south korea can you imagine, the outcome of this is that samsung is the winner but apple is one example out of many i used it because its so in your face. The president figures hes given American Companies enough time to get out of china, roughly a year and a half sins aluminum and steel and change sourcing. Thats up to them. The reaction was so negative the yie
Those blasts sent massive fire balls into the nights sky. The initial blast erupted at a warehouse for Hazardous Materials and triggered other explosions at nearby businesses. Those explosions could be felt miles away. The cause at this point not immediately clear. Lets take a look at some live pictures this morning from tianjin china. You can still see the smoke cloud billowing. We heard from hyundai. Well take more of a look at whats happening with china in a bit. About 4,000 imported vehicles were destroyed by that blast. Heres the big stories today, China Central bank holding a News Conference in beijing overnight arguing theres no basis for continued currency depreciation. Earlier in the day they set the rate below yesterdays close. Well have a live report in a moment. Athens wants to see a vote before a euro zone identifinanc meeting tomorrow. It argued it lacked clarity on the direction of policies. Here in the u. S. A busy day on the data front. We get jobless claims, july reta
We have a forecast coming up. We start with the tail end of earnings and all those predictions that we would see negative Earnings Growth. We had the report and since then the s p 5 hundred index is up about. 9 . Bob pisani is live with where we saw gains and losses and what expected from retail this week. First up the answer to this question. Did we see growth this earnings season . We are pretty close to seeing an actual Earnings Growth picture for all of this season. Lets take you to the score cart. Through this morning, we have got about 447 of the 500 companies in the s p 500 that have reported earnings. Among those, 67 beat estimates. The caveat there as always is maybe its on lower expectations. They have about one in four will say close to 23 missed estimates. We talk about the idea that we might see growth if things go on track for the remaining 10 or 11 yet to report. We could see about two plus percent Earnings Growth. Thats not robust but we were expecting a decline into th