Reaction. Plus on media week selloff, subscriber losses, advertiser declines weighing on companies. And the morning after well recap the gops best debate moments last night, the big winners and the losers. First up, the jobs number. The u. S. Economy added 215,000 jobs in that month. Unemployment remains unchanged at 5. 3 . Weve been watching wage growth average Hourly Earnings up by five cents. Thats about 2. 1 on the year. Just a smidge below the estimates. The Unemployment Rates, 5. 261 is not far from being rounded down to 5. 2 . Coming into this, i think a lot of, you have this core set of economists saying you dont need a strong number. You need a weak one to put it back. The interesting question for the next couple of hours is how many stock Market Participants are there with those economists that a rate rise is coming. If theyre not there, notable monitors of sentiment, if theyre not there, if they make that transition, what will that mean for the stock market over the next mon
Hathaway acquiring precision. We knew this. Nfl deal kind of interesting. Yes. Ahead of earning, reports for tomorrow. Al boib. First up Berkshire Hathaway saying it has agreed to acquire precision cast parts. They say the deal has an enterprise value of 37. 02. They say it takes berkshire out of the market when it comes to m a. Well probably be buying a few small things in the next six months. I mean, were in negotiations on a couple but in terms of a deal of similar size, it pretty much takes us out. What well probably do on this one is well probably borrow about 10 billion and use about 23 billion of our cash. Asked about a lot of Different Things. Ibm, hinted hes been buying more. Said kraft unlikely to do a big deal in the next couple of years. I thought there was a lot here. I know the three reasons the market is up. China should have been down a lot. The stock market has disassociated it from the data which is terrible this weekend. Second, when i look at whats happening with ap
Those shares have been so volatile in the last several weeks. European equities, meantime, on news of this greek arrangement there, you do have red arrows mostly across the board, and perhaps not surprisingly, greece is the one thats getting the lift by 2. 25 . U. S. Equity futures at this hour . Well, after yesterdays big day breaking that sevenday losing streak, the dow would open lower by nearly 125 points. Here are the big stories were watching today. Greece and its lenders agreeing on bailout terms. A Greek Finance Ministry official tells cnbc there are still some minor details, but they wont affect the completion of the deal. The European Commission expected to comment on the deal at its midday briefing. On todays economic agenda, a few data points of of note for this datadriven fed. At 8 30 eastern, a first read on secondquarter productivity and costs, and then at 10 00, wholesale trade. As for earnings central, the consumer front and center this week. Among the Companies Set to
Throughout the hour. Other news, google, bright spot in todays tape. Not everybody is happy about the tech giants restructuring and changing the Holding Companys name to alphabet. We have someone who says these actions will come at the shareholders expense. He happens to be one of those shareholders and hell explain what hes talking about, coming up. As those shares still up 4 . A rare green spot in the session today. Yes. Cyber security meets insider trading. We have the details on charges against nine people allegedly involved in a multimillion dollar hacking scheme, coming up as well. That is huge. That is a huge case. We start first with the chinese currency being devalued by nearly 2 officially. The markets have done otherwise. That move from the peoples bank of china sparking todays global selloff of ek quities and commodities. Mark chandler, welcome to you. Walk us through the impact how will this cascade throughout the Global Financial system . A lot of uncertainty. We make a d
Industrials roared because Warren Buffett brought a precision cast parts . Judge big todays action, dow plummeting 212 points, nasdaq nosediving 1. 2 , nobody remembers as all these positives were undone in one horrendous session for the bulls. Now, last night i tried to be skeptical if not down right critical about the rally. Suggesting it could easily be repealed as the week went on. I didnt know it would be repealed immediately. But thats because i didnt think wed be dealing with a chinese currency devaluation that makes their goods cheaper to export and our goods more expensive to sell there. Yet thats exactly what happened. I want to put it in context so you can benefit from it but also so you can be concerned as i am about it and know what could come. First, china, chinas desperate. Chinese communist governments trying to put everyone to work while at the same time putting an end to the widespread corruption in business and politics. We keep hearing that china needs to grow its e