Week the s p is tracking for a third week in a row of losses, down 1. 3 nasdaq futures up 73 points. Weve got a lot to talk about on a summer thursday. Our road map starts with earnings walmart posting better than expected results fellow down component cisco gets a lift, beating with its Quarterly Results and talking up a. I. Ceo Chuck Robbins will be joining us here. Plus, investors continuing to digest fed minutes released yesterday. The tenyear note yield hitting a fresh high were going to begin with walmart, raising fullyear forecast the retail giant benefitting from customers seeking bargains. U. S. Comps up by a better than expected 6. 4 and ecommerce jumping 24 led by pickup and delivery theyre clearly taking share because theyre out comping their competitors and the industry theyre crushing it i want to straighten some things out here when you have ecommerce up 24 , when you have advertising, which is just free money, what are the Gross Margins there, 35 , much higher margin. F
Vix at 16. Jpmorgans point this morning was typically, you have the s p down two plus maybe a dozen times since covid. Couple of those were in the depths of covid but generally, its when the vix was about 20 unless we get a shock, maybe the selling is going to end soon if youre looking for why today, theres a slew of reasons. Started overnight in china with weaker Economic Data across the board even though we got a rate cut there, which should be supportive top data in the u. K. And in the u. S. , the data was mixed retail sales, a lot stronger but markets quit trying to figure out whether good news is good or bad news is bad because it keeps the feds hiking rates higher for longer that 1 control group number that feeds into gdp, thats something people were talking about for a monthly gain that was double the expectation and signals the consumer is still in good shape even though we got new York Manufacturing going back into negative territory and showing a lot of pain there you see go
Call me or tweet me jim cramer, the battle between truth and fiction plays out every da i in this market, and sadly, fiction usually wins that includes days like today where the dow shed 181 points, s p declined. 76 , nasdaq lost 1. 15 . Last fall, things have turned nasty, havent they . Im starting to see the same old negative on wheat creep back in the market, plagued by imaginary scenarios, we convince ourselves represent reality, and make us say, who needs this nonsense lets just go sell everything and buy some bonds house of pleasure. The first absurdity, the first fantasy, that somehow theres a correlation between the newly weak bank stocks and reality, because these Bank Failures last spring have left a nasty taste in our mouths. The vast majority are doing well in this country. Guess, what they werent doing it anyway. Almost every class of loans is doing great, credit cards, home equity, Small Business loans, even the dreaded Office Building loans are looking good, which are a
Speak. Numbers will move around this morning. Dow would open 150 points off. Nasdaq down 60 s p would open off 18 points treasury yields. 10year treasury at 4. 223. It moved up. 2year treasury at 4. 96. As joe mentioned, in the last half hour, fitch warning it may downgrade dozens of banks. The Agency Cutting assessment of the Industry Health in june. Fitch rating stating if the industry is downgraded again, that translates to negative reaction fitch wants to significaal that downgrades not a foregone conclusion he will join us in the next hour to breakdown what with is happening here. Im looking for a trade, courtney i dont see it yet home depot is saying things are crappy in line with the crappiness they talked about you saw it yes fiscal earnings down Single Digits you want to go through the numbers . I dont know if the stock is impacted by the comments exactly we knew they had been looking for the year of moderation fiscal year earnings down it could. Home depot is reporting earnin
A quarterly beat despite increasing costs Berkshire Hathaway including d. R. Horton and lennar weve gotten another warning from fitch, this time the Rating Agency telling cnbc it may be set to downgrade dozens of banks that could include jpmorgan chase. Lets begin with the markets. A lot of credit card data said retail was going to come in strong here. Look, the fed has tightened we know that i dont want a big jackson hole boom, but the economy the consumer is strong the enterprise is strong the weakness is, what, in trucking, in some really bad retailers . David, at times you have to play a game where you find this weakness i need to know where theres weakness give me some weakness. China go to china, young man. China is not in america i just want to give you a little well, you didnt specify geography to be fair no. But in the absolutely china is weak. I wont give out numbers about unemployment because theyre all in school. Many of them are in school at least thats what the chinese ar