The cloud numbers disappointed, if you can believe it they disappointed with 47 yearoveryear growth. Growth is slowing so investors want it perfect. Twitter is popping sharply higher. Up 8. 5 . There ad revenue number slid but what impressed investors is daily user growth, record for the second time in a row, up 34 in the june quarter after growing 24 in the march quarter , telling you that folks in the pandemic want news and entertainment. David fascinating. You mentioned earnings in the tech sector. Lets expand it broader. We are well into the earnings season. You think the markets are encouraged, discouraged, or is it coming and where they thought . Abigail it is neutral. Netflix was a decent surprise. Itself almost a nonevent in some ways. They did put up a gap profit which allows them to be eligible for the s p 500. From a broader standpoint, you were mentioning those jobless claims. Since march, jobless claims have been coming down until this week. During that time period of the
New claims actually rose. And 17 Million People are still drawing Unemployment Benefits. I believe thats a negative for the overall market. Get to that in a second. Look at this. Amazon, apple, google, facebook, the day after the top executives took a pounding from the politicians, these stocks went up during those hearings. They are down in preMarket Action this morning. Hold on. All four of these giants will report their earnings later this afternoon. This is big techs big day. My opinion, these Companies Need blowout numbers to sustain their very lofty stock prices. Watch it unfold at 4 00 this afternoon on this network. Overall, i got a lot of red ink to show you. The dow is looking for a loss of over 300 points, down maybe 40 for the s p and off 131 on the nasdaq. Heres one of the negatives thats hurting the market. Emergency virus relief. It runs out in 24 hours. Congress is divided over how to replace it or extend it. Investors want more stimulus but theyre not sure they are goi
This after moodys cut Credit Ratings on 10 small and midsize banks yesterday, sparking fears over a potential slowdown in the banking sector. The Congressional Budget Office estimating the deficit will top 1. 6 trillion in the first 10 months of the fiscal year. Were watching Second Quarter earnings as well. Disney is going to be reporting after the bell today. The stock is up going into the numbers. Almost 1 . European markets also in the green this morning, take a look at you eurozone, the dax is hir by 182. Asia overnight a mixed story, chinas Consumer Price index down in july for the first time in two years, shanghai composite down one half of 1 , kospi index up 1 and a quarter percent. The 2024 race taking shape, another gop hopeful taking the debate stage. President trump remains in the lead as a majority of americans think is charges are a distraction from the growing evidence of biden family corruption. Calls for an impeachment inquiry into joe biden getting louder on capitol h
More focused on it than the fed is because the fed basically sort of ignores cpi because they prefer ppi to cpi. Sorry to go word salad after talking about kamala harris. But the fact of the matter is that the most important number to me right now is 85 and thats how much a barrel of oil is right now. Which means that were probably headed to 100, more than were heading back to 70 and 70 is the breakeven point where the spr was going to be refilled. I think right now oil prices are going to be the leading driver and then if you look at last fridays jobs report, you notice that 4. 4 was the year over year wage increase. So theres a lot of pressure on businesses to continue to pay workers, to find them, than their other input cost of oil so i think youre going to see ppi start to tick up. I dont know that cpi is going to be as high because, a, if you look at core they strip out food and energy but to the average american its certainly a high number but the markets going to look at inflati
The 10year treasury is yielyieldin 4. 19 . I believe these are sitting at high levels for yields for the year i had a computer problem before we started. Of course. Thats why i was asking you i was deferring. Lets look. It is clear it is high yields for the year if you look at that year to date that yield up 8 all of this is happening as we got stronger than anticipated adp numbers this week and the downgrade from fitch can i point out, becky, look at when this is higher than the last time which is back in march when we had the problem with the regional banks oh, thats very interesting too many alarm bells. We are back to the pressure on the banks. Now, they had a lot of time to get their act together they had the fed program to take their tired, poor, hungry and underfunded bonds to the fed and get 100 financing off that. It is an area where there was pressure on the bacnks. We have to watch the regional banks. I havent looked in a day or so. They were doing quite well and i dont know