You just made it about money. Thats how it makes me feel. You just made it about money. Or her beloved business will die on the vine. Christina i dont want to be that person that cries on tape. I really dont. Lemonis my name is marcus lemonis. And i risk my own money to save struggling businesses. Were not gonna wake up every morning wondering if we have a job. Were gonna wake up every morning wondering how many jobs we have to do. Its not always pretty. Everythings gonna change. Everything. But i do it to save jobs, and i do it to make money. Lets go to work. This is the profit. In 2010, Christina Stembel planted the seeds for Farmgirl Flowers, a unique ecommerce florist located in san francisco. Originally a farm girl herself, christina first got the idea while working at stanford where she saw firsthand how much businesses spend on floral arrangements. Christina get some of these. Dont just put the pale ones in. Lemonis researching the industry further, she realized how much florist
Welcome to squawk alley. Carl and jon both have this morning off. Joining us is rekicricos he ha itting manager and author of the fore nice to have everybody here. And lets do our top story this morning. It is shares of apple and a number of its suppliers are under pressure on reports of slowing demand josh lipton, what is the problem if there really is one reporter apple investors have been counting on a waiver of iphone fans all around the world upgrading to the new iphone x, but this morning new questions about the real popularity of that device. So there are reports citing taiwans Economic Daily that apple in the First Quarter is going to cut its Sales Forecast for the 10 to just 30 Million Units. Ch and that is down from the initial plan of 50 Million Units. Apple doesnt remember Quarterly Sales targets for the x which officially went on sale back in early november apple suppliers down this morning on the report. Finisar just awarded 390 million to analysts have baeen not so bulli
Christmas. You can see we are set up for a lower open generally speaking on the major averages, s p showing a little more signs of life. European markets, most have been closed for the Christmas Holiday or boxing day as well. So not much to speak of there. Lets get to our own 10year note yield though as we take a look where we stand right now. 2. 483. Crude oil, wti up a few cents and just out the latest shill erin dex shows home prices up 6. 2 in october. That of course year over year from last year lets get to our road map this morning. It does start with apple largest market cap out there, shrinking in the premarket on some reports about next years iphone sales, were going to fill you in. Will this years rally continue as we close out 2017. Finally a retail rebound, how the struggling sector is faring so far this Holiday Season as you may know not too bad. Lets start with apple shares, they are under pressure in the premarket. Reports of sales of the new iphone 10 are slowing accord
What happened in your christmas household . It was wonderful. At with my sister. And best gifts . You know, the usual what is the best gift that we could get, you know sf what is t best we could do at this point is that appropriate for Morning Television i got socks socks are good. I got some very thoughtful sweatpants i got some sweatpants how thoughtful could sweat pants be they were very comfortable. Did you get new yoga wear lululemon, yeah see, i knew that i was going to get you that, but i knew someone else would. We cant just all keep repeating. Okay. Anyway, im Andrew Ross Sorkin joe kernen is here, melissa lee is here. Becky happily has the day off. A quick look at futures. We have the dow looking like it would open down. A few days where we talk about things opening or at least looking like they will open in the red. Right now dow would be down about 32 points. Nasdaq off about 7 1 2 s p 500 off or rather up margma marginally bitcoin is rising, recovering from a selloff last
Numbers coming out on the Holiday Shopping season. Look at those numbers today kohls now up 6 , performing well all session, the retailers. Not under armour, though the ceo reportedly telling its team 2017 sucked with the stock down 50 this year, although its up 1 today well tell you which one of planks adventures is reportedly doing well. And for some people, thats the problem, that the other ventures doing better bitcoin rebounding from fridays selloff we have a debate on whether its still worth investing in the crypto craze oh, joy. I cant wait for that. But we start with the move on apple today, again weighing on the dow and getting hit on reports that the iphone x sales are slowing. The Company Reportedly telling suppliers sales will be 30 Million Units versus the 50 Million Units previously forecast. Joining us right now, our friend russ gesht gerbeert kawasaki and matt wolf from Disruptive Technology advisers happy new year, guys welcome back. Thank you. Happy new year. Ross, i