Has the details. I just spoke with kirk over at isi i wanted his take. He said microsoft is firing on all cylinders, beating all three major categories, Strong Quarter across the commercial franchises it was better than the street was looking for. Kirk said growth is translated into increasing profitability. He said are enterprises willing to spend giving this backdrop and in one of those segments he mentioned 12. 3 billion up 11 . Commercial revenue gross of 20 . Intelligent cloud 13 billion up 20 . And more personal computing, up 6 shares not doing a lot in the after hours. The forecast will be delivered on the call which starts at 5 30 a. M. As josh mentioned, no guidance i am sure every one wonders what they will say about Enterprise Spending especially with the news delivered yesterday what do you make of the quarter . They hit on everything. Josh went through it across the board better, with the Cloud Services area. What we are waiting on now is what is the forecast, what do thin
Themselves on the wrong end of a judges decision in california it is friday, october 23, 2020 and you are watching Worldwide Exchange on cnbc good morning, everyone. Im seema mody in for Brian Sullivan we kick off your friday morning with a look at stock futures, the dow up currently about 75 points the major averages august coming off their second positive day in three. But looking to end the week in the red. Here is how were set up the dow and s p are on track to snap a three week winning streak, the nasdaq on pace to break a four week winning streak for its first worse week since september. Part of that is apparent rotation out of Technology Take a look at the ishares and momentum etf, it is down more than 2 this week. And on pace to snap a five week win streak the etf tracks tesla, apple, amazon, invidia and microsoft. But not to be out done, First Trust Dow jones Internet Fund is now down about half a percent for the week eyeing its first down beak week in five financials and regi
Europe, up by 2. 5 . Todays number from barclays, very strong. We are going to hear from jes staley a little later in the program, our interview from early round. The pound bouncing around all over the place. We were into 1. 31. I think this is broad Dollar Strength rather than anything else. Take a look at the bloomberg dollar index. Alix rising covid cases impacting the economic data. Composite pmi for the euro area dropping below the 50 mark, which shows contraction. Meeting. O ecbs next joining us is john hardy, Saxo Bank Head of fx strategy. Does 1. 18 make sense for when you consider the rising uncertainty . John of course, the pressure should be on the downside given the covid resurgence. I think the general take on the could be that if we are seeing this democrat sweep scenario, we are positioning for a weaker dollar for some time in the future. Anything looks fair between 1. 17, and to me, this is the upper area of where we should be. We shouldnt be doing anything and eurodoll
Another day of dragged on stimulus talks, john. Intel not a small factor in the trade. When i think of volatile tech stocks, i tend not to think about intel. Look that two year chart ups and downs. Its like an obstacle course, a tough mudder or something. Last quarter, it was about the supply side and intels manufacturing. This quarter the surprise was more around demand and the extent to which enterprise and government just isnt buying in the data center. Cloud picking up the slack that has an impact on margins. Of course, we have the pc stuff going on which is largely a tail wind they havent for a long time but theyre not buying them in the enterprise as we would expect people are not in the workplace. People are adjusting the way they work. That does have an impact on intel. A lot of balls in the air here this volatility predated, bob swan particularly on that manufacturing side but now hes got all of these other things to deal with as well investors looking for clarity around what
Administration looks at the reopening of longshuttered trade routes mean for u. S. Business, not just israel and of course these other nations, but u. S. Business and could saudi arabia and maybe even iran be next to step up . The president s director of trade and Manufacturing Policy, Peter Navarro, will join us live on what this relationship might just do to boost trade in americas struggling covid economy. Rivalry on the baseball diamond still in full swing. Game three of the world series set for tonight. The Major League Baseball organization is going high tech to help you light up your social media with grand slam videos of your own. Find out how the mlb film room is taking a place in the google cloud. Narrow tech trading in play as the prospect of a stimulus deal remains on mothballs on capitol hill. Dow jones industrials down 61 but the s p just popped up to positive territory, better by three. The nasdaq up nearly down nearly five points. All of the major indices appear to be h