Protests and the fallout from joer george floi, but the market and stocks are focused on Economic Activity, period we just keep getting good news its good news off very lowered expectations whether it be cheesecake getting a lot more people than they thought or the airlines this morning. American saying good things. Whether it be ebay pronouncing right now things are better than expected whether you talk a look at a lot of the companies that, you know, morgan stanley, gm, of course this quarter was the weakest, but maybe next quarter will be the strongest. We have a number of Oil Recommendations saying they have come all the way back. So the street is really bullish. After being very bearish you see a lot of price targets that were cut severely are now going back up. Its a kind of dont fight the trend where the most overbought we have been since 2009, but if you go back to 2009, we were up 11 on the s p. We had great period after. People are fighting the tape if theyre selling. How abo
Jobless claims, though, 4. 4 million, bringing the total to 26 million over the past five weeks. Oil bounces, and the european pmis remain historically low 16 in france no, 10 in france 16 in germany. Jim, though, your tone this morning is relatively hopeful. Look, i am a creature of who reports and what they say. And i can literally i find it hard to remember as Many Companies as saying good things, even as obviously were in nidest of a pandemic, and i dont think theyre all clockeyed optimists. These are large cap companies. These are not the companies that the government is trying to protect. These are arguably the winners the companies that are going to get stronger i listened to lee, and Lee Cooperman was talking about what its going to look like on the other side i look at my desk. I have reports everywhere here these are all companies that are going to come through with fewer competitors. And that may be bad for the u. S. Consumer, but its good for the stock market david, would y
Later, stop trading. Thats the message to the aging generation well tell you why it could be a warning sign power lunch starts right now i feel so good being part of the aging generation yo boomers out there im standing tall with you all here is where we stand stocks are taking a breather from record highs. The company gave a grim out look saying its facing increased economic pressure. We dive right in now with walmart. The retail giant and d ow component hitting all time highs. Same store sales strong. Online sales surge 41 and they are seeing strong growth in snacks and beverages and fresh food digital and grocery Growth Drivers are the key. Does the stock still have room to run lets talk about that. Groceries have been a big driver theyre the largest grocer in the country and not by a small margin now they are going to orders and delivery and they will put it in your refrigerator. Sure. 56 of walmart sales in the u. S. Come from grocery. Just to put that into p perspecti perspective
Discuss north korea. Should investors use the weakness as a buying opportunity . Well debate that. Also, is the ipo market back certainly rokus shares have been roaring higher for a second straight day were going to look at whats behind all the excitement for that stock but in the meantime, we have some breaking news regarding the Federal Reserve. Steve liesman stepping in. What now, steve . Reporter im not stepping in bill Jerome Powell is the news. The Federal Reserve governor, Jerome Powell apparently according to the dow jones met on wednesday with President Trump, interviewed according to them for the fed chair job this comes as its been reported earlier this morning that former Federal Reserve governor kevin warsh met with the president on thursday i think the clear indication is this search for the next fed chair is heating up. We were trying to establish whether or not the current fed chair, janet jellyellen had mett the president. I do not believe thats happened recently well
California and spend a lot of your money you lose in a landslide and now you say okay. Im prepared to run for president. It doesnt work that way. But she does have business experience whether shes a shareholder. But its not positive business experience. She got fired. That went well. Here now to respond from the fire inside the republican consent, carly herself. What do you think donald said. Well, you know, donald is entitled to say whatever he wants to say. But, look, ill stack my business experience up against his and lots of other peoples because, yeah, i was fired in a boardroom where ive been very up front about that, ever since the moment it happened. But in business, there are real results and the results are clear. We took a company in the Worst Technology recession in 25 years from 44 billion to almost 90 billion well, a lot of that was built on contact right. Yeah. Thats why we do deals. We take the growth rate from 2 foster 99 . Its hard to grow a 90 billion dollar at 9 . W