Welcome back to the Madeleine Paul hilliard Conference Center here at the higgins hotel. I hope everybody enjoyed their lunch. We spent this morning doing some pretty high Level Analysis of the political and strategic situation that existed amongst the allied leaders. But as we all know, wars are fought on battle feels, not in board rooms, and these summits, though they dictated much of what would happen on the ground, they wouldnt have mattered much if we didnt have armies in the field. So our next session will look at how yalta affected the execution of the closing months of world war ii. To do this, we asked our very own rob citino, dr. Citino is the executive director of the institute for the study of war and democracy as well as the Museum Samuel and mary stone Senior Historian at the National World War Ii Museum and ill beat him to the punch line and say hes got the longest title on staff. Hes an Award Winning military historian, published ten books, primarily on the german army.
Maria welcome, lowes reporting Quarterly Earnings a moment ago, Ashley Webster are. The numbers. Ashley lets get right to it, eps, adjusted basis 141 per share, better than estimate of 1. 35 but revenue coming in just a tad short 14. 4 billion, we were looking for, or at least the street was locking for 17. 68 billion, a little miss on the revenue side, it is reaffirming says lowes, outlook for the rest of the year, in fact, its raising eps estimates which is pretty solid when you consider disappointing result from home depot yesterday, as you can see, though, premarket, lose down 3 , total sales up 2 , but other than that comp sales were up 3 , the outlook or certainly, about where we expected it to be, maybe as comparing this to home depot, maria, a little less on the downside although i wouldnt say that much on the upside if that makes sense, the stock coming back a little bit in premarket, this is not a bad report at all and certainly raising the outlook for the rest of the year ce
With betterthanexpected earnings and you have what we have today, dow gaining 103, nasdaq, boy,. 70 nice when we finally get to the point we can focus on individual enterprises, we would be surprised at how well these enterprises are doing. Hallelujah so far, so good but next week was way too many jampacked earnings to keep track of, except for me. Let me give you highlights monday is expected to be a downer but im looking for a reason to buy, so thats at t. You might get a chance to by this midland quality phone company, yes, you heard me, once we scrutinize what will probably be bountiful cash flow from the time warner acquisition. We also hear from the one retailer that may disappoint us, amazon it used to be cv sfrmt but i think cvs are fine because they went and bought aetna. Then alphabet reported i cant remember the last time alphabet reported a clean quarter. Its always confusing. After the minoritysohot numbers from twitter, i fear another headscratcher who matters now . I car
Lets start with the uk elections and its almost certain David Cameron will win a second term in government. The final results are almost in. Cameron is expected to announce victory soon. His conservative party has taken 322 seats so far. That is just four seats away from an over all majority. Its predicted to end the day with 329 seats. The labor party currently has 228 seats and that is down by 26 projected to end the day with 233 places in parliament. That is largely because the Scottish National party have all but wiped out neighboring scotland and have taken 56 out of 59 possible seats. And liberal democrats had a disaster night and down 8 sights or at 8 seats and down by 46 and in a minute we will hear from them and have the latest on the Uk Independence Party leader who failed to get elected and more on the landslide Scottish National victory in scotland from barnabie but first lawrence lee is live for us in london so lawrence we are getting to the point i guess where we start to