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nasdaq advanced .2%. good enough is the theme for the day. why not start with the ultimate good enough? let s start with apple. they reported a number that showed a 15% revenue decline yet the stock is flying in after hours. how in the heck can it decline like that be bullish? simple. because there were many, many worries going into the quarter. even among the bulls that it would be worse, maybe far worse than that. nope, it was good enough. better than we thought three months ago. and frankly could have been more than good enough. tim cook told us. if apple hadn t been supply constrained on its iphone selling almost only 40 .4 million when it could have been many more than that. plus that service revenue stream that i talk about all the time just keeps growing. cook said it will be the size of a fortune 100 company by this time next year. when we asked him if that meant $28 billion, the value of the smallest company on the austere list, he told us, no, it would be more ....
it s over now as i ve been reporting. dupont has one, the proxy fight with trion and four potential directors being nominated. we talk to ellen coalman on the interview later this morning s. april retail sales coming in flat. macy quarter results miss. danaher s deal valued at almost $14 million and they re also splitting into two. big deals this morning. we ll start with dupont. something we ve followed closely since it began. trion has owned the stock for quiet some time. dupont prevails. i was listening to others on squawk box who don t believe. how much efforts they ve put into this and were very articulate arguments that they would win at least one seat going in perhaps as many as two. i would argue it s a win for dunopt here. whether it s a turning point for activism, we cannot say. very interesting to note that the index funds voted were dupont and again trion. have typically had a great deal of influence. they recommended where the index funds didn t listen to t ....
will that cash go the people he wronged? all that and so much more coming up on this hour of markets now. merry christmas, happy new year, everybody. top of the hour, let s check out these markets. we do have some slight gains this morning. lauren simonetti is at the new york stock exchange looking at all of it. hey, lauren. hi, dagen. well, the dow is trying to stay in the green today, up about four points, the nasdaq and s&p 500 are down. i was taking a look, it s unbelievable that for all three major averages this year, there s been only two months where the major averages have been down, june and august. pretty unbelievable when you think about it like that. let s take a look at coke shares, number two in the dow right now. there was an article in barron s over the weekend citing a couple of things that should pique investor interest in the new year, a revival in earnings, steady dividend growth, a growing global middle class. and if you consider the fact that t ....
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