And very, very well said. Charles payne, everyone. Great guy. Thank you, charles. Yes, good afternoon, everyone. Im ashley webster, and we begin this final hour of trade with a fox market alert. The bulls, well, apparently running low on energy after a stampede start to the month of may. Nasdaq as you can see holding onto gains, largely up about a third of a percent led by apple, tesla, and nvidia. S p 500 swinging between gains and losses down over essentially flat right now and in the dough, the dow is off about two tenths of 1 . The blue chip index is coming off its best week of the year so far last week but the dow now in jeopardy of snapping an 8 day winning streak. We shall see. Intels gain, not enough to keep the dow in the green. Intel up around 2. 5 but not enough. It is leaving leading the index and chip maker reportedly nearing 11 billion deal with apollo to build a facility in ireland. It will need a little luck of the irish and shares down nearly 40 and back in the u. S. V
121 points and s p declined. 5 and nasdaq advanced. Lots of people rang the register after four sessions of positive action yet we still saw two huge winners emerge. Starbucks up 5. 48 and honeywell up 3. This matters. Im a gigantic believer that a ceo can determine how well the company does by leadership and execution. Pete carroll from the seahawks and Bill Belichick can take their places where no one else has gone. Thats what they have done. These two companies delivered superior quarters, such great quarters that you know to many other in their leagues, you have to sit back and marvel. I sure wouldnt want to compete against these guys. Think of the coach when you consider buying or selling a stock, as you hear later when a call out a couple of suboptimal performers. Lets talk about the game plan for next week starting with the microsoft. The new ceo, i like this guy, in a position to make more changes, more to the cloud and bring out the value of skype and xbox and maybe even take
Gulf coast. Hes got it reporter near apalachicola, mandatory evacuations, despite the risk, rex and Cindy Whiteman chose to stay and ride out the storm. We have done everything we can to prepare and its too hard to pack up and leave. So and this is home z. The last hurricane to strike florida was wilma in 2005, a powerful category 3 storm that killed five people. Today the threat from hermine extending up the east coast, parts of georgia and North Carolina under a state of emergency. Dangerous rip currents expected through the holiday weekend. Were always worried, sure. Yeah. What you do what you can do, and hope for the best. Reporter authorities here in florida are now assessing the damage here in the pan handle. But craig, as you know, the concern now is the storm moving east and north, georgia and South Carolina and up and down the east coast, dangerous rip currents, as well as Tropical Storm warnings and watches really up a large portion of the east coast, craig. Gabe gutierrez, t