Today. This is the day, bill, people will look back on and remember. Disney seized a little bit in the earnings. As you can see there, disney shares down about 9 . Putting the cable bundle front and center after talking about espn. Not just disney. Other big media stocks falling today as netflix is hitting an alltime high. 21st century fox down 7. 5 . Time warner, not the cable piece, twx down 8. 7 . Comcast down 4. 7. And well debate whether its time for investors to get out of disney and into the unbundled media plays. Comcast is our parent company. Approving a new rule from dodd frank that requires Public Companies to essentially reveal the gap between the ceos pay and the rest of the companys employees, corporate americas not happy about it. But the director Heather Corzo says this rule doesnt go far enough. Shell be with us to explain her side of the story coming up in a bit here. Weve got great earnings on tap. Fitbits first report, cbs and fox which will be interesting against w
The fed chair will be testifying before the Senate Budget committee this time, starting at 9 30 a. M. Eastern time. She told the join the Economic Committee the economy still needs plenty of support and that the markets are not in bubble territory. Valuations are in house torq historically Interest Rates are historically low. That feeds into the valuation. Theres that linkage. There are pockets where we could see valuations in smaller cap stocks but overall, those broad metrics dont suggest that we are in obviously bubble territory. In reaction to her comments, the dow managed a triple digit gain, closing at 16,518. The s p 500 also picked up ground adding ten points. The nasdaq, though, dropped 13 points. The nasdaq looked worse earlier in the day, though. You did see much steeper declines. It was boosted into the decline of 13 points by the end of the day. The futures right now, youll see at this point dow futures are indicated higher about 13. 5 points, nasdaq up by 2, s p up by 1.