Because the Senate Just Passed another 500 billion bailout. Bailout, lets say of the last bailout. As we quickly ran out of money thats why the dow surged 457 points s p soared 2. 29 nasdaq 2. 81 house of pleasure Payroll Protection Program was supposed to be for Small Business, right . In the end a ton of that money ended up going too big businesses, Public Companies that was a back rub and sing i feel like a chump. I guess i should be more cynical about politics, just trying to help Small Business. However, if you ask me, that wasnt really the big story of whats going on. See, theres something bubbling underneath right now under the surface. And if anything, it makes me want to be less cynical about corporate america. Thats right corporate america. See, this market is rewarding businesses that have foresight and originality and most importantly, heart i dont want to sound too sappy, i dont know how else to put it. The stocks of good corporate citizens are thriving here mark benioff,
Thinnest of reeds which is why the averages were able to war today. The dow which gained 470 points, s p advancing 2. 28 . Its hard to find a positive button house of pleasure the nasdaq gaining 1. 72 . All right, what happened okay, this morning President Trump told us hes brokering a deal between russia and saudi arabia so theyll stop flooding the world with oil that will help the price of crude to rebound back to the 20s and trigger a short rally in the stock market. One that couldnt be taken down by the shroud of gloom even as the shroud kept trying to take it down. Intermittently until being ripped from the markets rarely bullish face buy, buy, buy yep, we live in a bizarre world where wall street can momentarily overlook the fact that 6. 6 million americans filed for Unemployment Insurance last week a mindblowingly horrible record breaking number. Instead, we briefly able to accentuate the positive. It might not collapse, saving billions of bad loans and preserving Energy Indepen
Record sales for the most valuable company. And boeings billions, it is taking a 5 billion hit in the Second Quarter due to the worldwide grounding of what was its bestselling plane ever. And rate cut optimism. Stocks on track to open higher but on pace for worst week since may. Microsoft on track to open at a record high, market cap above a trillion dollars Quarterly Results beat expectations on cloud strength here is nadella on last nights Conference Call. Our commercial Cloud Business is the largest in the world, surpassing 38 billion in revenue for the year with growth margin expanding to 63 . Im proud of what we have accomplished over the last 12 months, and im energized by the tremendous opportunity ahead every day we work alongside our customers to help them build their own digital capability, creating new businesses with them, innovating with them and earning their trust. Cloud is a third of revenue and after at t they had quite the week. Yeah. I did something i never do i list
Impact it will have on the rest of the president s economic agenda. Plus well talk about disneys earnings. Revenues though a bit weak and of course its all about espn and cord cutting. You want toer what what bob iger had to say about the quarter. The yelp shares getting hammered. Well dip through that quarter that is dragging the name down. Obviously the story of the morning is the firing of jim comey. The lleyton ohis leaf the latest on his leaving the office. Lets go to eamon javers this morning. Good morning. Were an hour and half away from President Trump meeting in the oval office with Sergey Lavrov in the oval office. That came one day after firing comey who was investigating if any Trump Associates were in collusion with the russians in that process. We just saw mr. Lavrov at the state department a few moments ago play that video for you. And i believe we have some sound here of mr. Lavrov is asked about the firing of mr. James comey. Does the comey firing cast a shadow over wh
Dramatically. Asian markets fell between 1 and 2 . In his victory speech last night trump struck an optimistic tone regarding americas future. We must reclaim our countrys destiny and dream big and bold and daring. We have to do that. Were going to dream of things for our country, and beautiful things and successful things once again. Jim, we talked to you last night before the race was actually called. Your thoughts this morning. Well, look, i think that people are going to be divided between those who say that he is pro business, not necessarily great businessman because we have people pro business, lower taxes, pro business, lower taxes are things historically that if it were anybody we would say thats good for the stock market. This is a man who likes his kne neilsen ratings. Hes very sensitive to the idea that stocks are overvalued. But at the same time i dont think he wants to hurt someones 401 k . I do believe that he has said that and has always been very comfortable with borro