to such publications as the washington post and the new yorker and well as the new york times for the times he edited the collection of online civil war cesquare centennial essays called disunion. and just two weeks ago. he wrote a beautiful times op-ed essay on the indirect number between james buchanan and abraham lincoln in 1860 and 1861. that op-ed was drawn from his new book lincoln on the verge 13 days to washington, which you i hope you see over one of my shoulders. i this one i m not gonna try to guess which one that is. it s a riveting account of the great succession winter. focusing not only on lincoln but on his surroundings. kind of a railroad passenger. i view of the north as lincoln slowly made his way from springfield and washington to become the most looked at president in american history up to that time. so it ted i m going to lead the conversation and then in around. at around 11 11 15. we will we will go to the q&a, but we ll have a good long tongue time t
Xhoentsz are lower although exxon is trying to hold on, intel, home depot, caterpillar, ge, theyre the biggest losers, all down 3 , nearly 4 for some of them. The big news around bond yields which are rising again this morning. Were waiting for the ruflts a crucial 30year bond auction moments away yesterdays bond auction was a market mover well see if todays is the same as we start to worry about just how much debt there is out there and whether or not investors are willing to buy it. Check out the stocks that are bucking todays big selloff, however. Twitter is soaring after reporting its first ever profit. Higher by more than 16 . Grub hub and the New York Times also surging. More on all three of these stocks straight ahead. Tyler. Thank you very much, michelle im Tyler Mathisen welcome, everybody lets get right to the store of the New York Stock Exchange where bob pisani is standing by pl hello, bob. Once again in the middle of the day this is becoming a regular thing. S p 500 volume
We await the word from the European Central bank tomorrow. Thats going to be very interesting. Yes, well get to more on that in a second. What all the Central Banks are up to. Oil rebounding but that didnt stop canada from cutting its key Interest Rate north of the border and they did that because of how the dramatic fall in oil prices is rippling through the nations economy. Well get into that a lot more with to do ameritrades ceo fred tomczyk is back with us. They had good looking earnings. They had record asset accumulation by their clients in the last quarter. What are they doing with that money, thats the question, what their clients are doing with that money. And this is not a technical glitch. Look at netflix, you talked about this last night. They had blowout earnings. It is up 17 , about a 60 gain after those earnings the explosive growth first reported on the closing bell yesterday. We will follow that stock into the close and at least one of our guests says you can still buy
Fedex runs the Worlds Largest cargo airline. Like father like son, a few hours from now, rand paul will join the republican president ial race. His father is ron paul, the former congressman who ran twice for the gop nomination. Rand paul offered a glance of his run. When he to return to our founding principles. Stand up for the entire bill of rights. Our future can include a road back to prosperity, back to respect at home and abroad. It should include a balanced budget and a fair tax system. All trained as an ophthalmologist and he is 52 years old. He served four years in the u. S. Senate. The European Union is taking a waitandsee approach when it comes to iran sanctions. I spoke present today said the eu will not lift them on june 30. Instead, the eu will wait for proof iran is following a nuclear deal. The end date for the sanctions is still being worked out. There are still details about the phaseout of the sanctions that have not yet been agreed to. It is the strong view of the a
As well and europe moderately in the red as asia does retreat from the big gains yesterday. We have hit dow 16,000 and s p 1,800. But then those comments from carl icahn yesterday spoiled the party a bit. There could be an announcement this morning involving that 13 billion settlement between the department of justice and jpmorgan chase. If and when, well fill you in. More problems for tesla as the automaker is the subject of a formal government probe involving fires in the model s. The dow hit 16,000, the s p 1,800 yesterday. Both closed below those levels after carl icahn expressed concerns about current valuations, saying that stocks, in his words, could face a big drop. Jim, the story for retail in the Fourth Quarter is going to be price competition and margin pressure . I think companies mentioning price competition, best buy, contrast Urban Outfitters last night, contrast that with home depot and dicks where theyre not talking about that. I was talking with john donahoe yesterday