Laura. Jim, one of those every now and then we get a day that is truly consequential and that certainly fits at least the expectations for powells speech. I wish that we hadnt come in so hot when you have a company that gains 50 billion in one day, salesforce, when you have a tremendous number of nasdaq stocks that have just kind of out of control to the upside you dont want to have anything that could disrupt that i think its heightened, im glad were covering every minute of t david, you know that this is a day that we would normally be talking about abbott labs and talking about the mysterious tiktok mayor issue which are both huge stories but we have to defer to jay powell. We do we have to defer to powell we have to continue to understand what the fed Balance Sheet will look like with that 3 trillion thats been added to it which is a staggering sum, guys jim, your point is well taken. Yesterday salesforce i have rarely seen anything like that move, yes, they were extraordinarily st
Just might pay off big time. We start with an earnings load on netflix, moving sharply lower in the afterhours session down by more than 10 . Netflix plummeting after it reported a miss on the bottom line in fact, its biggest earnings miss in 16 years netflix also giving far lower than expected guidance for the Third Quarter subscriber editions, forecasting the edition of 2. 5 million new subscribers in the Third Quarter, less than half the number analysts anticipated. As expected, growth is slowing as consumers get through the initial shock of covid and social restrictions. Now the chief content officer has been appointed coceo and is joining netflixs board of directors, saying in terms of the day to day running of netflix, i do not expect much to change our key executive Leadership Groups are unchanged think of teds well deserved promotion formalizing how we already run the Business Today when the call starts in an hour, well be listening for more on the impact of competition, name c
With the dow gaining 6. 8 there has been some controversy about that too explain whats going on behind the numbers. In terms of how many jobs have been lost during the pandemic. Its fifth positive session. Its been up five sessions in a row. Its indicated higher and the 6th day of the week. That was up by 6. 8 . S p was up by 82 points. And then the nasdaq was up by 2 almost 200 points. The s p indicated up by 6. 5. And treasury yields and did see quite a bit of activity there too. The ten year yield picking up substantially last week and this morning its back at 0. 91 i cant remember the last time we had a ten year above 0. 8 let alone 0. 9. It could be a round number some day not that far 1 maybe cross your fingers. Oil too is almost 40. Oil looks like a bad break looks like it went down and it is such a quick one right back up and almost to the levels where it was almost prior to this the journal has the piece when the spiggots are opening here today. We have a huge show again today
Which means they were the vast majority of the comp sales the in store sales were. 9 . The stores fulfilled 80 of the digital orders in some way Brian Cornell said the retailer will spend 500 million from the beginning of march through july 4th on higher wages and other operational expenses related to the covid crisis so this spending goes beyond q 1 into q 2 not directly comparable with what we heard from walmart yesterday. The sales came at a cost their operating Income Margin was 2. 4 compared to 6. 4 in the same period last year and the gross margin rate was 25 compared to nearly 30 last year but then look at lowes, Michael Baker calls lowes perhaps the most surprising result of the quarter for retail their comparable sales grew more than 11 total up more than 12 in the u. S. Thats only the fourth time in at least ten years we think that lowes beat home depot in the u. S. Both retailers had identical online sales growth in the quarter of 80 but that is a huge growth compared to las
Gene munster is gearing up for both of the calls. We kick things off with apple which is now negative after a brief pop after the release and josh lipton spoke with tim cook. Josh, whats the latest . Melissa, one question i had for tim cook is what hes seeing in china obviously, so important for apple as a key link in that cups supply chain and also as an important end market. I asked him what his iphone demand looked like in china and whether you can extrapolate for that and china is the leading indicator for possibly europe and the u. S. And cook telling cnbc there is a significant, steep falloff, and that began to recover some in march and weve seen further recovery in april and it leaves room for optimism. Its hard to tell thats a leading indicator and there are differences and the u. S. Has had a bold Stimulus Program and i think that will clearly help and im optimistic of the pace of the recovery in the United States i asked him about the work from home trend and so many millions