Take a hit. The covid consumer, walmart, home depot and kohls among retailers reporting earnings today. Walmart says ecommerce sales up 79 . And elon musks billions, tesla getting a spot in the s p 500. It is among the highest valued companies to ever enter the benchmark index and musk is on top to become number three, that is the third richest person in the world. Indeed, guys. Well start with the retail picture this morning, jim, youve been vocal as to the investor response on home depot and walmart. I guess thats related to the news out of amazon. Look, by the way, those stocks do tend to run up in the quarter and sell off thats nothing new a more aggressive amazon is always something we have to Pay Attention to i remember when amazon bought pill packs, the drug stores got killed i also point out that walmarts online david, thats not going to go away you can argue someone is going to argue thats the peak i would argue that amazon and walmart have taken so much share in this country,
Hour futures are solid, earnings phase one signing, lots of eco data our road map begins with trade optimism reigniting the record rally. The chinese delegation heads to d. C. Today for an expected phase one signing on wednesday plus new ceo, same crisis. What to expect from boeings new chief executive, David Calhoun, who takes over today and the future of the 737 max. Then there were four, alphabet nearing the trilliondollar market cap club, behind apple, microsoft and amazon stocks are looking to recoup some losses from dow, the dow surpassed 29k for the first time before finishing in the red. All three major indices are in the green since the beginning of the year led by the nasdaqs 2 gain as we were saying on squawk a few moments ago, jim, if lulu yes, maam of lemon is a clue to the earnings season, maybe this rally has been justified we have two conference this is ek wweek, icr in orlando andi conference in san francisco, health care. Theyre used to be able to say better than expe
10 in its debut, valued at 1. 9 trillion the largest listed company in the world. Plus, the fed and a trade waiting game stocks poised for a muted open as investors seek further tea leaves on trade and the fate of monopolies arent bad if they are not abused tim cook coming to the defense of business but said apple isnt one. Saudi aramco strong public debut. Shares jumpedon the open, the maximum 10 on the Stock Exchange in riyadh limit up. The state owned oil giant is the worlds most valuable company list at 1. 9 trillion, thats about 6 exxons and above apple which has a market cap of almost 1. 2 trillion. Well placed deal. A lot of people in saudi arabia decided to buy this stock. And that boosted it. I think sometimes you get deals and they pretty much determine where it is going to be. So now the question is, yield. And whether the yield exceeds what mike worth is offering on chevron. I think it will. I dont think it makes people suddenly all excited about the oil stocks, but it does
Good Tuesday Morning welcome to squawk alley. I am Carl Quintanilla with Morgan Brennan at post nine of the new york stock exchange. Jon fortt joins us from investor day for qualcomm, first one since 2016 a lot from jon throughout the hour, including a sit down with the ceo exclusively in a few moments. We start with tech on a tear, on pace for the best year in a decade, shrugging off mixed earnings concerns. Sectors off another record close. The dow is selling off, down 120. Buyers beware. Some say were set for overbought conditions when it comes to tech. We talk more about this and the market at large. The chairman of Global Internet banking, good to have you back. Thanks for having me. How do you put the run weve seen, especially in things like semis into context whats driving it . It is amazing, nasdaq up 28 , driven by bigger cap companies, apple up over 60 , microsoft up over 40 , facebook up over 40 to add to the point, semis has been a sub sector, up 58 , driving growth other s
Consumer this morning. Well break down earnings. And breaking up is hard to do the chairman of the ftc weighing in on how to separate facebook the dow and s p in the midst of a three session win streak, moving closer to erasing all of the losses from wednesdays big selloff with stocks set for modest open, does this signal a pause in the volatility jim what do you think about that question i think that thats probably wrong. I dont see a pause because at what point today do we start hearing about jackson hole and what powell is going to say and what the president is going to charge were still dealing with a rosy hangover from the weekend talk shows where people really are buying into what larry kudlow said and it is interesting, but home depots comments are very much like what larry kudlow said. That things are a little better than people realize. There is no recession. This is pretty good. I feel like when i hear those things, it makes me think of is the hawks on the fed are going to be