Strong Economic Data and easing worries about the Global Economy and how it might be affected by international conflict. Add it up and it was enough for the s p 500 to reach a fresh high before pulling back ending two points away from a historic close. After the closing bell, attention turned to the latest Quarterly Earnings from the tech bellwether and the most valuable Public Traded Company on the planet, apple. Apple made 1. 28 a share excludeing items and that topped wall street estimates by a nickel but revenue was slightly lower than forecast despite selling 35 million iphones, 13 million ipads and nearly 4. 5 million mac computers. They ended up 1 . Julia boorstin has more on apples earnings. What did you see snp. Well, tyler, for apple, its about the number of devices it sold. Iphone sales grew 13 to 35. 2 million showing apple is keeping ahead of rivals and thriving in brazil, russia, india and china where tim cook says shares rose. Its a different story for the number of tabl
Peter cook and to liana gold on a roundtable toward deescalation of tensions. Lets go to geneva as secretary joinste cary kerry discussions on ukraine. Said it was kerry just the beginning, these talks today. The four parties, the United States, the european union, legallynd ukraine he armed illegally armed individuals in ukraine must disarm. They agreed that all government buildings that have been occupied in the southeast of the country must be freed. Some interesting agreements today. All of them very easy to verify. Said, if he did not see action by the russian side by this weekend, he will introduce more sanctions against russia. Thery special guest, foreign minister of ukraine joining us now to talk about this breakthrough, if we can talk about it today. Thank you for joining us. How big of aith deal is this. Does this mean that everybody can stop worrying about the situation in ukraine . The initial steps in the process of deescalation of the situation in ukraine. Concernedtinue
Chinas. The roadmap begins with netflix shares up 17 premarket and applesed to poised to open at new highs and subgrowth jumped. And mcdonalds beating expectations but revenue in december same store sales missing in what the Company Calls a challenging year. And ebay completing an earnings trifecta beating by a penny as carl icahn announces a stake in the Company Calls for a paypal spinoff. First up, netflix is poised to open at alltime highs. The company adding more than 2. 3 million new u. S. Subscribers to its streaming service in the Fourth Quarter. Netflix says its projecting an additional 2. 2 million domestic streaming subs. And handily beating estimates, 79 cents a share. Talked about new pricing tests that theyre doing when they did the google hangout of a call, you said look for 33 million, jim. They gave it to us. This is a remarkable Conference Call. A confluence of things occurring, first things can understand how can a stock go up that much. There were many people coming
Billiondollar stake in apple and the stock takes off. J. C. Penney shares worth 350 million less than he paid. Can he make money . And supersized hospitals are getting better, changing the economics of healthcare, but will the trend mean higher bills for you . All that and more tonight on nightly Business Report for tuesday, august 13th. And good evening everyone. Buckle your seat belts and make sure your trey tables are upright and locked that planned 11 billiondollar merger between American Airlines and u. S. Air hit an air pocket today courtesy of the u. S. Justice department. Eric holder and six state attorneys general soon to blocked merger says the deal will stifle competition after a wave of airline competitions in recent years. Says the government says it could lead to bigger prices. Shares of u. S. Airways falling 13 day and amr corp, which is currently in bankruptcy but trading nose dived a staggering 45 . Hampton pearson has more on the suing and what it might mean for the f
Gifts from a wealthy donor is this government corruption or politics as usual will dive into that hat the Company Behind can see crunch the candy crime saga has trademarked the word candy and then the Tech Companies from using the word in other games clothing almost everywhere else but to really own the word candy more on that later. Michelle is a fan. Yet the wet day in january to twenty seconds five pm here in washington d c. Im liz longer watching rt america. Begin today with the latest on the conflict in syria. Efforts to find a peaceful resolution in the bloody civil war hit a roadblock today at the geneva to talks in switzerland the last call for presentation on assets that down to me and a three year war that has resulted in over a hundred thousand deaths but syrias foreign minister accused other nations of funding extremism in the country and said only the people of syria can decide the fates of the country. Barts igor piston opted in switzerland with more on the war of words w