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restrictions, making the market more isolated? do they want us to exempt investors risking more capital flight? we re seeing the majority of the markets moving through there. let s have a look at some of the stocks that are moving today. earnings big on investors minds at the moment. credit suisse, second-quarter net income beat estimates, even though it s of investment that is rallying this morning. unilever, second-quarter sales growth beat estimates there on better-than-expected gains in latin america. finally syngenta profits beat estimates. strengthening the case for it to reject that take over. strategists pretty bullish on european earnings for a number of reasons. lower energy prices for one. of course, because of a weaker euro. let s take a look at that. trading pretty flat against the dollar at the moment. it has been resilient during the whole greek crisis. don t rest on your laurels because a number of people say that may not last. comments saying the ongo ....
gas dime was profits of 64% daimler s profits of 64%. live from europe s headquarters in london. i am manus cranny. smash estimates reporting it welcomed the news for the bank which saw a lot of 700 million francs. francine lacqua is on location today. she is out and about, catching up with the new ceo tidjane thiam. what is the news? francine: we try to quiz him. we have to remember these are not his results. he is only been on the job for 20 days. once it these figures will lay out the strategy on which he will overhaul the bank. that strategy will be revealed by the end of the year. the key to this is the new strategy should be release some of pressures from second-quarter results. tidjane: performance of private bank is a strong. driven by asia-pacific which we have a strong interest in. they were very pleased with the way things were developing. profits were up 150% in the second quarter. [indiscernible] 54 billion. 4.2% of asset management. very strong quarter ....
our road map begins with macy s down double digits on the earnings miss. shares of kohl s taking a hit. shares of snap also plunging more than 20% after its first public earnings report. didn t go too well. but we ll dig in on the quarter. fireworks expected on capitol hill later this morning. acting fbi director andrew mccabe will take the stand in place of james comey. but first, comps are below consensus, down 4.6 on the owned plus licensed basis. macy s says it expects the sales decline for the full year. this is nine straight quarters, jim, they have had comps in the red. yeah. i ve got to distinguish macy s from kohl s here. i thought kohl s was a decent number. kohl s got better and better and better and they have lean inventories. macy s what can i say? they don t have it. they are the ones when you try to figure out who exactly is in the crosshairs of the moment, i come back to macy s. i just feel like that the you could floor by floor. aisle by ais ....
secretary steve mnuchin arrives for another round of talks in italy. i understand there s an ambitious tax reform program in the united states, we re watching closely on what is good for the united states and what would be learned by other countries about tax reform. donald trump calls fired fbi director james comey a grandstanding showboat as he tells nbc exclusively his rational for sacking him earlier this week. you said i accepted their recommendations. you had already made the decision. i was going to fire regardless. good morning, everyone. it s friday. glad you re with us once again. we have another packed show for you. let s kick things off with our top story. vivendi announced plans to buy a 60% stake in advertising group halves have ff s ha havas for 2.4 billion euros. the step marks another milestone in vivendi chairman vincent bollore s plans to build another media powerhouse. shares of vivendi are up 5.71%. karen has been following the story all m ....
the lowest since october of 15. the road map begins with a rough week for retail. nordstrom and penney are down this morning. nbc s lester holt sat down with president trump and we ll bring you the highlights on russia and more and plus the tweet storm this morning, threatening former fbi director comey. apple is taking aim at another all time high today and two analysts raising the price target. first up though, government data showing retail sales up 0.4 in april. the strongest gain in four months and nordstrom beat on revenue and comps are down 0.8. penney s swinging to the surprise profit, but revenue misses on a 3.5% decline in comps. jc penney is going to give its all time low run for the money today. what can i say? minus 3.5 comps. they did talk about how march and april improved from february. now, kohl s said the same thing. there was a lot of etf selling yesterday. really came off of macy s. ebitda, here 40 million down from 176 last year. there s no g ....