For sirera iara eisen. What recession a better than expected jobs report started the morning with an optimistic tone china says it has reached a consensus with the u. S. In this weeks trade talks and exxon ticking higher along with industrials and financials. And in just a few minutes, the actor who plays logan roy on hbos secession will join us on the cutthroat world of media competition. Hes going to be right here at post 9 joining us for the hour is kara fineman. Here we are sitting basically at the highs of the session i found it really interesting that yesterday the markets got pretty derailed by worries that the trade talks werent going so well today we have an agreement of principle and we really didnt move so much we have that other data out today, so its hard to really parse what to me, this kind of day seemed pretty goldilocks. You had a really good jobs number in the morning, right you had progress on china. Although ive got to say, im skeptical on every update that we get a
Taken. Stateoftheunion. Income inequality. The president takes aim tonight in front of congress. Whats causing the widening income gap and what are possible solutions . All that and more tonight on nightly Business Report for tuesday, jan 28th. After six losing sessions in a rows dow found muchneeded gains after the selloff in emerging market currencies levelled off. A batch of strong earnings reports before the opening bell prompted investors to buy stocks again. Todays gains happened despite a surprise drop in december durable goods orders and a big selloff in shares of apple following disappointing earnings late monday. Heres a look at the closing numbers. The dow jumped more than 90 points, nasdaq added 14, the s p up almost 11 points. More now on those earnings from some bigname companies out before the bell today. That gave investors something to cheer about. Morgan brennan has our report. Reporter four companies posting Fourth Quarter earnings that beat wall streets expectations
In front of congress. Whats causing the widening income gap and what are possible solutions . All that and more tonight on nightly Business Report for tuesday, jan 28th. After six losing sessions in a rows dow found muchneeded gains after the selloff in emerging market currencies levelled off. A batch of strong earnings reports before the opening bell prompted investors to buy stocks again. Todays gains happened despite a surprise drop in december durable goods orders and a big selloff in shares of apple following disappointing earnings late monday. Heres a look at the closing numbers. The dow jumped more than 90 points, nasdaq added 14, the s p up almost 11 points. More now on those earnings from some bigname companies out before the bell today. That gave investors something to cheer about. Morgan brennan has our report. Reporter four companies posting Fourth Quarter earnings that beat wall streets expectations today. Starting with pfizer. Increased sales of drugs for cancer and arthr
Point of earnings season. A good start. Earnings beat for microsoft, despite falling pc sales and once again, its all about the cloud. Amazon reports strong sales growth. Who cares about margins. Customers dont blink at a price hike for prime. Drum beat of new services continues. Analyst notes this morning are pressuring the stocks. Starbucks up, earnings as analysts expected. Exclusive with Howard Schultz ceo and chairman coming up, coffee, Digital Payments and why lunch is next. Ford is slipping despite strong sales. Profit did miss analyst estimates. Fords margins hit by higher production costs. Shares are dropping. Well hear from bob shanks. First up, microsoft did Beat Estimates by a nickel, fiscal had thirdquarter profit of 68 cents a share. Company was helped by momentum in Cloud Services as total commercial cloud revenue more than doubled in the period and last night during his first earnings call, nadella spoke about betting on the cloud. We will continue to invest in our clou