Sales and the stock is hitting new highs. And finally teslas tumble, why the street is mixed on what actually came out of the companys battery day event yesterday. J j, though, jim, going to be the lead and you just called it maybe the best company we have in this country. Yeah, look, i think that i like triple a balance sheet, i like a company that continues to make the numbers, i like a company that pays a good dividend, has the best pipeline, most robust pipeline in pharmaceuticals and i like a company thats not a hype company. The fact that they are ready to do their vaccine now, full disclosure i am attempting to get into the trial, i think its everybodys duty to get into the trial they are the only one emphasizing the atrisk people they want people who we view as people who we need to protect. I dont hear that from any of the other companies. I like the fact they are willing to give it to their whole employee base. This is the way i think it should be done and i know people are c
The bloomberg. Forced to come. Jerome powell said the u. S. Economy is heading into in uncharted territory. Morgan stanley warns the nasdaq 100 could enter a bear market. U. S. Tissue paper Prime Minister Boris Johnson is set to sound the up Prime Minister Boris Johnson is set to sound the rise. After covid19 cases hsbc orders a halt to social media posting after a leaked report linked to the bank to suspect transactions. Shares slide in hong kong for the second day in a row. Just under an hour away from the start of cash equity trading in europe. Take a look at futures after the big, fat drops drops we saw yesterday. The dax fell 4. 3 . The drops were much bigger in europe than they were in the u. S. The u. S. Saw drops between 1 and 2 yesterday. U. S. Futures are still down about 0. 5 . Anna, what do you see on the gmm . Anna lets get to it. We have the reaction we are getting in the european session. What we saw overnight in the u. S. , rather. A bit of selling. It is quite dramatic
That Summer Vacation today, youre losing money, particularly if you are a tech investor. On this first trading day of august, the nasdaq aiming for its 29th record close of the year as tech giants from apple, like we were talking about, to microsoft and a whole host of other names, lead markets higher. We have the nasdaq up 176 points right now. Dow is up 274. Youve got to watch microsoft in this final hour. It is hitting a record high after confirming charlie gasparinos report that the og Software King is indeed in talks to rescue viral video platform tiktok from President Trumps threats to ban the chineseowned favorite of dancing teen agers. Of all the chinese apps, why ban this one . Charlie breaks it in just moments. And if the president does ban tiktok, will that be a shot across the bow aimed at china . We have team fox business coverage of the brewing tensions between the two superpowers. Our tech panel is here to tell you if we are on the verge of a high tech cold war and why t
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
Good morning i am Carl Quintanilla with Morgan Brennan and jon fortt at post nine of the New Yorkstock Exchange were starting with disney in focus as shares surge post earnings Julia Boorstin sat down with bob iger after the call, joins us with more of that important conversation hey, julia reporter well, carl, while disney parks and movie Studio Division continue to outperform, the real focus this quarter is disneys Digital Future with disney plus, the streaming Service Launching tuesday. Without revealing any early subscription numbers for disney plus, bob iger told me he does expect the service to get off to a strong start. It is ready to go i am glad to say we tested it in the netherlands, well talk about that on the call, it was successful. It did not have original content but was well received, not just in terms of number of subscribers but the user reaction to it, very, very and a half navigable, great access to our brands and story telling. He announced new distribution, a deal