S p 500 few you ares up 15 the nasdaq with a gain of about 1. 7 all because of what is happening with four big horseman check out shares of apple, facebook, alphabet and amazon. They went before congress two days ago and came out with earnings that knocked it out of the park on every one of those counts three of the four are trading sharply higher apple up 6. 1 , facebook up 5. 8 , amazon up 5. 4 alphabet did beat earnings estimate did post the first revenue decline and is down 0. 67 . More on those in a second. Lets kick it over to wi will everyone wilford. Good to be back extraordinary numbers, as you said well discuss those in a moment. First check out this mornings agenda as we are closing out the week well bring you results from cat, chevron, exxon and merck. Kol gate, underarmor and others. The late day of july lets check out the market score card owl three major indices on track for the fourth straight gains. Nasdaq the big oner up 18 month to date up 5. 2 . This past week, back
Hear what the Federal Reserve says about Interest Rates after wrapping up its today policy meeting. Its twoday policy meeting. A survey by bloomberg put the odds of a september increase at about 50 . In china, a late rally in stocks. The composite the shanghai composite index rose 3. 4 halting a fallen a fallen one at 11 . The government reports Oil Inventory figures a few hours from now. The congressional review of the Iran Nuclear Deal is entering a new phase today. Managers will hear from defense secretary ash carter and joint chief martin dempsey. House panel quiz secretary of state john kerry yesterday. The more jack dorsey kept talking, the more twitter stocks fell. Down as much as 14 premarket the stock went up yesterday when twitter posted secondquarter revenue that beat estimates. Jack dorsey have not yet had meaningful impact on growing our audience or participation. This is unacceptable and we are not happy about it. Over the past few weeks i have had a deeper understanding
U. S. Equity futures have been indicated higher after the markets were down yesterday. The first time in seven sessions that the dow and nasdaq were down this morning a rebound from that these were modest declines yesterday and this morning s p futures indicated up by three. The nasdaq indicated up by 2. 5 overnight in asia, we have seen some gains in some asian markets. The nikkei up by a half percent. How many winning streaks is that 16 in a row that weve seen for the nikkei now trading at 21,805. Hang seng closed down bay half p percentage point in europe, as you look at some of the early trading, you will see green arrows across the board. Modest advances. Ftse up by 0. 4 . The cac is up by a quarter percentage point the dax up by 0. 2 look at crude oil prices looks like crude this morning is up wti up by 444 ce cents, brent u 57 cents. News out of Chinas Communist Party congress, members confirm president xi jinpings status as the most powerful leader since mao by writing his name
Welcome. A blowout quarter from amazon that few curve predicted. The Online Retailing powerhouse continued to drive along to get people the items they want at their doorstep when they want them. And its efforts are paying off. More customers joined its prime Loyalty Program and revenue jumped in its Cloud Services businesses. Look at the numbers. Amazon reported earnings of 1. 07 a share, estimates were almost half that fay cents a share. Sales of 29 billion were 28 higher than a year ago surpassing not only wall street estimates but amazons own forecasts and as for shares, they took off. Initially in afterhours trading, there is a chart of them. Josh lipton has more on amazons strong results. Reporter 1. 1 billion. That was a big number in amazons earnings release. It refers to the operating income that amazon reported for the first quarter, and it was way above analyst estimates. Aaron kessler of Raymond James says that number proves two points. One, amazon candle straight leverage w
That few curve predicted. The Online Retailing powerhouse continued to drive along to get people the items they want at their doorstep when they want them. And its efforts are paying off. More customers joined its prime Loyalty Program and revenue jumped in its Cloud Services businesses. Look at the numbers. Amazon reported earnings of 1. 07 a share, estimates were almost half that fay cents a share. Sales of 29 billion were 28 higher than a year ago surpassing not only wall street estimates but amazons own forecasts and as for shares, they took off. Initially in afterhours trading, there is a chart of them. Josh lipton has more on amazons strong results. Reporter 1. 1 billion. That was a big number in amazons earnings release. It refers to the operating income that amazon reported for t e first quarter, and it was way above analyst estimates. Aaron kessler of Raymond James says that number proves two points. One, amazon candle straight leverage when it wants to. Also, the company is b