A half percent. Another thing i am watching as the rnc tax policy. Toer this hour, we are going look at taxes and how they play into wealth inequality. We are going to do that with Dorothy Brown november university. First, economic data. Confidence, 84. 8, the market was looking for 93. Ist is a week number that a weak number. This tell us something about the stimulus debate, the employment market in terms of the present situation. That has weakened significantly from the 94. 2. The expectation number has weakened as well from 91. 5. We have an 85. 2 this time around. Newhome sales continuing to drive onward. The Housing Market showing no respite. Look at the lumber prices. Sales, 901,000. That is a 13. 9 permit very strong number. Consumer may be starting to show signs of weakness and concern. Lets talk about the market today. We have already indicated what we are seeing is stocks, global stocks continuing to push on very strongly. What is the excuse . U. S. Chinese officials holding
The tech rally still has room to run. Thank you. See how that works. Intels chief Financial Officer bob wan is back with us, talk about the chip anchors better than the expected earnings and concerns at rival amd could be taking a bite out of its business. They had to defend themselves on the intel Conference Call. Some of the analysts asking about that tremendous competition from amd these days. Yeah. Well ask him about that so lets begin with amazon still weighing on the tech sector. Bertha coombs has more. Reporter following that earnings misamazon seeing its worst day since early june selling off on pretty strong volume and thats providing the biggest point drag on the nasdaq 100 but amazon is coming off an alltime high just yesterday and shares are still up fractionally for the week and in fact up 6 with one more trading day left here in the month of july. The impact on bigcap tech is somewhat muted the major tech indices are down fractionally and treating volume actually isnt ref
Divide at the Federal Reserve. But we do begin with fears about the worlds biggest retailer. Shares of walmart tanking right now after cutting its threeyear outlook. Were currently down by 8. 3 at 61. 16 a share. Walmart executives meeting with analysts at this hour, as we mentioned, and Courtney Reagan has all the details of it. Hi there. Walmart investor meeting, the analyst q a wrapping up, the group asking for more clarify on the warning on longterm guidance but not much more clarity was given. Executives highlighting that the Major Investments they continue to make for the earnings per share impact. Fiscal year 2016. Walmart now expecting sales growth to be flat due to Foreign Exchange impact. Also for 2016, reiterating the earnings per share guidance of 440 to 470 but 2017, thats when the he have yet guidance comes in. Eps down between 6 and 12 from prior year, walmarts guidance given. The impact really lies in the fiscal year 2017. Walmart says its the second year of heavy inves
Ramey 490,000 new home sales for the month of november. This is less than what we were expecting for the month of november coming in at 500 thousand, so amiss. For the this is a miss month before. Youre looking at the revised number for october of 470,000, so a miss. That would have been three a row of gains, but we are missing that. Lets go to university of Michigan Consumer data and that is beating estimates, coming in at 92. 6. Iswere expecting 92, so this meaning we are seeing five months in a row of rises and better than what we saw from prior 91. 8 for the month of november. With see what is happening the markets. The markets opened in the green earlier and this is where we are. The markets looking like they are continuing to rise. The s p 500 is up by three quarters of 1 and the dow jones is up similarly and the nasdaq up by about two thirds of 1 . We are in positive territory. Down to the bloomberg territory, leading that the lets take a look at the leading and lagging. Let me