Amd to buy xylinx. Is there more room to run on amd . Well explore that one when power lunch begins right now earnings season is supposed to be a report card for companies. Lets go to bob pisani for more on this lack of guidance bob . Kelly, once again, the Fourth Quarter, another quarter with the lack of guidance its a bit of a problem because the analysts again having a hard time figuring out what the right numbers are. Remember, the earnings numbers have been coming in very well, generally weathering but again, big companies, no guidance from caterpillar, 3m, xerox, Stanley Black and decker. Others like Harley Davidson didnt give guidance either. Raytheon, corning. No guidance from companies. Analysts have a tougher time and theyve been very conservative and wrong so far fortunately wrong on the conservative side. Look at all these companies out there. 83 are beating for the Third Quarter and theyve been beating by almost 20 . Its an amazing beat and shows you the analysts have been
To increased economy. There is a one month to in germany, not good for our market, same thing in france and a Record Number of new cases in america over the last seven days. Thats not good either and a time clearly running out for stimulus package before the election. We will ask larry kudlow about that. Dow industrial 900point drop yesterday, dead flat at the opening of this morning, pretty much the same story for the s p, modest rebound for the nasdaq. This is the big day for big tech, apple, amazon, google and facebook will tell us how they are doing financially. Report on this about 4 00 p. M. Eastern this afternoon. Extreme importance because these are the most important and powerful countries in the world. Their stocks have had a terrific run, but they have come off their highs and we will ask if the blue is coming off the big tech. Campaign headline, joe biden leaves his house again. Today hes off to tampa, florida and so is the president. The latest poll shows a dead heat, 48,
Targeted aid maybe, perhaps as much as 25 million for airlines we have details on that. Later, a democraticled house panel calling for a crackdown and breakup of the countrys biggest tech companies. The chair of the antitrust subcommittee will join us later this hour as power lunch starts right now tyler, thanks welcome to power lunch. Im kelly evans. Were digging through the fed minutes just released. In the meantime, take a look at whats leading the rally its consumer and consumer discretionaries. The house panel is going after big tech its a mixed bag but apple and amazon both up more than 2 . With markets rocketing back after the late day drop we saw yesterday, stimulus back on the table. Bob pisani has more on what were seeing here. In fact, were at the highs for the day. Were on light volume again. The volume tends to be lighter on up days than down days recently thats a sign the pain trade is to the downside. Sectors tends to be the cyclical names here banks, industrials, materi
We have more than i think 760 registered for this meeting and we will do our best to get to as many questions as we can during the period but now a little bit about this event. The independent Task Force Program began in 1995 analyzing issues of critical importance to us Foreign Policy in a nonpartisan way. Once launched task forces are independent of cfr and are solely responsible for the content of their worth. And the task forceprograms 25th year cfr is launching its 78 Task Force Report and id like to welcome you to this discussion of the report and its called improving pandemic preparedness , lessons from covid19. A brief introduction of our panelists, we have cynthia burwell, cochair and president of American University and also former us secretary of health and Human Services under president obama. Welcome to you. Also joining us is frances townsend, also cochair, assistant to president bush in Homeland Security and counterterrorism and is vice chairman on general counsel of vic
Wall street is looking for any clarity on stimulus following President Trumps tweets, suspending further negotiations until after the election yesterday but calling for targeted relief since then for airlines, Small Business and a new round of 1200 checks. Eli lily saying its seeking emergency use authorization for antibody treatment dr. Gottlieb says its a major step forward got a bit of reversal from yesterday. Quite so. On todays show, restauranteur danny meyer putting out a plea for lawmakers to come up with a stimulus plan. He will discuss what it would mean for the Hospitality Industry if help doesnt come through soon plus kara swisher on whether any of that will mean real change Steve Liesman has the fed update for us, and joining us to break it all down is jeff sherman from double line capital. Steve, lets start with you. Wilf, thanks. Fed officials in their meeting from september had begun to have concerns about the possibility additional stimulus would fail in congress. They