Facebook reported amazing number last time. Amazon gave you an amazing upside surprise and it got steam rolled it was hideous nonenonetheless, and i know that. There is the right way to look at it or the wrong way we dont look at the action and we are back to form an opinion about the quarter. Thats the wrong way the right way when a Company Reports great number and the stock gets slammed, you look at the set up often because of an event like say an impending election. I am expecting massive confusion. One of the most confusing weeks of my career unless the results are blow out this day, we may not know who won plus with mail ballots nobody wants to unstock a bowl of confusion why not sell everything on monday for starters, you are too late what the heck did you think was happening. More importantly you are not nimble enough to get back in after you gotten out look at our quality stock selling off right now. You definitely want to get back in take amazon and facebook with unbelievely g
Good thursday morning im Carl Quintanilla with jon fortt and Julia Boorstin is with us for the hour. Stocks in a whipsaw range, down a couple hundred up 100 here. S p 500 up 25 or so after the dows near 1,000 point loss yesterday. Worst day since june on pace for the worst month since march. But then you get a stock like pinterest. Good guide coming up, going against the grain. Julia, remarkable price target increases. Basically doubling what some analysts saw the stock trading to yeah. A lot of positive responses to those numbers there. Really a beat across the board, carl what is so interesting to me is what we saw in this quarter from pinterest is last quarters results were not just a blip but that this is a company that could stand to benefit over the long term from some of these trends were seeing during covid19 there is some surprising, funny Little Things like the fact that pinterest grabbed four million new users due to the fact that people are going to pinterest to find inspir
Plus, relocation, relocation, relocation. Read it has a plan to let its employees work from wherever they are. But what are the consequences of such an arrangement question we ask the ceo, steve huffman. The u. S. Has identified in iran and russia for meddling in the election. We talk about how pervasive the menace is and is potential harmful effect on democracy in our continuing to electioneering series. First, it was an ugly day for u. S. Markets. Tumbling in the worst stock rout in months. Rising cases of covid19 in the u. S. And europe and locked on measures in countries like germany and france accelerating the drop. We get the big picture from Abigail Doolittle in new york. A lot of forces at play today. It. Us through abigail over all a brutal day for stocks and risk assets on a combined basis. You mentioned the different forces. Of course there is uncertainty around the election, but i would argue the biggest force is the virus resurgence in europe. The german dax fell more than
Speaker pelosi and secretary mnuchin set to talk this morning after House Democrats roll out a new scaled down pandemic aid bill and calling it a propagator of disinformation, why the Biden Campaign is blasting facebook ahead of tonights president ial debate jim, david, good to see you guys, welcome back im taken aback, jim, by your tweet a moment ago about stimulus and sort of a fatalist i can view of what the restaurant sector is facing in this country. I will be candid, we ran out of ppp about three months ago, some of us have just decided to pay lots of employees to do nothing and its been its done they had a chance. I think they made a decision that you would have to keep these people on until we had a vaccine, so Neither Party agreed to anything and its too late. Theres nobody to give ppp to for the most part in restaurants except look, the winners were darden in the Small Business side, we know that they were viewed as nonessential, they never snapped back unless they had someth
Do you remember what the significance of that year was . I know you know but for those who dont, that was the introduction of the iphone which literally changed the way we use devices with those multimedia functions and enabled and opened up several doors of opportunity for us to have this conversation today but on a regulatory front which is more in line with your questions in the 1980s the sec launched its first cell phone spectrum van and through a series of those decisions, based on that, we are now seeing that launch this Global Mobile revolution. Of course, revolutions often happen in different phases and different stages so now in terms of mobile revolution or evolution we are talking about the fifth stage in some ways but not in all communities and that is another topic for another time but the fifth wave or evolution when it comes to mobile phones and what we saw around the third wave or so is these devices becoming smaller, more nimble, less expensive and more ubiquitous so y