Inside the Freedom Tower
Airtime: Wed. Aug. 18 2010 | 8:14 AM ET
An exclusive tour of the Freedom Tower, with CNBC’s Scott Cohn.
Airtime: Wed. Aug. 18 2010 | 8:14 AM ET
An exclusive tour of the Freedom Tower, with CNBC’s Scott Cohn.
Finally, as he waits for a meaningful Vegas turnaround, Steve Wynn pokes fun at the measurements some analysts and executives use to gauge a company’s success—in short, he mocks EBITDA. “As if depreciation doesn’t exist.”
Sovereign wealth funds have nearly $4 trillion of hidden assets ready to be spent, with Tom Buerkle, Institutional Investor International Editor.
JP Morgan Chase kicking off earnings season, with Richard Bove, financial strategist at Rochdale Securities.
“As far as I’m concerned the technicals are in tact, says Guy Adami. We said the S&P would over-correct to the upside and trade up to 1130 and then turn lower — and it did. Now we’re likely in the next leg lower. We have to see what happens as the S&P trades down to the lower end of the range – around 1040 – will it hold next time we test it?
The patterns in the S&P suggest that support will not hold this time, adds Oppenheimer’s Carter Worth. My persumption is we break lower. I think we go to 980. I don’t think a great crash is coming but we are clearly entering a period when the downside should be the focus of investors.”
Profit at Randgold Resources jumped 83% in the first-quarter of 2010 compared to the previous year. Mark Bristow, CEO of Randgold Resources, expects a strong performance in the final quarter.
Expect a serious deceleration of growth in China, warns Yuwa Hedrick-Wong, economic advisor to MasterCard Worldwide & professor at the University of British Columbia. He shares his views, with Harish Manwani, president, Asia, Africa, Central & Eastern Europe at Unilever, CNBC’s Martin Soong & Lisa Oake.