Before the Bell 7/24/2008

[0:00] ..." Time for our before the bell stock report WBZ financial editor -- Caruso is here this morning good morning David -- Morning debt and you're telling us is a lull in the markets this morning."...

[1:19] ..." billion dollars and they're going to trying to retool to the new gasoline price shocks so what you're trying to do start about ramping up their hybrid production in the going to be bringing over protect"...

[1:59] ..." now is directly result of -- earnings wrote last night in the online retailers expected. Reports of pretty darn good earnings there reporting 1%. They've beat by about eleven cents a share and they are giving free shipping and despite high address the -- to be working so -- to be approach six or 7% this morning although there's still"...

[0:00]" Time for our before the bell stock report WBZ financial editor -- Caruso is here this morning good morning David -- Morning debt and you're telling us is a lull in the markets this morning."

[0:10]" Yeah we're low of around you know yesterday we kind of broke their reversal try and we were talking about we opened couldn't -- that so we kind of -- okay yesterday -- closed okay with. Some decent earnings news and obviously lower lower oil helpful that took this morning -- earnings and economic to digest them that we discussed the weekly jobs numbers about an hour ago and procession of big jump in the new jobless claims have about 34000 for the week and that brings the total now back up over 400000 mark before the 6000 claims to be exact and that's been the highest since march a little bit more worries about where they gonna have a job or not. -- and you'll reform housing today as well on the earnings front the couple would disappoint his -- helping the whole lot Dow Chemical been in the news a lot in the last month is so they've been. And the first to say that they're going to raise prices on top of that they've gone through an acquisition. Put this -- whatsoever here they did increased their prices because -- And that that prove that they had to because they're a little short. Of their expectations because of those increased prices. For them to make a -- so I guess there's the kind of the through but the feel the -- a little bit this morning but not too bad. Ford also -- almost 10% this morning it's been tough for the auto market. They lost nine billion dollars and they're going to trying to retool to the new gasoline price shocks so what you're trying to do start about ramping up their hybrid production in the going to be bringing over protect smaller vehicles that the -- prepared to try to -- over here also dime will they own about 20% of Chrysler. There were an extra for the point 4% lower throughout the -- captive for cars right now and a Dell down a global rally on Nasdaq go to at nine a -- 27 so not too bad at one littlest 126 equal to two themselves."

[1:53]" Well let's get some good news I want the procurement of still full we expect that that's what we've done and that's -- right now is directly result of -- earnings wrote last night in the online retailers expected. Reports of pretty darn good earnings there reporting 1%. They've beat by about eleven cents a share and they are giving free shipping and despite high address the -- to be working so -- to be approach six or 7% this morning although there's still little political concerns about the profit margins. Just like we've heard from -- Costco yesterday also RadioShack they did better than expected despite its full percent to a drop in net income. The revenue was pretty good they were up 6% this -- thing when you go to these stores these there's a different outlooks from five years ago but I tried to figure out what they're selling and looks like those TV converter boxes which state digital to analog. Those can be going pretty world's what was those GPS devices."