i have to tell you autozone is going to be -- they bought stock in the 600s. to be back there buying more? think about this 2.2% growth. they bought $665 million, average price of 23. that's well below from where it is now they have a million dollar stock left to buy. so you end up and you look at the flow you will end up selling your stock to the company which i never wanted the do. selling it right to the company. this is a strong company i think that stock is down on 48,000 shares. fer forget it. i like autozone very much, the average cars of 11.5 years >> we have not discussed florence today the death toll is up to 31 some of the reasons why autos are so hard because of harvey. autos you get insurance and you get the money. you be i nuy new cars. it is hard to fix new cars autozone is going to get a lot of business and lowe's is the company that's most -- >> obviously >> we understand >> selling autozone here is a mistake given harvey i think that we have to start focusing on whether autos are going to do better because of harvey because they did before th

autozone reports on tuesday. the auto parts retailers have been down in the dumps until last quarter when we started to get good numbers, i don't want to talk about trying to profit from the horrible hurricane you can't put a price on human life but anything that causes cars to get damaged tends to result in a lot more business for autozone and business is already good i keep hearing they have so much demand their inventory is in short supply autozone's buyback shrunk their count from 64 million shares a decade ago to 27 million shares right now. shortage autozone stock. we get to hear from general mills. this stock has been rallying with the rest of the food group but needs a new catalyst before it can have much more upside i'm concerned about commodity cost and the crowded market for high-end pet food after they paid a fortune for blue buffalo. what disturbed me was the $1 billion equity offering 44 bucks to help pay for the deal after jr. mills bought back hundreds of millions of stocks i think you can do bett

1,000nyn the com worldwide, hopkins supplies parts and accessories that are sold to retailers like autozone who, in turn, sell them to t. publ so those who repair and maintain their own cars could face higher prices on a variety of products. >>hat's the bar concern is all these smaller parts that china might supply will eventually start to add upst an t to pinch theum co's wallet. >> reporter: that's what worried brad france.t while m sell for less than b5 and the tariffs might push up prices a few bucks, it could ultimately cost the company millions. >> like much of industry in the aftermarket, it's made up of a lot of small companies and hopkinstself not a large company so $5 million impact is very signicant to us and our bottom line. >> reporter: with more than 000 companies supplying auto parts and accessories, this late part o tariffs will affect a wide array of products. the hope is t thatse higher costs will not scare away people who may be paying more to take care of their car. phil lebeau, "nightly business report," chicago. >>> and it's not just about auto parts. new tariffs on ch

. >>> autozone profit coming in at $18.54 per share that compares to estimate of $17.92 revenue missedles up 2.2% compared to a year earlier. >> won't split their stock anymore. why doesn't anyone split their stock anymore? when did everyone decide to be berkshire hathaway what did they earn $18 a share? >> yeah. >>> two familiar names in the test preparation business. buying the test prep business of baron's. terms of the deal did not disclose kaplan formerly owned by "the washington post. that's an interesting deal there. >> berkshire hathaway is 3 324,000. >> they're getting expensive aren't they? >> they're up there. they started down in the 30s yeah >>> all right. one company watching the trade wars very closely is polaris brian sullivan joins us from huntsville, alabama. he has a special guest good morning again >> good morning. we wanted to come to huntsville because this is where the polaris ranger is made all made in america sold mostly to americans made by americans with mostly american parts but yet still impacted by tariffs. let's find out why joining us chairman and ceo of

autozone on the other hand. top line missed.on to combat the nations opioid passed in a senate bill passed 99-1. opioids and drugs being shipped into the country. the legislation adds to the house. >>> up next, amy cramer, founder of women for trump. her group she says was shadow-banned by twitter. what does she think about jack dorsey saying conservative employees don't feel safe expressing their opinions. >> talking about electric cars, we'll tell you what that is, next. ♪ ♪ >> apple's smartwatches and ear buds will be exempt from president trump's latest round of tariffs. earlier on in the program legendary investor jim awad told us that he believes apple will still continue to grow through, those smaller competitors might feel some pain from the trade war. >> apple is so dominant what they do, so innovative, so creative, so financially powerful, so flexible in terms of their supply chain that this will not be an event. they will continue to grow and it will hurt weaker competitors but this is a football game. it's a lot of b

. >> eye on earnings, mixed reports from autozone general mills a toll on both stocks premarket tradingbers gridiron bears beating seahawks last night this after two players chose to snub our nation, during the national an them. now latest battle on capitol hill the nomination of brett conservative, conservative and woman accusing him of sexual assault when teens in early 1980s both testify in public, but blake burman is covering the story from white house has more on these developments, hey, blake. >> hi, dagen the question surrounding brett kavanaugh nomination to the supreme court, continues to pile up, kavanaugh is scheduled to head back to capitol hill on monday, to testify before the senate judiciary committee, christine ford has been invited should committee ask for temperature should he would go to capitol hill fox is told ford has not responded to the invitation. as for the allegations hereford accuses kavanaugh of sexual assault during teenager years at high school party kavanaugh continues to deny those accusations, saying in a statement yesterday quote, this is a completely

autozone sales missing estimates six of the last seven quarters. and earnings declining. adoptingunion pacific a new routing plan and the price target raised to $188. and also today, we are continuing to watch oil. one of the main reasons the stocks are trading higher, energy shares getting a lift from the rise in oil prices as the saudi's say they are comfortable at $80 a barrel. so we saw oil take a big leg up on that and wti above $70 a barrel now. vonnie: more on the tensions and trade disputes between the u.s. and china. we are joined by michael mckee. in the last one he four hours, the u.s. -- 24 hours, the u.s. came out with 10% tariffs and china has now retaliated. where are we? mike: in a case of truth and their. the - d- dar. e. the president said of the chinese retaliated, he would impose additional sanctions. 200 billion going into effect next week. and the chinese retaliated and been opposed tariffs on another $60 billion in u.s. goods, now at $110 billion on the chinese side. we only exporter $130 billion to them last year. the exports are up this year a lit

the auto-loan boom, that autozone -- autocars are ruling.hink they can blame it on trade tensions and what's really at work is there are too many cars being built and time for them to ratchet back there is still a lot of demands. i need phil lebeau to stop blaming trade tariffs and start talking about a secular change in auto buy. >> guyguys, before we get to otr people here. facebook is down on a little 2% on the departure of two founders of instagram, concerns of what it is going to mean for others at the company and creativity. as jim referenced that stock is down and sonic, we are still waiting for an open on that news that we got during the show that's going to be acquired of a $43 billion deal that does include debts. this is by inspired brand that's apart of roark they already owned buffalo wild wings and something called rusty taco hopefully there is no rusty nails in the taco. it is a weird name, what can i tell you >> david, can i say something? >> yes, jim. >> if tacos are not rusty, we go for fresh and natural. maybe we are throw

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the supply chain is there for many companies like autozone.er supplier quoted in the story was talking about the fact that the u.s. is the biggest aftermarket for auto parts in the world. he said it is irreplaceable. one more number can think about, five years, 2012 to 2017, china exports of auto-parts to the u.s. rose nearly $18 billion. the first part of this year nearly $10 billion. you can see this growing industry to face some big hurdles. they are certainly on the front line here. yvonne: in the u.s. so far we are seeing this hit some chinese data, but it is showing up on the u.s. side. kathleen: if you talk to fed officials they will say in our district a lot of people are concerned how it will affect them, but demand is still strong and businesses are doing well. the big purchasing managers looking at manufacturing in the u.s., hit a 14-year high. let's look at this chart. you can see this red line is 50. when you are above the signal growth. look at the growth being signaled now. people are talking about the fiscal stimulus, tax cuts,

whether or not that leaves the job cuts, that remains to be seen look, the aftermarket, o'reilly's, autozoney well they were under pressure about a year ago because people said amazon is going to kill their business really people have take an step back and said that's not the case that's why these stobs have m -s have moved higher. i've got some props here this is a snow brush they make at hopkins right now it retails between $10 and $12. the expectation is the price will go up between $12 and $15 got another wash brush this is bigger, more expensive this goes for $19.99 in the store. they expect retailers will bump up the price to around $24, $25 for this finally there's a brake control unit this is if you have a trailer that's attached to your pickup truck, you put this on there, this helps with the braking on it retails for $100 the ceo of hopkins says i bet they're going to bump the price on that up to $120 the prices are going to go up over time once these tariffs filter through the question is does that cause people to say, yeah, i'm going to hold off on buying that or maybe i will del