As a model of peaceful co existence. What does he want from the visit . Good morning and thank you for the invite. The Chinese Administration has a twofold agenda. Normalising the relationship with europe. Europe has lodged a sequence of blow with china and some practices of trade. And on the political side, with the ukraine and russia block and the European Countries are, lets say, quite upset by the fact that now some companies in china are supporting. , Russian Companies are supporting the russian war effort and this is clearly a problem. The second thing is clearly the huge and massive Trade Imbalance between europe and china which is something that the french president as pointed out as something that needs to be dealt with in the short term. figs needs to be dealt with in the short term short term. As we were mentioning short term. As we were mentioning and short term. As we were mentioning and you short term. As we were mentioning and you alluded to that, several European Count
Decline in the open and s p in 18 best start in 30 years. Buffett on the market, succession planning at berkshire, stocks not richly valued and remains a buyer but not of bitcoin. Tech under fire a powerful gop senator demanding answers from apple good battery gate the s p is off to the best start since 87 and buffett says markets are not richly valued according to rates and what he told becky a few moments ago. What has happened in the market has been very sensible. Nobody thought we would have these kind of Interest Rates for a long time. Additionally you have the tax act which is a huge factor in valuation. Says the Interest Rates are the gravity to value and munger chiming in saying share prices are not crazy. Point blank tell you, this was becky quick, congratulations, unbelievable interview. You sit there and what you get are people who know more than anyone else alive and they are saying, look, theres some interesting things and lets not go crazy, just because Interest Rates go
Nasdaq the dow also closing at a record high it looks like well open sharply lower. The dow losing 124 points right now, the s p down 13 nasdaq down about 44 what was weighing on the markets yesterday and probably today, the yield on the tenyear note 2. 584 right now thats the highest since march 15th a big move in the tenyear treasury yield thats challenging the equity rally today. The yen continuing its strength after the boj said it would continue its bond strengthening services the hang seng up by 0. 20 . Over in europe, right now at hope the dax down by 0. cac down by 0. 6 looking at the price of crude oil, highest level since 2014. Wti, 63. 43 breaking news this morning. Lets get to becky quick live in omaha. Good morning good morning. Theres breaking news from Berkshire Hathaway the company out with a statement saying that its going to be increasing its board of directors by two members to include two key members of its Operations Team who people have been looking at for a while
Live from new york where business never sleeps, this is squawk box. Good morning welcome to snark box. And whats new about that andrew is off today sitting in with us for the hour is Peter Boockvar, editor of the boock report very clever. Well done. Boock report yes i like it also a cnbc cribber we have a lot to talk about. Lets start with the u. S. Equity futures. Rattled rattled. Dow was down by 16. The s p was off by 3 nasdaq down by 10. Its the first time the nasdaq and the s p have fallen in 2018 it had a sixday winning streak up to that point well watch things this morning. Right now modest advances with the dow futures indicated up by 20 points. S p up by 4. Nasdaq up by 7 well see. Still early in the session well see as we head towards that opening bell what will happen overnight in asia, stocks in hong kong closing higher for the 13th day in a row, extending the record rining stre inwinning st index. Shanghai up by 3. 2 the dax is the biggest decliners of europe, down by 0. 2
Look at the green arrows back this morning, even though the government could potentially be shut down. S p futures up by 4. 5. The nasdaq up by 19. Well talk more about that potential Government Shutdown in a bit. Overnight in asia, the nikkei higher. Up 0. 2 . Hang seng up by 0. 4. So was the shanghai in china in europe, at least right now green arrows across the board. Biggest gainer of the major averages is the dax, which is up by almost 0. 9 percent. The tenyear yield hitting 2. 64 yesterday. Thats the highest level since september of 2014. Again, concerns about the Government Shutdown really pushing things well see what happens to the tenyear when and if a budget deal is found. Right now it looks like its setting in at 2. 63 . Some big headlines this morning. Ibm returning to Revenue Growth for the first time in five years. Shares are down. Theres weaker than expected guidance overshadowing that news the company beating on the top and bottom lines but took a charge of 5. 5 billion