Good morning and welcome to squawk alley. Carl and kayla l. A. Are off today but we have a secret weapon, an anchor you know and love who es unafraid to step in, kelly evans joining me at post 9. Thanks for having me. Donald trump lighting up twitter in the last 24 hours sparking debate from everything from china and a possible Nuclear Arms Race with russia to the militarys overruns. Eamon javers is in our Nations Capital with all the details. Good morning, john. An astonishing 24 hours, starting with that tweet donald trump put out about expanding u. S. Nuclear capability. That provoked a flurry of reactions including this morning on morning joe on msnbc in which mika brzezinski, the host there, said she had a chance to speak to donald trump off camera on the phone and he told her what he meant in his tweet. Heres the way she framed it this morning. Its getting a lot of attention. Mika asked the president elect while we had the opportunity, what his position was on trying to clarify t
Lunch. Im michelle carusocabrera. Checking the markets, s p 500 and the nasdaq higher, not by a whole lot. Shares getting high since late last year. Lower by nearly 5 on the back of earnings. Its not all bad news, however. Shares are surging. Chipotle over a oneyear high. Lets get back to the big market story that as brian moated check out the s p 500 over the last two months, flat, after a very hot start to the year. So what is taking the air out of this market . Bob pisani is going inside the numbers from the floor of the new york stock exchange. Bob, what happened . Reporter good to see you as always. Theres a dangerous uncertainty for stocks. Fiscal reforms are being pushed out. The hohn y moons over on tax cuts and less regulation and infrastructure spending. The president said he was working on tax cuts yesterday. The market ignored him. Weaker data to the Consumer Price index to the Producer Price index, Economic Data has been weaker. The odds for a fed rate hike 44 . Close to 6
American express reports earnings after the bell, but critics say perks are not what they used to be and it is weighing on the dao component. We have a debate on it. How much the credit card craze is happening amongst millennials. Intense, yes. Thats ahead. We begin with ibms fall after reporting its 20th consecutive quarter of year on year revenue decline. The company cfo discussed that when we spoke to him after those results. That 20 quarter headline is probably not the framing that were thinking about. Were thinking about how do we continue to move the business and our clients to get to growth. Now, the portfolio, the portfolio will grow. I am confident that the ibm company will grow again, but it is taking you know, were taking time. Our baub pisani over by the trading post with more. It is weighing on the market today, bob . Great. Good to see you. Theres a new risk to the market and thats earnings risk. We havent had it before. Let me show you ibm. They normally do four million
The world was supposed to end and it didnt. It has been the same case with the ftse. Ftse is right at 6 yesterday and bringing it back to higher levels. I know he wanted to hear this. I wanted to tell him this. No, no. Its not about me. Never about me, but mark grant is going to come on. Thus far you have been right. Mark grant is going to come on and say its not the uk shouldnt be the ones worried, its the eu that should be worried. Sterling has gotten hit pretty hard. Jim paulson is going to come on tomorrow and say the same thing. Call it a wom went to cast right now because its a little bit too progressive. Have you heard that. I have no the. They have a show. You heard that from what, your twitter followers. Dont you see that. Well share with our twitter followers. You go wild, dont you. When the cats away, the mouse will play. Its like video New York Times not bad . No . No, no. What did holeman say last night. He wrote a big Global Warming piece. We did not talk about that. Cens
Three hours left in the trading session. The dow is down fractionally, 57 points down. 3m, verizon and chevron are your laggards. A couple of dow stocks are up, however, there is one massive move out there. Not in stocks. It is in gold. Gold is trading at a threemonth low, it is down 35 an ounce. As you might imagine, gold miners also getting wha inting they are deep in the red at this hour. Google unveiling a new phone at a product event under way in San Francisco. Google says the new phone costs 649 and has unlimited storage. Delta posted a smaller than expected drop in passenger unit revenues for the month of september. And sears popping within just the past two hours on reports that bids for the companys draftsman unit due by the end of this month. If you are a retailer or a shopper, this may be the most important number in the show. 81 shopping days left until christmas. A new report by the National Retail federation telling us that santa claus is coming to town this year. Courtne