Won, i want the gold i watched a couple hours of it unbelievable, right . Im still trying to understand you try to get it in the center thing or not you want to new york the other guy out. Whats the hammer if you have the hammer. I dont know the terminology come on i know we won by knocking them out those guys are intense. This guy has been there for several olympics when the guys get what is he called . Who does the pushing . Yeah. They score. Hes like 9 or something. When the guy on the other side is holding the brush i think theyre getting rid of the friction in between to make sure it goes the right direction. I know, but the guy at the other end, he is not moving, theyre aiming it . Theres a lot more skill involved than we have given them credit for yeah. And what if theyre running down and a foot hits is that a technical they have to be careful it is slippery theres a deal breaking not a curling deal. General mills buying blue buffalo for 8 billion in cash or 40 a share. Blue buf
We have somebody here who can give us icnsight into all of tha dow futures look to be down 35 points part of what happened in the market was because of tenyear yields topping 2. 96 right now the tenyear is at 2. 926 the 2year at 2. 2 26 . In asia, the nikkei off by 1 . Shanghai is up about 2 . In europe, the early trading there, the stock markets there are mostly in the red. Dax is off by 0. 8 ftse is down by almost 1 . Barclays shares are up sharply despite the uk Bank Reporting a big drop in 2017 profits. Barclays says it lost 2 2. 7 billion once again why would that happen . Yep. They its accounting for the u. S. Tax overhaul. But also a weaker dollar there were some bright spots Barclays Says its pretax profits rose 10 customer deposits were up and its doubling its didividend. Jeff staley says he is optimistic about the future. There are a number of tailwinds. During the next year and half we will be retiring a lot of debt Interest Rates are in a much better position than they were
Street. Im Carl Quintanilla a strong close with buffett on squawk. Fed chair pal on the squawk tomorrow we begin with futures pointing to a sharply higher open on the twoweek rally and buffetts advice for the longterm investor despite volatility, buy equity, not bonds. Ge is planning to restate three new candidates to a streamlined board of director. And the chip war continues over qualcomm urging broadcom to engage in direct talks for a takeover deal. Buffett is one of the big stories of the deal saying Berkshire Hathaway received the new tax law. Heres what becky said earlier on squawk. We had about 100 billion of unrealized gain in equities. Now, when they are sold, you pay tax on that. And previously when the tax was 35 , we would have had a 35 billion reserve for taxes against that as a liability. That would drop to about 21 billion. So 14 billion roughly that was a reduction in the amount of tax that when we saw those securities, we will pay. It wasnt cash now, but it reduced the
Chunk of its most recent losses, thanksn part to todays nearly 400point gain on the dow. Concerns over Rising Interest Rates he taken a backseat, as investors refocus on Global Growth and corporate profits. Today the Dow Jones Industrial average advanced 399 points to l 25,7 by financial and technology shares. The nasdaq added 84 and the s p 500 was up 32. Bob pisani has more on the days rally on wall street. H the dow up over 200 points at the opening, closing up almost 400 points. Last week, stocks started strong atery day, but faded late in the day. Egan to reverse on friday, when stocks closed at their ed today. It conti this week was all about fed chairmans jay powells testimony o congressue onay and thursday, but the markets are telegraphing theyre not concerned hell be skroefrly aggressive about raising rates. The markets are very different in the lastrewo weeks com to the first two weeks, when stocks dropped about 10 in earlyebruary on concerns about higher Interest Rates, part
Inconvenience. British Prime Minister theresa may says the uk will build the closest, freest trading relationship possible with japan as she continues her postbrexit trade building mission. Difficult to stomach carrefour shares sink to the bottom of the stoxx 600 bringing rival casino down after issuing a profit warning on declining margins. Battle stations. President trump hits the road to campaign for a tax overhaul, but theres a lack of specifics and plenty of opposition in Congress Good morning welcome to the show. Lets look at how european markets opened theres more green than red on the screens. Taking the lead from a positive u. S. Close overnight and positive momentum out of asian equities this morning. The overall market up by 1. 28 points, so just over a third of a percent so far today lets look at how the individual bourses are trading across europe its really the xetra dax which is at the highest, crossed the 12,000 point eventually and is now up again around half of a perc