In southwestern louisiana, about 30 miles east as a cat 4 a storm surge forecasters say could be 20 feet deep. Good morning to you. Reporter good morning. The rain is steadily coming down here as hurricane laura moves up the coastline or state line from lake charles up to shreveport where i am the rain is coming down steadily for the past several hours this storm has been downgraded to a category 3. Many concerns remain around heavy rain that could lead to flooding and the possibility of high winds that could impact trees and cause trees to fall and lead to downed power lines and outages much like we are seeing in the southern part of the state. Shreveport is one of the places folks were evacuated to from lake charles we are here along the riverside where folks are staying in hotels to get away from the storm but the businesses here are closed casinos here are closed. The cities in the area, the surrounding area, School Districts all closed for the day as they wait out to see what exac
Locations as we put social distancing into effect here at cnbc as a precaution were going to start squawk alley this morning with bob pisani with an update on todays markets. Bob . And jon, the important thing here is i want to show you the futures because a lot of confusion overnight here we were futures down overnight, then we hada big rally at 8 00 a. M. Eastern time as the Federal Reserve announced new programs and yet the open was a real disappointment and it shows you that liquidity is fairly thin preopen. A lot of people were surprised we opened down so much but were off of the lows right now. Sects here, banks have had a tough time throughout the morning, most down 4, 5 or 6 . Energy stocks also had a tough morning. Everything else, 2 lets say, industrials, technology also down about 2 . Semiconductors started strong but have been weak for a while now. Boeing, one of the few stocks on the upside, only three or four up today, an upgrade goldman sachs. Home depot on the upside, c
Today. And someone investors believe a lot. Jeremy siegel calling for dow 20,000, sounding a cautious note despite the big rally. Find out why. Exclusive interview with him coming up. And can we get to his target . Twitter, by the way, have you seen that . Up 8. 5 right now, popping on news of more insider buying. Plus this partnership with the Company Announced this morning with the nfl. Is this the comeback that the beatendown stock has been waiting for . We have both sides of that were bringing back an analyst we had on last week who was skeptical about twitter. Shares hovering around the 30 a share mark. And shake shack will report its latest Earnings Report. Its the third time reporting since going public. The first two reports missed wall street estimates. Well bring you the numbers and tell you what it means for the restaurant space coming up. And this stock is up more than 200 since its ipo. And they only have 30 stories 71 around the world. 40 in the united states. Still, not
Theres an me in team. Always has been. Well, im happy to be here. Youre fired up. If youre up at 4 00 a. M. , you might as well get fired up. Why not. If you put in that what time did the alarm go off . 4 05. So you im a 3 handle. Me, too. You say you can do this. You did it once. Try five out of five. I can barely do this. 52 out of 52. Youre a stud. I say it all the time. We have a big market day. Good to have you here. A check of u. S. Equity futures. This is what weve been matching all morning long. This could be the biggest move in the markets. About a half percent move or so. This would be on the s p 500. That would be the biggest oneday move. Weve been 0. 3. The dow looking to lose 100 points at the open. The nasdaq looking to lose 24 points at the open. The volatility index is surging this morning. Thats an interesting turn of events. Up by 11. 25 , almost 12 at this moment. Action in asia, big development. Here is long eem is snapping a sevenday advance. The nikkei finishing l
The fed added a third rate hike for 2017 or the median forecast adds to the third hike up from two. Our fed survey was at twoandahalf. So the market didnt fully price it. Yellen also and i put that word bless on trumps policies. Thats rick santellis words. He didnt bless it or criticize it much, but didnt bless it and the market wanted to hear these things will lead to better growth. And she said more worried about inflation, pointing out that when her counterparts were calling for what she and bernanke were calling for fiscal policy, it was a lot higher than now. Slack in the economy. Now i asked her at the press conference whether or not trumps tax cuts were the kinds of things that she could bless, because they raised productivity. Heres what she said. Tax policies can have that effect. It really depends on the specifics. I dont think theres anything that i could say in general about what tax policy would do. But that and i really cant tell you what the feds response would be to any