On this afternoon. In asia, the nikkei was down the hang seng was up 0. 23 for european markets, the dax is slightly lower you see slight gains for the cac, the ftse 100, stocks in italy and in spain look at the Treasury Department. The tenyear is yielding 2. 090 . We have a very busy day going on in the markets. From wall street to washington, lets get you through the squawk planner. On the earnings front, three big banks on the docket starting with jpmorgan that will come at about 6 45 a. M we have Goldman Sachs coming in with its earnings. Those should be announced around 7 30 wells fargo earnings should cross the tape at 8 00 a. M Johnson Johnson will also report at 6 50 a. M. Eastern time well bring you a first on cnbc interview with the cfo right after that report. On the data front, we will be getting june retail sales, import and export prices as well that all hits at 8 30 a. M. The other big event on the planner is big tech is back in washington today the house judiciary subco
Washington, d. C. March 21, 2024. I hereby appoint the honorable mary e. Miller to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. Signed, mike johnson, speaker of the use of the speaker pro tempore pursuant to the order of the house of january 9, 2024, the chair will now from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour debate. The chair will alternate recoition between the parties with time equally allocated between the parties, and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and minority whip limited to five minutes, but in no event shall debate continue beyond 11 50 a. M. The chair recognizes the gentleman from arkansas, mr. Westerman, for five minutes. Mr. Westerman thank you, madam speaker. I rise tote a significant milestone. The 50th anniversary of western energy alliance. Oil and natu and reliable sourcs of energy that drive progress, power industries, and fuel innovation. The alliance is a leader among the oil and gasdkâ– ons in understanding th
Rick scott member of Senate Homeland Security Armed severs Budget Committee good morning. Good morning. How you doing. Cheryl good you are bidding to replace mitch mcconnell, as senate gop leader you say you quote believe the hour is later than it seems for our country. And that we need a fresh, new he approach because old way is not working. Tell us more. To well first off my job will be, to fight like hell, for the seat the ideology the policies of the radical left clearly destroying this country, almost 35 trillion dollars debt border wideopen Foreign Policy a disaster weve got a federal government does not representative america anymore weve got to make sure we have Republican Leadership republicans in d. C. That representative republicansaround the country i am a business turnaround guy turned around blis governor of florida when in financial distress we have to turn this country around i am going to fight like hell to do it i am going to make sure i am a partner with donald trump
The equities tenyear yield is below the 5 we have been crossing over earlier in the week. Twoyear yield an above 5 oil is another interesting picture to watch wti has been trending up this morning after being down for the week down by over 6 . Lets bring the developing story from the middle east fighter jets launching a strike in two locations in Eastern Syria. The pentagon says this is linked to the Iran Revolutionary guard over attacks on u. S. Bases that began last week killing one u. S. Citizen and injuring 20 more the pentagon says the u. S. Does not seek escalation of any conflict and describes this as a separate issue from israel and hamas. You have to think the issues which emerged in israel with hamas have inflamed the situation. This is the Iranian Revolutionary guard with the attacks. It is hard to separate one from the other with Iranian Revolutionary guard proxies with hezbollah and hamas. If you watch the news and every time you watch it, you say this is the 17th attack s
Different meeting. The first annual meeting since Charlie Mungers death at the end of last year. It raised questions of what Berkshire Hathaway will look like after Warren Buffett. Those are the things that shareholders have been asking about and the types of things we see reflected in the media. Big questions, obviously, thrown to Warren Buffett and greg abel and jane who will be on stage this weekend to answer those questions. Well talk about those over the next few hours. Some of the issues surrounding berkshire. These are issues that Warren Buffett was direct about in his annual letter to shareholders. He laid out the disappointments they have seen. Bnsf was a disappointment on earnings. Earnings dropped significantly from a year ago. Buffett laid out how its railroad has fallen behind the other five major north american railroads in terms of margins. He talked about bhe. Berkshire hathaway energy. The major Utility Company Berkshire Hathaway owns as well. Laid out the issues on th