Good morning and welcome to squawk alley. Carl and jocn have the week off. They will be back though joining us this morning as well, walter isaacson. Nice to have him this morning. And a lot to talk about. More red flags for facebook, twitter and other social flat forms. For example this time for former president barack obama in an interview with prince harry, obama warned against the irresponsible use of social media. Take a listen. The dangers of the internet is that people can have entirely different realities. They can be just cocooned in information that reinforces their current biases the truth is that on the internet, everything is simplified and when you meet people facetoface, it turns out they are complicated. People are comply it ca llic apparently thats what we hear. Twitter and social media and facebook and Everything Else, the question is about regulatory in particular sort of come to mind, not to mention of course the meddling by the rush shacsin the election in 2016 and
We, after kind of mixed not much going on yesterday. News of course a bit slow in some ways, european markets were open yesterday, many closed for both the christmas and boxing day holiday. You can see a mixed bag in europe, asia overnight also somewhat mixed. Lets get to the 10year note yield on crude oil and how were doing on both of those important market barometers. And you see wti down lets get to the road map this morning. It starts with the tax effect. More Companies Including barclays and shell outlining major tax linked changes to the bottom lines in the first quarter. The race is on for fed vice chair former bush era advisers reportedly in the running. Tesla t is in a direct challenging a tesla pickup could hit the road but does tesla already have model 3 problems . Stocks look to rebound from yesterdays decline. A number of companies reacting to tax reform. Barclays expects a writedown of 1. 3 billion on the annual post tax profits. Royal dutch shell sees a charge of 2. 5 bi
Blown through nasdaq 7,000, were talking about s p 3,000 by the end of the year. Look how much we already moved we got a lot of milestones falling by the wayside lets get to bob pisani with some of the latest on todays action bob . This is quite an unusual week not just in the intensity and how much the s p is up, but the fact that everything seems to be working. Let me show you the winners this week and just the dow so, whatwere the two biggest losers of 2017 it was ge and ibm. Whats the two biggest movers up this week . Ge and ibm okay often get a little reversion to the mean, but two of the biggest movers in the dow last year was boeing and ibm so they had absolutely outstanding years and they, too, are up big. You get my point everything seems to be working this week. Its a little eery. Look at the major sectors today. S p up over 2 for the week. Small caps are pretty well, too. Growth is up, and value is up at the same time. Doing well thats kind of odd and even all the cyclical n
Gold all muted but anything goes as abuse headlines crossbreed david there are so many. The morning brief. But anything goes across of the headlines. David bank there are so many. At 2 00, the Federal Reserve will release its beige book looking at the u. S. Economy. An update of headlines outside of the Business World with taylor riggs. Taylor starting with a hurricane, the most powerful to form in the Atlantic Ocean is preparing to hit florida. Passedricane of irma over the caribbean street it could hit south florida this weekend. A worstcase scenario have it destroyed so much property that damages would surpass Hurricane Katrina a that was the most expensive Natural Disaster in u. S. History. The south korean president is seeking Vladimir Putins help for north korea and they met and not stop,rth korea is the situation could turn uncontrollable. Putin said there is no need to back a north korea in a corner. President trump has left a door open for little bit to end daca. Last night co
We have second half strategies coming up for you. Vertex, activism, blizzard, and within resorts are among the winners in the stock market today. Good gains thats just showing you todays gains there. Foot locker, devon energy, and kroger are some of the bigger losers we always try to discern larger trends from looking at the individual stocks. The kroger story we know well. For sure. Whats old is new again well get you details on a firms turn around plan. You may have heard Berkshire Hathaway is now the largest share holder in bank of america. But thats not the only company where warren buffet is the top shareholder. I love that story, he bought the preferred. They raised the dividend he converted and now he made 12 billion in the process. You have to hand it to hill when everyone was panicking, he stepped in and made so many deals. Buy low thats how that works. Lets get to the market. So far the nasdaq is up more than 14 while both the dow and the s p are up roughlile . But thats star