Somewhat numbing these days, in the worst way, ruth marcuss suggestion that donald trump as speaker would at least keep it interesting. I dont need house to be more interesting than it is. You live in interesting times. Somebody else, right. You live in interesting trey times, the rest of us can live here. Have a good time, see you next week. Right now in america there are two dame trumps, not literally, perish the thought, but there is no trump the leader of the republican party, who is busy, as you just heard, endorsing candidates for House Speaker after the congressional wing of the republican conference that is in thrall to him through Kevin Mccarthy out, then there is defendant trump, whose last week has been going a little differently than party leader trump. The first guy, the trump who is the leader the publican party, apparently wants Ohio Republican congressman jim jordan to leave lead the House Of Representatives. After floating the possibility that donald trump himself coul
Literally, perish the thought, but there is no trump the leader of the republican party, who is busy, as you just heard, endorsing candidates for House Speaker after the congressional wing of the republican conference that is in thrall to him through Kevin Mccarthy out, then there is defendant trump, whose last week has been going a little differently than party leader trump. The first guy, the trump who is the leader the publican party, apparently wants Ohio Republican congressman jim jordan to leave lead the House Of Representatives. After floating the possibility that donald trump himself could become the speaker, donald trump wrote on his Social Media Platform of jim jordan, quote, he will be a great speaker of the house, and has my complete and total indoor cement. Usually dont trump doesnt believe himself sometimes, which is why he does just endorsed someone. He says they have complete and utter endorsement. Jim jordan is one of two House Republicans running actively to replace t
Here the dow fell 300 points on word of the attack, but we are modulating slightly. Treasury yields and crude as well oil prices in just a moment. Tenyear note at 4. 58 the expected run to safety. The question is is this performative to show we are retaliating. The reaction in the commodities market the initial reaction was steep and then we pared the gains. Crude is 82. 57 the story is in brent which surged above 90 a barrel. Were back below the level right now. As for gold, 2 2,395 that is unchanged. Bitcoin had the same reaction as we saw over the weekend with the initial strikes from iran. We had bitcoin now higher at 2. 4 64,882 as we await the halving which is expected over the weekend. Lets get a live report from raf sanchez in tel aviv. Raf, good morning. Reporter melissa, andrew, good morning for a week, the world has been waiting to see how israel would respond to the barrage of the iranian drones and missiles. We have an answer this morning and it doesnt appear at this momen
And into the fryer good thursday morning welcome to squawk alley. Were at post nine of the new york stock exchange. Dow is down 91 currently the worst drop of the year so far. The big news today though, amazon announcing the finalist for the hq2. We have details. Good morning, carl. And lets go straight to a map of the 20 contenders youll see that most of the locations, they fall in the midwest, south, and east coast of the country away from amazons current home of seattle and the west coast in general where most of the Biggest Tech Companies are. The only city from this coast, the west coast on that list is los angeles. And the only city outside the u. S. Is toronto, canada. It has tons of engineering talent close by. An interesting candidate given the current political environment. Now other contenders include cities that already have ties to amazon or jeff bezos like austin and washington, d. C. , and where he himself bought a home last year the other cities on the list like boston,
At 4,994, close to 5,000 obviously. At 1,249 is where you find the russell. Bob pisani is at the New York Stock Exchange. Janet yellen is giving her prepared speech in cleveland. Have we seen any kind of reaction in the stock or bond markets . It didnt have to be because the whole world gapped up at the open. I would say modest reaction but no big surprises in her commentary. Important thing is what happened overnight. Were 51 almost advancing to declining stocks. Its been that way almost the whole morning. Tech materials, consumer staples, financials, all the riskon group here everything is up 1 because the whole world went up 1 . The s p 500, we gapped up 20 points at the open. Thats really rare folks. Thats 1 right at the open. That was on greece. We surged overnight when the details on the greece talks came out and they were offering concessions, at least from the greek side. It even happened more strongly in germany. We had a 2 gap up in germany. You can see the Straight Line ther