Coming under pressure amid questions about the feds commitment to keeping borrowing costs low and the spigot open. Economic tests, key reads on jobs, inflation and housing and on the corporate front, really Important Quarterly results from dow component walmart. Its thursday, february 21st, 2013 and squawk box begins right now. Morning, everybody. Welcome to squawk box here on cnbc. Im becky quick along with joe kernen and Andrew Ross Sorkin. Stocks selling off late yesterday after the release of the fomc minutes. The s p and the nasdaq turned in their worst sess sessions of 2013 on the heaviest Trading Volume of the year. Not good news. The pain is not over yet. If you take a look right now, dow futures are down by about 61 points. S p futures off by about 7 1 2 points below fair value. Were going to talk much more about the fed with central bank watcher greg iff. Thats 7 00 eastern time. Walmart is likely to be a big driver of the market conversation today. Courtney reagan will be jo
All the optimism and the hope and the opportunity that that interconnected world represents. But its also important in these discussions to find ways in which we are expanding and broadening the benefits of that interconnection to more and more people. And thats what so many of you are doing. Were gathered here at stanford in the heart of silicon valley, which is one of the great hubs of innovation and entrepreneurship, not just for america, but for the world. This is a place that celebrate our ability as human beings to discover and learn and to build, to question, to reimagine. To create new ways to connect with each other. Its where two guys in a garage, bill hewlett and dave packard launched hewlettpackard. Yahoo and google. Those were two really good student projects. [ laughter ] my student projects werent as good. [ laughter ] its where entrepreneurs like so many of you get an idea and you build a team and you work to turn it into a reality. And you launch products and companies
He promised to produce evidence that the claims were false, though he did not do so yesterday. Cnns sara murray has the latest. Reporter with less than four weeks until election day, donald trump spent yesterday denying allegations from multiple women from different parts of the country who say they were sexually assaulted by donald trump. Trump agitated by the accusations and insisted they were outright lies. These vicious claims about me of Inappropriate Conduct with women are totally and absolutely false. And the clintons know it. And they know it very well. These claims are all fabricated. Theyre pure fiction and outright lies. These events never, ever happened. Reporter but donald trump didnt just take aim at the veracity of the claims, but aim at the women making them. Why they took so long to make the claims and suggesting one was not attractive enough to gain his interest. Not only is he sliding in the polls, but they pinned strategy on taking both hillary and bill clinton to t
Im john berman. Christine romans, no show. It is friday, october 14th. A defining moment in the race for president. Donald trump with a defensive conspiracy laced diatribe against the media and the women who accuse him of kissing or groping or Sexual Assault. Overnight, one of the accusers spoke out in an interview adding detail to her claims. This with Anderson Cooper. She said it was trumps claims about Sexual Misconduct to anderson in the second debate that inspired her to go public to the new york times. When you specifically asked trump had he ever groped a woman or i forget how you phrased it and he said no, i literally wanted to throw something at the tv or punch the tv. That was sunday night. Monday morning, i found myself writing an email. Letter to the editor to the times. More from the interview later in the show. First, trumps remarkable defense against the claims and what he considers the conspiracy. In florida and ohio, he blasts the accusers that he groped and kissed wom
Duthiers good evening. Im Vladimir Duthiers. President trump returned to washington d. C. , he wrapped up a four day trip to asia earlier today with a big show of faith on the korean peninsula. Weijia jiang is in seoul. Reporter the buildup was gamatic. President trump and north korean dictator kim jongun walked toward each other from opposite sides of the joint security area ko the d. M. Z. , the demilitarized border zone that separates north and south korea. Then a handshake before the president s single footstep made him the first sitting u. S. President to enter north korea. We were in japan for the g 20. I came over. I said, hey, im over here. I want to call up chairman kim. And we got to meet, and stepping across that line was a great honor. Reporter kim said the historic moment showed mr. Trumps willingness to eliminate the unfortunate past and open a new future. Afterward, the two leaders met inside whats known as the Freedom House for nearly one hour. This is a special moment,