Im Courtney Reagan. Stocks trading again in another fa narrow ray but another high. A volatile session for oil. Saudi arabia and three other countries cutting ties with qatar raising concerns about supplies. More on this as oil prices fall. And whats moving. A major cancer conference under way in a number of biotechs rallying as a result. Loxo and puma among them. Herbalife down 6 of its latest outlook. Brian . Here is what else is happening this hour. Csx shareholders approving a proposal to reimburse 84 million for arranging the hiring of a new ceo hunter harrison. The ceo of mantle ridge, by the way, is the vice chairman of the board for csx. In the skies the good times continue to roll. Airlines globally are collectively raising their profit forecast. The Industry Group that represents more than 200 Airlines Says the profits should top 31 billion this year. Thats about 1. 5 billion more than previously forecast. And the Supreme Court scaling back the s. E. C. s power to recoup prof
2. 14. Our road map begins with apple and new product announcements. Did we see anything that would move the needle . Plus a big change at j. Crew. Mickey drexel is helping down. New chief executive coming from quest elm. The president taking to twitter ahead of congressional meetings today. Lots of buzz surrounding apples answer to the amazon echo and google home, the new home pod unveiled at apples Worldwide Developers conference. Heres tim cook making the case for that product. We have such a great portable music experience, but what about our homes . We think we can do a lot to make this experience much better. Just like we did with portable music, we want to reinvent home music. Jim, we got the ar kit, we got amazon on apple tv, but home pod really stole all the headlines. I have the logitech music system. I have the Harmon Carden music system and i have the echo. I would tell you that the echo is really great. You can talk to the echo, but i talk to my wife. I dont need to talk t
Lets look at u. S. Equity futures. Yesterday the markets were weaker this morning things are mixed. Dow futures up by close to 12 points s p down by 2 points nasdaq down by about 15. In asia, the nikkei was down almost a percentage point. Same thing for the hang seng the shanghai was up by a percentage point the cac is down by 1 now. Ftse is down by a third of a percent. The dax is off by 0. 6 the tenyear note, the yield yesterday settled at 2. 15 this morning the yield is below that 2. 146 breaking overnight, saudi arabias king ousting his nephew, the ksitting crown prine and putting his son, Mohammed Bin Salman the former crown prince was in charge of saudi arabias services footage showed an amicable change in succession the saudi all shares is up sharply today on the news. A check of crude prices, this is seen as a potential wildcard when it comes to crude with the change in power. Were seeing it holding on to modest losses here this after a big loss in yesterdays session. This happ
Good morning welcome to squawk alley. Joining me this morning, sarah eisen and mike santoli and the the senates new Health Care Plan in a joint statement, rand paul, ted cruz, mike lee and lee johnson say it doesnt do enough to repeal obamacare. Republicans can only afford two no votes the aarp, American Hospital association and others have also come out against this bill health care stocks, though, surging following the drafts release. Theyre on pace for the best week of the year maybe some profit taking today but still, more than 3 for the group overall. Walter, whats your prediction how does the next week unfold when it comes to health care on capitol hill well, i think that senator mcconnell is a very savvy operator i think he wins either way if he can pull this off and have a vote and have it succeed, thats fine. If not, he gets to move on to what i think he would consider or i would consider the more important parts of the agenda right now which is tax reform and infrastructure a
Good Tuesday Morning welcome to squawk alley. Were at the New York Stock Exchange joining us this morning from palo alto, cofounder roger m k mackname is google hit by this fine by unfavoring the search results over rivals . We talked to the eus commissioner for competition earlier this morning heres what she said well, the fine is a reflection of the abuse and how long the abuse has taken place and, of course, the importance of the Different Actors in this market and we find this abuse has been taking place since 2008. But also that it has taken place in every european country where google shopping has been ruled out. And that, of course, is a very serious matter and that is reflected in the level of the fine. Our google, roger, would argue it is also serious although they say they respectful respectfully disagree and are considering option onz appeal. What did z. This mean . I think, carl, there is an interesting sest tests coming in front of us. First of all, google, facebook, amazo