Leader Mitch Mcconnell vowed to a complete vote on obamacare but admitting republicans by themselves are clearly not prepared to do a replacement. Came to a head after a third republican senator Lisa Murkowski bailed to take a vote on straightup repeal of president obamas Affordable Care act. Preaches to the choir instead of focusing on converting note vote . Senator roger wicker supported the plan to repeal and replace. No matter whos at fault, well ask is it time to offer an olive branch to get it done . As the Trump Administration rolls out plan to renegotiate nafta, and also the punish iran with new sanctions. Former trade representative ron kirk and president of the council on Foreign Relations Richard Hawes here to put the Major Economic and National Security issues into perspective. On wall street, the nasdaq looking for first record close since june 8th. Looks like it might make it up. 22 points, the dow off lows, s p straddling the flat line, slightly lower. How are stocks doi
Stretches you. But really it is about weight. If youre in perfect shape like andrew, you get away with it i still need to lose about 7 pounds i am being honest. Full transparency. This tailor pulls it in. Lifts and separates. Sounds like stuff i wear. Lets look at equity futures. Best week for the dow since may. Ninth consecutive gain in a row closing another new high friday. Lets check out what happened overnight in asia. Friday after you saw better than expected jobs numbers, saw a pop of the stock market here, carried out in what we saw with the nikkei which closed just over 100 points. Hang seng was up, as was shanghai composite europe, early trading, at least now looks like things are relatively flat for most of the major indexes. Big decliner dax down crude oil was flat, closing below 50, within striking distance this morning, decline of 1. 5 . Natural gas is slightly higher this morning, natural gas saw the worst week since june, down more than 5 . Get you caught up on big stori
Investments, as well great to have you all here get to you in a second but i want to start with you, lee, if i could. Why are you speaking out its a good question. I dont have any dog in this fight. I retired from the board five years ago. I made a mistake i gave all my stock to charity i should have given cash, because the stock has almost tripled in the five years that im off the board. But i feel and i have, like i said, in dog in the fight. And i know and respect bill ackman so its difficult for me but notwithstanding, i consider his behavior to be, in this instance, somewhere between foolish, inappropriate, and irresponsible. And i feel its my job to speak out and speak my view. What was your reaction, though, when you sort of first found out that he was i was somewhat incredulous. Let me explain, basically. Ben graham wrote a book, i think in the mid50s called the Intelligent Investor and he pottsized in that book that an an analyst evaluates management twice in the decisionmakin
,e speak to jpmorgans ceo jamie dimon, his thoughts on the white house and why stick your site nation is a myth. And the greek odyssey. The bailout is under threat. Tsipras meets merkel. Resolutiono german possible . Subjectry interesting that we are going to dig into later as Alexis Tsipras wants to spend more money and Wolfgang Schaeuble does not want him to do that. Less than a halfhour away from the european open. Red arrows across the board, but slight red arrows. We really only see a little bit of movement here. This is after the big gains that we saw yesterday. More than 1 on the ftse, more than one person on the cac, the dax. Big gains in european stocks yesterday. We could get a muted open. Guy you can see this really clearly on the gmm, the ftse mib up to present yesterday, the bond markets better bid this morning. Not significantly, but considering where we come from, i think a bid people will take this morning. The euro is also recovering just a touch. Were up by 0. 2 , 0.
Citigroup, Goldman Sachs and Charles Schwab report before the bell. And well hear from netflix after the close on the day. We should tell you that squawk has an extension today, because we have interviews with jamie dimon who will be with us later on sidewalk on the street, and loyal blankfein will be with us later as well. Dont miss that. When nbc has a saturday game, its thursday night football a lot of times on saturday. It may be in the 9 00 or 10 00 hour back on the east coast, but its still squawk box. Were just extending this. Yeah. Extending the programming. Lets not confuse anyone at home. Normally we have the futures in the red. Rarely do we get the thermometer in the red. Its actually minus below zero. Is it right now . Minus 3 celsius or fahrenheit . No, minus 3 fahrenheit. But sunny and beautiful. Tobey cosgrove in the sun. Look. Hes glowing. Lets turn now you cant see him. Youll see him in a moment. Turning now to the agenda, which is on capitol hill. Just two days away f