Corruption verdict. That verdict is going to be closely watched in south korea. Markets are waiting with bated breath, on the fed speakers at jackson hole. Be payingen will attention to tomorrow here in the u. S. There were some jitters in the markets. Ceilingk about the debt rattling investors. The dow off 30 points. Off 1 . Aq also s p down 2 10 of 1 . The declines are there but not as much as you might expect. Most investors are on the sidelines awaiting janet yellen and her comment. Yes. We are pushing pause. Talku can say anything to down that rising euro. In asia, prettier than brawl wall street. We have rallied for eight of the past 10 sessions. It has been a decent two weeks but we are flat for stocks. The kiwi, two days of losses. Spikes may continue to exit if we break below 72. We are just at a whisper from that now. And markets not going anywhere. We have been stuck in this tight range for three months. Mostly we will see any kind of breakthrough. 79 for the aussie. A key w
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
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Ethics. He is in an awkward position because it his job to make sure that politicians behave and talk about their conflicts and is sort of let the public know what is going on. He is in an unusual edition because donald trump, unlike any president in modern times has basically kept quiet on many of the entanglements he has in the business world. That has put him in the unusual position of saying, mr. President elect, you should do this, and the president elect ignoring him. That has caused him to publicly say this is not a good thing and undermines the whole notion of the open skies, clean air we do in politics, and that has gotten him in an awful lot of trouble with republicans. He has been vetting quite a lot of nominees, and because of the wealth of a lot of the nominees, it is taking a lot of time, but they compress the time to do it to the point where people are having confirmation hearings before they have been completely vetted. It is an unusual situation and he has run into a w
Ethics, the office of government ethics. He is in an awkward position because it his job to make sure that politicians behave and talk about their conflicts and is sort of let the public know what is going on. He is in an unusual position because donald trump, unlike any president in modern times has basically kept quiet on many of the entanglements he has in the business world. That has put him in the unusual position of saying, mr. President elect, you should do this, and the president elect basically ignoring him. That has caused him to publicly say this is not a good thing and undermines the whole notion of the open skies, clean air we do in american politics, and that has gotten him in an awful lot of trouble with republicans. He has been vetting quite a lot of nominees, and because of the wealth of a lot of the nominees, it is taking a lot of time, but they compress the time to do it to the point where people are actually having confirmation hearings before they have been complet