Takeover targets coming up. Donald trump has bigname investors advising the campaign and now details if think oar putting their money where their mouth is. We have got the lawyer behind a controversial lawsuit accusing Morgan Stanley of mismanaging the employees 401 k plans and rippling through the industry. Hes going to join us after the bell. Be sure to stay tuned for that. Adding to the bearish sentiment is last weeks rig count showing u. S. Oil producers added rigs. Right. Ra raising concerns of supply online. Lets bring in ed war morris and halima kroft. You know, a lot of talk about how the latest move, whether its the 20 decline, the 20 bounce, 9 up in wti crude last week, has been mostly about investor positioning, is that the case or are we seeing real fundamental supply demand factors here . We have a position of basically a record high in short positions and expected a rally on the back of that and started the see i think the discussion of the opec freeze coming back into pl
We begin with the stocks on the rebound this hour led by of all things the banks. Financials flying on word of a big shot jumping in. And buying his own stock. Jp morgan chief jamie dimon with 500,000 shares on the open market. It is a 26 million move that has us asking, and jamie, we trust. Steve, should we . I think its a great move. A lot of his employees get paid in stock so it really shows that theyre safe because that can really, you know, disenfranchise a company and plemployees. But yes. You should. The valuations are dirt cheap. I was talking to somebody about this yesterday. Its in the banks and wells only 2 of their book is in energy loans. Citi is less. Jpmorgan with other exposure and far up in the cap structure and theyre compellingly cheap. European banks are not quite as clean but very clean and not worried about them going out. Thats good. Josh brown, banks good enough for jamie dimon, good enough for you . Great to see somebody express confidence in their own stock. I
Speak the language in a statement and remove a considerable time frame. The statement and an updated forecast is due out at 2 00 p. M. Eastern today. A half hour later, chair janet yellen will field questions from the media. Beyond the fed, the ruble and oil. The russian currency dropping about 60 against the dollar this year. Cnbcs Geoff Cutmore has made its way to moscow and will join us there in just a minute. He is looking at russias move to sell the currency. As for oil, worries about a surprise pressure in prices, france is now down nearly 20 since opec decided to keep rates steady late last month. Add all these stories together and we have a very jittery market. The dow has shouldered triple gains and losses in the session. The blue chip index swinging 700 points yesterday alone. The dow, nasdaq and the s p closing at their lowest levels since the understand of october. Just a little after 6 00 a. M. Is how we stand right now. The futures look like they are headed up. But as we
For repeating myself but circumvention is not the only enterprise. It is a direct corruption problem. Alternatives address that problem. I dont know understand that. That what if they just took the money and they burned it . That would be a corruption problem . They are not going to burn it. When does the corruption occur . Personappens when the makes the transfer and they have power and they want to corrupt. It creates an indebtedness it when itarty leadership is handed over. It quite parallel to mcconnell. It is why we have aggregate limits because these parties are for medically sealed from one another. Our leaders in particular will feel a sense of indebtedness. Could do i will try to address the circumvention problem. Upt they have done is come with a whole series of things that you have to do. It is not just one thing and. You have to say no giving money pacs. You have to do five or six things to deal with the risk of corruption. A seems to me like significantly more restrictive
On the Border Security issue we apparently have a very broad based agreement on that issue. The gentleman says you want to do it individually. The gentleman knows that the Judiciary Committee has passed out individual, discreet bills dealing with discreet parts of the immigration issue, which you say is a broken system, bring out discreetly those bills. The bill that the Homeland Security reported out unanimously has not been brought to the floor. The four bills that have been reported out of the Judiciary Committee have not been brought out to the floor. They were passed months and months and months ago so that if you dont want to to a comprehensive thats the view of the majority leader, mr. Speaker, then i would suggest to the majority leader that he bring out discreet bills, individual bills, not comprehensive, and see if we can deal with those. I will tell you our disappointment also is that it was not overwhelm the senate bill that was rejected, but the speaker put out some princi