For the top story so far here in moscow im kevin comprehensive news review of the week and now if you join me for. Watching hope you have a great weekend. Hi imax to answer this is the kaiser report were back from Summer Solutions no more solutions not only problems now for the next 10 months. Well lets talk about the biggest thing that happened while we were away on vacation and that is warren buffet has obviously used that opportunity while we were away to make a major major major change and his portfolio and which indicates that kaiser report has been right for the past 10 years he dumped many of his banking shares and went long gold miner barrack the biggest gold miner in the world so max what do you think about this sea change in his portfolio right well it was obvious that he would have to get into gold gold mining gold bullion at some point he had too much calf he was underperforming the stock market for 15 years he had made an enormous mistake at airlines again for the 2nd time
Politics is a business, whether people want to believe it. Our we leave this segment to go live to a Senate Hearing with postaster louis dejoy on Office Operations going into november. Mr. Dejoy, your decisions have cost americans their health, their time, their livelihoods, and their peace of mind. I believe you owe them an apology or the harm you have caused, and all of us some very clear answers today. Isuntry is anxious is anxious about whether the damage you have inflicted can be reversed and what other plans you have in store which could further disrupt liability and Timely Delivery of the Postal Service. If you plan to continue pursuing these changes, i think my colleagues and many of our constituents will continue to question whether you are the right person to lead this indispensable institution. Thank you. The tradition of this committee to swear in witnesses. Raise yourmr. Dejoy, right hand. Do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help
Right hand. Do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you god . Postmaster dejoy i do. As postmastered general, and you spend more than 35 years developing and managing a successful nationwide Logistics Company as chairman and ceo of new breeze logistics. Beginning in 2014, mr. Dejoy served as the ceo of Xpo Logistics and after his retirement in 2015 he joined the companys board of directors where he served until 2018. Mr. Dejoy. Postmaster dejoy good morning chairman, Ranking Member pierce and members of the committee. Thank chairman johnson for calling this hearing. Proud to be with you on behalf of the women and men of the United States Postal Service the on june 15 i became 75th postmaster general. I did so because i believe the Postal Service placed plays a positive role in the lives of the American Public and lives of the nation. I also welcome the opportunity to lead this organization because i believe theres an opportunity for the Posta
Patriotic. Vaccine is on to find a amid warnings of a greater resurgence to come. Haidi pretty mixed midweek outlook when it comes to trading here in asia and for the first time in a while, we have seen equity markets kind of take a step back in terms of not headlines. A great deal of activities and commodities. Lets take a check of futures. Contracts trading higher after we saw a lack of conviction in u. S. Markets as we get concerns that perhaps this fourth round of fiscal stimulus will not be forthcoming. We are hearing the republicans are in the midst of crafting their own proposal to take to the democrats and we also heard from President Trump as he resumed his virus presser, encouraging americans to wear patrioticart of a duty. Over in japan, we are seeing outside of point 3 when it comes to trading for nikkei futures in chicago. More earnings on tap along with japanese pmi readings as well. Take a look at gold and soldiers. Pretty much flat at the moment, jumping close to a nine
Good morning, everybody. Welcome to squawk box here on cnbc but this comes after a backdrop of a pretty big decline on friday on friday the dow was down by 700 points and this morning its up by 200 points you have the s p up by close to 20 points and the nasdaq up by 26 but we are getting to the end of the month and thats when we start to take notice of what has been happening with declines that we saw on friday push the dow and s p 500 into negative territory for the month of june. If they want to make that up they have two trading sessions left before we get to july so over the next two days the dow would have to make up 1. 5 if it wants to be positive for the month of june. S p would be up 1. 2 its up by 2. 8 . Lets take a look at what has been happening with the treasury market the treasury yield the ten year is the one that we always pay the most attention to it seems to be yielding. 645 . And i think he is going to have interesting things to say too in terms of trying to put it i