Alley. Back to you. Thank you very much its 8 00 a. M. At our headquarters in sunnyvale, california, 11 00 on wall street and squawk is live. Were going to start the hour with breaking news on target for that well go to Courtney Reagan back at hq. Hi, court. The same big delivery wars rage on. Target buying personal shopping and Delivery Platform shipt for 550 million. Target says delivery option for shoppers will begin in early 2018 it pulls inventory from stores to deliver same day. By summer it will be available in half of its 1800 stores to start, though, its going to be done through the shipt app and network of personal shoppers personal shoppers are in direct communication with the consumer that places the order for questions and timing updates at least to start, get this, you will need a shipt membership 99 per year for unlimited deliveries on the platform from target and other retailers like costco and kroger. Target says its working on how it might eventually be integrated int
Later the analyst is here to make a bold case on why they will go as high as 500 a share. Will you not want to miss. That first we start off with breaking news. This hour to repeal obamacare. Hi, elon. Reporter hi, mellissa. The president says the vote in the house for obamacare was a sign of unity and show they can get things done and tax reform is coming up next. Were going to get this finished. Then we are going. As you know, we put our tax plan in. Its a massive tax cut. The biggest tax cut in the history of our country. I used to say the biggest since ronald reagan. Now, its bigger than that. Also, pure tax reform. So we will get that done next. This really helps him. Before we can get to all that, there are still a lot of pieces that need to fall in place t. Senate needs 51 votes to pass through the Upper Chamber using a process known as reconciliation. The bill thats expected to undergo major changes along the way. Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell said the status quo is unaccepta
At 10 00 a. M. , us home sales for the month of april. 2 00 p. M. The fed releases the book ahead of jobs friday and 3 00 President Trump welcomes the Prime Minister of vietnam to the white house with trade on the agenda. Jonathan it has been a choppy session for sterling. A projection in the times shows Theresa Mays Conservative Party may miss winning a can a conservative party and face a Hung Parliament. Study based on a new model and showed her Party Falling short of the majority by 16 seats. Joining us from london is an morass thomas. Great to have you with us on the program. Break down the new study and the methodology and whether we should take this with a huge dose of salt. In britain has been in crisis. They have the brexit referendum in the last general election result. This study seeks to address some underlying problems in pulling. You can win a majority getting a majority of the popular vote so really elections are won and lost on 100 key constituencies. This poll tries to
Finding workers. In minneapolis they sold out of employer booths for a second year with a waiting list. In cleveland a truck driver firm boosted wages by almost 8 just to retain workers. Other businesses are finding more create ways to retain workers, and tracking their benefits for retraining opportunities and automation two aboard getting pay increases. We will have to watch this, including the jobs report from the Labor Department is see how type its impacting wages. And housing we see low inventory driving up prices consistent with other reports. Overall we see a generally positive town in the near term for businesses. Some optimism waning in many districts. Michelle, moderate growth. Lets check in with julie for any kind of market reaction. We were looking at two tens of a percent before the release of the beige book. Julie counter people are still reading through. The beige book is not one that consistently moves markets. It gives more color as to what the fed is saying. As miche
Finding workers. In minneapolis they sold out of employer booths for a second year with a waiting list. In cleveland a truck driver firm boosted wages by almost 8 just to retain workers. Other businesses are finding more create ways to retain workers, and tracking their benefits for retraining opportunities and automation two aboard getting pay increases. We will have to watch this, including the jobs report from the Labor Department is see how type its impacting wages. And housing we see low inventory driving up prices consistent with other reports. Overall we see a generally positive town in the near term for businesses. Some optimism waning in many districts. Michelle, moderate growth. Lets check in with julie for any kind of market reaction. We were looking at two tens of a percent before the release of the beige book. Julie counter people are still reading through. The beige book is not one that consistently moves markets. It gives more color as to what the fed is saying. As miche