Thing, he resigned, so he could have a reasonable succession plan. This is the oldest Major Institution in the world. Secondly, it opens up the possibility that one day priests can marry, which i would be the salvation of the church. This is going to be a very interesting debate as a result of this. I was born catholic. Im not now. Youre supposed to say thank you for being here today. Occasionally we see commentary on capitalism in action. Im not a participant per se, im just a spectator, and its a fun sport. Thank you. And thank you, michelle. Join us tomorrow. Squawk on the street is next right now. Congratulations to grammy winner fun and all the grammy winners from last night. Welcome to squawk on the street. Im carl equipment a nil la with melissa lee, david faber here at the nyse. David cramer is off this week. A busy week its going to be. Europe this week, finance minister meeting from all of the eurozone talking about cypress and greece. As for asian markets, mostly closed as t
Monday morning . A good morning to you. We are seeing shares falling across the asia pacific. Check out the figures here. You see the regional benchmark right now. Modest gain here. But if you look at the individual stock story, it is generally a down day. Shares modestly lower in tokyo today as shares get under way. This is what we have. Higher by 4 10. The taiwan Index Trading lower. Lets go with singapore right now because we do have the latest g. D. P. Figure. Those numbers coming in perhaps slightly slowing in terms of economic growth. We did see the Monetary Authority there maintaining its current stamps in terms of the Singapore Dollar. Watching that today. Here are early movers. Among those, hong kong up 1. 6 . In the downside category. Noble group 4 10 of 1 . Thats the publisher of course of the straight times newspaper. Now, as shares continue to trade in tokyo today we are watching the yen. Been a lot of action on the currency front. These are the movers in tokyo. Your downs
Day on fears that a deal to avoid the fiscal cliff may actually be a lot further away than we thought. More sparring today. Deal, i dont know. If you listen to what they are saying today, scott wapner in for bill griffith. The president calling for compromise in a News Conference today, but here on wall street there is a bit less optimism for the deal than weve felt in recent days. See where we sit right now. The dow is down 56 points. Nasdaq and s p under some pressure as well right now as we there you go. Nasdaq is down six and the s p, maria, selling off as well. Mr. Jobs, more jabs being exchanged on capitol hill today. What was supposed to be a president ial press conference on gun control quickly transformed into a discussion about the fiscal cliff. With the majority of questions focusing on the issue. Washington correspondent john harwood at the white house right now. John, perhaps no one has followed the twists and turns as much as you in all of these negotiations. Why now does
His cap nit. John roberts is live outside of trump tower in new york city. Just named, congratulations to my friends. A lot of action here this afternoon. Not just an antitrust protestor almost coming to blows with the naked cowboy. Joe manchon going upstairs to talk to president elect trump. The fact that he comes from a tv coal state. There has been no official announcement on this, but Rex Tillerson this is maybe one of the top one or two in the cabinet. Rex tillerson crafted deals. Donald trump really likes that aspect of it and here is what he told Chris Wallace on fox news sunday. He is more than a business executive. He is a world class player. To me a great advantages. He does massive deals in russia. However, they could run into head wins. Even some republicans are concerned he might be too close to russia because of the deals he set to make in russia. Donald trump has not yet named tiller s er tillerson, though he is expecting to. What can you tell us ant the golden elevators