Different meeting. The first annual meeting since Charlie Mungers death at the end of last year. It raised questions of what Berkshire Hathaway will look like after Warren Buffett. Those are the things that shareholders have been asking about and the types of things we see reflected in the media. Big questions, obviously, thrown to Warren Buffett and greg abel and jane who will be on stage this weekend to answer those questions. Well talk about those over the next few hours. Some of the issues surrounding berkshire. These are issues that Warren Buffett was direct about in his annual letter to shareholders. He laid out the disappointments they have seen. Bnsf was a disappointment on earnings. Earnings dropped significantly from a year ago. Buffett laid out how its railroad has fallen behind the other five major north american railroads in terms of margins. He talked about bhe. Berkshire hathaway energy. The major Utility Company Berkshire Hathaway owns as well. Laid out the issues on th
Goldman sachs on deck. Still up 7 10 of 1 . Front and center, will they disappoint . The banksides earnings, Mitch Mcconnell yesterday pulling the bill he had been working on to replace obamacare. Instead he says he will try to repealing the Health Care Law that keeping it in place while Congress Tries to figure out what comes next. Joining us now is Kevin Cirilli. , he develop in washington wants to repeal obamacare, will it happen . Kevin unlikely. With several sources that say that it is unlikely that despite Mitch Mcconnell and President Trumps assertion that they would like to see the senate and the house vote on the 2015 repeal bill the votes might not be there. Route, do go this starting the clock on a twoyear timetable for lawmakers to come together to try to come up with a new alternative to obamacare before it would be fully repealed in two years. That said, i spoke with a senior aide to a republican member, one of the four lawmakers who opposes this bill and i can tell you,
Futures. The dow and s p are indicated higher. Nasdaq is lower by about 4. 5 . Alphabet. Alphabet and google. Ubs reporting a drop in Fourth Quarter net profit but results beating forecasts thanks to a better than expected showing in the equity business. The bank is pointing to improving Investor Confidence in the u. S. At the end of 2016. Speaking to cnbc earlier today, Ceo Sergio Ermotti says that could be a sign clients are ready to ged ot off the sidelin. We are realistic because we have data points pointing at clients and investors being more optimists and ready to be constructive about the situation. They are really looking for concrete actions by the new administration in the u. S. He said there could be mom t momentous changes for the Financial Sector if there is a hard brexit. Today we get results from chevron, honeywell, american airlines, General Dynamics and abbvie. And key Economic Data as well. A first read on Fourth Quarter gdp at read on Fourth Quarter gdp at 8 30, dura
I didnt think about it with the tie. Do you have an orange tie . I do own an orange tie. But you never wear it. I never wear it. Are those pumpkins from last year . No. Those are not. Okay. Can you imagine we had things made exactly like us. I have pictures of those. Those arent actually us, are they, andrew . Remember in the past our face has been on them. Our face has been on them. But not these. I apologize, we are going to talk about the markets. We have breaking news the tell you about, we talked about it a little on friday, but now its official. General electric and baker hughes are merging their operations. Now there was a lot of conversation about whether ge was effectively going to be selling its business. We talked about whether this was all happening at the wrong time. This is now what is happening. They are merging the oil and gas operations into a new company that both companies will effectively own. They are looking to get 1. 6 billion in synergies annually out of this tr
Were off to the races now. Heres whats happening before the bell. Quarterly results from jp morgan and wells fargo. The economy also front and center and topping todays calendar Weekly Mortgage applications. Import and export prices. Business inventory and the feds beige book plus we have a little bit of focus overseas on the ecb. Top European Court giving a green light to a Bond Buying Program and thats heading out to speculation that well see more stimulus out of the euro zone when they meet next week. Take a look at futures at this house. The dow not so great. Dow looks like it would open down about 57 points down. Nasdaq would open down about 11 points down and the s p 500 would open down off about 6 points. Check out what could be the chart of the morning. Something we dont mention that frequently perhaps. Maybe we should mention more copper because it is a weather for Global Economic activity. Prices plunging to the lower level in half a decade. Prices down as much as 8 at one po