Started my career at the American Trucking association and you know you dont really ever get it out of your blood i dont think. So its an important topic at the right time, so thank you so much for being here. Thank you to our partners, thank you to our sponsors. Thank you to ed mort aher and his very talented team for putting this together. Ed leads our transportation efforts. Were lucky to have him. This is a founding sponsor of iweek. Does anybody besides us say iweek . Its a thing, all right. Were a founding sponsor of iweek. And were really proud to be a part of the bipartisan Steering Committee and we have been proud to see how this annual meeting as an event has grown in reach and in scope and programmatic activity every year. You know more about infrastructure than i will ever learn so i dont have to tell you what a big problem this is for our country. This is a nationwide challenge, so it has to be a nationwide conversation. Over the next five days businesses around the nation
Started my career at the American Trucking association and you know you dont really ever get it out of your blood i dont think. So its an important topic at the right time, so thank you so much for being here. Thank you to our partners, thank you to our sponsors. Thank you to ed mort aher and his very talented team for putting this together. Ed leads our transportation efforts. Were lucky to have him. This is a founding sponsor of iweek. Does anybody besides us say iweek . Its a thing, all right. Were a founding sponsor of iweek. And were really proud to be a part of the bipartisan Steering Committee and we have been proud to see how this annual meeting as an event has grown in reach and in scope and programmatic activity every year. You know more about infrastructure than i will ever learn so i dont have to tell you what a big problem this is for our country. This is a nationwide challenge, so it has to be a nationwide conversation. Over the next five days businesses around the nation
Weak ahead of the jobs number tomorrow. A handful of ugly misses, store cuts and outlooks, macys, kohls, l brands all moving low sgl er. And market slipping away from 20k. A day of record auto sales. And trio of news to get to on apple, the app store and a new 1 billion investment from that company. Were going to fill you in. But first up in about a half hour from now the Senate Armed Services committee will hold a hearing on Cyber Threats against the u. S. Sparked by allegations that russia engaged in hacking to influence the u. S. Election. Committee chairman john mccain favors creating a special committee to investigate russia while president elect trump has expressed obvious skepticism about the russia hacking probe. Journal today reports the president elect is working with top advisors to revamp the office of the director of National Intelligence which is this nations Top Spy Agency created after 9 11, guys, to sort of coordinate intelligence from various officials. Question is wh
Thats the strongest of the expansion. Well get to all the numbers of the premarket relatively steady. Europe is mixed. Yields actually if you just heard ticked up on that wage data. Factory orders, rig count and fed speak today still on the way. Roadmap begins with 156,000 jobs added in december, below what the street was expecting. The last jobs number under president obama. First it was ford then it was gm. This time the president elect goes after toyota sending alarm bells across the nation of japan. One retailer reversing the trend, gap shares are surging after a better than expected december helped by old navy. Well get into that. Aside from the december payroll figures, the Unemployment Rate coming in at 4. 7, as expected. And we mentioned earlier average Hourly Earnings up 2. 9 from a year ago, thats the biggest increase since 2009. Participation relatively flat, jim, i know you looked at with the revisions over the past two months people are calling it a bit of a push. I think
Living good morning, welcome to squawk alley. Mike santelli is here with me, jon fortts at ces. Kayla will join us in a moment. Here, Brooklyn Dwyer and wells fargo investment institutes head of global Asset Allocation strategy, tracy mcmillan. Good morning to all of you. Before we get started, in about ten minutes, a first on cnbc interview with intels Brian Krzanich live from ces. You do not want to miss that. First up, our top story, donald trump expected to meet with some top intelligence officials at trump tower today in a little less than 90 minutes. It comes after a series of tweets from the president elect targeting yet another automaker. Our john harwood is live outside trump tower with that. Good morning, john. Reporter carl, fascinating mix of issues that president elect donald trump has put on the table or has on the table today. First of all, you mentioned that tweet which came last night against toyota, suggesting that theres no way they should build that plant in mexico.