Latest developments. And in two hours time, warren joins cnbc for an exclusive interview to discuss a record year for berkshire hathaway. Get involved by askwarren. Announcer youre watching worldwide exchange, bringing you Business News from around the globe. Well, the crisis in the ukraine and russias involvement, the total dominating factor for markets this morning. You can see in the last few minutes, stronger pmi from germany and from france. But the market is still in negative territory this morning. Let me give you a look at how the individual markets are performing this morning. The german markets down now around 2 . They were down around 2. 5 earlier, but stronger than expected pmi numbers coming out. The French Market down 1. 5 . Let me give you a look at whats going on in the Foreign Exchange and the commodities markets. Euro dollar lower by around 0. 2 . The yen and the swiss this morning taking dollar yen down by 0. 4 . Gold higher. Key concerns of supply concerns of energy
Simon . The housing stocks going up. Earnings up 130 . If you like housing, own eagle materials. Dr. J . Stocks easing back a little bit today. Buy into this one. A lot of activity on april, 35 calls. Thats what did it for us. Surging for its next move. Is it going to be up . Is it going to be down. You have a jobs report at the end of the report. Anthony, you see that as the next big catalyst . The jobs report . Either way . It is going to be a short term catalyst but obviously the mega big catalyst is with the fed. Let me jump in. Itll be a catalyst because it will shape what the Federal Reserve puts out at the meeting just ten days later. We are still trying to figure out the whole sequester play out. We are watching the dow, down today, 38 points. It is trying to make the alltime high of 14,165 or thereabouts. You can see there is work to do. That does it for us. Dont forget to catch more, follow me on twitter at scott wapner cnbc. Power lunch starts now. Interview today only on cn
Good morning, everyone. Welcome to a special edition of squawk box here on cnbc. Im becky quick and this morning i am in a suburb of omaha ham, nebraska, called la vista. Joe kernen is back at cnbc headquarters on the east coast. Our special guest this morning is Berkshire Hathaways Warren Buffett. Weve been soliciting your questions for mr. Bust over the last several days and as always, he he didnt disappoint. You have emailed, tweeted, facebooked and shared your thoughts on linkedin. Before we get to that, joe is going to give us a quick rundown of the mornings top headlines. Hey, beck. I know the sequester is hitting everybody hard, but this is your new set up there with the boxes and the usually we can splurge a little bit more. This is affecting everyone, i think. This it is. But this was a purchase. Berkshire never gave any numbers on this, but it was reported that this was a purchase of about 500 million. Whoa. But it was what we twauts the companys most recent acquisition. He s
The Oracle of Omaha and his leading investment aides, Todd Combs and Ted Weschler, sent numerous brand-name companies to the chopping block in the March-ended quarter.
Berkshire Hathaway started buying again in Q3 2023 and has finally unveiled the largest publicly traded purchase that it has kept from the spotlight: Chubb