Barnstorm,ing and cowriter and director of the law faith as to jail. He is the author of to swing through the sky, and musical theater piece commissioned and produced by George Mason University about the history of jazz empowered flight. He was a longtime member of the right experience team an executive director of the discovery flight foundation. Paul is a graduate of Washington University in st. Louis with a degree in visual arts. In addition to aviation history and documentary filmmaking. His career covers classical drawing, stem in steam education. Exhibit design and photography. With that i would like to turn the stage over to paul, thank you all again so much for coming tonight. Hello. Thank you so much for having me. Can everyone see me okay . Hear me okay . Great. Im going to make sure i turn this thing on correctly. Okay, thank you kathy, and to everyone at smithsonian for having me back. I am very happy to be here. Again i am sharing the story with you. I think its really a f
Turn it off, please. Lets see what happened here this weekend. This is the first time this meeting took place without Charlie Munger being here. Before Warren Buffett took to the stage, this was a stage where there was a lot of emotion that came into this here with a standing ovation for charlie at the top. Roll that back down, please. A standing ovation for charlie right at the top of the meeting after a movie that played a halfhour movie, that played his highlights over the years and funny skits they had done and a standing ovation from 40,000 people who were here at the Convention Center. Pretty emotional day. Warren buffett made news. It came out when the companys 10 q hit. People were looking to see it and it trimmed stake in apple by 13 in the quarter. It sold about 116 million shares. A lot of questions as to why and what it means. Apple is still, by far, the largest stock in its portfolio. It makes up 40 of the overall portfolio. Buffett said he was selling because he wanted to
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
Live from new york where business never sleeps, this is squawk box. Good morning welcome to snark box. And whats new about that andrew is off today sitting in with us for the hour is Peter Boockvar, editor of the boock report very clever. Well done. Boock report yes i like it also a cnbc cribber we have a lot to talk about. Lets start with the u. S. Equity futures. Rattled rattled. Dow was down by 16. The s p was off by 3 nasdaq down by 10. Its the first time the nasdaq and the s p have fallen in 2018 it had a sixday winning streak up to that point well watch things this morning. Right now modest advances with the dow futures indicated up by 20 points. S p up by 4. Nasdaq up by 7 well see. Still early in the session well see as we head towards that opening bell what will happen overnight in asia, stocks in hong kong closing higher for the 13th day in a row, extending the record rining stre inwinning st index. Shanghai up by 3. 2 the dax is the biggest decliners of europe, down by 0. 2
Questions are good a lot going on all right the markets are crazy, becky what was that, 350 on friday, when it was all said and done. And strongly higher again this morning. Almost 200 and also well, well take a quick look heres a check on the markets u. S. Equity futures at this hour are, as you can see, 193 points indicated on the dow the nasdaq up another 25 the nasdaq shb dhad been diverg last week. Thats a big move that we saw, continuing buying, going on, across the board in this country. And actually in asia and europe, overnight, some strong Market Action and some interesting news in the tenyear note as well. But as you can see, the nikkei was one more than 1 point 260 points hang seng up sharply as well check out europe, green across the board, in europe, when i watched, at least looked this morning. Not the gains that were seeing here or in asia. But well see what happens this week as we move forward. Its only 6 01 and treasury yields moderating on the tenyear, which that you