Probably the second or third day of training and basically we had an outline of what we were doing and none of it was business it was graphic violent, hate speech, sexual solicitation, sexual exploy takeitation that f stuff. Im sorry. Thats okay i just think about all the animals all the time so im supposed to go talk to this counselor about the 500 videos ive looked at today in nine minutes, and im supposed to be okay it doesnt make any sense. A spokesperson for facebook tells cnbc we work with our content review partners to provide a level of support and compensation that leads the industry there will inevitably be employee challenges or dissatisfaction that call our commitment to this work and our partners employees into question when the circumstances warrant action on the part of management we make sure it happens. We heard from the contractor cognizant which runs the facility, saying cognizant strives to create a safe and empowering workplace for its more than 40,000 employees in
Right now on the russia controversy. Well go there live in a few moments. Major banks out with earnings. Jpmorgan with a quarterly beat stronger loan demand offset a decline in trading revenues. Citis results also above consensus, helped in part by lower costs and better than expected trading revenue they both mentioned brexit a year ago, jim. Really helped trading and yearonyear comp is tough joe asked me earlier which is better and i went with citi no slight to jpmorgan, their quarter was excellent, too theres fantastic growth how about this statistic you know that jamie dimon bought back 4. 5 billion worth of stock, even though the stock is up at 97, scitigroup had every line item better than expected citi gave what was considered an analyst day. And i sat down with mike korbat, the ceo on analyst day, skpeman everyone told me, pie in the sky, he exceeded everything that he said. It is a best in show situation theyre buying back 60 billion worth of stock walmart buys back 20 million
President trump staying on his manufacturing message, hosting Auto Industry leaders for a breakfast at the white house this hour. Well take you there live. Plus, an eye on earnings. Five dow components reporting results this morning, including verizon, j j and dupont. And alibaba reporting Quarterly Earnings and raising its guidance. How investments, cloud and Digital Media are paying off for the chinese giant. Yesterday at this time, Industry Leaders were meeting with the president. Nowceos of auto makers. The president tweeted, will be meeting at 9 00 with automobile executives concerning jobs in america. I want plants to be built here for cars sold here. Big piece on the cover of the journal this morning. Auto makers in the cross hairs. Mark fields of ford saying hes reread part of the deal to better understand the president. Theyve assembled task forces to monitor the president s twitter account. They should monitor phil lebeaus twitter. His note today is the one that has a lot of
Industrial production. Michigan sentiments at the top of the hour. Theres a look at crude back about 47. Our roadmap begins with ge beating the street on earnings, but what about nelson peltz . Companies such as yung, wyn. Alibaba making a multibillion dollar play for china. General electric up 29 cents a share in the Third Quarter held by demand for jet engines and power turbines. Ceo jeff emmeltz said ge performed well. Oil and gas revenues down 16. Power and water up 1, aviation up 5. I like the quarter. Plain and simple. When i see 4 organic growth, thats going to be among the highest of the Big Industrial companies. Its been the best performing industrial so far this year. I think jeff immelt, the transformation is truly happening and it is real. This is obviously Conference Call, we have the date, we have our reports here. I mentioned that because the Goldman Sachs hadnt been on that and the stock jumped 7 points after we talked about it on squawk. Important to mention. Things ha
Session. Road map, the busiest week of the earnings season. Netflix, apple, chipotle later tonight. Markets have to digest them all. Investors dealing with International Uncertainty in the middle east and ukraine. Live updates on both. Emc reported ly pushed to spin off a unit while allergan cuts its workforce 13 . Mcdonalds apologizing to consumers in china for expired meat, well explain. After fridays rally, wall street gearing up for the busiest week of earnings season. T. I. Due after the bell. Apple and facebook set to report with a third of the dow, including microsoft and verizon. Halliburton with results, the company increasing buyback program, the 6 billion, very large increase in the buyback. And maybe some clarity on succession down the road, too. Halliburtons one of the companies that is basically north american fracking and they say it is great. I love a release which says were hiring like mad, because that does imply business is terrific, not done by firing, not done by m