Wife martys World News Center in moscow very good morning then wednesday the 27th of november just 10 10 am here my name is kevin and hope you stick with me for the next 25 minutes or so 1st then delegates at this weeks International Chemical weapons watchdog conference sort of odd smoke for a new body that will be able to assign blame for toxic attacks several countries are threatening to block funding during wednesdays budget vote if it includes provision for the new fault finding Team Previously the o. P. C. W. Could only say whether or not a chemical attack in taken place but is more a guarantee of a Senior Correspondent reports next even that mandates in question after leaks from whistleblowers. U. B. C. W. Was all that stood between humanity and the terrible terrible curse of chemical weapons they did this by never taking sides they never assigned blame they came they analyzed and reported not what they thought but what they knew not who but what there was never any reason not to
Im Carl Quintanilla a busy morning well start with this report out of axios, a 2020 corporate hit list ranked by candidates mentioned on twitter tech heavily represented uber, twitter, alphabet making the top ten. Roger mcnamee is joining us along with casey newton. Good to see you guys roger, we talked about this list and it is probably only going to continue as we get further into the political season we mentioned where the banks are in all of this why is tech getting so much attention . You know, i think that it is very simple. Weve been in a really long bull market weve been in a period of time for maybe 40 years where we deregulated everything and given corporations almost total autonomy and the tech guys have taken advantage of that, even credibly successfully investors have loved it. But at the same time, a lot of harm is being done, being done to public health, democracy, privacy, competition and we have to have more balance in the economy consumers have got to benefit more fro
Biggest take aways and ive gone through some of your testimony again, apologize if youre repeat, but in terms of outlook and some of the things that weve done in the recent years with regard to the tax cut and jobs act, different regulatory changes, to either maintain the growth weve seen or expand it, what recommendations would you give well, first, i think the outlook is still a positive one. No reason this expansion cant continue and a lot of value in continuing it. And were trying to use our t l tools to accomplish that were seeing this, in this the 11th year of an expansion, now the longest in u. S. Recorded history. What were seeing is that income gains are being, are the highest at the lower end of the wage schedule scale. And so its very positive. Were also seeing people being pull ed back into the labor market theres a lot to like this rare place of the 11th year of an expansion and i think were certain sli committed to doing what we can to extend it in that vein, i know your
Good wednesday morning, welcome to squawk alley, im Carl Quintanilla and morgan brennan. Retail is a big story this morning. Well start with tech stocks on the rise including facebook and alphabet two tech names in the top five of goldmans most important positions for hedge funds. Our next guest notes that to see acceleration in online ad growth in facebook and alphabet is no surprise to see it in snap, twitter, and pinterest is notable joining us this morning on where goldman sees buy opportunities is goldmans lead analyst, keith terry. Good to see you. Thanks for having me. One dynamic has been reacceleration in revenue revenue in some of these names i think it is the most important thing. To see all five of the major online ad platforms show accelerating Revenue Growth tells you something bigger is going on this is coming amid all of this uncertainty, right weve had a lot of concerns about brand safety, antitrust, lots of reasons for advertisers to pull back on that front, and to se
President trump tweeting about Jerome Powell again following the fed chairs comments the last hour. Morgan, the president continues to tweet in realtime im reading some of these tweets for the very first time. I can tell you, just a second ago, i was in the west wing and saw Peter Navarro and Robert Lighthizer, just standing just outside of the oval office, presumably set to go in and meet with the president to talk about this chinese retaliation this morning. They didnt talk to me, so i dont know exactly what theyre up to there, but they are within feet of the oval office as of a couple of seconds ago. So the president tweeting, within the past couple of seconds about china, responding here, saying, our country has lost, stupidly, trillions of dollars with china over many years. They have stolen our intellectual property at a rate of hundreds of billions of dollars a year and they want to continue i wont let that happen. We dont need china and frankly would be far better off without t