On this afternoon. In asia, the nikkei was down the hang seng was up 0. 23 for european markets, the dax is slightly lower you see slight gains for the cac, the ftse 100, stocks in italy and in spain look at the Treasury Department. The tenyear is yielding 2. 090 . We have a very busy day going on in the markets. From wall street to washington, lets get you through the squawk planner. On the earnings front, three big banks on the docket starting with jpmorgan that will come at about 6 45 a. M we have Goldman Sachs coming in with its earnings. Those should be announced around 7 30 wells fargo earnings should cross the tape at 8 00 a. M Johnson Johnson will also report at 6 50 a. M. Eastern time well bring you a first on cnbc interview with the cfo right after that report. On the data front, we will be getting june retail sales, import and export prices as well that all hits at 8 30 a. M. The other big event on the planner is big tech is back in washington today the house judiciary subco
Out. A little bit of brinksmanship, or brinkmanship, i should say, as joe corrected me. Less is more there are a couple more brinks, a couple senators youve got to wonder about. Okay, then. What happens with Susan Collins, what happens with lee from utah, who said hes undecided lee who mike lee . Oh, mike lee. Who wanted got two first names its confusing i dont trust people with two first names. Do you yes, generally. You do . Yeah. I think its confusing. Well youve got three, youre fine. Ive got three, three names some people say andrew ross, two first names, even though no, im talking about when your last name is a first name. Chris christie . Theres a lot of them, bill george, ted david. I just made that one up. I dont really think there is a person by that name. All right, lets look at what else has been happening in the markets. The tenyear note, one weve been paying attention to, too. Earlier this week you saw the tenyear pushing above 2. 4 , but now were back below 2. 36 . A cou
York, boston and philadelphia. Were here at the nasdaq. Things are moving just as expected. The New York Stock Exchange is expected to operate normally. Take a look at the u. S. Equity futures. They are indicated slightly lower after a mixed day yesterday for the markets. The dow futures are down by 13 points. S p futures down by less than a point. The nasdaq down by 1. 7. Overnight, in asia, there were some red arrows when it came to the nikkei, which was down by 0. 10 . The hang seng was flat, the shanghai was too. In some early trading in europe, youll see that tlinhings are relatively flat there as well. German chancellor Angela Merkel meeting with President Trump, its been postponed. I said we would give you headlines nothing to do with the snow, but this is because of the snowstorm. Merkel was on the way to the airport when she received a call from President Trump to delay the visit. She continued on to the airport and told reporters on the plane the trip was canceled. That is no
Take one. Arthur my name is Arthur Laffer. I am an economist. I live in nashville, tennessee. And we are here in washington, d. C. At the w hotel. Arthur i was in the omb. I was the chief economist at the omb then. And id found my friends up there in the omb really boring. So, i always came down and hung out with the oao people. Bill bradley was in that group, and Christine Todd whitman, and jim leach they were interns, as i recall. Arthur yeah, interns. It was just a fun group of people. Don art laffer, dick cheney, and i would have dinner from time to time, or lunch from time to time, or just have meetings in the white house from time to time. Dick in 1974, we came to the Hotel Washington to the two continents restaurant. Thats where we sat down and talked about tax policy. And art drew the laffer curve. Arthur i invited jude wanniski, who was a writer for the wall street journal at the time. He passed on. But he kept all the records of this stuff. And in an article much later, it wa
Take one. Arthur my name is Arthur Laffer. I am an economist. I live in nashville, tennessee. And we are here in washington, d. C. At the w hotel. Arthur i was in the omb. I was the chief economist at the omb then. And id found my friends up there in the omb really boring. So, i always came down and hung out with the oao people. Bill bradley was in that group, and Christine Todd whitman, and jim leach they were interns, as i recall. Arthur yeah, interns. It was just a fun group of people. Don art laffer, dick cheney, and i would have dinner from time to time, or lunch from time to time, or just have meetings in the white house from time to time. Dick in 1974, we came to the Hotel Washington to the two continents restaurant. Thats where we sat down and talked about tax policy. And art drew the laffer curve. Arthur i invited jude wanniski, who was a writer for the wall street journal at the time. He passed on. But he kept all the records of this stuff. And in an article much later, it wa