The Halftime Report starts right now. Welcome, everybody. Its great to have you with us on this tuesday. We have a spectacular Investment Committee today as well. Yeah joe taranova, john and pete, kevin oleary, cnbc contributor, guitar player and youtube chef star well get to that in a minute. Bryn talkington from requisite Capital Management and Jeff Killburg of cck financial. Thank you very much. All right. Let us start now with the financials i think this is one of the sectors with Interest Rate moves and their relative importance in the markets, have you been happy with the numbers goldman, jpms you have seen very happy. Im long jpmorgan, citi, results from the financial everyone on the desk has done a fantastic job about talking about the potential opportunities. Pete and john had unusual activity in the last two weeks or so in the financials. Listen, if you could finally get kevin disagrees, but if you could get the financials to participate in a market that looks like its not pr
Good wednesday morning. Welcome to squawk alley. Carl quintanilla with Kayla Tausche at post 9, and mark santoli. Donald trump making two key cabinet nominations they morning. Lets get right to our john harwood outside trump tower with all the details. John . Reporter carl, these are two of the big ones. Steve mnunchin has been selected by donald trump to be his nominee for secretary of the treasury. He, of course, is a former Goldman Sachs partner who was the fundraising chief for Donald Trumps campaign. Also, wilbur ross, who is going to be the commerce secretary, billionaire investor, well known to viewers of cnbc, neighborhood of Donald Trumps in florida where he has his marioa lago estate 37 and he moderated the trump economic message in a few ways. Instead of talking about outright scrapping dodd frank, as donald trump did during the campaign, Steve Mnunchin talked about modifying parts of the law that discourage lending. Thats one signal. Secondly, donald trump said during the c
Of sanctions. European Union Foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton is courtney being content with the iranian side shes setting up meetings with negotiators from the United States and russia and china france and britain and germany. She met with Canadian Foreign minister mohammad jem but that need to try to close the gaps. He renamed it before and missed our bus that had she says the negotiators have worked through some details of major differences remain. The rainy and demanded that the major powers to recognize their right to enrich a rainy and cleaned the ride is an amiable and constitute the peaceful use of Nuclear Power are not terrified here in the community and beyond a certain level of purity. What enabled the ukrainians could keep the Market Nuclear weapons. Korea plans to set up fourteen year economics and sing in an apparent bid to attract Foreign Investment and it comes as the economy is being hampered by International Sanctions as well as the shortage of Raw Materials ener
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