U. S. Equities will open higher 183 points higher. Nasdaq opening 107 points higher s p looking to open 25 points higher treasury yields sitting at 4. 011. The 2year treasury at 4. 79. We were down five of six days in the s p that is the case sdplchlt to see th z to see the markets showing the cp oi print. You think the mood is a mini bear i do totally. People are looking at this and the question is not a break in the trend, but how much of a break . Let me take cash off the table. I have been waiting so long. I dont mean the rally is over we were talking to different people 10 pullback would be healthy. Down 2 or 3 from the highs, yeah i thought it was tom lee who was talking about that 100point week now more choppy. I wonder if were in the chop. I think we might be. We have the key inflation data due at 8 30 a. M july cpi expected to rise. 20 on the month and 3. 3 for the headline for the year. We also have my personal favorite with jobless claims. Why is that your personal favorite it is the best indicator. It stopped being reliable in the pandemic and it is reliable again. Can we get a closeup of the passion that kelly has for the cpi. The jobless claims. They started worsening it looked like were tipping then it stopped. It got better. Now theyre back to the 220s i feel they are holding their finger in the daman and it woul break. I look forward to getting that. Shares of novo nordisk are sliding after the huge run this week they make the drug wegovy. They reported a 30 increase of sales for the first half of the year with wegovy sales jumping to 1. 5 billion. They raised outlook for 2023 it sounds great. The stock is up after the latestage trial data for wegovy, but it did not just help for weight loss, but reduced heart attack and stroke. We will have more later this hour. Lets talk disney. Bob iger reported an operating profit revenue grew to 22. 2 billion. Raising prices on streaming platforms and cracking down on password sharing bob iger commented on streaming ad strength on the Earnings Call yesterday. The ad marketplace is picking up it is healthier than Linear Television we believe in the streaming platforms on disney plus and hulu we are trying to migrate more subs to the advertising tier. Joining us right now is ben smith. Semafor cofounder he still wish he sold buzzfeed to disney. He writes about that in his book ben, good to see you how are you . Good. Thanks for having me on. Lets talk about the earnings i think there are a lot of questions and there have been a lot of questions since bob iger sat down with david faber about a month ago on our air talking about the issues of the future of linear and future of espn and all of it. Do you think what you heard yesterday gives you more confidence what is your take on what you heard . I think what we have seen as disney grappling with the reality of the difficult and complicated business the previous bob iger was telling a story of the skip from one Business Model to streaming and streaming would be better. Now, what you are seeing is streaming is a tough business that has a lot of downside the declining business that they are now obviously talking about getting out of it Linear Television is something they do in a difficult situation he said consumers will pick up the tab from one to the other. Essentially they doubled the price of disney plus they are doubling the price clearly trying to sell you a bundle if they can lock you into ulu, the other piece is pay up at some point in 2024 to comcast, Parent Company of this network that is a lot of change for them i would ask this question ahead of that because that will cost them do you see them doing linear deal selling off assets prior to that i dont know about the timing and probably depends on the market and what private equity buyers or others are willing to pay. Certainly, every time he opens his mouth, particularly on cnbc, he seems to signal they are looking to get out of Linear Television you mentioned private equity. Who will buy these assets . Assets that are not growing assets o s assets they may throw off lots of cash. There becomes a separate question and if you are just selling the channels, which you sell with a fouryear extremely se year license deal. As everybody is trying to get out of cable and linear businesses, a lot of companies are chasing scale. I think there are attentions in both directions. The complicated space is espn. It did not sound like iger wanted to sell talked about getting investment from the sports leagues and gambling business. It doesnt look like they are eager to sell espn which is a strong brand with a noncable future maybe not as lucrative thats the most attractive of the television assets. The nonlucrative future. That almost should be the headline for a lot of the Media Business is that the headline a non or less lucrative future is it netflix and that is a lucrative business if you jump the shark and get there . There is huge demand for what these folks are doing. The cable because was a uniquely easy business for so many years. I think somebody else worried about the consumers and wrote you a check. Your job was to negotiate on the size of the check every few years. That is over i think for good reason, everyone in the Media Business is nervous about what comes next and it is uncharted how much Services People will pay for and how much they pay for them directly thats my final question. I always thought about this from the getgo netflix or netflix and hulu or one or two subscriptions what do you think the average American Family will hold on to long term . An existential question for all of us. You know, i have seen suggestions it is one or two the services would likely be more, but the more the prices go up is a concern. Are people attached to the services or subscribing for a hit show and unsubscribing when it is over to what degree are these Companies Going to market the relationship with Nbc Universal and disney against the relationship with starz and show ben, i think you are right except one piece of it you are a parent and im a parent when you have kids, these services, dare i say, i not say this about anybody here, you put your child in front of the tv for survival lots of ways to describe it. For disney, for example, for the content for kids and netflix with kids programming, talk about preventing churn despite the hitdriven business, there is an underlining business which is exclusively kids. I dont know what to think about that. I think youtube is a serious competitor there and that is free disney is 7 a month tax you pay so you can watch the lion king once a month at 14, some people turn that off. We did. You did we do youtube all the time. We do youtube premium. It is one way or the other. Coming or going ben, great to see you. Thank you for wake witing up ea thank you coming up, shares of wynn resorts and reaction to the selloff of roblox. We will tell you about a deal in the fashion world and the Biden Administration cracking down on investment in china w we will tell you about the fallout for the equity fmsir here at home you are watching squawk box here on cnbc announcer this cnbc program is sponsored by ibm. Ibm. Lets create listening. With ibm, you can use software to help you connect and analyze data from hvacs to elevators to lights. What if we use aidriven insights to pinpoint inefficiency . Yep. And act on it. Saving energy, money. And emissions. Yup. Thats a big one. Now youve built Something Better for everyone. Thats the sustainability solution ibm and a Global Real Estate company created. What will you create . Ibm. Lets create. You got this. Lets go. Gobble gobble. Ive seen bigger legs on a turkey rude. Who are you . 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Wynn said strength in vegas and m macao drove dining building on the 25 year to date gain. Take a look at roblox. I love playing games stock plunging 22 in yesterdays session. It is a 29. 99 share missing on the top and bottom line. The expenses increased from a year ago corporate overhead and developer fees and infrastructure costs. The Company Expects to continue to report losses for the foreseeable future that sent the stock down we will talk about this and if you have questions, send them. David baszucki will be on the broadcast at 8 15 eastern time i will tell you that my kids do love david baszucki. When we have him on the show this is the one we listened to as to how he built this. David has a character name not a burner account, but they know who he is everybody is david crazy we will talk to david at 8 15 about what is going on im not in this era roblox is a mysterious its coming it is a metaverse. Something collaborative. I guess we have to ask him about. This im curious is engagement down postpandemic . This is not a business issue i think engagement is increasing, but not parabolic over the pandemic. Now how do you monetize the users . They bring other brands on to the service. People with concerts and buy shoes. Robucks is a currency in my house. I heard that. We eye roll at meta and facebook you are describing the vision of the space is going to be and they are already there that is true. The ipo down 33 . Tapestry, the Parent Company of coach and kate spade, is prepared to buy Capri Holdings the deal could be official as soon as today and value capri at 9 billion tapestry is up andrew, i want to show the chart. Go back to 2010 on the stocks. Both peaked about a decade ago in 2012 or 2014. I dont see people Walking Around with coach bags. I have a michael kors bag im off trend. Of course. Although the one bag i by uy, is not cool lvmh brand and that company has done so well this kind of i dont know what category one step below the neconomics are not as good. Because the economics are not as good because the other guys. Hermes stopped raising prices on the bags. It makes no sense. Shares of blackrock are higher take a look. They are at 715 a share the cfo said on the Earnings Call that the sources at blackrock expect a spot bitcoin etf to be approved in a matter of months. He talked about the book a little bit separately, the s. E. C. Is appealing the ruling that says the regulator doesnt have the authority to oversee sales of ripples currency of xrp that has an impact on whether you see a spotty etf and if they get regulated. A Court Decision was a boost for crypto firms with oversight. At the time, shares of coinbase and marathon digital were surging. Now crypto prices across the board with bitcoin has not moved. We have been sitting on 29,000 range for some time. 29,491 for those folks on the radio. Resilient to me coinbase, i did not realize they were up that much. Stock at 85 right now that is a move that is a move. For a company with a wells notice. Interesting coinbase moved, but bitcoin has not. Resilient. Bitcoin went on a run before the market went on a run and basically held steady. Check out shares of alibaba. Adjust d eaed earnings above estimates. Alibaba bought back 3. 1 billion in the deposit shares during the quarter. Stock up 2. 5 this morning. Coming up, chinese officials are criticizing the Biden Administration executive order restricting investment in chinese firms. Michelle carusocabrera which will join us and coming up, dont miss linda yaccarinos interview. We look forward to hearing her thoughts about how t binheusess is going well be right back after this one prawn. Very good. Did i say chicken wrong . Tired of people not listening to what you want . 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Start an easy to build, powerful website for free with a partner that always puts you first. Start for free at godaddy. Com the Biden Administration issued an executive order aiming to curb hightech investment on quantum computing and a. I. Investment lets bring in michelle a carusoccar you bring up a good point, kelly, when it comes to the vcs and private equities this executive order and treasury interpreted the executive order is private equity and Venture Capital firms. A lot of them have been pulling out out of kriof china because are been doing with espionage laws to make it difficult if you have a chinese subsidiary, that subsidiary cannot send information back to the u. S. Company that owns it there is less investment i think that is why the executive order is much more narrow than when it was originally conceived two years ago. When people started talking about prohibiting u. S. Investment into china two years ago, to use the current metaphor, people wanted to go lena kahn on it. The stocks and bonds, et cetera. What has happened is narrow. Prohibition with advanced semiconductors and quantum computing. It doesnt prohibit u. S. Investment in a. I. , but the require it requires the interpretation, you get a notification to treasury if you are going to do u. S. Investment in Artificial Intelligence or into less advanced semiconductors that is different. We were talking about whether or not biotech would be included and pharmaceuticals included or companies with large amounts of u. S. Citizens data included. Now it is prohibition on two sectors and notifications on the third sector. That is a great point what does that tell us if this is more, you know, sound than fury i dont know the right analogy are we going further to curb the Economic Technology and decoupling the countries or is this almost a political gesture of some kind look, the idea for this very much came out of the National Security establishment, right . They talk about small garden, high wall. We are focused on technologies we know can aid the development of the Chinese Military and we dont want u. S. Investment to do that because if we ever have to go to war with china, we dont want to help them along the way. We absolutely know we have a relationship, in many ways, is connected economically the intention here is to keep capital flows moving in areas that are not a threat to the u. S. National security sure. I always think of the big high profile names like starbucks with high profile exposure and people poking around should we expect retaliation i dont know if the chinese would be persuaded and it could be worse or the u. S. Keeps coming after us. We heard from the Senior Leader of retaliation. Lets see what it is the one advantage where they have is Production Capacity when it comes to anything related to Climate Technology that is one area they could retaliate. They could retaliate against specific american companies. The risk is for china is a weak economy right now and how much do they want to do that actually ends up hurting themselves more than it hurts us look at deflation. Defligation in this day and ages incredible and they have it in china. They have the export data that came out was devastating they he face a lot of tough choe if they make those choices. Absolutely. Even steven roach and everybody agrees if we are going this route, we are both going to it will hurt growth and the margin these are important initiatives for the u. S. When you look at all of the documentation that was put out by treasury yesterday, there is a 45day comment period. When you read through the questions they would like to ask, they understand very much that there are tradeoffs if we do this. Yes, National Security is important, but there will be other costs that go along with that lets review that. One question is should it be all private equity firms or of a certain scissize or investment a specific size . They are specific of the questions to come back to handle those ktradeoffs. It is fascinating it shows how unsettled michelle, the granhularity that no one else has. We will have the inflation data coming up in a few hours. We will tell you about the july cpi. Kelly is excited about the number. As we head to break, a look at the s p 500 winnersnd a losers from yesterday. upbeat music awww. Awww. Awww. Nope. Constant Contact delivers the Marketing Tools your Small Business needs to keep up, excel, and grow. Constant contact. Helping the small stand tall. Good morning welcome back to squawk box live from the Nasdaq Market site in times square. 157 points higher for the diow jones industrial average nasdaq up 90 points. The s p up 20 points we are counting down to the july cpi report at 8 30 a. M. Jobless claims, too, lets not forget the inflation measure could influence the fed next month joining us is sri. I have been here for a while. I have gotten over the jet lag it is a lot better, kelly, at 6 30 a. M. Rather than 3 30 a. M. I want to get a big pair of bose headphones. It makes people feel more familiar it is good to have you here and bny mellons jake jolly. Such a great name. A rock star. Also here on set with us cpi is ballyhooed. Jake, what are we pryinicing in no more hikes . What will move the needle . The set up coming into this one hasnt been too strong we had one up day so far in august from that perspective, you know, we havent set expectations too high at the same time, when i look at the report and look at the consensus, were expecting. 2 month on month gains on the headline and core. Thats a good report thats what we got in junes report both the headline and core . 2 . For the year on year rate 3. 3 for the headline the headline number is not what the market is focusing on core will continue to make downward progress. It is still high, but below 5 when i look at what we had in june versus what we have now, now expectations are baked in it will be pretty good. That hurdle rate is higher that is not to say were setting ourselves up for disappointment, but it says the market is baking in a pretty rosy i wont call immaculate disflinflation. It will continue to make progress that is why fed futures are pricing in with a high probability of a pause you have fed officials wit comments saying that sri, you think getting back the head of stifel who said getting back below 3 is going to be really hard. Do you think that is the goal . It is supposed to be the goal the fed did not tell you that was the goal, then the market would rally. That is not good for the fed or inflation. Kelly, they have to pretend that 2 is the goal although they will not reach it. That having been said do you think the market knows the game is being played i think the market is looking for a change in the fed policy i have been calling for a while saying the fed Interest Rate increase is going to pause in september. That is the likely result. I dont expect a surprise from what happens today of the im a bit more piessimistic than jake would that make it a 5 handle year on year it would keep it 4. 3 or 4. 9 you can still have the same number year on year without it pushing to the 5 level. The big issue is the headline in future months. Remember june of 2022 which was the peak of inflation. July of 20202, you improved. The comparison will get a lot tougher. If the market rallies today thinking the inflation number is good, they have a shot coming in the following two months. It doesnt help oil prices are at yeartodate highs. It feeds to consumer inflation it punches above its weight. It is significant. The labor market hasnt weakened as expected and all of this could keep pressure on into early anything year. Early next year. Exactly we have saudi arabia and russia agreeing to keep the lower production level into september and saudi arabia has the possibility to cut more if the prices were dropping i think the risk of oil prices is increasing in the short term. Headline inflation which includes food and energy, the risks further increase yeah. I dont know. Im sad is what i am sri has been right about all this so far. This is complicated. Jake, i take your point that the market is acting frustrated. Where do you think we go from here in terms of what would change this new trend of it is getting harder to keep the gains going . I have been describing this ises this as an unloved rally. The earnings picture hasnt been bad. It is better than expected it hasnt been contributing to the rally. I would describe earnings as they were traeading water we have Interest Rates t it is an odd environment look at last year and what it was predicated on. We have the aggressive hiking cycle to cause recession here we are. T unemployment below 4 . People are still spending and going on vacation. There are pockets of weakness, but overall, earnings have met the depressed expectations if you just said the s p price is 4,000 and Interest Rates are zero and Interest Rates go to 5 , should there be rerating based on that analone . Definitely. We are off from the start of 2022 we are still down. We are havent round tripped the entire way it is very reasonable for people to unlove this rally given it has occurred in an environment of Interest Rates going above 5 that should make people uncomfortable. When you look at history and see what happens generally at the end of tightening cycles, i think we are fortunate we havent seen it. The soft landing is still on the table. I would say it is not odds on yet. What is your expectation . What is the forecast at this point . Well, you know, we focus on probability. We cthink the probability is getting a soft landing it will come down to the fed reaction function. We know we are close to the terminal rate if not at the terminal rate. They want to hold rates at a high level for a long time what will they do if it accelerates in the second half of the year . At the same time, what do they do with Unemployment Rate starts to go up and inflation is sitting in the 3 or 4 handle quickly, in terms of why there is still a multiple expansion, kelly, look at people like John Williams talking about Interest Rates approaching a peak what the market is saying is not looking at what has happened, but likely to happen he talks about Interest Rate cuts in early 2024 i think that statement and differing from the colleagues is pushing the market higher. Great point thank you, both so much. Sri and jake. Good to see you. Coming up, average rent prices in manhattan hitting record high in july despite the drop in population during the pan pandemic this is the story that was too high it was james hold on. I had it before. Do you remember this jimmy. 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Rents in manhattan have reached an alltime high robert frank is here with more andrew, the average price is 5,588 a month which is a new record median prices hit a record with prices per square foot look at every measure and it hit a record much of the u. S. Is seeing rents flatten or decline manhattan has seen records in four of the past five months average rents are now 33 higher than they were prepandemic. This is despite the new york population is smaller and offices are still half empty due to remote work the big reason for the high prices is inventory which is low. New construction is condos right now in new york and many wouldbe buyers are camping out in the rental market there are hopeful signs here inventory up 11 in july that could ease the pricing pressure new leases fell 6 over last year that suggests the renters may have reached their limit on affordability and looking elsewhere or moving back in with parents. August is the peak rental month with back to school. Expect another record month in august, but maybe, maybe flattening out or decline in the fall guys you think it will flatten out . What would lead to the decline if all of the trends exist i dont understand we are seeing the uptick in inventory. When you get 11 up in inventory in july and if you continue to see that in august, you could see loosening up and people will have choice and they will not pay 6,000 for a two bedrbedroo. August is the peak we will likely see another record and decline in the fall people have been expecting a decline for six months and it hasnt happened. Robert, quickly, for those not wall street folks living in manhattan, does this reflect on the rest of the country . I know real estate all things are local. We saw rents go too damn high in arizona and all sorts of places. What is happening around the country . Around the country, rents is a mixed bag. Half of the big cities have seen increases over the past year half declines. Some of them in the middle broadly speaking, were seeing downward pressure or flattening nationally which is why new york, the largest rental market, and remember rents are a big component of cpi it is interesting to see how the housing component shows up today. If we continue to see the upward pressure in new york city, the largest market and big part of cpi, that could continue to be a problem for the fed. All right robert frank, thank you, sir a peak in rents with the cpi data. Shares of novo pulling back this morning after the runup this year. We will dig through the Quarterly Results with the analyst next novo down a little less than 2 . Stay with us the first time your sales reached 100k with godaddy was also the first time your profits left you speechless. At the counter or on the go, save 20 with the lowest transaction fees and keep more of what you make. Start saving today at godaddy. Com welcome back to squawk box. Some news just breaking that tapestry, the Parent Company of coach and kate spade, is buying Capri Holding which holds michael coors, jimmy choo and versace. The company up 57 on the confirmed deal 54. 50 is the share price. A little bit below the 57 per share that capri shareholders will be receiving under the terms of this deal tapestry is now down 5 premarket. Total enterprise value of the deal about 8. 5 billion. As noted before, shares of both of these companies have been struggling since making their highs over a decade ago. Meantime, novo nordisk hiking its outlook for 2023, 30 increase insales for first hal of the year. Not just from the Upper East Side and Beverly Hills, powered by Strong Demand for the weight loss drug sales and blockbuster wee wegovy treatment joining us right now for more is gerald holt, the healthcare strategist good morning to you. It has been quite a wild ride, parabolic for a moment there, 184, what is the fair value for this company andrew, hey, good morning thanks for having me i think were kind of right around where we need to be over the shortterm analysts have really jacked up their estimates so much over the past couple of quarters for this single product and we obviously have seen what happened with eli lilly. I think in terms of valuation, you know, novo is trading at a 3 to 4 times premium to the remainder of large cap pharma, which admittedly has a lot of issues but i think for the time being the price that were seeing now down a couple percent in premarket probably makes sense i dont think there is that much upside near term unless we get to a point where the street feels like estimates have to go a lot higher just doesnt seem like thats going to be the case over the next couple of months, at least. I joke about the Upper East Side and Beverly Hills how widespread does this drug need to be for these numbers in terms of valuation to make sense . Yeah, for sure. I joked about it for a while as being, you know, basically a drug that is being used for vanity reasons for the most part, at least so far. It really has to be very broadbased. It has got to be a drug where, you know, anyone with bmi over 25 , 30 , is going to use this drug not only for weight loss, but based on the studies that read out earlier this week that we talked about on tuesday that theyre using it for other health benefits, cardiovascular benefits that are really going to help their Underlying Health over the longterm it has it cant just be, you know, Beverly Hills, new york, vegas, dallas. It has got to be everybody and do you think do you see that happening the other thing is there have been no meaningful side effects. It has become the true wonder drug in a great way im skeptical on it because thus far we havent found a drug like this yeah, i mean, im a little bit skeptical too. Just because the estimates that the street has thrown out there for 50 billion to 100 billion worth of revenue over the next, call it, six to seven years, getting into 2030, you know, just seems very aspirational this is not to say there are going to be major side effects we have seen nausea, vomiting, other gastrointestinal issues associated with the drug that dont seem all that serious, given what the drug can do but, yeah, i mean, the perception on the street whether it is real or not is that these are wonder drugs and the valuations have certainly reflected that novo moving up 50 billion the other day on this data and lilly moving up 70 billion. For sure, thats the case. Jared, thank you. Appreciate were going to talk about this drug a lot more. Cardiovascular benefits seem terrific hard to understand given it makes it harder to build muscle and as you get older, you would think that would be a thing too. Thats a great point. Coming up, were counting down the key inflation data due at 8 30 eastern time steve liesman, the professor, will join us with a preview straight aadhe squawk box rolls on. Two big hours coming up. Wake up, achievers. Youre making the most of every hour of your life. Except the hours that youre sleeping. So why do we leave so much Untapped Potential on the table . This is a next level bed, for a next level you. My circadian rhythm is kicking your circadian rhythms butt its not a competition. I know, but im still winning so, it is a competition. Save 50 on the sleep Number Limited Edition smart bed. Plus, 36month financing on select smart beds. Shop now only at sleep number. Wealthchanging question are you keeping as much of your investment gains as possible . 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And then youre going to come on from 1 00 to 3 00, right . Im looking forward to that joe and becky are off today. U. S. Equity futures at this hour, we got a lot going on and all of this may very well change at 8 30 when we get important data, well tell you about that in a moment. The dow would open up 173 points right about now. And a deal happening this morning, tapestry acquiring Capri Holdings for 57 per share in cash. The total enterprise value about 8. 5 billion tapestrys board approving a 17 increase in the Quarterly Dividend per share all of that by the way sending tapestry down 4 theyre the Parent Company of coach and kate spade, while capri is the Parent Company of michael coors, jimmy choo and versace and those shares are up 58 today. And the inflation data andrew mentioned is out at 8 30 this morning along lets not forget jobless claims, steve cpi gets all the attention favorite number she has a passion for those jobless claims. Shes smart no, they just you know what they call jobless claims number, the Desert Island indicator. And they if you have one piece of data, an economist on a Desert Island, not to ask the question why you would need data on a Desert Island, you would need water and food, but if you need data, jobless claims is the one. Should i talk about cpi now . If you would like did i get the introduction . He didnt get the full theyre fuming in the back. Get on with it get on with it. We need to make sure it says steve liesman. I dont know that people know me by my bald head investors hoping for a threepeat, a second cpi report that begins with a number three and is actually hopefully in the lower 3s were looking for 02 on the month over month the same as last month, 0. 2. 3. 3 was the headline number. It was 3 last month it stepped down from 4. 1. The core 0. 2 versus 0. 2, that stays unchanged at 4. 8 after peaking near 9 , had has come down smartly while core which topped out at 6. 6 has been more stubborn in part because housing prices have not come down investors will focus on the key dix watched by fed chair jay powell he sees it as driven by wages and it is the reason why the fed thinks the job market needs to loosen up in order to bring down inflation. Forecasting the price increase to remain moderate in several areas including housing, diana olicks problem, goods, prices, used cars, thats phil lebeau. If they would get their act together, i could talk about lower inflation. But and also robert frank not helping with the rents going up. If frank would get rents together in new york city, we would be okay. There are potential offsets here, High Energy Prices and so the market looks like it has some tolerance, i want to say, for prices to rise on the headline and unchanged on the core but maybe not much tolerance upside surprise could mean a downside reaction i think from stocks and bonds this morning. The fed may have a bit more patience it sees the decline i want to say as a process that includes some setbacks along the way. But not necessarily a linear process of decline. Yeah, well said the market is up and rare to see such big moves into the print. Who knows. Thats the mood were in this morning. The question becomes what happens to that second rate hike and where were at on that still trading in the 30 probability range. For november. For november. With very low probability for september. All right, steve, thank you weappreciate it. Steve liesman. Meantime, lets talk about the impact were seeing on the Consumer Credit card spending did bounce back in july new data from bank of america shows an increase of. 1 year on year from junes decline the jump due to the fourth of july holiday spending, maybe a little bit Amazon Effect retail promotions moving mania as well, barbie merchandise. The consumer checkpoint gives us real time estimates of americans Financial Behavior because it has data from 68 million Small Business and consumer accounts. Joining us is liz everett, great to see you again. Great to be here, thanks, kelly. What do you think on the consumer yesterday or this week we have gotten reports about how 401 k hardship withdrawals are up and there is different signs of delinquencies rising in some parts of the credit space. And yet it looks like spending is back hitting a positive inflection point. Spending is back to positive. You look at our overall data, youre seeing positives in spending, youre seeing positives in income gains across all income cohorts so wages are coming in higher. And then the other thing youre seeing, i always look at what sort of deposit buffers, you know, checking and savings account, do people still have money and continue to be well in excess of where they were in 2019 why maybe im making too much of this report, why are 401 k hardship withdrawals at a high when people have historically more savings than they ever had . A great question. One of the things we looked at when thinking about the deposit balances is we keep on talking about how this is really in excess of 2019 but we did a couple of scenario aanalysis to say what if spending accelerates, what if, what if, what if in every scenario, lower, middle and higher income households still had more money in their accounts through beyond 2024 than they wow. Yeah. And now lets take it one step further, were talking about inflation this morning, right . What if we inflation adjust in 2019 if we do that, even then, the lower income cohort still doesnt zidip below the inflati adjusted number. Thats really interesting and i guess the question becomes, okay, so has inflation put consumers on the back foot here or not . And then what is that going to mean for the continued strength of the labor market, the fed rate hikes we were talking about. Here is how i think about the labor market one thing were able to look at is inflows into accounts so your after tax wages, salary, bonus, plus any other way youre getting income and in that scenario, we continue to see growth across but, interestingly, about 2 to 3 for lower and middle income households hower i higher income households were contracting, but in july, theyre back up. 4 . Thats still slower, but it is still growing. Thats one thing we need to think about. I dont mean for this to be a political question, but you look at all the polls around the country and people seem to think the economy is doing terribly. Yeah. And im so curious how you square that relative to the numbers that you see in the checking and banking accounts. We have when we have our Editorial Board and think about what were going to investigate and what were going to look at, we look at the headlines and say, okay, everyone seems to have these dismal things is this true and we go back and we look at the data and we let the data drive the discussion and frankly i have a lot of reasons to be optimistic right now so so can you explain it then . Well, some of it is could be sentiment, right . If people are thinking, oh, inflation is awful, they dont people dont necessarily i hate to say this, not that people dont know what theyre feeling because they are feeling that things maybe arent as great, but, you know, if i said to you, gas prices went up, how did you change your spending, would you know i dont know that everyone necessarily knows how theyre making their decisions and were able to see it in real time. We always say that people vote with their pocketbook they vote with their wallet, right . And that their feelings are real and they are. And they are but i think what were seeing is the reality, youre continuing to see income gains, right so youre continuing to see money in your account. The market, still doing pretty good consumers holding up. Theyre holding up. Theyre not happy about it we saw the Consumer Sentiment survey bottom in june of 22 when inflation hit its high. Consumer sentiment is higher now than it was at peak inflation. I was at the Grocery Store the other day and a few things reaccelerated back to prices from it just doesnt feel good and so you say, well, but, you know, you can afford it, i can afford it, but it makes me feel unsettled and angsty and mad i think even if everyone feels great, it doesnt feel great, but has the money, theyre going to act that way. The spending is continuing we accelerated for the first time in three months, right . So people are they may not be talking about how theyre doing it, but they are certainly still spending goes so against the narrative that everybody is living some kind of yolo life, putting it all on their credit cards. The credit card piece, but that heres the thing that is really interesting that happened this month yeah. We talked for the past year about the shift from goods to services they want to go on trips, they havent been able to go on trips. This month, goods was positive for the first time in over a year maybe the trough of goods spending is behind us and maybe that transition from goods to services what the bulls are hoping about the ism manufacturing surveys and industrials and all the rest of it. But services is still up. So maybe were back to the prepandemic normal okay. Liz, thank you very much. Got the data shes got the numbers, everybody. We appreciate it this morning. When we come back, beijing blasting president bidens lastest executive order, the one that targets investments in china. Well talk to mitchell green about that plus, alibaba earnings which are out a short time ago well talk about an investor who looks like he might have made a fortune on that trade. Before we head to a break, a check on the markets squawk box coming right back nice footwork. Man, youre lucky, watching live sports never used to be this easy. Now you can stream all your games like its nothing. Yes thats what im talking about. 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Good morning reporter hey, andrew chinese officials have been criticizing the president s investment curbs for certain critical technology, saying that their government is gravely concerned and opposes these measures the Foreign Ministry said that beijing lodged what they call as solemn representations or complaints to the u. S. The Commerce Industry said china reserves the right to take countermeasures. The chinese held off on taking countermeasures, suggesting to some that beijing is looking at not to disrupt the current detente that they have with the u. S. The Biden Administration order would restrict u. S. Investors like private equity, Venture Capital, from putting their money into what the Biden Administration described as a narrow subset of Sensitive Technology like quantum computering, semiconductors and certain a. I. , which the Biden Administration is concerned could potentially end up in Chinese Military systems these measures are set to take effect after a 45day commentary, public commentary period, which is being highlighted by the state media here it also would apply only to new investments. But even though the Biden Administration has been describing these measures as narrow, the message is being sent, which is a much bigger signal to the chinese as well as to u. S. Investors that u. S. Investors should not be putting their money into high tech chinese Tech Development guys eunice, thank you for that report it is fascinating to see this sort of back and forth and we will keep our eyes on it were going to talk about it a little bit more in a moment. Look at shares of alibaba. Adjusted earnings coming in above expectations revenue growing 14 year over year and topping estimates alibaba bought back roughly 3. 1 billion in American Depository Shares during the quarter. Look at that stock up, now 99. 50. Worth noting and credit to kelly evans, dan lobe made a big investment, it appears, from the filings, back in may or the quarter before that filing came out, michael bury of the big short looks like a baba holder we will not know until some of the next filings come out. But a couple of winners potentially in the baba space this morning. A quick note on that, because baba had been a is much a loved part of faang by a lot of the major hedge funds in recent years and then it ran into more trouble, which makes it an interesting juncture for it. Totally joining us to talk alibaba earnings is mitchell green, Founding Partner of lead edge capital, investor, chinas tech including alibaba and ant group and other Companies Like uber and others good morning to you. Good morning. Thank you for having me on. Want to talk baba first or whats going on with the politics of china . They all relate in some way. Either or. Lets hit baba first. At 100 bucks right now do you think it is fairly valued what is going on here . Relative to historical, it is fairly cheap i think the first day of the ipo it was around 90 bucks amazing how big the company has grown over the years where the stock is however, all this stuff got hammered over the last 18 months numbers are pretty good. I think ebitda was up 32 . Theyre also going to be, i think joe tsai and the management team, coming back as chairman, daniel, the ceo, will step in as hes going to run the Cloud Computing group, which hes been super passionate about. They announced they were splitting up into six different divisions. I think theyre trying to unlock value to get the stock higher. They think it is cheap and they bought back 3 billion plus of stock. How much now lets overlay the politics to this, because thats a huge piece of this. The Biden Administration is now telling private equity and Venture Capital, you cant own Technology Companies effectively or certain types of Technology Companies whats to say that in a couple of months, mark your calendar, i dont know when, that somebody calls you up or not even calls you up, you read someone coming across the tape it said, mitchell, you got to get out what do you think . What are the chances are of that happening . I dont think it is zero. I think what youre seeing here i think youre going to see more rhetoric, the president ial elections in the next 24 months, youre going to see more rhetoric against china, we cant get out of our own way, it appears i think a lot of these a lot of investors are nervous about that headline and thats why these are companies that are trading at the multiples where they do. I wonder if there has been a sentiment turn in china where derrick pointed out the other day, chinese authorities for the first time asked Companies Including tech companies, explain where you think your company has benefited society. And is that just cracking the door open to their understanding that they need to support these Companies Instead of, you know, fighting them basically . Im not friends with the premier, so i dont really know at the end of the day. Everybody is pontificating, but i do agree with you there appears, if you look in from the outside, the Chinese Government does realize it needs these Large Tech Companies in order to get out of the doldrums it is in and grow however, they cant stop the u. S. Government from do you see anything that would actually change this particular dynamic that seems to be at play now i dont think i think youre going to hear more rhetoric come out from the election from the u. S. Government i think you might see potentially less reaction back from china because they need these big tech companies. But, again, nobody can tell you the answer. What is your sense of what aleas at least seems to be a consistency. Youre going to have firms not be able to invest in certain types of businesses and similar kinds of businesses or if the businesses decide to go public or come to the Public Markets in some other way, that the same investors can get into them. That will be interesting. The real question will be when these smaller companies, private equity or Venture Capitalists could historically invest in china, if they do go public, in hong kong, on the on the exchanges, will the u. S. Government then tell you cant own the stock . What is to say you cant own the stock in alibaba let me ask it this way, is this theater to you or is this real because what i cant figure out is it is not as if we are going to starve these companies of capital and that they dont have access to capital from other places in the world. Thats 100 correct not like the europeans or other people, people in the middle east arent going to come in and fill the void and invest in these great companies. I think it is a lot of political theater, personally, but i think it is coming across both sides of the aisle in the United States heres the reality of it, we need china as much as they need us. Why is the why is the Investor Community not more vocal on this issue . I think the i think they are behind the scenes. Some of the lobbying organizations in washington are probably pretty vocal on this stuff. It is a tough issue. I think that is why these stocks trade where they are. But the other piece of this is, you know, i know a lot of Venture Capitalists and private equity guys and hedge funds and others who say investing in china has always been not only a very risky business, but even when things go well, it is not always clear that you can get out. Yeah, but people have said that for years i first invested in alibaba i think around 6. 75 a share back in 2011. So you have the profits to prove it. And i will tell you, back then, people would have the same kind of reaction to china as youre getting now so there has always been the stock market overall peaked in 2007 it has in general been a terrible investment. You have really selective about think about it. Alibaba went public at 68 a share. It is the pop to low 80s, day one. If you were a retail investor, you bought the stock day one of the ipo youre up 10 over however many years. Is there a company in china that is available on the markets here in the u. S. That you like i think alibaba is an interesting business at these prices here. It is cheap. There are risks you highlighted. I think an Incredible Company that is obviously in the news around all this regulation, surprised they havent gone after this is bytedance, a Huge Investment incredibly how do you think bytedance managed to sort of bytedance has been in the headlines and yet people love tiktok. Yes, but also you argue thats an algorithm, a. I. Driven. They were talking about banning tiktok too it is because if in large part by private equity in the u. S. , by the way. Correct if they were if they were to ban tiktok, i think the millennial generation would, like, literally rage they would start voting they would start voting if you want a millennial to vote, do that. I kid you not, i think that would do it. Thats one of the reasons. A huge amount of this has become highly politicized and it is going to ramp up more into the election. Thats interesting. Were always trying to get young people to vote this might be this might be the way. Mitchell, thank you for coming in this morning. Thank you for having me on. Coming up, we have other stocks to watch ahead of the open few movers to hit. Later on the ceo of roblox joins us to discuss their quarter, a. I. , much, much more. Squawk box will be right back. Time now for todays aflac trivia question. In honor of National Smores day, what year did the recipe first appear in print . The answer when cnbcs squawk box kins. P. must be talking about the Expenses Health insurance doesnt cover. So whos talking about the money aflac pays to help close that gap . Gaaaaaaaaaaaap aflac aflac gaaaaaaaaaaaap its about to go down, baby aflac aflac stop that goat get help with Expenses Health insurance doesnt cover at aflac. Com this thing, its making me get an ice bath again. What do you mean . 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And specifically the last few days the danish drugmaker is lower by 1. 75 , just around 40,000 shares of volume. You may recall two days ago shares surged to a record high after it set a study of its weight loss drug c, it reported earnings and raised full year outlook because of surging demand for wegovy. Now today the companys ceo told reuters it will continue to limit u. S. Supplies of wegovy into next year as demand outpaces its ability to make the drug novo nordisk says it is spending billions of dollars in an effort to expand that manufacturing output on the earnings front, watching shares of disney higher by roughly 2 now 160,000 shares of volume thats off the extended hours high by the way. 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Welcome back check out shares of six flags this morning they just reported weaker than expected Quarterly Results earnings were down 55 year on year to 25 cents versus the 78 cent per share expectation my dad has been watching since 6 00 a. M the problem here, an increase in selfinsurance reserves. Were starting to hear this more and more from companies. Six flags cited an observed pattern of increasing litigation and settlement costs in the industry this is known as social inflation. Their revenue missed at 444 million, attendance was up 6 over the prior year, also shy of the streets consensus more claims, injuries, that type of thing, settles andsments and rewards. Economists expecting july cpi data to show another month of slowing inflation and well also get the weekly unemployment the weekly jobless claims this is kellys favorite and what did you the Desert Island. The Desert Island, the professor calling it the Desert Island number that you need to know futures right now ahead of that, 161 points higher on the dow nasdaq looking to open higher about 95 points. S p 500 up 21 points for whats at stake for the markets and the fed, want to bring in emily roland, cochief investment strategist at John Hancock Investment good morning to you. What do you think the numbers are going to be and how do you think the market is going to take it . It looks like the market is kind of excited this morning. So we got to hope for a decent number yeah. Big morning today. Of course, the consensus expectations for. 2 month over month increase on both core and headline i think the development that is throwing a wrinkle into expectations is china stimulus or announcements of china stimulus over the last several weeks, which has caused Commodity Prices to see a meaningful increase. And as increase Inflation Expectations so i think there is some risk to the upside here in terms of this inflation print, particularly on the headline side. I dont think equities would love that if you saw hotter than expected inflation coming in i think it is largely been priced in on the fixed income side we have seen a meaningful backup here in bond yields. We would be watching that, also watching the dollar. Higher inflation may cause a bid for u. S. Dollars and in that environment, where we typically have seen the dollar increase, thats caused a challenge across risk assets. What have you made of the run that we went on and then a bit of a pullback pullback, maybe people taking profits, what are you telling clients what are clients telling you . We had an incredible run in terms of risk taking coming into the quarter here so i think some cooling is warranted. I keep hearing about buy the dip or this correction it is like a 2. 5 correction i dont know if we can actually apply that word to it. We think it makes sense in this environment. We have seen this huge shift in sentiment from fear to greed and sort of this merrygoround of now it is no landing we think this is a challenging backdrop we look at mixed macro messages. It is look a stop light that is going from green to red and back to green and red and we almost see this macro picture as being yellow it is telling you to maybe take your foot off the gas a little bit and look both ways before crossing the street, but it is okay to proceed. The data is holding in okay. It is decelerating, but there is a few factors here we need to contend with we still have the lagged impact of higher rates likely to hit the economy here yes, the fed is positivie in pausing likely here, but it is unusual for them not to be cutting with this the yield curve to this extent liquidity challenges, im not quite sure this time is going to be different. So, play it out if we speak at christmas time this year, where are we going to be flat down i cant tell from your tone where this really lands. Yeah, it is a great question because it really does sort of depend on your timeline here we look at us as right now being firmly planted in late cycle territory. So that would mean the leading Economic Indicators are negative, the yield curve is inverted, all the classic session signals and this is a long late cycle environment, leading indicators are negative for 11 months in a row were looking at a yield curve inversion on the 210s that lasted 12 months those can go up to 16, 18 months we have seen that happen before. So you could see an economy that remains resilient for one or two more quarters, a market that remains resilient for one or two more quarters. Not a great time to be adding risk in portfolios thats one of the reasons we have been looking at Higher Quality parts of the market, areas with great balance sheets, lots of cash, good return on equity and even more defensive options. For example, were starting to see healthcare perking up here a little bit thats a high quality option that is actually trading at a discount to the market emily, thank you. Climbing the wall of worry, her worry and a lot of others. We appreciate seeing you this morning. Thank you. Coming up, the California State Agency will vote today on whether the state is ready for more autonomous ride share vehicles phil lebeau will bring us details after the break on that that vote could mean for Companies Like waymo, cruz and everybody else well speak to an analyst about the companys latest quarter squawk box will be right back. P companies change the world. Opportunity is making the dream of Home Ownership a reality. And driving the world forward to a Greener Energy future. [applause] sometimes the only thing standing between you and opportunity is someone who can make the connection. At ice, we connect people to opportunity. He snores like an angry rhino. Youve never heard an angry rhino. And opportunity is someone who can make the connection. Baby i hear one every night. Every night. Okay. Ill work on that. Save 50 on the sleep Number Limited Edition smart bed. Plus, 36 month financing on select smart beds. Shop now only at sleep number. Welcome back we had deal news in the retail world today. Thats why capri is up 57 as tapestry, the Parent Company of coach and kate spade is buying it, which also owns coors, jimmy choo and versace under the terms of the deal, tapestry will be paying cash for Capri Holdings just about 57 a share tapestry shares are down about 3 this morning. Total enterprise value of approximately 8. 5 billion for the deal lets talk more about the implications, jan kniffen is here both of these stocks have been struggling for years im a big fan of this transaction, because like all six of these brands they got and ive always been a joanne fan since she was working with me at the May Department Stores company many, many, many years ago. Tapestrys further along in its progress than capri has been and they still all got great brands so they can all be advanced from here i think this will be a great merger and big fan of aspirational retail as you know and ive been a fan of both of these companies changes they made they were both moving in the right direction. It was just the tapestry was further ahead. Now they can put that the twitterverse, you know, make of it what you will, doesnt have very high opinions of either one of these stocks. And sees this as kind of the coming together of two so explain why you think that this will be maybe transformative in a beneficial way for shareholders of tapestry, which, again, the stock is negative on a fiveyear basis. Coach has been a great brand, right . And it went through the valley of the shadow of death and they fixed it and it came back out and coach is running well. Kate spade has turned the corner because it is running better and Stewart Weizman is also performing better. I think those three brands that tapestry has have already gotten to where they need to be it is just advancing the ball. In the other case, versace can be a really great brand and it just hasnt gotten there yet and they were just starting to get it moving in the last year so i think thats going to be a big winner in this portfolio could versace i think all three brands they just awcquired will be winners. It takes the same care and feeding that you have to do with any brand and they were just getting there. I think this is a merger at the right time i think this combined company at 12 billion of revenue will be a big player in the space and hones aspirational retail now. And i think thats a good place to be. I just want to sneak one more in, were a little short on time, i look at versace and think what would have happened if it was owned by lvmh. How much of a Gold Standard has that luxury leader set and how much has everybody else just kind of paling in comparison well, lvmh owns all of the brands, right . They have done a fabulous job of managing brands, a fabulous job of acquiring brands. That doesnt mean there is not room for these six brands to do really well under tapestry so i still am a fan of this merger this may not be lvmh, but it still can be a really Strong Company with six great brands. Fair enough jan, thank you for joining us. Glad to get in your thoughts this morning we appreciate it thank you a programming note, tapestrys ceo, you heard him speak highly of joanne crevoiserat, on squawk on the street at 11 00 a. M. Today. The future of autonomous ride sharing is facing a critical vote in San Francisco today. Phil lebeau joins us with what is at stake for Companies Like waymo and cruise a big one. Phil it is a big one, andrew near term this impacts what will happen in terms of ride Hail Services, autonomous ride Hail Services in San Francisco. Let me run down what the vote is today, it is being held by the California PublicUtilities Commission that is the agency in california that regulates all ride hail companies, not just the autonomous ones, cruise and waymo are applying to expand their services in the city of San Francisco. Not state wide, just in the city of San Francisco they would like to have many more vehicles, 24 7 service, and they can go anywhere in the city as part of the application heres the problem while there are many letters of support for an expansion of their services, there are some heavy hitters within San Francisco. City leaders who have complained about high profile incidents where emergency vehicles have been blocked because an Autonomous Vehicle has stopped in the middle of a road, there have been a few accidents been reported where people have said, look, this was not working the way it was supposed to work. And as a result, you have had city leaders there who have been very vocal saying this is not the time to expand their services, we have seen problems time and again with these vehicles so as you look at shares of General Motors, remember, cruise is a subsidiary of General Motors and gm is very optimistic about the future for cruise. They have said that cruise could have 1 billion in annual revenue by 2025. The Services Expand into cities like dallas and houston, nashville. They believe that this could ultimately be the huge part of the future when it comes to Autonomous Vehicles at General Motors but to get there, guys, you got to expand first in San Francisco. And that will be the vote today by the California PublicUtilities Commission phil, you have been in these vehicles in San Francisco, right . Yeah. So whats are you asking me my thoughts yeah, im asking you your thoughts what do you think . Well, i havent been one in in one since the pandemic. I was in some of the early iterations of cruise look, once you get used to it and they deliver you to your destination, its no big deal. But i can also see the frustration for somebody who is behind a vehicle and it suddenly stops and there is no reason for it to stop or for an Emergency Response vehicle that is going to the scene of a fire and for some reason there is an Autonomous Vehicle that is blocking, you know, a fire truck or an ambulance to get to a designated location. So i understand the frustration there. And i have relatives and friends in San Francisco who, when you bring up waymo and cruise, they say, yeah, theyre everywhere, and youll see them stopped every once in a while and youll be, like, why are they stopped theyre not perfect. Definitely not perfect. Is this just a Technology Story which is to say maybe it is not up to snuff yet, but give it two years and the question is should San Francisco or other cities thinking about this give it two years thats one of the arguments that are out there from the city leaders. Now, the counterargument you will hear from supporters is youre never going to have something that is 100 perfect you will have incidents in some fashion somewhere. But those incidents are very, very small, relative to the number of miles and the number of trips that these Autonomous Vehicles provide has it come down a lot in terms of stopped cars . Do they have fingers on showing that there were a lot more stopped cars in 2020 than they have figures yeah the rate of where they get involved and they have to go and physically move a vehicle, those incidents have come down but you know how this works, andrew all it takes is one high profile one. Where an ambulance cant get to a scene or it is blocking traffic and there is a huge traffic backup then you have people saying, look, here you go, the computer is not perfect phil lebeau, fascinating, well see what happens im sure well talk about it with you again very, very soon coming up, disney moving higher ahead of the open despite a mixed report last night. And streaming subscrapesubscrib slowdown well debate after the break. And later Inflation Numbers are set to be released in 41 minutes time and thjoess e bl claims, well have the results and the Market Reaction coming up reminder, get the best of squawk box in the podcast. Follow squawk pod and listen anytime. 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Its more healthy than the Advertising Marketplace for Linear Television. Were obviously trying with our Pricing Strategy to migrate more subs to the advertisers accorded tier joining us is ken leon. Is this the right move for disney to be making to try to push people in this direction . Well, its great to be with you, kelly certainly for operating streaming, price increases is the trend but theres a lot of competition. Disney is not alone, its not just netflix, but there are other very large significant players. So the real opportunity just with this one business is advertising revenue. So disneys take in the Third Quarter was 40 or add pay versus adfree plans the more interesting story for disney is where do they go with legacy franchises and also how do they play with the future of disney right so the subscriber attrition they reported last quarter, is that in response to high are prices and are they doing the wrong thing by continuing to double down here i think pricing is just following the lead of others such as netflix. There is room and i also like to talk about price elasticity. Its there but they have to have a compelling bundle, whether it be disney plus and hulu to really drive subscriber growth and where they wanted investors to look at the success is the domestic core business, which is disney plus, as well as hulu, which next year theyre probably going to own 100 of that. Its not going to be developing markets outside the u. S. In terms of deal sequencing, they will be acquiring the rest of hulu, theyre going to need some cash to do that and take on more debt as well, do you imagine they might sell or spin off or do Something Else around the linear channels beforehand yeah, 100 . So we got a toe in the water with the announcement of disney with sports gambling, with entertainment. But whats interesting here Health Insurance going on in the disney kingdom is all of a sudden kevin mayer and theyre going to play with what do you do with legacy assets, whether its going to be a spinoff or find Strategic Partners for broadcasting and abc and other cable channels, the opportunity for investors is put that aside, lets look now at the new disney, which is parks, as well as film theatrical with streaming. Thats good but i think why the stock is not up today is because a lot of investors have questions whether youre going to have the profitability of streaming as we had for decades with cable pay tv. Is that a question . I dont know if that is a question i mean, you can look at the margins that netflix has versus the margins the Media Companies had call it a decade go and you could say its completely Different Industries even. If youre an activist, you could say break up the parts to streaming. I think bob iger shouldnt be just thinking about those executives in entertainment but he should be talking to larry at General Electric or ed breen at dupont because we have to unleash the underlying value for it to go higher and streaming is not going to be as profitable as where we were before all right ken, thanks very much. We appreciate your time this morning. Thanks for joining us. When we come back on the other side of this, dont miss our exclusive interview with robloxs coe, dave baszucki. And just over half an hour away from the july cpi numbers. 163 points higher on the dow box becomes coming right back. Good morning stock futures pointing toward a bounce at the open, new results from alibaba and investors set to react to new cpi data due out in just half an hour and is there a crack in the meta verse . Were going to speak exclusively with the companys ceo as the final hour of squawk box begins right now good morning and welcome to squawk box right here on cnbc, were live at the Nasdaq Market site in times square it is hour three it has flown by joe and becky are off today, mid summer here. Nasdaq would open higher were going to get the cpi data and more, including kellys favorite number. Well tell you about that in just a moment. All of this like ly or may change 10year note at 3. 93 just under 4 right now and the 2year now at 4. 791. If the 10year is slipping, theyre expecting a soft number. I cant read it any other way. Economists are expecting 3. 3 to be the headline cpi number versus last months. On the core, excluding food and energy 4. 8 if it comes in at 5, forget it that would be unchanged from last month and we have an update on the wildfires in hawaii im sure you have seen the devastation and trauma a statement from maui county says at least 36 people have died as the fires sweep across the island driven by strong winds from Hurricane Dora passing to the south some adults and children were forced to flee into the ocean to get away from the flames we have another developing story. China criticizing an order limiting investment, quantitative computing and a. I and a Foreign Ministry calling the order blatant coerce and technological bullying i thought michelle had a lot of good insight. Go back and watch that interview from a little while ago. Lets get to dom chu now i was trying to guess them is six flags there . Six flag was was in there andrew opened the door with late breaking news from china with alibaba there was growth in its economic retail segment, growth 6 on a yearoveryear basis overall Revenue Growth came in at the fastest annual clip since september of 21 so alibaba up 3 and novo down right now. A few days ago shares surged to record high after it showed its weight loss drug wegovy to prevent a heart event. It will continue to limit u. S. Supplies as the demand far outpaces its ability to make the drug novo nordisk is down about 3 . And a big merger and acquisition comes in tapestry is going to buy Capri Holdings capri is the parent of michael coors, jimmy chu it can better compete with larger, luxury units in europe andrew, back over to you the conundrum for this company, we were talking about where they land in the pecking order or stack these are not what they call quiet luxury, which i think is the new orga oh, you think theyre too flashy you make a good point. Its about the brand. Weve moved into this new place where people are spending extraordinary amounts of money to pretend they have none. What if you take the branding off of everything. Exactly were going to get news at 8 30 our next guest has a 30year track record he says trillions of deals done will help create a tough cycle ahead. Joining us, a global opportunistic credit firm with about 18 billion under management good morning to you. Good morning. Thank you. Its great to have you here we had a guest in the last hour who said we are very late cycle. But then we had somebody on i believe yesterday who thinks that were on the beginning of a new bull run so which is it you know, we think we are due for a slog over the course of the next couple of years is there a crash coming . Dont think so but is it a slow growth world . Is there a shallow recession in our future in the u. S. Absolutely so to our point of view, credit spreads are going to be wider, growth will be slower and there are these accumulated problems storing up which are going to create issues. Most people in the credit business like issues where do you see the issues coming, if you will. Well, some of them are already here on the face of it like, you know, you wake up this morning, you see stock markets up, you see all these green arrows and can i tell you, ive been doing this for 30plus years ive never been busier in a market which looks so serene it looks like equities plus 16 , high yields plus 6 and where are the issues large parts of manufacturing are already in a recession europe when you think about it, already in a recession Office Property, people are hiding, waiting for maturities, right . A couple of trillion in Office Properties in the u. S. Just three or four months ago the only thing we talked about was Office Property becoming a problem come 24 and therefore becoming a problem for regional banks. I could show you the sort of domino story of what was supposed to happen and i cant tell if either something meaningfully changed or if were now all of a sudden just wearing blinders to all of this. Things come to a head, andrew, when you have maturities nobody gives up on their Office Property, their equity and maturities youre seeing some very large firms give up Office Properties already and i think as the maturity cycle kicks in over the next two years, thats when you see the slowmoving tsunami really hit you use the word tsunami. Its not just one Office Property here, one there, its so many of emthat then it hits other businesses one tree does not fall in the forest all by itself then play out the dominos do the permeations for us. I dont want to sound alarmist the world is today in a better place with all the issues and fractures we have. If you have a 2 trillion Office Market and it trembles, its going to make credit spreads in that part of the world just kind of spike out it not like the subprime tree fell in the forest and nobody else heard its going to affect all the other credit markets let me ask you the flip side. We had somebody from bank of america on this morning who has real insight to peoples bank accounts, checking, savings and the strength of those accounts to me surprised me, especially given the pessimism or skepticism that you see where our economy is and how people feel and the like. So different point of view. If you look at those manufacturing businesses i was talking about, good businesses, great market shares, 15 volume declines, 15 . Gfclike volume declines if you look at kind of europe when you look at kind of a slowdown which is happening all across, its broad based so were not trying to say, hey, everything in the world is collapsing, the consumer in the u. S. Isnt, your bank of america data, but the other stuff is happening as we speak. So in the high yield market today, it looks like serene ducks gliding across the horizon and you look at the tumult going on underneath and how busy People Like Us are already, its just points to large parts of this economy are going to struggle and you think at some point the stock market and spread will catch up to that when do you really expect this three months, six months what are we talking . High yield spreads today. You say a crisis, youre in a crisis when high yields get out to 800 basis points to treasuries it happened five times in this century. Right now were at 400 basis points, right . No crisis. The bottom part of the high yield market is in a crisis, what im describing where we are seeing opportunity do we think spreads go out to 500, 600 by the end of this year yes. I think our view is just its cautious, it careful but it coming were not talking about two years from now, by december . No, not at all. You got to make us a deal you got to come on back before two years from now because you scared some people no, no, we appreciate it thanks again still to come, the Inflation Numbers are on the way first the ceo of roadblocks joins us stay tuned youre watching squawk box on cnbc the right message at the right time, every time. Constant Contact. Helping the small stand tall. My dad was a hard worker. He used to do side jobs installing windows, charging Something Like a hundred bucks a window when other guys were charging four to fivehundred bucks. He just didnt wanna do that. He was proud of the price he was charging. 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This afternoon missing analyst estimates and a widerthanexpected lost the company claiming higher level of expenses to support the business joining us is roblox Ceo David Baszucki we love the company and my son loves the company and some folks dont love the company as much as it did. Whats going wrong im going to put a question mark after that question and ask you the question thanks for having me on the show we always talked about building a platform were well on our way to that. We have 22 bookings growth, 24 year on year hours dwroet and in many of the big cohorts where theres enormous head room such as international, where we grew 40 in india and over 100 in japan and also in older users where we grew 36 for 17 through 24, we show continuing growth, if not selling growth. Were growing really well and generating cash and showing that were going to show more and more operating leverage in q3 when we expect to grow faster in our expense and in 2021 when we expect to fro faster than our head count expense for husband it was a solid bored are to the direction of our vision were you surprised by the reaction market its hard to predict what, you know, how the market works we have a lot of really, you know, great longterm shareholders and were generating class were starting to lay on more and more leverage. Were going to show and predict to show double digit ebidta and all through 2024 were running on all cylinders and growing in four different directions. What is the dus tint timeline and path to profitability . I think under all the questions they have. We defer over 28 months all of the revenue we make when we sell virtual items, we run more on cash and its why we can show 3 billion in cash and continuing to generate cash even when we show gap losses. So we do in our letters say thats how we run the business and we continue to grow both our bookings and our cash. How much do you think this is an issue about managing cost versus what the growth rate of this company can be kelly and i were talking probably two hours ago, hopefully you were not awake at that hour because i know youre on the west coast. One of the things we talked about is things were not as parabottic as they were. Theyre still growing. Maybe things feel different. I dont know for us were well beyond the pandemic are thankfully and our yearonyear compares right now continue to show strong growth, even in this more normal world we are going stho more and more leverage over time we think, you know, thats going to be appealing to some investors and continue to grow more and more cash so it may just, you know, we continue to feel very optimistic about the business were launching our immersive ad platform, which is reall exciting well add growth on the economic side and we think thats a visionary approach and we continue to bring in roadblocks something we use of day to communicate with friends and lf ones so we continue to innovate and build great innovative product that brings people together. Let me ask you about that the advertising piece, it looks like its actually going to ramp quickly. I wanted to speak to that. And also the inapp purchase piece. We were talking about what a big business that has become yeah, on the advertising piece, our vision and we think it going to come to play is that theres going to be a new and there is a new immersive form of advertising, not just image, not just video, but the ability for you and me and our friends if we happen to be in roadblocks to go visit a brand we love. That could be a brand like nascar, like nars cosmetics and we think going and experiencing a brand together in 3d, whether we try things on, whether we, you know, hop in a nascar racing car and drive around, we think thats going to be really something people love with brands in the early signs weve seen some areas on roadblocks where theres more demand than supply for these types of advertising units and weve seen 19 of the developers on the roadblocks platform start to put these ad units in their, teariers these are fun things we can did when were traversing ton we continue to see great growth in the economy. One of the biggest invasions well bring forward at the end of the year is in addition to halts and clothing and all the other things we wear, our economy will open to fullon avitar were going to start having a much wider range you talked about the messaging piece of this. And i heard an where does that all go, in your mind yeah, we think this is really much, much bigger than that type of thing we believe what were doing at roblox will be the next form of communication, just as were very if he and right now ultimately the next form of communication is going to be immersive 3d what we see people doing when they play on roadblocks will be something we do, something we do in our office, thats why woor optimistic about, or wise known as builder man for those folks who play on road block, thanks for joining us tomorrow. Maybe next time come on as builder man. I could come on as my avitar someday. Well work on that. Well join together on roadblocks next time got to have our sons do the interview, though. Coming up, the littest on changes to disnew a frrng stay tuned. This cnbc, youre watching squawk box. Welcome back lots of retail news this morning. Now we have some earnings from ralph lauren just reporting an adjusted 234 share expectations by 1. 5 billion. The share are down nearly 3 premarket. Still ahead, bringing inflation data july cpi, jobless claims the fun begins next on squawk box. Stay with us ah, these bills are crazy. She has no idea shes sitting on a goldmine. Well she doesnt know that if she owns a Life Insurance policy of 100,000 or more she can sell all or part of it to coventry for cash. Even a term policy. Even a term policy . Even a term policy find out if youre sitting on a goldmine. Call Coventry Direct today at the number on your screen, or visit coventrydirect. Com. Welcome back to squawk box on cnbc. 30 seconds away from the july cpi report and jobless claim number the whisper is dove. Whisper is 4. 6 for the core, maybe 3. 1 on the headline. So expectations are pretty muted in that direction. Weve seen the 10year treasury yield below 4 in anticipation of that. 385 is the level to see if were going to retest the highs. Rick santelli, how does it look . Lets start out with cpi, our jum read of. 10 , exactly as expected and if we look at gore, also up 0. 2 its the second month in a row where core is up 0. 2 , which mean its the nirthird is up ane havent been a lower level since 2021 yearoveryear numbers, 3. 2 higher in the review mirror. Obviously the most important data point here, 4. 7, exactly as expected and. 1 less in the rear view mirror, which was 4. 8, which was the lowest since oct of 2021. Excuse me, oct of 21 and were still hovering because 4. 5 is the number now, even though 3. 2 is higher, kelly, than the 3. 0 in the rear view mirror, there is an asterisk here. The fact that we were expecting a number higher than that at 3. 3. Because if you look at Interest Rates, we havent moved that much we were basically at 397 right before we get eprenumber pappic, we move down there arguably maybe a prt gauge right now. It was at 473. It was at 476 down five basis points yes three opening equity futures, the tu theyre on th way to 250 the data points, even though we had that one if and everybody tries to monitor the Interest Rates and yield curves the treasury has been a little more stubborn on their yields. We have lots of deficits it if ten months and this fiscal year. Ten months in. Hes already 15 1 2 , and those number ahon had you but also some some of the rating agencies many have dismissed, exactly what they might be closest to. Kelly, back to you rick, thank you im sorry, im sorry please. Claims not quite as positive 248,000 of continuing claims, 1,684,000. My apologies viewers and listeners, i got so caught up in cpi. Loy back to the lag and maybes that why Interest Rates have been a little more stubborn on the long end, 1,684,000 goes back to the woman and 379 that we had in the second week of july we have not been over 1. 8 million now since the last week in april, which really speaks volumes about how the labor. Thank you very much, rick lets get to our econ imagine. The market is holding on to about a half a percent open and angela hanks is the chief of programs and a form are Biden Labor Department official. And rick is still with us. Mike san tolly joins us on the new york Stock Exchange. Steve, what jumps out as the most impactful in. What jumps out the fed crashers just took it off. The november rate hike had been up 30, 35, as high as 40 it not 26 so theyre still on guard for november but theyre basically bringing down this probability and i think its a combination of a little bit high are on the jobless claims, though you want to be a little careful in the summertime because there are layoffs. As rick pointed out, the continuing and then you look at some of the internals on the inflation report, you have that used car decline and actually new vehicles were down as well shelter is a little interesting here we did tick up to 0 in we know they have ticked up butover all this is in line with itsity that inflation is coming down, not as fast as it had been coming town and that the fed is sort of at least let this one at least ride as long as, as long as were moving broadly in the right direction i think its going to be okay. Earlier this morning, he said if cpi rent do trend, headline inflation could be half to 1. 4 . He said bill ackerman is likely to be as dead side on treasuries bill and whats the significance of this mornings data, michael . Well, i im a little less sang wish about it than i think the bond market is what i see is the second month in a row independent focusing on consider dprrm and working 12 months back, that can npg picked up 0. 2 in july and in june. In a nch, less than what we had several months ago my worry is maybe we have a economy with 5 underlying inflation. Weve now got 4 financial conditions arent kite i dont think increases and that i think is be flufrmt and what did you see six, eight months out in terms of the broader piece. Sflt fed has indicated comfort with this. They might take september off. The markets right be right about that but i think commonwealth home we tonight is likely and going in to 2024 i think the fed is going to want to see evidence that underlying inflation is on track to hit its 2 target i thid theyd be comfortable with that making particular sun between a level downshift and getting stuck at frnd the ditia i think support a shift down to four im not sure the ditia supports a trend. Looks like it heading back to two. There or were so thats where id love to start. We saw last week some really strong market numbers. We added is f a trend there and were also seeing pretty inflation rends it had ffl we know that the impact of thos nchg and i understand theyre trying to get unfligs town but well have to worry about what will happen no f we have inflation cooling and were seeing that consistently month over month and year over year, this time last year we saw peak inflation. We were at 9. 1 . In the last year weve to then im encouraged by these numbers. I think that it shows but im fwlood to. Some green after whats been a series fchgs and down about 3 frps and i do think that you go back to the last cpi report, july 12th, the s p was exactly at todays level i think youve got the real sell embrace people embraced the lpd twnk todays numbers are broadly entertainment with that but i think it not exactly news. Cpi numbers have come being in very chess to forecast right out of it f and saying i think theres a tease ent whether were still in the sweet spot in terms of a is dealing with f, even though the fed targeted 2 . Its like ffls, kind of a slow and steady fed is okay for the markets. Angela, last word sfli think these are really solid numbers. I think the fed needs to take a pause and not harm at labor market im feeling really good as long as they dont take a steam here. And part of the reason why it went up today is a zero dropped out of the prior month so next month if it 0. 2, theres no base on this because it would be replacing it. So we have to stay at that level. The other thing thats really interesting to me and mob pr is that we have higher Energy Prices coming down the pike in the nks month but this issue of declining prices in china, i believe thats going to wash up on our shores here and be an issue as well and perhaps offset some of what put i think thats a reason for calm and walking i never made that parl oork fwa frng but i do see in the next year theres going to be issues creep from a general slowing and delooning flvl and its supposed to get much naser we the real issue of whats happening is its slowing in terms of how it going up unless we get lotz of minus signs, it is in the going back to what it was precovid. Even if we see all zeros, its not going back to precovid and that is huge people didnt, right, beautiful fwm and its a political issue, which if the fed wanted to make people feel better, theyve targeted a price level. They would bring eggs down to the cost that they were before the pan testimonyic. If you tell, my buddy who rots a couple of boats and hes trying to if its not come become down. The trouble is if you bring down the price level, you also probably bring down the wage level. So people may want to feel better about prices coming do you but in a generally deflationary environment, youre watching your income comes down, too. But thats the plate call nut right there. Its the price level, not the price race what do you say i say steves right theres nothing else to say. Well wrap it up. Thank you, everybody, for joining us this morning. Michael, angela, steve, rick and also mike. Coming up, were going to go inside the Third Quarter of disneys Earnings Reports with conflicting signals. Di any gaming ground this morning. And a programming note, tonight Brian Sullivan is hosting and weighing in on strength and stab. And deliver solutions thatmplex needs. Massmutual. Partnering with financial professionals, benefits brokers, and institutions. Welcome back to squawk box. Futures show gains of the dow up half a percent and the nasdaq up about 1 lets talk disney shares gaining after a mixed Earnings Report and some big news on streaming prices ju julia, the stock looks like its moved up a little bit but we did have a little move down yesterday so here we are julia . Yes, Andrew Disney delivered an earnings beat while the Parks Division delivered a 13 in revenue, though theres mixed numbers a linear declining revenue and ceo bob iger declared streaming as key to the companys value acceleration he announced price hikes for adfree disney plus and hulu being hiked to 18 from 15 saying hes able to push streamers to the dual revenue options and disney now with 3. 3 million subscribers. The Advertising Market place for streaming is picking up, its more healthy than Linear Television were obviously trying with our Pricing Strategy to migrate more subs to the advertisers tier and saying the consumer editions and its not a matter of if but when theyre talking to potential investors about how to be a part of that the Strategic Partnerships were looking to create and that were actually in discussions about are aimed at accomplishing a few things one, content, meaning increasing the content that espn offers and, two, ill call it distribution and marketing support. Eger announcing theyre working on another way to make money, i they will roll out monetization practices really taking a page from netflix. We were talking about this last hour in terms of timing obviously this hulu purchase, the remaining piece that is owned by our Parent Company, comcast, will come in 2024 hes talked about a whole bunch of things of spinning off linear channels and other types of waves and what do you think that really looks like in. I think the hula. To me whats more likely to happen before any linear channel spinoff is figuring out what the future of espn looks like. The fact that theyre talking, according to my reporting and nhl and mlb, theyre talking about them coming in as investors in hulu. I think think that would incentivize everyone to figure out the way to monetize espn, as well having a will that first because the linear tv bundle will be impacted by what so many people subscribe to pay tv because they want the ease of it but also want to know they can watch live sports. Once they figure out what this future of espn looks like, what that will mean for everybody and we were talking about the big leagues investing in this rar than hulu. Also, are or nor kind of Big Tech Company spending in as a partner as well. Do you think thats in the cards in. There was speculation that disney would sell entirely to apple. Yesterday bob iger shot in a down alljulia boorscontinue. 179 points up on the dow back after this. Ery day. Get more with natures bounty. Welcome back to squawk box. July cpi report just came in as expected month on month. Overall id say a little bit cooler than expected and the markets up, rates are down and theres cpi and theres also claims. What do you think in. I think the biggest question is what are the feds going to do with this . The data is showing it coming down and i dont see rates in the next year or so going down i think as an Equity Investor one needs to be very careful here and not chase some of these valleys, and i and i heard its your birthday happy birthday hope ffully im getting wise and not negative and youre a little negative, it sounds like, for next year. Im negative because i think growth at any price is not the way to go. As you look at it more, look, you can buy 5, 6 bonds so you dont need it have proved value dividend stocks. What you really need are companies that are going to grow and have the proper Asset Allocation in them i think youre looking at Companies Like your Parent Company, come cast, j j. What scares me, andrew, is investors are still chasing the same stocks that have worked for the last ten years the whole whole time frame has has changed but we havent really adjusted. But people want to know the sure thing, right . And it feels like the mag 7 is the sure thing what do you think is the sure thing is this. I think diversification is a sure thing you need to have exposure to health care, consumer staples. We dont talk how much about, whether its sm of the i think those are areas that with rates where they are and a potential slower down but demand supply exsiding, you want to be in an area with pricing power. How do you typically celebrate your birs day . He goes on tv on his birth be some good friends. Hopefully weather permitting. Thank you so much for joining us thank you so much all right. Happy birthday, sir a final check on the markets. Nasdaq 152in points higher the s p 500 up about 30 points and thank you for waking up early to help us out i was like, this isnt so bad. Tomorrow wake up early with us tomorrow squawk on the street begins right now. Good thursday morning. Premarkets holding on gains. Annual core inflation gets to 4. 7, near a twoyear low yet again. Speaking of inflation, disney is going to hike its streaming prices it did also report Quarterly Results after the bell yesterday. Were going to discuss all of the news coming up at th