Transcripts For CNBC Squawk Box 20170512

In europe, things have barely budged in most of the major markets. Cac is flat. Dax is up 0. 1 . The ftse up almost 0. 2 . Crude oil prices continued to climb yesterday. This morning giving back just eight cents. But there is a thought that with supplies in the United States experiencing an unexpected draw down, and with more countries looking like they may support saudi arabia in terms of continuing that production cut, we have seen prices that have stabilized well above the lows weve seen earlier this week. Wti trading at 47. 76. Some big corporate stories. Retail wreckage continues. Department store chains taking a major hit. Nordstroms posting better than expected earnings and revenue, but the stock dropped on a samestore sale miss. Theyre the latest Department Store to get hurt by a slump in clothing because of online shopping. Macy shares dropped 17 yesterday during the trading session after Quarterly Results missed. It was the worst day for macys shares since 2008. Well get another schanapshot o the retail space this morning as jcpenney posts results before the opening bell. Its struggled and struggled for so long. That chart is just one part of a very long and tortured story. No a coincidence that bezos is worth 81 billion as this is going on . Consumer lab by thabits have. I would be ecstatic if i had a tenth of that. 8 billion. Or a tenth of that, 800 wait, i would be ecstatic with a tenth of that and a tenth of the next thing. The scientific notation . Hes like four places ahead of anything we can ever you know what . Are you back to that whole wealth tax thing all over again . No, i just thought now, you were looking me in the eye, which i warned you before the show, to stop dont talk to me. Dont look me in the eye. Dont walk and talk. Dont come to my dressing room. Dont come to my makeup room. Didnt are we cohosting the show with steve harvey . Thats what will be hard if were cohosting the show. It seems like we have to people, if you didnt see the steve harvey letter. Theres a letter in the papers today. Was it today . I thought it was yesterday. Steve harvey sent out to his staff, dont talk to me. Stop looking me in the eye. Dont go near the dressing room or any of those things. Dont even speak to me unless you are requesting it in writing to say hello in the mornings. Thats what i want from you. Nbc universal property. There is some economic stuff going on. Everybody at home is now look at their tv and looking at me. I havent given them i bet they would be glad not to look at me. Its okay. Please look at me. April retail sales, and cpi will be released at 8 30 a. M. Eastern. Followed by may Consumer Sentiment and march business inventories at 10 00 a. M. A pair of fed officials are speaking. Chicago fed president Charles Evans and philly fed president , patrick harker. Po poli to politics. Donald trump explaining his decision to fire james comey to lester holt. Hes a showboat, hes a grandstander. The fbi has been in turmoil. You know that, i know that. You look at the fbi a year ago it was in virtual turmoil. Less than a year ago. It hasnt recovered from that. Monday you met with the Deputy Attorney general, rob rosenstein, did you ask for a recommendation . What i did, i was going to fire comey, my decision. You made the decision before they came into the room . I was going to fire comey. Theres no good time to do it, by the way. Because in the letter you said i accepted their recommendation. Yeah. But you had already made the decision . I was going to fire regardless of recommendation. He made a recommendation, highly respected. Very good guy. Very smart guy. The democrats like him. The republicans like him. He made a recommendation, but regardless of recommendation, i was going to fire comey. President trump also said comey told him on several different occasions that he was not under investigation in regards to russia. We may hear more about this, because there are reports that comey has been asked to testify before the Senate Intelligence committee next week. We may hear more of his side of the story. I dont know. I thought that was an amazing interview that lester did. Really nice job with that. Maybe you can get comey to be the independent prosecutoprosec. Bring him back as the independent prosecutorment. You guys . You guys who . Like you guys. Like you guys that i thought wanted to fire him after what he did to hillary, then after they fired him, then you didnt im so confused by this. Trust me, im confused. Im very confused. I heard. After the weiner gait lgate i thought you wanted to fire we havent seen each other the past couple of days. Its all coming out now. Were you hyperventilating, you and don lemon and everything . Chris cuomo. I thought he would have a heart attack on the set. I was afraid to turn on cnn because somebody would die. Its just the way it happened. I know. You cant be happy with the explanation. Dont tell me what i cant be happy about. I was happy i was on a golf course, not here. If democrats if theres fire where theres smoke, which is the fervant desire of every democrat. If there isnt, i dont understand. Im waiting for the leaks. Where are the leaks on russian collusion. I will not dispute for a second the hypocrisy of the Democratic Party in saying that he had no credibility and then saying that he needed to be in the job. Having said that we talked about that with the congressman who was here. The rationale for why he was fired and when he was fired has raised at least serious questions that probably deserve answers. I can tell you something about donald trump, loyalty is paramount. He doesnt give a doubt how he does things. Clearly. The great thing was, he fired him and met with lavrov the next day. He doesnt care. He doesnt care about percept n perception. Though he did not let American Media in, and was upset that the Russian Media leaked photos. When things like this happen, whether right, wrong, gaffes, whatever it is, whether it takes oxygen out of the room, for all the policy stuff these guys are here for and care about, the way the investors care about where the economy is going yesterday, in i cant control what people im with, i cant control what they watch. They were watching squawk box. So i had to watch you even though i wasnt here. I was like cant you turn on morning joe or soimething ugh. You cant support your own show . I was looking at the numbers, for a constitutional crisis, it doesnt look like the market thinks were quite there yet, watergate. Coverups are worse than the crime. This is all the hyperbole that im hearing, and im waiting for more than 20 points down on the dow to see something. Even if it delays tax reform and obamacare, would think the market would go down. With nixon, agnew, jerry ford, when that was happening, we were worried about democracy Going Forward in the United States. The markets suffered greatly. A huge relief when some guy like jerry ford got in. I dont know. Neighbor is gets there. I doubt it. Im not saying a lot of people are. Breathlessly, hoping. I was with people last night who were asking what do you think the chances are of him getting impeached no the people you were with were like what do you think the chances are . Can it happen, andrew . Will it happen . Only if i sort of okay. Lets get you some other Washington News this morning. We have some guests this morning. Oh, yeah. As it happens. Their times up. The United States and china reaching new trade agreements. The plan is aimed at increasing access to china for beef producers, electronic Payment Providers and gas exporters. The tenpoint deal was announced by wilbur ross, and he will join us at 7 00 a. M. Eastern time. Lets talk markets. Swroe se joseph . Yes. Jason pride is here and cliff. Lets not even delve into the worst case scenario. Talk about whether this makes passing things legislatively more difficult and why isnt the market which supposedly is trading higher on anticipation, why is it not pulling back on this . Its funny. I was siding there with a handful of investors the other day, in the knowledge through a group of people. Theres a debate among that group as to how much the market that actually risen on this. Versus just underlying fundamentals. Ra reality is that earnings are up 12 , maybe 13 , First Quarter weve seen this in two years. The economy behind that is actually some what decent. Not just a u. S. Story. The numbers, the revisions weve seen overseas have been pretty monstrous compared to the past five, six years in terms of earnings. So theres an underwhelming or underlining fundamental surge occurring at the same time as all this political occurrence. So theres a debate thats going on, you know, people said we actually think the market is basically expecting nothing out of this administration at this point in time. And what the surge has been is actually on a fundamental basis. You got deregulation, the fed at zero basically. Up a little, but very slow going now. Money still cheap. You have a lot of deregulation and corporate corporations doing well already. Its that simple . I think just adding on to that, we have for the first time in seven, eight years a synchronized Global Recovery that the market is buying into. I think go figure, fundamentals matter a bit. Given trumps frequent tweets, maybe theres a callousness, a callous nature to the way the market is thinking about this noise and news. Unless where theres smoke and fire, maybe not, because theres going to be a lot of smoke with trumps tweets. Easy money. Lets talk about that. We have the potential evolution out, away from the fears from the last seven, eight years, yet money is easy across the globe. It is. Some numbers much higher than 50 of developed Government Debt is below 20 . Its not going to change quick. Economy recovering, still easy money. Low rates, thats a recipe for low vol. On monday, taye25year low e vix does that give you pause . Thats been a big topic for us and discussion for us. Typically at this point in the economic cycle, we seem to see vix get down to this level or volatility of stocks. Vix has not been around that long. It does tend to happen. What we havent seen is have it hit these lows. This is really extreme. About half the magnitude of the average point at this point in the economic cycle. But it may be just a representation of how much liquidity has been pumped out by the federal reserve. There is an extreme amount of dollars tracking less assets than what it wants to have. Thats maybe created some complacency in the markets that they cant see actually going away until that liquidity goes away. I dont know if that liquidity is going away any time soon. We have a 4. 2 trillion plus Balance Sheet at the fed. You can look at other Central Banks higher. Ecb, japan. The fed told us theyre telegraphing that theyll be really slow about pulling that Balance Sheet away. Thats the likely path. At least in our view. So youll have easy money for quite awhile supporting assets. Thats part of the equation were dealing with. This is one spot where were hearing some differences in opinions. Some theres some marginal increases in opinion that the fed is actually going to have to start tamping down harder. Were seeing numbers, you see the inflation gauge from the atlanta fed, you see the Wage Inflation numbers. You look at unemployment numbers, actually below natural rate of unemployment. Were getting to the point now where inflation does creep into the system. The fed seems to be pointed in that direction. That could put them on a path of actually tightening a little bit more than this market is expecting. I think the market now is thinking about a 50 50 chance of three rate hikes this year. I would probably put odds on favorite is what it should be, three. Yet its prigsi ingpricing in 5 chance, and they may take it further than that because of that inflation build up. They may have to tamp down harder. Theyre not alone. Ecb is also starting to talk this direction. Will that hurt stocks . Will it come because the economy is rising the way we need it to rise . I dont know if were at the point where that hurts stocks. It could hold us back a bit. I dont know if its at the point where it could hurt stocks. But anything can happen. Theres a range of expectations around that. Could they overstep a bit and take it too far within the next year or two years . Thats in the carts. I wouldnt put it as the base case, but its in the cards. Guys, thank you. Jason, cliff, thanks. Is that a new place where you are . Where did you used to be . Same place, joined up with an international firm. So insight. Where were you before . Cutwater asset management. You do stuff like that, you know, i was confused. Did you realize is this the first time you had this new second time. Second time. Fixed income specialist with over 600 billion in assets under management, leader in global fixed income. Making more money . The firm is making money. No, no did you get a raise . Was it a step up . Was it a lateral step . Well do a Job Interview during the break. Coming up, startups are looking to disrupt traditional lenders. Future fuel took the prize in the personal Education Finance portion. The founder joins us to talk about student debt in a moment. What are you doing . Getting your quarter back. Fountains dont earn interest, david. You know i work at ally. I was being romantic. You know what i find romantic . A robust annual percentage yield thats what i find romantic. This is literally throwing your money away. I think its over there. That way . Yeah, a little further up. What year was that quarter . What year is that one . 98 thats the one. You got it nothing stops us from doing right by our customers. Ally. Do it right. Lets get out of that water. Welcome back to squawk box. The annual fin tech awards were held yesterday. The winner of best educational personal finance platforms is on the set. They do a great awards ceremony and they look at fun fintech companies. Laura taylor is founder of fuel education. You give out these cool awards. How did she win . They built a great product to help with loans for people. We celebrate innovation at fintech, this company is on the cutting edge to pow er the consumer. What do you do. We exist to crush student debt. Simply put. To crush it. How . We empower the private sector to solve their chief concern which is the acquisition and retention of top talent. Theres a critical discorrect between the benefits employers are offering today and related desperate needs of our emerging work force, which are student debt, even before 401 k . But take us a little higher, 30,000 feet so we understand. How does the product itself crush the debt. So we are a btob, so we move the money and administer student debt as repayment, so students can turn it on light a light switch. Lets say i just graduated from school. Im in deep. Youre in deep. Im in deep. Whats the average student debt . The National Average is supposed by 35,000, in our platform, its 68,000. So im graduating. Im in deep. I have 68,000 in debt. Im going to go get a job where . That will be hooked up with you that will help me. Today 4 of employers are offering student debt repayment. This is a new normal. Its a new category were launching. Projections will be 40 . Options in the future will be much greater. The idea is its another benefit. When Companies Look to differentiate themselves, its another benefit, you can be a part of our program, well help you pay loans, pretax, after tax. What kind of companies are doing this thus far . Companies across industry verticals from tech, healthcare, travel, Financial Services, retail. Can we name some names . Sure. In case theres some graduates out there trying to look at companies that want these benefits. Two companies that asked me to talk about them this morning because they are hiring engineers, data scientists. Two companies, one call assurance, they use ai to optimize Life Insurance products real time. Another Company Called future x, a Machine Learning ai company to determine predictive outcomes in the economy. If i take a job there. Ill get a salariment. Salary. A great salary. And health benefits, and what . Theyll crush the debt. How . Every month theyll offer between 200 to 1531 1500 a mo directly to the student loan. On top of the base salary, theyre offering an additional student loan payment. Is there a tax payment . Today theres no tax benefit. But there are a number of bills that we have high hopes actually having a shot at coming to fruition, which would create incentives for employers to offer student debt repayment. And the product itself that youre selling is to the consumer. Were sorry, to the business. To the business. This is a back end enterprise product that would work to or benefits website. Exactly. Just wanted to get the whole thing. This is one of theres over 400 companies that applied to the Fintech Awards this year, this is one of them. They got over 100,000 votes. Everybody says they want to remain independent, is your business ultimately a business that would do better inside a larger, benefits tech nol swnol company . Or is this the beginning of a platform wore you platform . Our primary go to market is a white label to existing hr benefits and payroll providers. I wouldnt be surprised if we have offers in the future for an acquisition. Well see. Tell us about the deal. Come on back. Can you give us an exclusive here . Were thrilled, jason, thank you for the opportunity, 1. 5 trillion, exploding at 100 billion annually, as entrepreneurs we have to make our way out of this mess. Fintech innovation empowers consumers. We take the power back. Thank you. Thank you. Before we head to break, check out this viral video. Rescue crews out in Southern California used a helicopter to hoist a horse. Pretty cool. Its believed the horse and its rider fell 300 feel down a steep hillside. I dont know. Apparently the rider is okay, too. The horse were talking about the horse. The guy went to the hospital. Hopefully hes going to be okay. But its all about the horse. The horse walked away. Thats good. Look at that. 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Thats two galaxy s8s for the price one plus, two lines of unlimited data for a hundred bucks. Taxes and fees included. Only at tmobile. Welcome back. Youre watching squawk box live from the Nasdaq Market site in times square. Good morning. Welcome back to squawk box. Lets look at the u. S. Equity futures. Why are we playing againsting dancing on the ceiling. S p futures down by 6. Dow down by 41. Sprint and Majority Shareholder softbank have begun preliminary talks to join sprint with t mobile. Sprint up by 3. 3 . Tmobile up about 9 cents. Apple awarded corning 2 200 million as part of apples commitment to foster innovation among u. S. Manufacturers. The focus of the investment will be to produce Glass Production methods in its harrisburg, Kentucky Office there. Heres wh. Were creating an advanced manufacturing fund. Initially put 1g billiting 1 b into the fund. This i did not know about. Were announcing it today. Youre the first person im telling. A billion dollars of apples 256 billion. A billion dollars of u. S. Money that we have to borrow to get. Thats another topic. Were proud to do it. By doing that, we can be the ripple in the pond. Because if we can create many manufacturing jobs around, those manufacturing jobs create more jobs around them. Because you have a Service Industry that builds up around them. Well be announcing the First Investment from this fund later in the month of may. Corning has partnered with apple to produce gorilla glass for apple devices since 2007. The house weighs and Means Committee will hold a hearing next thursday to look at potential impact of tax reform on economic growth. Joining us is howard lorbee elo. Longtime friend of the president. Im reading an article here that says some of the stuff swirling around this week could speed up tax reform, because Congress Wants to put points on the board, change the subject, get that going. They think it could speed up. We want to talk to you about tax reform. But its hard to ignore what has been going on this week. I asked you off camera, do you deep down, do you know or think theres anything to the collusion with if theres nothing there . If theres no fire, there is a fervant hope among some people that there is something there. Do you think theres anything there . No, i surely do not believe theres anything there. Where are the leaks we had the leaks on flynn, roger stone. How many months is that . Four, five months. I dont know what else there is to leak. I dont believe the president has anything to do with this, or knows anything about it. His russian connections brought up in the past is a couple trips to russia to look at business deals in the 90s. Wouldnt an open investigation almost silence the critics then . There is an investigation. It will continue. In the senate. The house is not doing it anymore because the guy stepped down. The fbi is still doing it. Hold on. One more question. That is that the timing of the way it happened. I mentioned earlier that knowing trump and hes not a politician, hes a little bit mercurial, even maybe a bit he can do things impulsively. He may not have done this based on the investigation. He may have just decided i am sick of this guy, he was on tv again saying he was nauseous of hillary not winning, so he may have said im just doing it, or was it because the investigation was getting more intense . Look, comey should have been fired. If anything, she have been fired early on. Thats irrelevant at this point. I dont think anyone can say comey was doing a good job. He was doing everything that an fbi director shouldnt do. People say when did you become part and parcel of whats prosecutable or not. As somebody who knows him, does it trouble you as a citizen when he says one thing or his people go out and say one thing in terms of explaining to the public and the voters the rational for why he made a particular decision, in this case firing comey, and then effectively you hear another story, in this case from him yesterday, suggesting that the folks that were talking on his behalf were lying he didnt say that, but they had to be. You have followed politics for a while, right . I have been. You were born at night, but not last night. So is spinning the story a way to the advantage of the administration you have never seen this before . I would listen to him. I wouldnt listen to everyone else. Listen to him. Do you think the other people were off the reservation . Im not saying theyre off the reservation, but it gets lost in translation. Hes the president. Hes the one we should listen to. Hes the one that sent the message out, why he won. Thats what we have to depend on. Andrew where do you think we are in terms of tax reform . Where are we . Yes. Relatively good shape. I think there will be some small changes, but i think it will move ahead. I said this before on this show an others, that nothing else has worked to get the economy going. We had low Interest Rates forever now. That has not spurred the economy. Okay . The deficits, i personally dont think deficits are a maimer issue. I dont wake up at night worrying about deficits. I heard for 40 years, your children will be in debt, your grandchildren will be in debt. You just dont care. I dont think anyone cares. It doesnt affect anyone in daytoday lives. I truly believe the only way to spur the economy is tax reform. Then the deficit also take care of themselves. How terrible do you think the economy is today . I think its same its been for the last 5, 10 years. Do you think were at full employment in the country . Well, you know, look, when they give the employment numbers, the unemployment numbers, it looks good because so many people left the work force. I cant tell you. Do you think its a function of demographics or Something Else . One of the main reasons that people left the work force is functional age issues. No, one of the reasons functionally is there were no jobs for them. They left. Youve seen the numbers of how many people between 30 and 54 that are not in the work force. A third, a third, and a third. Im still thinking about the way things i cant get it out of my mind. Remember gruber with obamacare, no, dont call it a tax. Spin it. Remember the iran deal, they were saying no, we have to say all the crazy its just rampant in politics. Its naive to think they wont spin it in a way im not agreeing that politicians spin. Im suggesting that this is you are shocked that they werent forced you can keep your plan and doctor. Youre shocked that theres desemibling going on in washington, d. C. When did this start . January 20th. The repidity of statements made within one hour, contrad t contradicted the second hour we all have to learn the Anderson Cooper eye roll. Ill do it now. We all have to learn that. Do you think well see tax reform by the end of this year . Does it matter . It would be nice to see it at end of the year, if not the First Quarter of 18. Its very important to get it done. This is the only chance we have to spur the economy. And you put money in peoples pockets. They have more money to spend. Thats going to help every industry and help every american. I dont see how it doesnt get done. It must get done. You want me to roll my eyes at what he just said . I have respect for this gentleman. No, just in general. Have you practiced it . I think of you, and then i roll we do it all the time. Howard, we need you. If they have all camera shots of mow lookie looking at you, t where we would be. You have done that before. You have done that. Hey. I feel like the moderate in this group. Interview us. Howard, thanks. My pleasure. Great to see you. Coming up, when we return, the u. S. And china reaching an agreement to expand trade in beef and chicken and increase access to financial farms, and Quarterly Results coming out from jcpenney, a day after macys stock went lower. And then well see if the retail wreck extended into april. The governments retail sales data numbers come out. Youre watching squawk box on cnbc as i roll my eyes. I think we should do that meeting tomorrow. Well wait. What did you think about her . Its definitely a new idea, but theres no business track record. Well, have you seen her work . No. Is it good . Good . At cognizant, were helping todays leading banks make better lending decisions with new sources of data so, multiply that by her followers, speaking engagements, work experience. Credit history. That more accurately assess a business chances of success. This is a good investment. 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Your people do. Mu his people are allowed to look at him. Yours arent. You just did. Steve harvey got us going. To write a letter like that. I just love that. The diva behavior. Keep the camera on me, please. Exactly. Get back to hi. Hi. Well talk with you. We are . Opec set to meet later this month. The meeting could have a huge impact on crude prices. Theyll decide whether to extend the production cut. Thats right. Theres three possible outcomes here. Opec could go out with an output extensi extension, deeper output cut or back off and start pumping again since apparently shale producers have been doing exactly that. Now, reactions to these scenarios and extensions may be enough to keep us supported, but it wont necessarily take us higher from here. You need that deeper cut to get back over 50 a barrel. If they step back from the deal altogether, a lot of analysts think crude could move closer to 40, even with the anticipated summer driving demand creeping back into the price. But theres a bigger theme to think about. Thats the fact that opec, the saudis are starting to look desperate. It was a game of chicken. They did blink first with the cut. Now the cut is not keeping the price high enough. Theyll look weaker if they cut more to bolster the price for an aramco ipo. The fact theyre ipoing at all, it shows theyre not in control of the market the way they once were. The shale producers, they brought their costs down. So 40 a barrel is not ideal but it wont crush them either. Thats why the meeting on the 25th is really important to see how hopec will act and what the saudis will do. People are worried that they lost control. Jackie, we have heard already that a couple other nations, iraq and another nation were considering standing by saudi arabia with these production cuts, saying they would extend them, too. I had not put it in the context of the ipo for aramco. Other nations may be thinking about it, why am i helping you . And the timeline is important. Its not like the ipo will be immediate. Theyre looking at 2018 possibly. Thats a long time to try to extend this price and keep the cuts going to keep the price up to just benefit that ipo. Youre right. It would only benefit them. But it shows how much they are being squeezed and how they need that money. Thank you. Great to be here. When we return, the author of the new book everybody lies he studied Online Search behavior at google for five years. For example, wives speaking about husbands on social media used terms like the best, my best friend, amazing. The greatest. Mu wi but wives who searched google used terms like annoying, a jerk, annoying. Thats next. We recently had a heart attack. But we are not victims. We are survivors. We are survivors. We are survivors. And now we take brilinta. For people whove been hospitalized for a heart attack. We take brilinta with a baby aspirin. No more than one hundred milligrams. As it affects how well brilinta works. 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Can we at least analyze customer traffic . Can we push the offer online . Brian, i just had a quick question. Brian . Brian. Legacy technology can handcuff any company. But yes is here. Youre saying the new app will go live monday . yeah. With help from hpe, we can finally work the way we want to. With the right mix of hybrid it, everything computes. Welcome back, everybody. Our next guest has studied googles search data for the last five years and his findings shatter a number of stereotypes. Or even things we think about ourselves. He even describes google as a digital truth serum. Lets bring in seth stevens davidowitz. He is a former google data scientist, a New York Times oped contributor and the author of the book everybody lies big data, new data and what the internet reveals about who we really are. Seth, thank you for being here today. Good morning. Weve been playing around with this today. People say things about themselves, they say things about their spouses or their kids on social media, but they are then turning to google and searching for very Different Things and this is just the beginning of what this tells us about ourselves and what were willing to admit. Thats exactly right. People are constantly lying. They lie to friends, family members, to surveys, to social media. Even to themselves. But that tends to be really honest with google. They tell things to google they might not tell anybody else. What . This is really an interesting interview. Are you like . I mean, how do you its a horrible thing that youre saying right now. Okay. Really fascinating. Yeah, yeah. Okay. I got that. Hes lying, okay. How you do know this . What are they searching for . What kind of examples can you give us from google that we would never guess from what we would be willing to admit to other people. Just totally bizarre things about things that i probably cant say on cnbc but also horrible. Very disturbing. Yeah, some disturbing things. Some racism that you dont usually see in parts of the country that you wouldnt expect to have high levels of racism. Anxiety. Insecurity. That people dont normally talk about and definitely dont talk about on social media. I mean the things i was thinking were illnesses. Maybe something embarrassing you wouldnt want to admit. They definitely people do that a lot. And a lot of Health Problems dont make it into the traditional sources. You learn a lot, i talk about in the book, a lot of Health Conditions that people really struggle with and think about a lot and are paranoid about and look for a solution but people dont dandruff or toenail fungus or even things you wouldnt think about. Embarrassing areas that there are a lot of opportunities for business. But people dont know about them because people dont talk about them. Youve anyliar, liar. Yeah. The heavy set guy walks in the morning and he goes, hey, whats up . Your cholesterol, fatty its horrible. I mean its horrible what you really think. You get on the elevator and you cant if you ever said we all know this. There is some value to lying i think is what youre getting at. There is. And everybody does it. Everybody does it. But there is, if you want to know whats actually going on, if youre in business and youre trying to figure out whats really happening you want to know the truth and you cant just trust what people are telling you. Is that Data Available for businesses to mine and try and find out some of these things . Yes. The source i suggested google trends which is still an underused source, more and more people and businesses are using it. But not enough. Considering how powerful it is. What other things would you find on google trends that a business might find really useful . Definitely marketing. I played around surveys way less predictive than people think. When you ask people what theyre going to buy in the future, it tends not to work out. But you can see from what theyre searching how high car purchases might be, or house purchases, because in the days leading up toit, people tend to turn to google. This is something every viewer out here, what do you do with your Search History . Meaning do you delete it . Do you search using anonymous, you know, go into the private place or whatever it is, or do you have your Search History for the last decade living on google right now . Its living on google. I think all that data is anonymous now so i think its pretty safe from a privacy perspective. But your Search History did not no, no, if somebody were to hack your account if someone hacked your account yeah. Your Search History, not just your emails, your Search History for the last decade. Yeah. If someone hacks my account im screwed. But pretty remarkable, though. Because thats even forget about emails. What were you saying if something that doesnt what were you saying . Incognito. You can go incognito. And if you do, isnt it still there though . I believe your Search History would not be there. You can search incognito or other services which its called incognito. Oh. You dont know about incognito . I dont. I think you do. No i dont. Will you show me how . Do you get it on the app store . What is it a browser or something . Its part of google chrome. We talked about this no. The privacy settings. I know about privacy settings. Yes. I dont know about incognito. Do all the privacy settings work the same . We will talk about this later. Theres reasons why i think you might have used incognito before. Seth, its fascinating i dont even know what that is. Your book is going to make people really sit up and Pay Attention to this. Especially marketers or businesses that you mention. But we want to thank you. Part of google. Your book is called everybody lies. Thank you for joining us this morning. Thanks very much for having me. Coming up, President Trump has promised to renegotiate trade deals and the senate just confirmed his trade representative robert lighthi r lighthizer. Congre wilbur ross joins us next. Squawk box will be right back. Stay with me, mr. Parker. When a critical patient is far from the hospital, the hospital must come to the patient. Stay with me, mr. Parker. The at t network is helping First Responders connect with medical teams in near real time. Stay with me, mr. Parker. Saving time when it matters most. Stay with me, mrs. Parker. Thats the power of and. Predictable. The comfort in knowing where things are headed. Because as we live longer. And markets continue to rise and fall. Predictable is one thing you need in retirement to help protect what youve earned and ensure it lasts. Introducing brighthouse financial. A new company established by metlife to specialize in annuities Life Insurance. 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The second hour of squawk box begins right now. Live from the beating heart of business, new york city. This is squawk box. Good morning. Welcome back to skwk skwk right here on cnbc, were live at the Nasdaq Marketsite in times square im Andrew Ross Sorkin along with becky quick and joe kernen. Were all hanging out together. I think that was the first time in awhile. Its permanent now. Take a look at the futures right now. Dow looks like it would open off about 35 1 2 points. Nasdaq down as well close to nine points off the s p 500 looking to open down by five points. Some of the big headlines of the morning. Were now about 90 minutes away from two key economic reports. The Consumer Price index. Also retail sales for april that comes out at 8 30 eastern time. Retail sales rose 0. 5 last month with Consumer Price index up 0. 2 . Anthem has lost a court battle to keep cigna from terminating their merger deal. A delaware judge requiring them not to end the transaction. Anthem has until noon monday to decide whether to appeal. Cigna pulling out of the transaction. It accused anthem of following a failed strategy to win regulatory approval. Separately a judge has ordered walmarts ceo to submit to questioning in a lawsuit surrounding alleged bribery by the mexican unit. He was president when the retailer was accused in the shareholder lawsuit. Walmart said the company is reviewing the court order and deciding on the next steps. Remember when we talked about that story, probably i dont know, four or five years ago when that first broke. We want to check out the Market Drivers that are moving things right now. Dom chu is right here with us on set with that. Dom . Theres not a lot thats driving the market right now as you can tell by all the volatility or lack thereof. If you take a look at one of the reasons why we are shrugging off some of the stuff coming out of washington, its because other parts of the market are showing decent signs of strength here. Take a look at corporate fundamentals. The s p 500 earnings season is now 90 done, pretty much in the books at this point. If everything, the rest of the 10 of the Companies Come in as expected youll get 14. 5 Earnings Growth. Youll also get over 7 sales growth. So there is a case to be made, guys, that you have better corporate fundamentals although the caveat here is the First Quarter of last year was a pretty bad one, so the easy comparisons this time around maybe make for some of those big moves higher. The other thing to watch as well as perhaps a balanced positioning in the marketplace overall. Over the last perhaps 13 trading days youve seen about a 1 trading range up thats high to low for the last 13 days. S p 500 etf trading volumes, the spider, the most active etf out there showing some trending lower in terms of volumes overall and futures movements premarket showing people arent taking wig directional bets or hedging one way or the other. Its not just the stock market, guys. Take a look at the bond market as well. If you look at the high yield market and the Investment Grade bond market, youre talking these two etfs, the ishares, iboxx, heigh yield theyre up maybe 1 to 1. 5 overall just yeartodate and the high to low range is 2. 5 to 3 . Theres nothing happening. Its like a beach ball trying to hold it down underwater. Remember they on the s p when he said dont chase this rally. And were 2394 now and it hasnt given you a 2 pullback, much less a 5 or 10 pullback. If youre not in youre like watching this going getting more and more anxious waiting and waiting. Its also about the idea that there is perhaps an amount of dry powder or cash on the sidelines where people feel like if theres any dip whatsoever theyre not taking a massive move on it but they request still buy a little bit every day. Its very nice. I was going to save this for a second here but you know i was down at the players. Yes. On monday and tuesday. And it is the thats really nice. It is the fifth major. But i brought you back a sweater. Thats really nice. A sweater . Its a pullover. Its not a fancy one. But i figured i would get its fancy. But i wanted to bring it back for you because i know youre a huge golfer. Did you bring anything for andrew . I didnt bring anything for andrew. What are we, chopped liver over here . When there comes a circumstance. First of all they dont let me in the field very often. When i do go in the field the next time, i will find something how about we share this . What would be an event you would bring back something for andrew or for me . Oh, thats a good one. I dont think we want to this could get we can share this. I can wear it on monday, wednesday, friday. What about becky . No its a guys thing. Week to week. Did you talk to Dustin Johnson off camera f i did. What did you think. Did you get to see him swing at all . I was up close and personal. I was watching him on the driefrg range so we were sitting there just a few feet behind him. You should know that he has a lot of help, i guess. I mean theres a lot of folks out there trained on what dustins doing. Yeah, but hes the only one swinging. Hes the only one swinging. 400 yards. When butch harmon is there, teaching his swing and everything else, its someone made the point that, like, mcilroy did not look like he has a trainer now, now he looks like an athlete. This is the first time youve brought an athlete in that was also more talent with golf than anyone else. Hes 64. So he is a very tall, lean, athletic guy. Right. Hes a physical specimen. Theres no doubt about it. You kind of understand why the guy can hit the ball 330 yards. Right. Because hes just hes just got physical leverage. Hes unbelievable. Thanks. Youre very welcome. Hes good. Hes healthy for the u. S. Open. He is. Still the world number one. Where did he win last year . Oakmont. Thats right. Nice place i hear. I hear it is a nice place. Nice place i hear. I wouldnt know. Dave evans has an idea for this. Whoevers tease week it is gets to wear it. Oh. I like that. The prize. Thats the prize. Dom, thank you. Youre very welcome. Great to see you. In Washington News this morning the u. S. Striking a deal with china to open its borders to u. S. Beef while cooked chinese poultry is closer to hitting the american market. This is all part of a bigger trade deal covering ten different points to try and improve u. S. china relations. That is still being worked on. Joining us right now from washington is commerce secretary wilbur ross. And mr. Secretary, thank you for your time this morning. Well, thank you for having me on. You know, i think this would come to a big surprise if you had asked people 100 days ago if they expected you know, who they expected our first trade deal would come with. To see this, to see this plan thats been put forth, after all the rhetoric leading up to the campaign and towards the beginning, how do this plan come together . Well the way it came together is we began the dialogue down at maralago and we divided the economic part of it into a couple of components. The first one was we said we really needed deliverables during the first 100 days, so that this became not just a debating society, but rather something that would have tangible achievement. So we then started working out with the chinese exactly what we could achieve during this very early period and we came up with some very big things, as you know the beef cattle, and the lng and some great progress in Financial Services. Thats a lot to accomplish in the very short time that weve had. It is kind of amazing, when you read through some of the numbers, 2. 5 billion industry, the beef industry thats going to be getting opened up again. Its been shut down for many, many years. Does this do something to lessen our trade deficit with china . Well, sure. Any time you increase exports without materially increasing imports youre going to help your trade deficit. But the most important thing, i think, is that the beef, the genetically enhanced foods, the beef and some of the Financial Service things have been hanging around for quite awhile and never really delivered. The beef things been going on for more than a decade. What we wanted was to prove that were turning words from before into actions now thats why as you notice we set a specific date in july by which these events would occur. In trade deals they usually talk in years not a couple of weeks. It is kind of amazing to see these things happening so quickly. Every good deal i believe both sides will walk away with something that they feel like they have accomplished. Something they have won. What do the chinese get in this if they are opening their doors to more imports but not exporting more goods to us. We open the doors for them in the sense of cooked poultry parts. Those will be able to come in now frankly the american agriculture industry doesnt think thats going to be a very earth shattering development. But thats one thing they got. The second thing is that weve agreed to treat their financial institutions, their banks the same way as we evaluate other foreign banks when they want to come and open up activity in the u. S. So clearly china, whose banks are among the largest in the whole world, wants access to the u. S. Banking market. And while theres no specific date for that, as long as they can comply with the normal rules, they will get access. And then the third thing is, we agreed, each, to go to the other Foreign Direct Investment activity conference. In the case of the Commerce Department, we run an event called select usa summit. That will be june 18th to 20th here in washington. Well probably have 2,500 companies from overseas, and Economic Development people from the various states. Meanwhile, next week, the chinese are hosting a forum, not an investment conference, but a forum on one belt, one road, which is their sort of transportation and infrastructure initiative. So everybody got something. But from our point of view, its the first time weve really gotten tangible things in the food area. And those are very, very big deals. I think youll find that the American Cattle industry, and the American Biotech Chemical Industries are going to be quite happy with these developments. What does this mean now that you have gotten this accomplished . What does this mean youll be turning your attention to next . Is it nafta . Well, no. Were not finished negotiating with china. Remember, this is a multiple year project. Now that we have these out of the way, were going to chart for a oneyear program. Maybe some way stations along the way for that. And then if we make continued progress in the one year, then well go for a longer period, and maybe even eventually some sort of more comprehensive treaty. Wilbur, when it comes to china, the prestige, and the agreeing to go to their forum next week, how important was that . I know thats something american administrations have not done in the past. Why have we avoided it before . What was the leverage they were trying to use . Well, you had to give something, and it seemed to us that this was a reasonable thing to do. Many of our allies, japan and the uk, for example, are going to the conference anyway. Its not really a conference, its really more a forum, to explain about what theyre trying to do with the one belt, one road. So its a symbol of goodwill gesture. Just as is their sending a delegation to the Commerce Department direct usa summit have you been surprised by the speed with which you were able to accomplish the deal that youve set forth as it is right now . Well, i have a new boss whos very demanding that things get done on time so im quite relieved that we had some tangible achievements. Yeah, you really need a job, wilbur. I dont know you know, we dont need you back on Unemployment Insurance or something trying to make ends meet. I know. Its amazing what you can do on government pay. So will burkes lets get back to nafta, where does that stand, when would we or should we expect to see any potential renegotiation start to take place . Well, as you probably noticed, bob lighthizer, my friend, was got through the senate last evening. He was confirmed as the new United States trade representative. Some of the people in the congress had been holding the giving of the 90day letter that really starts nafta, theyve been holding that hostage to lighthizers confirmation. So hopefully now that thats out of the way, perhaps next week or shortly thereafter we can get the 90day letter agreed with congress, and thats what will really trigger the negotiations. But meanwhile i have coming in on monday my counterpart from mexico, the secretary of commerce from down there. So hopefully we can start thinking a little more clearly about schedules, and getting going. Wilbur, would you just characterize the environment, you know, when you go over for meetings with the president at the white house. Business as usual . I mean, is it you know, theres all this swirling around. But is it not discussed . Is it more just were going to do this, were going to do that. Were tax reform, obamacare repeal, is that is that truly whats going on . Or, or, you know, is there are there diversions . Are there distractions . Well, in my dealings with the president , hes been very, very focussed. Very, very organized. Very, very oriented toward the immediate matters at hand. You know, while the tv and the newspapers make a big deal out of all the side shows, meanwhile, every day there are foreign leaders coming in, every day there are decisions to make, every day theres progress towards the tax bill, every day theres activity in my sector, in trade. Theres a whole country that hes running. Hes not sitting there mostly all day worrying about what are the media going to say about this or that. Well that would be my advice to him. And i mean, you hear anecdotally that the president watches all these cable stuff at night, and i i can watch like one show, typically, at night i dont even just from my own sanity, i i dont do much channel surfing. You know what i mean . And i dont read certain newspapers either. But maybe thats the problem with the country right now. Were all in an echo chamber reading and hearing what we want to hear. But he seems to like to hear what his opposition is saying and i dont know whether thats sometimes its better to ignore that, i think. Well, i dont know. I think you can easily blow out of proportion the importance of all those activities. The government is functioning. The government is making progress. Despite everything the media says. Stock market is doing fine. Every chief executive that comes in to see me, and theres quite a few, the animal juices are back. A number of them have said that theyve begun hiring again. Because theyre anticipating that business will get better once our regulatory reforms get completed. Once the tax reforms get completed. And as we make more trade deals, and as we liberate american energy. And thats part of the other good thing that came out of the china deal. This idea, china is the Worlds Largest buyer of lng. Now that market is really going to be open to the american producers. And as you know, theyve had a pretty rough go of it in recent years. So if both the cattle and the lng sectors should get very good boosts from this. Meanwhile, wall streets getting some help. The chinese have agreed by the 16th of july to give licenses to two u. S. Firms in order that they can be able to do bond underwriting, and bond trade clearing in china. So thats a very big breakthrough for the American Investment banks, and similarly, the chinese have agreed to clear out the problems that have been besetting the u. S. Credit card companies, and the other electronic processing companies. So these are big events affecting quite a few industries. What hasnt been done yet, and will be part of the agenda for the subsequent talks would be the rest of manufacturing, the rest of the economy, the digital economy, all sorts of sectors that take a little longer to negotiate because theyre even more complicated. Mr. Secretary, just as a question of logistics, are we ready to export liquefied natural gas or is that something that requires building more infrastructure to get us there . Well, theres nor infrastructure being planned and theres some being constructed right now. Remember, under the prior administration, there was something over a dozen applications for lng export facilities, and they had been sat on by thensecretary of state and by the president , by the department of energy, presumably that will be cleared out now, and we will get going. Mr. Secretary, we want to thank you very much for your time. Its always a pleasure speaking to you. Thank you. Good to be on again. Good to see you. A half hour, too. Sponge bob comes on, i watch thats all you can watch . Yeah. What about you . Youre never home, right . Youre always always out and about. Working on a career. Flitting about. Thats a good answer. Thats a good answer. When we come back youre locked on that. Well be watching key data points this morning, include cpi and retail sales. We will talk markets right after the break. And later, bosses you better listen up, your employees are looking to leave. Youll be surprised at just how much money will have them walking out the door. The cfo of adp will join us with some new jobs data. Squawk box will be right back. . Apparently, i kept her up all night. She said the future freaks her out. How come no one likes me, jim . Intel does just think of everything intels doing right now with artificial intelligence. And pretty soon ai is going to help executives like her see trends to stay ahead of her competition. No more sleepless nights. Were going to be friends im sorry about this. Dont be embarrassed of me, jim. Im getting excited about this we know the future. Were going to be friends because were building it. Big day of data. Coming out today, lets talk markets. Scott clemens, chief investment strategist at Brown Brothers harriman and tom lei global adviser founder of managing partner and head of research. Weve been making note of the low volatility in the vix, and trading ranges, no pullbacks. Does it indicate something . Or is it is it smooth sailing, tom . Well, you know, i think low vix is appropriate given where spreads are. So i dont necessarily think its a time of complacency. And its probably ending up having a positive effect on markets, because for hedge funds, value risk is low when vix is low which means theyre going to be carrying bigger positions. If you didnt get in on november 9th, its been tough to find. People have been waiting. Yeah. And there just has not been does that mean go ahead and just keep averaging in as well you know its a pretty narrowly led market. Weve all talked about how narrow market leaderboardship is. Bad news is narrowly led markets are going to be fragile. When it does leadership can lead down as well. That means within the market there are plenty of opportunities still so its not too late. Were looking at a chart where there have been a couple of periods of acquiescence after the election and interspersed in that really quick gains. So were back in sort of a, like youre not really sure which way its going to break out at this point. You think its a pause to refresh . Or is it having trouble moving higher . You know, the markets done a lot better than i would have expected. You know, given what the curves done and oil being lower. The yield curve . Yeah, the yield curve has flattened and oil is lower. So i think that the equities have really absorbed bad news really well. I mean i think its actually obviously quite a bullish implication. Politics notwithstanding, i still think this is a pretty fundamentally driven market. Weve talked about the rebound in earnings. The fact that its driven largely by sales. Thats a quality indicator. I do think were in sort of a pause that refreshes. Weve got most of the First Quarter earnings reports in. Were going to get a couple of big data points on the strength of the consumer starting this morning at 8 30. This is sort of a pause before we get more data from the fundamental earnings driver of the market. So the consumer can be strong but it doesnt mean theyre shopping at macys. Thats correct. Thats what weve seen. Shopping elsewhere. Shopping online. Yeah. Small business confidence. There are things you said politics notwithstanding there are things responding to what is a more business friendly environment. Yeah. I think thats right. When you sort of push aside some of the media headlines, it does seem like theres a lot of adults involved in government. So, you know, thats a very positive signal for business. I think so its appropriate that people are optimistic on the ceo side. Particularly for smaller businesses. Larger businesses have workarounds no matter what the political policy Regulatory Environment is to a much greater degree than smaller businesses. So its a friendlier environment for smaller businesses no question. Do you think theres an animal spirit story . Yes. You think it is right now . Kwae. In the markets or on the real economy . In the soft surveys so i think its very much so in the we havent seen it play out necessarily in the actual hard data. But whats interesting even for Small Businesses, you know, regulation is no longer the number two issue for them. Its become labor quality. So i think that the sort of the insipid story now is that Wage Inflation is actually starting to really differentiate stocks. Its a headwind for Industries Like retail. When is that just a change in the perception of whats going on . Meaning you look at the survey, right, regulation, moved from one to two. Its not that somehow regulations fundamentally changed the past three months. Its just the perception of this issue. Thats right. Youre 100 identifying an intangib intangible, which is its a perception change. It matters, though. I mean for eight years we im not disagreeing with you. For eight years we tried to make it tougher for business, but werent successful because business thrived anyway, the oil sector thrived. Now theyre trying to make it better for business but they may not be successful at that either. The power of the Nasdaq Market. The power of 100 of the worlds top companies. The power of an etf. The power of qqq. The thinking we put in, clients get out. Power your clients portfolio at powershares. Com qqq. Before investing, consider the Funds Investment objectives, risks, charges and expenses. Call 8009830903 for the prospectus containing this information. Read it carefully. Distributed by invesco distributors inc. Good morning. Welcome back to squawk box right here on cnbc. Were live at the Nasdaq Marketsite in times square. Among the stories that are front and center at this hour, corning has been the first recipient of an award from apples new newly announced advanced manufacturing fund. Corning will be awarded 200 million from the fund which is designed to encourage innovation among manufacturers. Glassmaker and apple have collaborated for the past ten years. It makes gorilla glass which is used in apples iphones. When the announcement was first made i think there was some cynicism about it given the size of the billion dollar fund relative to the amount of money that apple has in total. But, i like this idea. I think this is a good thing. And it could have a ripple effect. And if others get on board and do it and it impacts small towns around america i think theres something to it. I just and number one i just want to be involved i want to tell you, i was thinking about it. I know were professionally skeptical always but i thought that well, so the small towns and flyover states, you give us a you actually care about . I do. Okay. Were evolving. I think were all making progress because of we would benefit from being with each other. We do. We benefit from being with becky. And becky. The reason shes in the middle. Retailer nordstroms trading lower in the premarket this morning. Heres whats going on. Latest Quarterly Earnings and revenue did beat street estimates but it had a w50ider than expected drop in comparable sales. Fiat chrysler recalling 1. 25 million trucks. Most of them in the u. S. The voluntary recall will fix a Software Issue that helps troll the restraint system. The automaker says it is aware of one fatally related one fatality related to the issue, which is scary. The vehicle in question, 2013 to 2016 model ram pickup trucks. If you own one, call the dealership. All right. People in streets of upstate new york yelled run, forrest, run, to a real life forrest gump who is running across america for a good cause. Rob pope is running coast to coast for the third time in less than a year. He says hes combining his level of running and forrest gump to raise money for two charities. The World Wildlife fund and peace direct hes got the beard. With just a sleeping bag and a tent pope started his journey last september in the same place as forrest did, which is if youve seen the movie in alabama. From there he went to los angeles. Then ran back to northern maine. Now the 38yearold is running from syracuse to portland, oregon. Pope says hes paying for his running adventure with money he had saved to buy a house. Pretty miles on those legs. Thats something. That is something. What the number is . Jcpenney shares are out and theres a lot of different moving pieces on this. For the First Quarter theyre reporting a net loss of 58 cents a share. The street was looking for a loss of 21 cents a share. But there are a bunch of additions and subtractions with this. It includes a loss of 71 cents a share for restructuring charges associated with store closings, and my computer just went away. So i lost the rest of it. Hmm. Firm 71 cents a share includes gains for six cents a share for the benefit of tax impacts. Right. Sorry the whole thing just shut down. Stocks. A little bit. Net sales 2. 7 billion in the First Quarter compared to 2. 8 last year. Comparable store sales down 3. 5 for the quarter. Were going to drill down through those numbers and bring them to you when we come back right after the break. In the meantime, a message to bosses out there, more than half of your employees are looking for a new job. We have new data from adp on those Companies Giving some notice. And then later some announcements at the microsoft build conference yesterday to tell you about. Capturing the attention of investors and sending that stock lower. Were going to get an outlook for the company from an analyst in just a moment as we head to a break take a quick look at the u. S. Equity futures dow off about 21 points. Well be back with jcpenney and a lot more. The shows about to start how do i look . Like a bald penguin. [ laughing ] show me the Billboard Music awards. Show me top artist. Show me the top hot 100 artist. They give awards for being hot and 100 years old . Well take 2 [ laughing ] xfinity x1 gives you exclusive access to the best of the Billboard Music awards just by using your voice. The Billboard Music awards. Sunday, may 21st eight seven central only on abc. Listen up, everybody, this is a message to all you bosses out there. More than half of your employees are looking for a new job, and theyd leave for less money than you might expect. The Adp Research Institute has listed the disconnects that employers and employees have. Turns out that 63 of workers might already have one foot out the door. We are joined by jan significantman, adps cfo and a member of the cnbc glob cfo council. Also Steve Liesman is here. And jan, thank you very much for joining us. So glad to be here. This is pretty intriguing stuff. Yesterday we spoke to david novak who said that Something Like 62 or 72 of all employees 70 of employees are not engaged. Yes. Your finding is even more concerning. Even if theyre not engaged, they are ready to leave. What did you find yeah, so this year for the second time we launched Research Study called evolution of work. The key part of the methodology is we are asking employers and employees the same question. And check its the newlywed game for jobs. And one of the questions were asking, of course, are employees willing to look for other jobs . And what are employers thinking of their employees looking for other jobs. We found an interesting mismatch. About twothirds of all employees really are open to switch their jobs. 27 are actively looking. But the rest, 40 are open to be approached. And employers actually have the idea that as the percentage of actively looking employees is higher, and the passives are lower. So the disconnect is about 10 , 15 . When you break it down and say that 40 are just open to somebody approaching them that sounds like it would be most people at any point. But half of all employees have left their job just because they didnt like it. And half of them would be also willing to switch a job for the same amount of money if they could. And they dont even need a pay raise to walk out the door. Thats right. And on average they would expect a pay raise of about 13 to switch their jobs. So the exiters, particularly in light of a full employment market are quite low actually and that is one of the major findings at this report shows. The dating game . The newlywed game. Because you come on the newlywed game and you ask the husband and wife the same questions. Yes. And so this is similar in that way. Why would it be the dating game . I thought thats what but we could get some music. Like where is the strangest place you ever made whoopee or something right, right. Is that a myth . I think it is a myth. I think it might be a myth. So getting back on track with the actual interview at hand here, what does it tell us about the job market right now . Which is why i was interested in this study. You guys have been tracking this. By the way, whats cool about this is its a combination of survey data. But also using adp real data about employees. Yes. What does it tell us about the tightness of the job market that people how many people are leaving the percentage that are looking . Well, as you know, and you have widely reported we have full employment right now. And were seeing not only good job growth but rising wage levels, and a statistic that is not as widely reported is the Employment Turnover. And Employment Turnover over the last two years has actually steadily increased. This year in the last four quarters, we have seen an average of 27 Employment Turnover. Which is up from 23 thats a big jump so you can see that theres a higher churn in the economy and employers are more vulnerable to lose their employees. What should employers be doing . Be preemptive about raises, about benefits, about the workplace that theyre offering to their employees . Or is it even raises that theyre saying they would leave for no raise . Clearly employers have an opportunity to do the best with their talents. That starts with being aggressive on recruiting. Putting the wage levels at the correct levels, identifying the right compensation levels. But i also feel training and engagement are key components to retain the employees. And in the longer run, i think we have our opportunities at hand. Because at a full employment market we will need more aggressive means to add more labor to our u. S. Economy. You say 62 have one foot out the door . Yeah, about 66 about twothirds. Okay, wait, one, two, three, four, five. Wow. Im just you like your job . I love my job. So that leaves its not me. Four of us that what are you up to . You guys are what are you up to . On the side, ive also got the thing about i could be a fishing guide. And i could feed the family with the fish. Ive ghot that you dont even count because this is just like a parttime thing for you anyway. I mean you got can i ask one more question of jan before we run out of time . Which is, what about Different Industries and pay raises . What are you finding it takes in one industry versus another to attract a new talent . So, we talked about the 13 pay raise expectations. Right. In the survey. In reality we measure of what the actual pay raise is. If you switch from a job fulltime from one job to another, and we see for example in Information Technology, that prelim is aboutle 8 , high compared to two years ago so the tightness of the Information Technology sector is reflective in fast rising wages for jobs im actually surprised its only 8 . It is lower than one thinks but you see how the other mix in these numbers of involuntary changes and voluntary changes, and so it adds up to 8. Its the highest in the industry. For another example, in Construction Industry. We saw slowing of job growth in construction. And you see that switch premium in construction is up to close to 6 . 5. 6 , and with only 2 just two years ago. So our fear that the Construction Industry is not living up to its potential comes true in the wage development. Jcpenney is really getting crushed. Thank you. Very much. I think they had malware in what they sent you so that you couldnt read what they i think it disappeared on purpose. Perhaps. Perhaps. 480 now its down like 6 or something, 7 . Steve, thank you. Jan, great to see you. Thank you so very much. We had that newlywed i know, music. Up next, snap running into road blocks with investors. The company was a onetime cnbc disruptor. Well take a look at other companies whove made our list and find out, this used to be a segment, where are they now . Well be right back. We recently had a heart attack. But we are not victims. We are survivors. We are survivors. We are survivors. And now we take brilinta. For people whove been hospitalized for a heart attack. We take brilinta with a baby aspirin. No more than one hundred milligrams. As it affects how well brilinta works. Brilinta helps keep platelets from sticking together and forming a clot. In a Clinical Study brilinta worked better than plavix®. Brilinta reduced the chance of another heart attack. Or dying from one. Dont stop taking brilinta without talking to your doctor,. 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There are seven companies that have been named the disruptor 50 list for four straight years. Airbnb, dropoff, pinterest, spotify and uber. Combined worth more than 120 billion with uber with the highest valuation, nearly 70, down to drop box and spacex about 10 billion each. Investors are looking to see which of these unicorns will go public next. Renaissance capital saying were in the best of all ipo markets. If youre not moving forward you need to have your head examined. Some companies are being pushed to go public with the risk of down round. Now drop box has already selected its banks so it could be next to go to market. Spotify says its considering going public without an ipo selling shares directly on an open exchange. Renaissance also says houzz is likely in the pipeline. Now has 40 million homeowners in its network and has been expanding globally. Airbnb which is reportedly profitable is expected to go public in 2018 and lyft may file before uber does. Fewer pr headaches and a Gm Partnership and investment helping to drive its growth. Despite a record market renaissance warned that snaps dramatic stock drop this week on those disappointing earnings could square off other unicorns at least for now. Becky, back over to you. All right, julia, thank you very much. When we return this morning, microsoft making some comments yesterday at its annual microsoft build conference giving some weak guidance on profit margins. That sent the stock down so should you be selling or is this a buying opportunity . Well talk about that next. Squawk box will be right back. The power of a low volatility investing approach. The power of smart beta. Power your clients portfolio with powershares. Before investing, consider the Funds Investment objectives, risks, charges and expenses. Call 8009830903 for the prospectus containing this information. Read it carefully. Distributed by invesco distributors inc. Containing this information. Read it carefully. I count on my dell small for tech advice. With one phone call, i get products that suit my needs and i get back to business. The shlike a bald penguin. How do i look . [ laughing ] show me the Billboard Music awards. Show me top artist. Show me the top hot 100 artist. They give awards for being hot and 100 years old . Well take 2 [ laughing ] xfinity x1 gives you exclusive access to the best of the Billboard Music awards just by using your voice. The Billboard Music awards. Sunday, may 21st eight seven central only on abc. Welcome back to squawk box. Were going to take a look at some stocks to watch this morning. The big one weve been watching it all morning, at least for the past 20 minutes, watching it drop, jcpenney shares are slumping. Slumping is probably an understatement, really, after revenue and samestore sales came in below forecasts. A lot more on the retailers most recent quarter in just a couple minutes. The stock now down even while weve just been talking about it. Down over 9 . Maybe well see which way it goes. Check out shares of microsoft this morning. The Company Providing downbeat margin guidance at an Analyst Briefing on wednesday. The stock still having a solid 2017. Its up nearly 12 since january. Unchanged this morning, but was down yesterday on that news. In the meantime lets take a closer look with Morgan Stanley Equity Analyst keith weiss. What do you think is going on at microsoft . I think in microsoft, the story is about the nearterm versus the longterm. Microsoft presented a very interesting longterm story for developers. Theyre really differentiating. Theres three core cloud plays out there right now. Aws from amazon, google and microsoft. And microsoft is presenting a really differentiated platform, giving the assets they cant get with the other clouds. They have existing users. They have 100 Million Office 365 users. You cant get that on the other platforms. They have existing assets on premise. What they call the intelligent edge and a distribution strategy. They have a sales force that theyre saying to the isvs, to the developers, were going to help you sell your stuff to the end customer. So thats very good longterm. But, goodness in the cloud longterm hurts nearterm growth margins. So them expecting to do better with their cloud in the near term hurts the gross margin profile and thats what investors are disappointed by. Theyre expecting Gross Margins overall to turn upward in fy18 and it looks like its going to be more flat, slightly down year. You like their strategy longterm but when you think about where aws at amazon is relative to microsoft today it is a wide margin. By a wide margin. Right. Can they ultimately build products that compete with microsoft in a meaningful way . I know 360 were talking about differentiating. Right. But they seem to get into every you know, theyre slowly, and somewhat quietly subtly getting into all sorts of peoples businesses that we dont know. Right. The difference is that microsoft has preexisting assets. Right. That abs is going to have a really hard time replicating. Like youre saying office 365. Having 100 million existing users on office 365 is going to be something that amazons going to have a really hard time replicating. Having all the existing intelligent edge, the existing software, the existing platform that goes out into the physical world, thats going to be something that amazon is going to have a hard time replicating. So i think theres plenty to go around for both of these vendors. What about google . Google is going to have to catch up. Google has great technology. Undeniably great technology. Where they need to invest is in distribution. Google is in a very similar place to aws. They have great claude technology. They dont have an intelligent edge. They also have to work on distribution. So amazons got a lot of scale today. Theyve got good cloud technology. They have to have a strategy. How do they go on to that intelligent edge. Googles got to do both the edge and the distribution. Whos got the best security . Whos got the best security amongst all three . All three of them have good security. Microsoft in the last year has outperformed both . That i didnt know. Microsoft the stock price of microsoft is up 32 . Right. And for both amazon and alphabet, 31 . Did you know that . Didnt you think amazon had outperformed microsoft . I did in terms of the market cap thats grown but the percentage for microsoft has been higher. Got a higher market cap. And the market cap theyve grown this year is up because ive just looked at a list of the top ten market caps. Already higher. Yeah. Both over half a trillion. Yeah, yeah. If you could own only one. Mock is all three of those . Microsoft, google or amazon . I think right now microsoft. Microsoft is the underappreciated asset amongst all three of them. What we came away from the build conference that they had this year, they had this week, in the pace of innovation of microsoft i think is going a lot faster than a lot of investors appreciate, and theyre differentiation versus these other clouds is underappreciated by investors at this point. Fair enough. Thank you. Excellent. Thank you for coming in. When we come back were going to talk retail detail. Jcpenney, nordstroms and other retailers feeling the pressure. Dana telsey going to join us to help us understand the declines and where it all goes from here. And then later once the highest paid ceo, Don Blankenship was convicted for conspiring to violate federal mine safety laws at masseys Upper Big Branch mine in West Virginia where 29 workers died back in april 2010. He was just released from federal prison. Literally just this week and he will be with us in the 8 00 hour. Its all yours. Wow record time. 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Good morning and welcome back to squawk box here on cnbc live from the Nasdaq Marketsite. In times square. I dont know whether to say it or not say it. The crowd. Loud. Proud and loud. Name after the New York Times. It was a great institution. It is a great institution. At one time gshs im joe kernen along with becky quick and Andrew Ross Sorkin. One of the last great institutions. The futures i have the hold. The futures right now down 26 on the dow. Down 5 on the s p. And the nasdaq down 6. 5. Treasury yields, inching higher. 2. 38. 2. 38. Among todays top stories, take a look at shares of jcpenney, they have come under some huge pressure this morning. The retailer earned an adjusted six cents a share. Analysts were expecting a 21cent loss. You might think that that would be good news but if you check out the revenue it fell below the forecast. Probably the biggest concern, same store sales down by 3. 5 . The street was expecting sales to drop only by 0. 6 . And thats why you see a decline of 9 in the stock right now. This comes as other Department Store chans take a hit once again despite all of the pressure we saw on these stocks yesterday. Macys down slightly. But nordstrom down another 5. 5 and again jcpenney as you can see down more than 9 . We will have more on retail with the telsey groups dana telsey in just a moment. The top tier guys cant cut it nordstrom beat expectations, and in fact by a long shot. Think if youre jcpenney, and the top you know, youre trying to get off the stag ma of being jcpenney but even the ones, high end ones are having problems. And youre jcpenney to start with. Kind of sad. You ever been in a jcpenney . Yes okay. All right. Dont get defensive about it. But not in years, right . I actually have. Not for i was in a mall. Okay. Shopping in a mall. Okay. You done . Okay. Corning is the first recipient of an award from apples newly announced advanced manufacturing fund. Corning will be awarded 200 million from the fund which is designed to encourage innovation among manufacturers. The glassmaker and apple have collaborated for the past ten years. It makes gorilla glass, which as you know is used in apples iphone and shares of corning up about 2. 4 . Apple is still near its highs as the most valuable company on earth. The United States and china have reached new trade agreements. The plan looks to increase access to china for beef producers, Electronic Payments providers and for natural gas exporters. Commerce secretary wilbur ross announced the deal and he just joined us in the last hour. Weve been working out with the chinese exactly what we could achieve during this very early period. And we came up with some very big things, as you know the beef cattle, and the lng and some great progress in Financial Services. In exchange china will get access to the u. S. Markets for cooked poultry products. Andrew . Okay. President trump explaining his decision to fire fbi james head of the fbi james comey in an interview with nbcs lester holt. Eamon javers joins us now to talk about it. Eamon . Good morning, andrew. This was kind of astonishing yesterday in this interview with lester holt the president swept away a days worth of explanations with his aides about why exactly he decided to fire fbi director james comey. Heres the key moment of the interview yesterday. Regardless of recommendation, i was going to fire comey. Knowing there was no good time to do it. And, in fact, when i decided to just do it, i said to myself, i said, you know, this russia thing with trump and russia is a madeup story, its an excuse by the democrats for having lost an election. And in that sound bite right there you just heard the president dismiss two of the explanations from his staff over the past 24 hours previous 24 hours, his aides had said that he only made the decision after the recommendation from the Deputy Attorney general. The letter that was cited in public for as the reason for the firing. And also that this had nothing to do with the russia investigation. There you just heard the president say that, in fact, he was going to do this anyway. And that also on his mind as he made the decision was the russia investigation. All of that causing controversy today, prompting his spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee sanders yesterday and the White House Press Briefing Room to be on the defensive as to why she gave apparently inaccurate information about what the president decided and when he decided it. This morning within a few seconds ago, President Trump has just been tweeting about all this and heres the tweet that he just posted. If we can call that up ill read it to you. He said, as a very active president , with lots of things happening, it is not possible for my surrogates to stand at podium with perfect accuracy. So the president there acknowledging that his surrogates didnt have perfect accuracy from the white house podium. Thats a surprise. He also has this the three dots there, the ee lip ses, which suggests to me there might be more tweets to follow and we might get more insights into the president s thinking about why it was that they handled this in the way that they did. But, clearly, a controversy thats not going away any time soon. Democrats up on capitol hill are calling for a special counsel. Republicans for the most part so far have resisted that call. But there are investigations proceeding on a number of fronts. And well wait for more developments throughout the day guys. Thank you, eamon. One of the questions, before we leave you, is this. If your really just look at the stock market in terms of the Way Investors are thinking about this. Obviously a lot of people talking about the implications in washington. But most investors seem to be seeing past that. Is that the right or wrong view . Well, it looks like at the beginning of the Trump Administration you had this analysis from wall street that there were three legs of the trump rally stool. One was you were going to get tax reform. The other one was you were going to get stimulative infrastructure spending. And the other one is youre going to get massive deregular wlags. The Trump Administration so far has been able to deliver on the deregulation piece of that. Theyve done a lot of deregulation so far, announced more, and theyve halted issuing new regulations for the most part. So that piece is coming to fruition. The infrastructure piece looks a lot less likely. And then the big question is, will tax reform be implicated by all of this . And my sense is that republicans, being republicans, want to do tax reform. The question is whether or not this will absorb all the oxygen in the room and prevent the white house from exerting leadership on exactly how that tax reform comes about and when it comes about and pushing all the different factions on the hill. As you saw with their health care fight it does take some corralling from the white house to get these things done. Will they be too absorbed by all of this to focus on that . Thats the question. Its the old line of walking and chewing gum at the same time, andrew. Okay. Thank you, eamon. You bet. Lets talk retail again. Jcpenney joining the list of retailers with disappointing Quarterly Results. Actually wasnt the results that were so disappointing when you looked at the earnings, it was the same store sales. Joining us right now is dana telsey. She is the ceo and chief Research Officer for telsey advisory group. And the punishment that these stocks are taking right now is kind of hard to believe. It is amazing. These stocks are taking a huge beating. The sales weaker than expected in the First Quarter. Most of them have said that business picked up, as you went into easter and even posteaster. Into the month of may. These Department Stores need to reinvent themselves. Theyre going to look different today than they did a few years ago and its not going to be as many 6 them. You have both nordstrom and macys talking about farthernerring with the Mall Developers in order to figure out what the new Department Store looks like. Whats the new number of boxes there should be . Look at products. Were seeing more of these Department Stores focus on exclusive products. The reason why, so you dont price match. So its a new competitive world. And they have to change. Is the reality that were going to see far fewer Department Stores in the i guess months and years to come . Yes. You will see far fewer. And youre going to see more diversification of categories that are malls today. Whether its restaurants, activities, dry bars and hair salons. You name it, its not just going to be a place to buy clothing aloan. Jcpenney is trying to point to that saying combined sales for march and april they were pleased with. They have the sephora store within a store concept, things like that. But what youre talking about sounds very different and a world away from where a lot of these Department Stores are right now. It is. And i think theres going to be more testing and more development and theyre going to evolve over the next few years. Theres a reason why, some of what weve seen, look how youre having Big Companies buy small companies. So Companies Like walmart taking a look at mod cloth and jet, what they did with jet. Com. Look at pbh and look what nordstrom has done. Theyve been ahead of the game in terms of partnering with smaller online entities. Is this about people not going to 9 malls like they used to or at least not the top tier malls . Theres the a malls and everything else. Youre exactly right. The retail real estate, the best quality and the best locations, occupancy are high and those are doing better than those that are the weaker performers where it isnt as great. What about somebody like jcpenney who a lot of times is not in the top tier malls . Theyre closing 130 to 140 stores. They have the categories like sephora, like appliances, that is a driver. And theyre going to keep looking at their store base to see, theyre still in some very good malls and theyre profitable in even some of the lower tier malls. This doesnt say anything about the health of the consumer. People are spending their money just not in these Department Stores. Yes and categories. We just looked at a chart over the past 40 years, whats going up . Health care and housing. Food and beverage and apparel, clothing and footwear, has sunk and the reason why, you have lower prices that allow people, prices are so low, you get it for cheap. Amazon. Com and other retailers. Right. You would think macys would be more insulated because they have a strong Online Presence as well. I think you need the Online Presence. Can you imagine if you didnt have the Online Presence . There was double digit growth in online both at macys and nordstrom. Just anecdotally ive found when ive gone into some of these stores its almost a death spiral in some positions, because you go in, and you look for like shoes, youre not going to find shoes in the size you want, they dont have the inventory, they dont have anybody there to help you. So i mean i look at this comment from jcpenney and they were able toll beat the expectations on the bottom line because they slashed their sg a expenses. The savings were driven by marketing, store controllable cost and saying were not putting inventory there, were not hiring the people, what happens at that point . You cant just beat earnings based on sg a you need topline sales. None of the Department Stores were really able to deliver topline sales in this First Quarter. Makes it even more back end loaded. Frankly when you think about the second, third, Fourth Quarter, the pilot rollout at macys nordstrom with some of the new brands, what jcpenney is doing with sephora, youre going to need this momentum thats improved at easter to continue. Youre seeing fire sale prices, would you buy any of these stocks . I want to be in off price, some of the brands like pbh. Looking at the Department Stores, nordstrom, kohls, kohls benefited with under armour, thats where you go right now. Its a tough world in Department Stores these days. Thank you for your time. Its great to see you. Thank you. Just moments ago you might recall eamon javers shared this tweet from President Trump with just a couple minutes ago. Now we have a second part of the tweet. Ill read the beginning, as a very active president with lots of things happening, it is not possible for my surrogates to stand at podium with perfect accuracy. Now the second part of the tweet, pretty interesting. Maybe the best thing to do would be to cancel all future press briefings, and hand out written responses for sake of accuracy. Interesting approach. I need to think through all of that. He had a tweet before that. Before both of these that said the fake medias working overtime. Overtime. Right. I dont know did you see the couple thats together what . 64 years, and they pass add way Holding Hands together . No. When did this happen . It was on been a couple of cases. Not the most recent one. You want to hold hands now . I want to start now. You want to start now. I dont want to die. 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First quarter earnings season is the best in more than five years. 72 of the s p 500 Companies Beating estimates. Joining us now, lindsay bell, investment strategist at cfra. I wish i knew that that was a good thing and not just that analysts were wrong. Right . Look, i get it. I would rather have year over year gains than beating analysts expectations. Maybe analysts are part of the, you know, the game that they lower expectations, and beat them. Hey, look, i get it. And you have a very good point. People like me come on here every quarter and were like hey, Earnings Growth is better than we expected. Because were clueless. Because the bar is set much lower as we go into the reporting period. But that didnt happen this time. Estimates were only reduced slightly. So this beat, 5. 5 Percentage Points better than we initially expected. Growth is tracking at 15 right now. And so, thats actually pretty impressive. Given the fact that numbers didnt come down that much. Normally we see growth beat by three to four Percentage Points. So s p year over year growth was 15 . Yep, for the First Quarter. We havent seen growth that fast since no one thought i thought we were thinking, wasnt there a time when people thought we could have a down quarter . Not just lower growth, but actually negative growth . Yeah, the First Quarter of 2016, Earnings Growth bottomed declining 6. 7 . That was the bottom of the earnings recession as people called it. And we successfully grown out of that. Okay. So, Second Quarter, whats the growth is tracking at 7 . Which is pretty decent. The third and Fourth Quarter weve got 9 and 13 growth. You have no idea about that, do you . You know what numbers in the third and Fourth Quarter havent come down yet. That has me a little bit worried. I think expectations could be a little high. How many macro factors do you look at . How many i mean sectors are all different. The prospect for energy, versus health care, versus financials. It seems like you need i mean you need to be like watson or if watson was any good. Which we now know watson is a joke. According to depends on how you ask. Almost sounds like you need a super computer to get a real number. Thats why i think its so difficult. It is difficult. This quarter were seeing some of the cyclical sectors lead technology, financials and materials have over 20 growth this quarter. So thats pretty impressive. Energy, obviously, is leading the way. This is the First Quarter that energy turned into a tailwind from a headwind. So were seeing 400 400 basis point benefit this quarter from energy. How much is europe . How much is asia . How much is dependence domestically . So about 50 of sales come from overseas. So that matters. So that matters. But the top line is actually coming in much better than expected. 8. 4 growth. Thats pretty impressive. We were expecting 7. 2 . It should taper off a little bit, though, in the latter part of the year. And you know, the top line is where its at. You cant mess with those numbers. Seeing growth like that youre admitting the other ones are useless. You dont know whether to use gas or yeah. Lindsey, thank you. Thank you. Coming up next, when we return, billionaire mark cubans call on bank stocks. Were going to tell you the one company he called the ultimate startup. Well tell you next. Plus you got to watch this. This is going to be i think fascinating conversation. Former massy energy ceo Don Blankenship is going to be here at 8 40. He served time for his role in a deadly mining accident. He was in prison and he got out this week and hes literally going to be on the set with us to talk about it in just a little bit. Back in a moment. You think traffics bad now, the futures going to be a nightmare does nobody like the future . Cmon, the future. He obviously doesnt know intel is helping power Autonomous Cars and the 5g network they connect to. With this, wont happen in the future. Thanks, jim. Theres some napkins in the glovebox. Okay, but why would i need a napkin . You could have just told me a bump was coming. We know the future. Because were building it. My Biggest Holding is amazon and its the ultimate ai company. Its the ultimate startup. They used it better than anybody. When amazon talks about opening up grocery stores, its not because they want to sell gross riis in stores. The same with book stores. They want to know when you need it, before you need it, before you know you need it, so they can deliver it right to your door in anticipation. They become prescriptive. And the opportunity there globally is beyond enormous. That was billionaire investor mark cuban on fast money yesterday. Joining us right now with her top picks in the tech sector is kim, Vice President Senior Analyst and Portfolio Manager at fort pitt capital. Are you in agreement, by the way, with mr. Cuban . I think that some day we may be able to do that. But i am not sure ai is really ready for that at this moment. But its a stretch goal. You happen to like a competitor of amazons which is microsoft. Yes. Given what theyre doing in the cloud. Make the case. Absolutely. So, microsoft started as a tool builder for software engineers. And that is their roots and they do that really, really well. And i think azure has the tools that people are very, very used to, because theyve used them for decades. And its expanded into the cloud now, that the tools can easily allow people to build infrastructure there. So thats why im betting on microsoft. Theyre a great tool provider. And you think that its underappreciated at this point, still . I do. Given the run its been on. Thats what im curious about. Yes. Exactly. Well, they have a large corporate base that has a lot of custom applications. And that needs to move to the cloud. So are you going to train new people on azure, and that kind of, you know, technology . Or are you going to use what they know . I think its b. Theyre going to use what they know. Okay, lets talk intel. You like intel. I do. It is, again, providing the guts of technology. You know, servers and pcs. But i think theyre making an interesting move in to the edge, with buying mobilei and i think their focus on drones is interesting, as well. And i think thats showing their capabilities to people who are building whatever comes next. What do you think the stock will be worth twelve months out . Well, twelve months out, we dont really look twelve months out. Were three to five year sort of people. Lets talk three to five years. Maybe a double. Maybe a double. And youve by the way, you know, we had well, actually we had a guy yesterday you like the mobilei acquisition. Theres been a lot of skepticism about that deal. I think what it does is buy a market. I dont know that the technology is all that important. Technology moves extremely fast. But at least it is buying people that have bought mobilei. 20 seconds, net app. Net app, oh, we all hoard data. Corporations hoard data. Individuals hoard data. And they provide a place for that data. Kim, i know youre right. Great to see you. Thank you. Thanks. Up next, breaking economic news. We have two key reports about to hit the tape. Retail sales and cpi. We will bring you the numbers, squawk box will be right back. So new touch screens. And biometrics. In 574 branches. All done by. Yesterday. Banks arent just undergoing a face lift. Theyre undergoing a transformation. A data fueled, security driven shift in applications and customer experience. Which is why comcast business delivers Consistent Network Performance and speed across all your locations. Hello, mr. Deets. Every Branch Running like headquarters. Thats how you outmaneuver. The power of a low volatility investing approach. The power of smart beta. Power your clients portfolio with powershares. 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Fiat chrysler is recalling 1. 25 ram modded trucks. A million of them in the u. S. The voluntary recall is to fix a Software Issue. Its an important one so if you own one listen to this. Its been linked to one death and two injuries. The issue inadvertently disables part of the restraint system during a vehicle rollover so legitimately if you do have one, please call your dealer. We are just seconds away from some news, joseph. Yes, we are. Rick santelli is standing by at the cme in chicago. Rick the numbers . Here we are. April, first look at retail sales. Head line number is up 0. 4. Thats a little bit on the light side. You strip out autos it goes down to 0. 3. You strip out autos and gas sales goes down to 0. 3 as well. So 0. 3 is the same there. Now lets look at the control group used to input and other economic calculations. And that is up 0. 2. Half what we were expecting. But, theres some positive revisions pretty much across the board. That control number last time stood at up half one percent. Its now up 0. 7. And if we look at some of the other aspects, especially exautos, that popped up an extra 0. 3 along with the down 0. 2 head line for retail sales in the previous month to a positive number up 0. 1. So a little disappointing on the front for april. Back end came up a bit. Lets look at cpi. Yesterdays ppi was hot. Today as expected on head line, aprils cpi is up 0. 2. Strip out food and energy its up 0. 1. If you look at year over year its up 2. 2. Thats actually even though its a big number the two handle, lots of two handles, thats coming off 2. 4. And finally the core cpi also lots of two handles. It kind of breaks that here at 1. 9. And that really is something to Pay Attention to when you look at lets see 0. 3 weve had about 16 in a row, 17 in a row, in that ball park with the two handles. So that slipped a bit. Not the same picture that we indeed saw yesterday with the producer side as we get more focused on the consumer side. Arguably what traders look at most. Whats the landscape today . Well were still kind of in that range with tenyear notes but it did back away from the 240s. Remember, sometimes its easy, last year it was 244. We back add way. A lot of maturities like 5s, also in 30s, very close to where they settled last year, of course shorter maturities are well through that. We have had some tightening. Preopening equities. They really havent moved a whole lot. Down about 20, were now down 29 in preopening dow futures. Becky, joe and the gang, back to you. All right, rick. Thank you. President trump just tweeting again moments ago, this is the tweet, james comey better hope that there are no tapes of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press. What . Yeah. Better hope there are no tapes of the conversations before he starts leaking. Because i guess hes saying that whatever the press is reporting is incorrect, and therefore saying that james comey is the leak whos giving the press but the implication that the president has the tapes . Is that what seize saying . I dont know. Better hope theres no tapes, because or that somebodys got tapes, and what hes saying is different than whats on the tapes . I dont know. So are we back into the wiretapping situation . The fact of the wire tapping situation or is there a reference to watergate where the nixon tapes were there . Yeah. Nice music. There was an 18 minute gap on that supposedly leaned over like this really important part of the tapes. Well anyway. This will be the next part of the 24 hour news cycle. Its not just going to be 24 hours because next week comey has been called to testify before the senate. Right. Well see if that actually happens. In the meantime lets get back to the data. Steve liesman has been watching retail sales and cpi. I want to set the stage on this number. Which is very weak First Quarter driven by weak consume shun in the First Quarter. So this number today is the first real meaningful piece of data for the Second Quarter and the question is whether or not that rebound is really going to happen. And i think im going to give it the rebound story a pass here. It was a little bit like 0. 5 was looked for in retail sales. Came in 0. 4. Good enough, close enough to say the consumers coming back. The control group, which is the number that feeds in to gdp, was revised up in the last month of march, and came in a little bit light today at 0. 2. But well call that a wash. A lot of volatility in the data that makes it hard to really say theres a clear story here. You had stuff bounce back. Furniture down 0. 5 after being up 1. 5 . You had buildings up 1. 2 after Building Material up 1. 2 after being down 1. 7. So a lot of back and forth. Overall what were looking at, you dont get too confused with these numbers, 4. 5 year over year retail sales growth i think thats okay. I think the consumer is doing well. We know that jobs are doing well. We know that wages are doing okay. I wouldnt worry too much about it. I think its okay to say, that the weakness in the First Quarter is probably in the rear view mirror. Like a little more data to confirm it. But this number was looked at to be the linchpin for the Second Quarter rebound story and i think its okay. Were on track. Steve stay right here. Lets continue this conversation. Constance hunter is here. Shes the chief economist at kpmg and constance, do you agree with steves assessment of this . Yeah, absolutely. We also got the average Hourly Earnings which are up 0. 4 this month versus 0. 3 action average weekly Hourly Earnings up 0. 3 versus flat last month. So that says that Going Forward theres some momentum to continue spending. The question is what does the Consumer Spend on, right . Thats a huge question. If you look at the retailers, jcpenney, nordstrom, macys, massive pressure on that but i dont think thats telling the story of the consumer. When you look at retail sales you have to look at the biggest components. Auto is by far the biggest component, 20 . Then you look at youre still up 0. 3 . Then Building Materials is another, 12 . Then you get down to food and beverage at restaurants, 8. 5 . And retail sales in the stores is really only like 5 of retail. Its not even the biggest component. And the question here is, do they ship to services. Are people going to start spending on Services Rather than goods . Which would be what we would expect at this phase of the business cycle. Heres one more question, which is are people going to save money . If you look at the savings rate it ticked up in the First Quarter and who am i . Who are you . Who is anybody to say whats the right savings rate . If people want to save 5. 9 of their disposable income thats going to be entirely up to them. If the retailers are not capable of making people part with their money, thats their fault into the anybody elses. At zero savings rate we used to say that was a bad thing. Right. You want precautionary savings but its interesting people were starting to save more at a time when there was a lot of talk about personal tax cuts. Theres a theory which basically says that be careful. David ricardo one of the great economists ever. Go ahead. Basically if youre going to debt finance tax cuts people are going to do precautionary savings because they know down the road thats going to come back to bite them. Youre bringing future consumption into the present. Lets talk about the cpi and the Inflation Numbers which is there was a little bit of scare yesterday, tight labor markets, you had a great jobless claims number, very low. Very low as a percentage of those covered by jobless claims by jobless insurance. Long with a hotter ppi than expected. Question was whether or not thats going to show up in the consumer numbers. It did not. You had very, very modest inflation games. 0. 2 all items driven in part by a big gain in energy. 1. 2 for gasoline. But take out food and energy and youre up just 0. 1 . A little bit 1. 9 how does the fed process this, constance . I think what theyre going to process is not just the cpi but the cpi in conjunction with wages. Right . So they want to make sure that they get out ahead of demand poll inflation. They want a little but not so much that the economy overheats. Right, and so if were starting to see shortages in the labor market, and if were starting to see significant wage gains they want to really try to get out ahead of that. Because thats what would push us into a recession. I have the june probability at 80 for the rate hike. And im looking about a you guys had a guest on earlier who had about a 50 probability of a third rate hike in december. So thats where the market is, and hard for me to say that its mispriced here. Steve, thank you. Constance, thank you for joining us. Thank you. Coming up when we return, he was once the highest paid ceo in the coal industry. Now Don Blankenship has taken to twitter after serving time over a fatal mining blast. Got out of prison literally this week. Hes going to join us live right after the break. Rays always been different. Last year, he said he was going to dig a hole to china. At t is working with farmers to improve irrigation techniques. Remote moisture sensors use a Reliable Network to tell them when and where to water. So that farmers like ray can compete in big ways. China. Oh. He got there. Thats the power of and. A 10speed directshift 5. 0transmission. Ine. A meticulously crafted interior. All of these are feats of engineering. Combining them with nearperfect weight distribution. Is a feat of amazing. Experience the firstever 471horsepower lexus lc 500 or the multistage hybrid lc 500h. Experience amazing. Welcome back to squawk box this morning. Former mass si coal ceo wrapd up his yearlong prison sentence this week getting out just this wednesday. Don blankenship was convicted of quote conspiring to violate federal safety laws at a mine in West Virginia for 29 workers died back in 2010 in an explosion. He maintains his innocence, calling the investigation a conspiracy and Just Announced he is appealing to the Supreme Court for vindication. Joining us right now this morning Don Blankenship, former chairman and ceo of Massey Energy. Thank you for joining us. 48 hours after leave beiing pri don. Good morning. Good morning to you. We have a lot of questions about both your experience in prison, what took place before, and some of your views about whats taking place now. But i do want to read you something. You took to twitter right after getting out of prison effectively to some agree attacking joe manchin, senator joe manchin. He tweeted out something and sent out a statement that i just want to read to you and get your reaction to. He says that Don Blankenship doesnt have to answer to me, and he doesnt have to answer to federal authorities anymore. But he does have to answer to the loved ones of the miners who died in his mine for the rest of his life. His refusal to accept responsibilities for his criminal actions now only exacerbates these grieving families pains and the families of the 29 brave miners deserve better. I hope mr. Blankenship chooses to do the right thing and disappear from the public eye. Sir you are doing the opposite. Why . Well, because what the government has said about the explosion is untrue. And because if they dont tell the truth about it, coal miners remain at risk of natural gas explosions. The explosion was not a coal dust explosion. It was a natural gas explosion, following the governments requirement that the air flow be cut in half. Thats a fact that the prosecution witnesses against me testified to themselves. And joe and others continue to cover up the truth because they know that former uaw member was the head at the time and required that the air flow be cut in half and the explosion occurred shortly after that. And that based on forensics and chemistry it was purely a natural gas explosion, and they were untruthful about that. So its one of the easiest government coverups to uncover, because its just simply forensics and chemistry. Sir, i dont want to relit indicate the case and i do want to get to some of your views about whats taking place now. Four massey mines had injury rates more than twice the National Rate in 2009. This comes from Safety Inspection records from the mine safety and Health Administration. All 35 active underground coal mines, owned by massey, one of your mines in virginia had the highest injury rate in the country. At 9. 78. Does that does any of that rest on management . No when you pick a few mines out of 100 you can find some that are outside the average. But masseys average accident rate was stellar for 20 years. And during my tenure there we reduced the accidents by about 70 . The company had what is considered by most people in the industry the best Safety Program in the country, and employees at massey, in a private survey, expressed the view that 93 of them believed massey mines to be safer than other mines they had worked in. Sir, one more point on this. This is from an s. E. C. Filing. You were paid 17. 8 million in 2009 and i wonder whether this goes to the publics frustration about perhaps you and this issue. Even as some of the coal mines that he supervised accumulated safety violations and injury rates at rates that are greater greatly exceeded National Rates. You take issue with that . No. Theres no you know, 17. 9, whatever the number was, you know, accumulation of years you know how these complicated compensation packages work. Greatly driven off of share price and driven off of coal price. All that is unimportant to the real issue. The real issue here is that we had an explosion at a coal mine that was caused by a major inundation of natural gas shortly after the government required the mine managers to reduce the air flow. And that has been hidden. And the risk to coal miners because of behavior like that continues today. And looking forward, if we dont do some things to improve the laws, and the way were dealing with, and considering natural gas then we are leaving miners at risk. And thats really whats at issue. Don, what do you think the lesson is in this for you personally . Well, i dont think the lesson is for me personally. I think the lesson is that the mine safety and Health Administration should not be allowed to regulate a mine every day, require it to make changes that it doesnt want to make, and then when something goes wrong, investigate themselves. And issue reports by the United Mine Workers that didnt represent these miners, and have others that are politically connected. You know, worst thing might be that both the president of the United States at the time, and the head of mine safety in the u. S. Declared that the management people were responsible before the mine investigation ever began. And they continued to cover up the fact that the forensics, and the chemistry show it was natural gas, and that it was not coal dust. What was the those need to be addressed. You know, people are concerned about pay, certainly they should be concerned about the safety of miners in the future. Thats what this issue is about. What was your experience like over the past twelve months in prison . Well, it was different. Sort of like boot camp, i think. You know, it was without the extreme exercise. So it was it was not something you want to do. But as i went through it i tried to learn from it. I did learn a lot about the political and the judicial process, as well as the prison process. So i look at it as an education i wish i didnt have. But ill try to make use of it Going Forward. To the extent that youre right about what took place in this situation, and there are other ceos out there who are watching this program now, are there lessons in this for ceos who oversee large organizations, like the one that you did, and to the extent that you dont believe this was your fault, at least personally, how they should handle this . Meaning if you could go back and do it all over again, given what happened, would you have done anything differently . Well i mean theres a lot of things that should have been done differently in hindsight. But you know, the big thing was gas inundations in that area, not just at massey mines but at others that werent hydro carbon tested over the years which should have been done. But if you have nearmiss incidents, there needs to be a thorough investigation. The government has totally let the coal industry down in terms of innovation in areas of safety. They clearly have covered up what happened at ubb, and even though the there was never a willful violation written at this mine, you know, they accused me of a conspiracy to willfully violate mine safety laws without a coconspirator, and even though the security and Exchange Commission had no issue with any of our filings, they attempted to put me in jail for 25 years for s. E. C. Filings, when all i had done was sign the documents that the lawyers had prepared. So its a very Risky Business to be a ceo, because theres a sentiment against them. But the big issue here, we need to go back to every time is, senator manchin, and the government have not told the truth about this explosion, and coal miners are at risk throughout West Virginia. They basically placed a pennsylvania ventilation system on a West Virginia coal mine. I wont go into why thats important, except to say that in West Virginia, theres typically so little gas that you want to sweep it out of the mine. In pennsylvania the systems are designed to capture the gas and sell it in many cases. And when they came in and changed the ventilation plan, over the objection of the miners, they put their lives at peril and they lost their lives and the government felt they need to cover that up. Don, you just said so many things that id like to go back and dig through. For starters when you said if there was something you could do over, do over, you said there wasnt an investigation followed up after this. Is that something that you think that you and your company was responsible for or that the government wasnt policing you enough on . Well, there were incidents that should have been recognized. I dont know that by you or by the government . Well, i think that people who have knowledge of chemistry and geology and so forth which primarily would have been in the government wait a second. I assume that you running the mine, your company, would have some expertise in that area too. Well, we do have. But again, the Lesson Learned here is that Coal Bed Methane is not the only gas that presents the danger to coal mines. Natural gas obviously presents a danger to coal mines and theyre distinguishable by chemists. Theyre not distinguishable by regulators or coal miners. I guess my point is, youre blaming the government for forcing you to put in a Different Air mine shaft. Youre also blaming them for t not so youre saying they were involved too much but youre saying theyre not involved enough. What im saying is not complicated. They took away the most important thing to avoiding an explosion which was the air flow. But they did so knowing that there had been prior gas inundations in these mines and not just at the massey mine, but many mines in that area. And that they sometimes happen again still today. And no one has addressed that. So msha investigates all the coal mines and its totally different than the faa or the ntsb. Any Government Agency that regulates and investigates itself is an industry thats a Regulatory Agency thats dangerous because they never have a reason to come to the truth in order to avoid the accident from reoccurring. Don, before we let you go, as this interview has been going on we get a lot of viewers who have been watching this and tweeting out to us. One person says this, infuriating to hear blankenship to say everything besides sorry to the families of the 29 miners killed. Do you have anything you want to say to them . Yeah, i think the families need to understand that at this point we have to make sure we dont have to say sorry to other families. The key here is i have already said sorry to the families of these 29 miners. I dont have to say or for the industry have to say sorry to miners in the future. And thats what we have to get focused on at this point. Okay, don, we very much you appreciate us joining us this morning and we hope to talk to you as your journey continues. Thanks so much. Thank you. You bet. When we return, jim cramer joins us live from the New York Stock Exchange. Squawk box will be right back. Its over. Ive found a permanent escape from monotony. Together, we are perfectly balanced, our senses awake, our hearts racing as one. I know this is sudden, but they say if you love something. Set it free. See you around, giulia our 18 year old wase army in an accident. 98. When i call usaa it was that voice asking me, is your daughter ok . Thats where i felt relief. 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