President trump already making comments over the last few weeks about toyota, motor taxes, things like that. Certainly commenting as well on japans currency. All of this impacting how we think about various aspects of the market. So this is an important meeting today. They will meet at the white house. Then head down to florida for a round of golf, maybe more than one. Still waiting on that. But they will head down to maralago where we understand Prime Minister abe will be staying at maralago as well which is interesting news in and of itself. We continue to watch the story. Youre looking at the japan nikkei. Since donald trump was elected president , up double digits. Were going to take you to the white house once we see the delegation arrive. I have the traders in front of me today as well. Ive got steven weiss, josh brown. Steve, weve entertained this conversation almost daily now as to which markets you really want to be in. This is a reminder of things happening outside the u. S.
Good friday morning. Welcome to squawk on the street. Post 9 this morning. Jon fortt has the morning off. Watching the markets closely, the u. S. Employee number, 178,000 new jobs in november. Thats according to the labor department, almost in line with estimates. The Unemployment Rate ticks down to 4. 6 , the lowest level in nine years. Hourly average earnings falling 0. 1 , the final number before the meeting this month. Mike, we took your temperature on it. We talked to jan about essentially what hes calling full employment and whether and when wages catch up. Thats right. Basically its the economy we thought we had, the labor market we thought we had coming in. The market maybe dodged a slight bull net the sense it cements the certainty about december and what the fed will do. To on the wage front, i feel like the market is not getting too concerned about that mostly because the mix is probably partially to blame. So in other words, a lot more younger workers, fewer Older Workers t
Ended the business. The man through a gun and pointed it at the workers head. Keep quite or well kill you. That was a bad the conversation. Keep quite or well kill you. Security camera video shows the armed man dragging the worker into a boiler room where he rummages through her pockets as the female accomplice rivals through the office. Snatching more than 200 in cash and another 400 in quarters. At one point the coin spill all over the floor and the they have tries desperate toll scoop them up. Final nasty touch, the thief grabs one more item on her way out the door. Thats the victims coat worker got out of the boiler room and called police once the thieves were gone. How they didnt kill that lady is beyond me. Shes very very lucky lady. Victim was too 48 tend to talk to reporter owner of the laundromat did not want to talk on camera for fear of his safe team his father opened this place a dozen years ago and there had never been a violent incident of any kind till now. Early morning
Host european professor of history and author of this book artist under hitler where did this idea come from . This book project is the completion of a trilogy the a. D. It began 30 years ago i was at Harvard University as a student studying french history refer semester or graduate school the professor said you will specialize in this narrow topic so write a Research Paper on a different era and different country of topic so was studying german as an undergraduate i was interested in world war ii my father was born in athens in the thirties and i grew up with stories so World War Two seemed to be a central event in and and they just keep up with this idea of the art collections of the the nazi leaders and i was surprised of that they devoted so which time to art and cultural matters. The professor said you could write a doctoral dissertation of collecting and when a professor says that you take notice. I thought about it and realized i was tremendously interested in with of philosophi
17, coming up toward 280, north of 280, Stevens Creek east to san carlos avenue, and over to s. A. P. Center, because of the procession ending up at s. A. P. Center. There will be a lot of crowds gathering here. Folks, if youre heading to the memorial, we urge you to take mass transit because of all of the traffic expected. Throughout the course of the morning bob redell is at the s. A. P. Details, hell have more details momentarily. Meantime, new this morning, one man is under arrest after a security scare in brussels. A busy shopping area went under lockdown. Authorities say a mans belt only contained salt. The shopping area remains under tight security. For the second time in a week, an investigator with the Alameda County da has been placed on leave. In this case, according to a source in the department, the issue centers around racist texts. An insider tells nbc bay area the man is accused of receiving the texts and not reporting them. Acting assistant chief David Downing is now t