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Its great to have you with us today. John, how about this story, ford getting destroyed today. Do we need to be more concerned beyond the auto sector. Well, judge, im not a big fan. I like their products but im not a big fan of ford, i havent been a fan of any of the Auto Companies in this country. In fact a much better buy would have been volkswagen even though they have the rigging of emissions. Dont you look at this story and say if the consumer has been a pillar of strength at least in certa...

Why did you do this . Well, you know, we had been looking at herbalife in the industry really since 2004, since we started our firm in 2003. It was always a fascinating story. Right . There were always sleazy things going on in the background, our opinion, and always an industry we thought was harming people, yet over the years they seemed to be growing rabidly. Not just herbalife, but the whole industry, an industry we realized coopted up a critics. Coopted the internet. Type in herbalife scam,...

Lets here from dr. Mark shown bou shownbound thanks for coming to the program. Thanks for having me. Is it real . It is reminded for people that do more than just biotech from the lows when the bull market started several years ago i think the seconder quadrupled or by some measured quinn tripled even half of a quinn truple is really good. Things cant go up that much forever, period. So theres that and then of course the drug pricing over hahang that was turned up last year when Hillary Clinton ...

And your money sound advice. Aa hard to believe, tyler, all over the next two hours. All of them are going to be here and more. Welcome everybody. Im tyler mathisen. Earnings a big driver for the markets this hour. We are in the heart of earnings season. And heres your stat of the day of the more than 200 s p 500 Companies Posted results so far this season, 72 of them have beaten on the bottom line. And this hour we will shine the spotlight on the mother ship, comcast, the owner of cnbc. Well al...

Up noorn more than 20 . People going towards the stocks. The question, is there going to be a potential cut in dividends. I dont believe so and utilities have ban great performer the last number of years. The hunt for yields is going to continue and the oneyear to 1. 48. Look, in utilities, theyre a special sector, because theyre a regulated entity. Theyll get enough to pay those dividends. See a massive recession, depression that will shut down terms of need for electricity and so forth. They c...

A slightly lower open. European markets have, well, weve been hearing from the ecb although not much action, there it is, at least the equity markets at this point lower, though fractionally so you have to say. How is the 10year note yield doing and crude oil, theres a look. 1. 6, 1. 6. Wow. Things are getting crazy there. Crazy. Wti you can see is right around 45, 50 or so this morning. Lets get to our road map. It starts with day four of the Republican National convention in cleveland. Ted cru...

Impose a fine and permanantly bar him from the Banking Industry stemming from their unauthorized use and disclosure of confidential supervisory information. My understanding is its not revealed in any of the particular documents but its internal ratings of other banks. This was a rating of another bank. Allegedly used in pitch meetings with clients and potential clients so this information just coming off of embargo now. Well have to talk to them and see what their side of the story is but for n...

Lets put on the fang trade. I think each of these companies specifically scott had something idiosyncratic and important an its own road map that sparked interest beyond just the last 90 days. Doc, facebook crushed it. Alphabet, mobile search driving. Amazon, the obvious thing, plus the cloud. These are not small revenue numbers were talking about here, judge. When looking at alphabet or google, up 25 year over year, the revenue side. This is a huge amount of revenue. This isnt like, you know, s...

Reaction to these lawsuits. Back to you. Bertha coombs at the doj. Good news. Good morning. Its 8 00 a. M. At qualcomm headquarters in san diego and squawk alley is live welcome to squawk alley. Were live in cleveland this morning, the site of the Republican National convention. Holding back the fort there. The night was supposed to belong to Donald Trumps running mate, mike pence, but it was ted cruz who stole the show not endorsing the ticket. Hes calling on voters to do this. Stand and speak ...

National committee behind me bringing this convention into session. Its a convention with high stakes for the Republican Party because donald trump is trailing Hillary Clinton. If you look at our nbc the wall street journal poll just out over the weekend, shes leading him 46 to 41 . Donald trump leads only in the south, trails every other region. Hes got to make up some ground. And hes got a task to both identify a broadly appealing message and also persuade voters that he is up to the job of be...