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One fed member indicated that he or she believes rates could rise a half percent at the december meeting, not just a quarter point. Surat, can stocks and rates both rise at the same time . I believe they can. The reason being that the fed has been actually pretty good at telling us what theyre going to do those expectations are baked into the market. The market hates uncertainty so whats driving this market and whats driven this market since last july are earnings global earnings are doing bette...

Josh, the store opening with a big product launch, not what it used to be, right there were the days when apple didnt do preorders. If you wanted to be the first with the product, you had to wait online. This time its very well choreographed. Im guessing there are more apple employees there maybe than there are people in line am i right no, absolutely, john. When i got here this morning, the lines not as strong as usual, although ill tell you, it has picked up now but i did talk to some people e...

Link and aaron brown with us as well and mike wilson here, Investment Analyst and chief executive officer. The russell 2000 is bucking the trend all the way on the righthand side. Mike, good to see you. Welcome back. Thanks. What do you make of the russell and what it says about where we are in this some rally . Other than torturing people its been a wild ride this year with the russell fortunately a couple weeks ago we doubled down on our smallcap call making the claim that we thought the tax h...

Good monday morning, welcome to squawk alley. Im carl quintanilla, sara eisen, john ford on the New York Stock Exchange joining us this morning from san francisco, kara swisher. Kara, good morning to you. Take a quick check here on the markets at 11 00 a. M. Eastern time dows trading down 75 and that was a very abrupt change from the morning session, or at least the open, after we got these comments from north koreas foreign minister via reuters saying the president s comments over the weekend w...

Im sara eisen at post nine, with me mike santoli john fortt is with a special guest. Carl has the morning off we do want to head some headlines that are just breaking from President Trump hes been meeting with members of the house ways and Means Committee. This is a walkup to the big tax reform framework announcement tomorrow here are the headlines President Trump says he and lawmakers will discuss a framework for tax reform before its release tomorrow thats whats going on today President Trump ...

Participating. We show where people are moving their money around and how fast these rotations actually occur bank of america, wells fargo, a name that a lot of people wanted to keep to the side, continue to move further and further up. Part of it is the rates, a lot of it is where people think were going to see more gains, the financials paused for a long period of time, they had a big bump after trump was actually the winner and suddenly it been in this flat moving around, somewhat volatile, i...

Pete, its the least volatile september ever you guys are going to dive into that in a bit over at the telestrator to show us exactly how. But man, the stocks have been steady. Yeah. And i think part of the story, scott, is just the fact that you mentioned steady we talked about rotation those all feed into this i heard bob pisani talking about lack of volumes. But its not a lack of volumes in the derivatives world or options world where we are consistently trading close to just under 17 million ...

Last among developed nations we pay the highest tax of any nation in the world. Our rate is the least competitive rate there is. Our business tax rate is 60 higher than our average economic competitor think of that. And then you say, how do you compete . Well, in many cases, you dont our companies leave. They go to other countries its a massive tax on every product made in america, giving countries like germany, south korea, china, and mexico, not to mention so many others, a massive head start ...

I believe thats accurate did h concert . I have no idea. Do now know what he did between checking in . Were following up on that. There will be hours and hour of surveillance that well have to recall the fusion center. Correct [ inaudible question ] i dont understand what youre saying. How could it happen . He was described as a lone wolf. I dont know how it could have been prevented if we didnt have any prior knowledge to this individual it wasnt evident he had weapons in his room. We have dete...

Of the last voice there, but it was an exchange between the two, senator Elizabeth Warren and tim sloan that was one of the more memorable moments. I think the reason that im the right person to run this company today, notwithstanding your criticism, is because i have been making change at this company for 30 years. Are you kidding you know, look, youve been there for 30 years and every one of my colleagues on both the republican side and the democratic side who have spoken so far have talked ab...