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Pete at least one of the reasons why i say its a 40 cash last week. Petes in cash, too. The market has been looking past it. Things keep popping up and eventually the market is not going to look past it. I dont know if this is the big one, so to speak, but you have to worry. There are these kneejerk tweets, so to speak. I know jim says you cant govern by tweet. But yet theres not a lot of follow throughs. The scary thing to me was what he did with the security counsel which was taking off nation...

Managing director walter pryce and pipers tech analyst mike olson. Jon . And apple snapping three straight quarters of falling sales. The company posting betterthanexpected Quarterly Results thanks to its Services Business and the iphone 7 plus. Our josh lipton is at one market with the details. Josh . Well, jon, apple beating on the top and the bottom, driven by more than 78 million iphone units. Apples stock moving higher this morning, hitting highs it hasnt seen since the summer of 2015. Tim ...

Demeaning process. And very demeaning on the other side. And they want to make you look as bad as possible. And of course the press can be very demeaning, too. But im sure the press will be very dignified in this case. Thats the word. I think hes a very dignified man. Id like to see him go through a dignified process. I think he deserves that. Hopefully it will go quickly. And well see what happens. So what we might do is just that, we might ask for the folks in the room just to give yourself a ...

Joining us here. There are reports that alphabet and other Tech Companies drafting a letter opposing the administrations temporary immigration ban, according to recode. An early draft we are a nation made stronger by immigrants. As entrepreneurs and business leaders, our ability to grow our companies and create jobs depends on the contributions of immigrants from all backgrounds. While security and vetting procedures can and should always be subject to continuous evaluation and improvement, a bl...

Look at the vix at 11. Yep. The vix is at 11. Yesterday somebody came into the s p 500 pit in the last hour of trading, and bought a whole bunch of protection that expires monday next week. These are s p 500 puts at the 2250 strike. They have already lost a pile of money on that trade. Put up 4 million, lost 5 or 600,000. So the big money is still protecting. Is not complacent. They have been doing similar things in the vix pit. Putting on protection ahead of the jobs report. And or whatever mig...

Pressures on. Judge, the banks are going to bring it. And i think pete and perhaps josh earlier in the week were both talking about how the pause button was hit for the financials. Could have been you as well, steph. Do we just hit play again today . Yes, we did just hit play again today. And turned the volume up. Significantly higher for a whole host of reasons. Not the least of which this week we had a lot of chatter about regulation roll back. Weve had dodd frank. How many times. If we had a ...

Questioning where your growth is going. Yeah. Whats happening . First of all, i think we need to control the narrative a bit. When people refer to the last Earnings Call we were for q3, plus 22 on the top line and plus 23 on the bottom line. We narrative we taught about is where we saw operating income. Fourth quarter, great back to school. We felt good. What weve learned though and i think what weve seen is this business is much more. We have a Growth Company. Current outlook has double digit p...

Thats right, carl. President trump tweeting from his handle realdonaldtrump my daughter, ivanka, has been treated so unfairly by nordstrom. She is a great person, always pushing me to do the right thing. Terrible this is in response to nordstrom saying that they have pulled their merchandise, as every year, at 10 of the goods they sell and make decisions based on what is selling and what is not. Some read that as the impact of the boycott on donald trump and trump merchandise at a variety of ret...

Now theyre talking about funding original content. Netflix. So theyve been late to the party on everything. Where have they innovated aside from when they came out oh. Why do they have to come out with somebody first as long as theyre doing it better. Who says theyre doing it better . Well, well, well. Steve weiss, did you buy a little apple today . I did. Im not going to tell you the physical circumstances upon which i bout it but you though them. Heres thank god. Yeah. Heres why i bought it. I...

There. So much more to talk about, but i hope to check in with you over time. I hope so, too. David, appreciate your time. Bob bakish, ceo of viacom. Carl, back to you for the start of squawk alley. Good stuff, david. Thank you so much, david faber. Its 8 00 a. M. At twitter headquarters in san francisco, 11 00 a. M. On wall street, and squawk alley is live. Good thursday morning. Welcome to squawk alley. Jon fortt, sara eisen and myself at post 9. Dows up 101. Record highs for the dow, the s p ...