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We will get their takes on all the news of the day in just a second. First lets begin with the deal of the day. That is maybe the deal of the year, really. Microsoft buying linkedin. Jon fortt joins us with more. Hey, jon. We spoke to Satya Nadella in the last hour. I asked him specifically about the value that he saw in this deal, what are the crown jewels that linkedin has to offer in this acquisition. Heres what he had to say. These professionals are using office 365 on one side and linkedin ...

Taxes, and 99 is going out in two category, interest on the federal debt, and mandatory payme payments on entitlements and that is not a lot for public inv investment, and it is clearly not driving private investment. You are working on short term activity now, and you are monitoring it closely that you are on the daytoday basis following the economy now which you have suggested that is doing well, and think they a lot of us would disagree that 3. 25 is inappropriate and i know that you are opti...

We were talking about the fouryear anniversarile earlier in the week, kara . Yes, that is a disaster, and remember that . That seems so long ago. Yes, it feels like most people in Silicon Valley agree, it is the most powerful company, and cohesive management, and doing ip novations, and fascinating m a, and hitting on all cylinders except for the recent conservative backlash from the trending area, but from the stockholders point of view and investors they couldnt be happie happier. And kara, th...

Doc, you are on the island and you are saying that they wont go at all. Well, no, i said that once this year, and i think it is december, and we will see whether or not they go, judge, because it is closer, and closer to the coin toss as to what janet yellen says tomorrow, and that is going to influence the markets. Today a trade in the vix, and the reason i bring it up is that a lot of people were voting that the vix goes down lower and one of the reasons is that if ms. Yellin is dovish tomorro...

Good morning. It is 8 00 a. M. In code conference here in rancho palos, and it is 11 00 a. M. On squawk alley are, and we are live. Good wednesday morning and we are live from the code conference, and Kayla Tausche is live at the New York Stock Exchange and here out west is with me is jon fortt and erinn lee and alex goodman. And now, the content is making headlines last night with jeff bezos, and here is what he said. I think of them as seeds being planted, and will ta turn into trees. And Amaz...

Trades, and george soros, and the purchasing, and what are you seeing . Well, as far as june when we were watching the unusual activity, it seemed that people were looking for the places to be, and that they find to be defensive, scott, and it seems that everybodys at least sounding an alarm about, hey, look, we will get a pullback or the easeback or something, 2 , 4 , 5 , and everybody has their own percentage, but the folks piling into the gold, when you are looking at the list some of the sma...

Will have the looming brexit vote on the hill, and other events to influence the outcome of where the major averages head from here. And steve weiss, the stocks had started to sell off a little bit into the program, and what are you making it, amid the bullard comments that it is a full capitulation . Yes, the second capitulation that we have had, and first yellen came out and had the press conference, and before in the fed note that came out with the meeting basically said, hold on. We are not ...

Wellcome to squawk alley for this thursday. Kayla tausche, and along with vanity fair correspondent nick out west. Good morning to you. Good morning. And now, redstone says that he no longer trusts the ceo, and he says that he is determined to trust in the company and not the shareholders to do the best for them. And so yesterday on fast money we spoke to tom freston. Well, the lawsuits and Everything Else has been a side show compared to the real story which is the fall of viacom from grace ove...

A lot of uncertainty globally. I think youll see money continue to come here in the u. S. , and i think that youre going to probably see quality dividend stories that have been working, continue to work, but i also think youll see maybe small caps start to do a little better, and i wouldnt just say you want to be in defensive stocks like the utilities and telecom. You want a feel of them, but also you want some of the cyclical names, too, that have yield. Buy industrials with a 4 , 5 dividend yi...

Consolidation mode and we cant rally unless oil stops going down, which it might not, hence todays decline. Dow tumbling 120 points, s p plungi plunging 1. 2 . All right. So with that in mind whats on tap for next week . The market moving action ahead frankly is not going to be out of earnings as you can tell from most of these in front of me its in global events and it starts sunday with chinas may industrial and retail production figures. As has been the case for ages the estimates and i was l...