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From there in london. The markets appeared to be settling down and we are joined by outstanding guests today. Led by bill gates. He would join us to talk about biotech and drug pricing. Alix cromwell we be joining us more regulatory hurdles facing the banks. But first, we have a slight rally on the table for today. Jonathan features are firming up about. 2 and the ftse is an positive territory and raising all of the post brexit gains. He dax is up as well i want to talk about what is happening i...

High and oils worth watching on a cautious note. Best buy surging. Hows the turnaround plan looking now . Oil pulling back. Why goldman sees little upward price action for about a year. Toll brothers on the rise. What their report tells us about the housing market. But first up, the big surprise in best buys quarterly results. Up point 8. Guidance goes higher for the coming year. Its funny. A lot of people were expecting this would be a story about gaming, maybe weaker and cell phones maybe weak...

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Percent or 29 points. Thats where we stand right now on this monday. Well, despite disneys new star wars movie absolutely crushing it over the weekend, crushing all box office records, in fact, the stock keeps on falling. Its down another 1 today. So youre looking at trading since friday, if we can bring up that board as well. There we go. Down from the 112 range to the 106 and change range as we see today. And, mandy, the driver here has been the btig media analyst rich greenfields two cnbc int...

Public, and we have some blast from the past sounds when he was talking with you, mr. Cramer. Yeah. Futures on the rise, and upbeat data on housing added to the positive sentiment. New Home Construction up 15. 7 in july, a rebound after two straight monthly declines. Building permits up 8. 1 , and meantime, Consumer Prices up only. 1 last month. The nasdaq closed at 14year highs. Yes, sir. I do remember march of 2000 quite well, actually. Yes. It was my birthday of that year that we hit 5,000, w...

Best buy, williamssonoma, earnings surprises to the upside. Omnicare gets taken out by cvs 98 a share. The ceo of Lumber Liquidators resigns. Salesforce up on good oldfashioned earnings. Hear what they told jim about the quarter and competitors. Best buy up sharply after beating the street with its First Quarter results. Its domestic business was stronger than expected, driven by demand for smart phones. Large screen televisions, major appliances. Williamssonoma exceeding forecast in q1, comps u...

For allegedly opening up customer accounts without consent, forging signatures. I mean is your identity safe anywhere . Well look at that story coming up a little bit. The rally continues on wall street today. I mean in this you know after we saw what happened, bill, with the fed, the 300point move we had after the fed decision to taper, you know the aftermath still remains pretty solid. Were adding another 70 points on that index today. The dow was 97 at its peak today, light volume. As we alwa...

Will talk more about that in a moment. Another tough overnight session for global losses in tokyo and india. The road map begins with the retailers rallying best buy, home depot, urban, and they all beat handily expectations, but slightly different than penny. Missing expectations, but trading up as the investors conclude that it could have been worse and appears to be better for eli musk and tesla. After the retailer posts better than stronger earnings and mobile phones and appliances were the ...

Welcome back welcome back to squawk. Lets get back to our guest host mark zandi who has the last word. All morning ive been talking about the next couple of quarters and i sound dark, and i dont mean to. I am very optimist being. What happened to the last two hours . You forced me. In the next couple of three quarters we cant look past that that i do think we have issues in the next few months, but ill give you one more last statistic. Every housing start requires five jobs for one year and Hous...

Coming under pressure amid questions about the feds commitment to keeping borrowing costs low and the spigot open. Economic tests, key reads on jobs, inflation and housing and on the corporate front, really Important Quarterly results from dow component walmart. Its thursday, february 21st, 2013 and squawk box begins right now. Morning, everybody. Welcome to squawk box here on cnbc. Im becky quick along with joe kernen and Andrew Ross Sorkin. Stocks selling off late yesterday after the release o...