But really and meeting. Opening up society. What we were talking about just now, we met all sorts of women who were saying ive owned a car for a decade but i have a driver who takes me to and from work and i cant wait to learn how to drive lot are starting to learn how to drive but in terms of how the culture is moving. Saying publicly they are looking to are a more moderate society essentially. By the way more moderate form of islam this is not without controversy though im sure. There is a huge other side. Hes pushing through, trying to push through this transformation and theres economic, by the way the entire driving industry, you talk about drivers, because all the women most professional women have drivers every day what happens to the drivers . But theres a whole thing going on with all of it but that whole 500 billion Economic Zone theyre going to create, the whole new city in the middle of the desert with klaus. With klaus its amazing we should all go there in ten years from now, when and if its done so we have had a lot of photo shoots yes and we never get totally i dont think comfortable. Were you comfortable, like out on the desert leaning back in that outfit with your leg up and everything was that a comfortable moment for you right there . Im uncomfortable watching it. Im uncomfortable watching it happening. Because ive never been comfortable when were mugging and i can never get a i felt you felt good, andrew of ara aarabia . I was so jet lagged could you do the si edition if they ask you to do a male he itition . I could not do the got to go to the gym but yeah maybe go to the surgeon. So sexy for my love i will say anthony chan is the lighting on this side, the sun is coming the wrong way. The picture looked good. Just turn your chin a little bit. Was he saying okay, feel it, andrew were they talking to you then . No, they didnt thats the best one no theres a better one than that is there really thats good. Lets check out the u. S. Equity futures in the meantime weve been a little bit mixed coming after the dow and the s p 500 or sorry the s p 500 and the nasdaq are coming off of record high closes on friday. The dow and the s p 500 are up nine out of the last 11 sexes. This morning the dow futures are indicated down by about 37 points the s p futures down by about 4. 5 points but the the nasdaq is indicated up by just over 4 points over night in asia, take a look the nikkei was up but just barely three points higher, 22,011. Hang seng down shanghai composite was down. In europe this morning with some of the early trading and talk we heard about spain and the concern there, spanish stocks still up by 1. 4 , even with everything thats been happening in catalan well talk about that in a little bit the footsy is down by. 1 . Italy, stocks are higher up by. 4 finally check out crude oil prices up by almost 2. 5 dollars last week. 53. 90. Trading just below that this morning down by 7 cents to 53. 83. We have a couple big stories this morning in deal news, dutch paint maker confirming it is in talks now with u. S. Rival coding systems considering a merger to create a 30 billion company. You may remember earlier this year that they faced lawsuits over its decision to reject a multibillion dollar takeover offer from u. S. Rival Ppg Industries other news, novartis, valued at 3. 9 billion and novartis says it will strengthen it oncology business. Strayer education and compel la education they Just Announced moments ago a stock for stock merger agreement valued at nearly 2 billion. So a lot going on there and little bit of earning news for you as well. Europes biggest bank is reporting fivefold increase in pretax profits q3, 2. 4 billion hsbc seeing that asia was the key growth driver accounting for 87 of its pretax profits. They completed nearly three quarters of a 2 billion Share Buy Back program it launched back in july. Nintendo raising its four year operating product due to Strong Demand for the switch gaming console they expect to sell 14 million up from a previous forecast of 10 million. Another takeover deal thats just out this morning, home builder lenar is building rival dealer calatlantic the transaction will create the Worlds Largest home builder up by 9 this morning on the news thats just out. Also, puerto rico is moving to cancel a 300 Million Contract with Whitefish Energy the Montana Company was hired to restore power to the island that was ravaged by Hurricane Maria the arrangement came under fire after reports that the deal was made without a Competitive Bidding process. Three quarters of puerto ricos homes and businesses still dont have power from the storm which hit about six weeks ago. They werent expected to get it back until december and some reports that this could set that process back by several weeks. It wasnt just that, all sorts of provisions in the deal. I dont know if you saw the contract, where there was almost like no accountability across the board. You couldnt get sued. It was very weird. It was a very strange contract. They have two employees. They had two employees a week before this deal hes come out and said that he had absolutely nothing to do with it. Thats just very he came out with a statement that said this is the onlyplac being from a small town would be a capital offense. Its weird a very strange bidding process the governor said they want to be out of it just to rid themselves of all the speculations surrounding it. Are you andrew to the poe laz owe stuff . The cover of the post is there, i dont know i saw the cover of the post quid pro quo thing that, i dont know, i havent been following it that closely. The guy who claimed he bought them for like 150,000. Lot of stuff in there not just with de blasio with the police and all this crazy stuff going on, plane rides and hookers. That part i missed. I didnt read the hooker part. Not with de blasio, this guy who is arranging all this stuff. Ill take a look. Will you see if theres anything to this, please. Ill do a little de blasio research. Hes done hes in. Yes, probably yeah. Huh got a lot of ads that ive seen on tv and its like new york is doing great from what i can tell, crime and everything, right . Crime statistics are down pretty sharply. It is pretty good. Lets tell you about another story this morning too Heathrow Airport is launching an investigation after a u. S. B. Memory stick containing security information was allegedly found on a london street that usb stick apparently had details on it, things like the route that is used by the queen and visiting dignitaries when they travel from Heathrow Airports and mapping pinpointing security cameras and a network of tunnels the man who found the usb stick turned it into the sunday mirror. Political news, investigators looking into russia interference with the 2016 president ial election are expected to announce at least one indictment today its been the conversation over the air waves and all of d. C. Over the weekend aim injavers. A federal grand jury here in washington, d. C. Has approved the first charges in the special councils investigation into russian interference in the 2016 president ial election. The indictment we are expecting will be made public today. Its not clear who is getting indicted, how many indictments were talking about or what the underlying alleged crimes might have been, but that report coming out on friday fueled the weekend, as youre talking about, speculation as to exactly whats going on here the president very frustrated over the weekend, tweeting out a number of things, including this all of this russia talk right when republicans are making their big push for historic tax cuts and reform is this coincidental not. The president had a number of seemingly angry and frustrated tweets over the weekend, but his attorney put out a statement yesterday saying that this had nothing to do with the special council investigation. Contrary to what many have suggested, the president s comments today are unrelated to the activities of special counsel with whom he continues to cooperate so, who could possibly be in the hot seat right now it is not clear. Speculation has centered on mike flynn, the former National Security adviser and also Paul Manafort the president s former campaign chief as possible targets of the investigation here whether they would be the officials indicted today unclear. It could also be some very minor or peripheral people involved in the story that special counsels office would be going after today. We have to wait and see. Could happen later on in the afternoon, not necessarily going to be a dramatic Early Morning arrest here. You could have a situation where the people just simply report to court after their Defense Attorneys have been notified of the indictment, guys. Eamon, it has been reported that manafort was told he would be indicted at some point, right. Yeah. Its been reported that he expected to be indicted at some point. Is it a mueller monday . Manafort monday or general mike monday, we dont know at this point, right we just dont know. Just dont know. Could be anybody you can imagine the media will be on high alert at all the courthouses that are relevant here and if we see somebody going into Court Somebody prominent or it could be a minor official, a family member, a lower level figure there have been a lot of reporting theres been a lot of reporting about the foreign agents registration act which requires lobbyists here in washington to register if theyre representing foreign governments and theres some indication that maybe investigators have looked into the idea that lobbyists havent been properly filing those disclosures and secretly working for foreign governments. That could be an issue here as well. Eamon, i saw a lot of conjecture about transactions with manafort in terms of things that may or may not be evidence of laundering of money going back that was all over the place all over the weekend yeah. So i dont know whether that and then i also say in previous situations like this they might be low level because they start out low level and they squeeze these guys to try to move up the chain or something. Yeah. I mean, old fashion fbi technique is you get somebody lower level in the organization, whether its the mafia or criminal enterprise or white collar fraud, you put the pressure on that person and you say, we can give you a slightly better deal here if you give us some information on the guy up the food chain from you. And a lot of times people look at ten years in prison versus one year in prison and theyll say, im going to give up th information. Okay. But we dont know whats going on here and we have to wait to see later in the day. Eamon, real quick, two other things that related to this, the journal calling for the resignation of mr. Mueller whats the back story there . Yeah. Well, its unlikely to happen. You know, mueller is fully engaged here and you saw a number of republicans over the weekend come out and say, in fact, mueller needs the space to do the job even the president is not calling for mueller to resign. The president is saying simply he wants this to be wrapped up as quickly as possible because he wants to get on with the business of the country. The president has called all of this a hoax and a witch hunt, but hes also said he wants muler to do the job and get it down quick. I dont know if you saw the report over the weekend about bannon and trump planning to go after paul singer of elliott management, somebody we talked to historically and ultimately may have funded some of the original russian dossier reporting. Yeah. That was an interesting one. There was a report over the weekend that paul singer, the Hedge Fund Investor through a subs sid yar of his called the Washington Free beacon, a conservative news publication here in washington, d. C. Had financed fusion gps, the private Investigative Firm that produced the dossier on donald trump which became so controversial earlier this year. According to the reporting, and i cant verify any of this myself, but according to what came out over the weekend, singers outfit paid for some research into donald trump through the private Investigative Firm and that firm later took on a democratic candidate, the Democratic National committee and Hillary Clinton who paid for Additional Research and that ended up becoming the dossier so theres questions about whether or not singer actually financed the dossier itself or just some earlier unrelated research that became powerful here in terms of politics of it but then he paid for some of the inaugural they. Singer flipped. Singer flipped he was a never trumper he did not want trump. He wanted marco rubio. Right. And he financed some investigation into trumps background in order to presumably politically damage donald trump and then when trump was elected singer donated, i believe it was 1 million to the inaugural committee and then has been touted by the president publicly as having visited the white house at least once that im aware of so thats you know, political flipflop on the part of singer who was investigating the guy and donating to his inauguration and participating in the administration. All right, thank you. You know whats starting trending on twitter, hot desert glamour shots, andrew. Nice. When do calendars come out in 2008 they dont its too late in january, right so what is it, october theyre in production now because they need to get those out by the holiday season. How many different shots for christmas. Do you have 12 different shots . We have a lot of different shots. Sunglasses on. Sunglasses off. Can i ask the most important questions for viewers, are there any other things youre wearing on wardrobe changes no. It depends on how much you think i hike my jeans up. People on twitter they do think, really, this is popular any way, lets take a look at the broader markets and the big economic dont we try for revenue . Ancillary revenue type opportunities at squawk box. Go triple triple play. Conferences, calendars. Joining us now david ballin over here managing director City Private Bank got a beautiful voice, strong voice. And anthony chan, chief economist for jp morgan chase. Its going to be powell, jay powell you like him you dont like the other guys too tight with their money. Yeah, well, after i buy andrews calendar, i think i can make a prediction for this the markets are anticipating no change from yellens positions that would be the most comfortable place. A worse choice or any other choice anything that gives us less clarity on what it is that will happen in the future i think could be damaging for confidence, but not a big deal. The dollar would soar if it were it could. Weve already seen the dollar rally 4 off its lows now and in fact, if anything you think of what could happen between the taxes and the fed choice, you could have the dollar rally some more this is a good time for u. S. Investors to really diversify offshore given whats going on right now. What do you think dollars move versus the euro in the last couple days . Well, i think realization that mario is not going to be in a rush got nine months of 30 billion euros every single month and tells us that maybe they wont be in a rush i agree with david that its probably good if we get a fed chair that is not very aggressive identi ive looked at the s p 500, the feds rate returns 2 or more, you get 8. 2 if its less than 1 jay powell would be lot less aggressive than other people being mentioned like john taylor. See if trump wants his own guy in there trump is not that different than yellen why make the move . Thats what president s do. Not always no, not always, youre right. Paul and alan greenspan, they were all also reappointed previously with other administrations. So why change but i think that the president wants to pick their own person jay powell is to some extent somebody that is being favored by Steve Mnuchin and others in the administration. You saw the journal today they got some nice charts of global stock market performance. So it is a synchronized move in a lot of the equity markets and i guess you would say its synchronized in terms of growth as well. How does the u. S. Play into the rest of the world growing faster is it were all doing it at the same time or part of the reason the rest of the world is growing faster is because were such a large part of the Global Economy . I think the u. S. Is an important part, but we know the u. S. Sort of got a head start. Europe is coming has it been tail winds from our economy thats helped globally or it all happened at the same time theres no question that you had all Central Banks keeping Interest Rates down. In japan they were keeping the tenyear jgb at 0 and negative rates in europe and of course here in the United States you have very low Interest Rates certainly over the last two years, joe, youve had close to 2 trillion dollars worth of quantitative easing every single year that has had some sort of an impact on trying to get this globalized sin crow anization of growth and also the imf upgraded their Growth Numbers not only for this year but for next year. Thats encouraging. Its the lead story, too, david. Investors have been buying assets when ever prices dipped it will continue it will continue. This is an earningsdriven story globally now and the ability for the u. S. U. S. Corporate earnings to continue to grow will be important. But were seeing a very large differentiation between u. S. Expected growth 6 to 7 next year. Whats happening overseas could be 10 to 12 so clients are really well suited to move money offshore, but the probability that well have higher equity markets in 2018 is really strong now based on the data. People told you we would have Global Growth of this magnitude, everyone would say absolutely not. Thats what the data is showing. Schizophrenia of what people are feeling in the marketplace and what the actual inform