the dollar index drops to the lowest several since january of 2015 a look at what's behind the move straight ahead. irma taking aim at florida the category 5 storm roars in the atlantic as hurricane jose poses a new threat. and historic hack. equifax breached exposing more than 140 million americans to identity theft what you need to know coming up. it's friday, september 8, 2017 "worldwide exchange" is coming up right now good morning happy friday welcome to "worldwide exchange"

on cnbc. i'm sara eisen >> i'm wilfred frost we'll get to the global market picture in just a moment and hurricane irma and today's agenda first overnight a powerful magnitude 8.1 earthquake striking off mexico's surn coast ea southern coast this morning this triggered a tsunami warning. the epicenter hit about 70 miles off the coast of chiapas, mexico multiple aftershocks have been recorded we continue to follow details of that story >> a bit of a market reaction. peso getting hit on that let's get an update on hurm machlt the most p hurricane irma it's still a category 5. wind speeds decreasing to 160 miles per hour t is headed for miami. the death toll has reached 12.

forecasters say irma has peaked in intensity and it is supposed to weaken slowly, but even a slightly weaker irma is expected to do serious damage a full report coming up as florida, georgia and the carolinas all brace for irma's arrival. this is the front page of all the newspapers with florida expecting a direct hit this weekend. >> let's check in on the global market picture this morning. we had a slightly negative day yesterday for the dow, the s&p, the nasdaq was fractionally higher solid declines, down 1% for the dow, a half percent for the s&p and nasdaq most of those declines did come on tuesday after monday's holiday and various north korea headlines. it looks like we will add to the declines today the dow called lower by 35 points the nasdaq by 11, the s&p by 4 or 5 points. let's look at the dollar

that was the big mover yesterday. the dollar index itself against all currencies down 0.8% it was sparked by mario draghi's ecb press conference it didn't just lead to a move against the euro the euro firmly back above 1.20. another day of dollar weakness particularly against the yen 107.71 the pound up to 1.314. part of this is the yield story. the ten-year treasury note back below 0.5% 2.04% this morning mario draghi didn't really say anything that bullish for the euro they lowered their inflation forecast for next year ecb has a single mandate either way, it sparked a broad selloff. >> because he didn't jawbone the euro weaker in a stroke enough way, so everybody took it as a license to keep buying it. he talked about how the strong euro is impacting inflation,

they have to work on it, incorporate their analysis and decisionmaking but he did not say anything about extreme moves, or anything -- >> but that's not in his mandate. i didn't expect that personally. it was an odd spot for it. if we look at the euro/dollar pair, yes, yield differentials between treasuries and bunds have moved in a way the last three, four months to suggest the euro needed to rally, but not to this extent i don't see what spark was yesterday to see it jump up again. >> we talked to strategists about this, it was happening on "squawk on the street," beyond the euro factors, the fact that draghi's lack of stronger words was a license to buy north korea creating a safe haven bid for u.s. treasuries, yields lower, dollar weaker has been a theme the euro has looked at now as a safe haven

there's political nows around the u.s. none of these are as strong as rate moves, but all of this you hear -- >> if you're buying u.s. treasuries for safe haven trades, that's buying of dollars as well. >> but it's lower yields, money chase yields that's a weaker dollars. if foreigners are buying treasuries, they are also buying equities >> the nikkei closed lower by 0.6% hong kong up a half percent. that was the bright spot in the region shanghai comp was flat for the session. as for the early action in europe, let's show you what's happening there. we're seeing some softness german dax was selling off i thought it was interesting to see the stocks withstand the euro strength yesterday in the session. that's been a weak point because of the exporters >> particularly the dax which has a lot of exporters within it, up about a percent the loser of the week is the

ftse 100 the dax has had a good week. oil has had a good week. up nearly 3% -- 4% for the week coming into today. but losing 0.6%. so it takes the gains for the week closer to 3% for wti crude. 48.8 gold prices to round things off, also had a decent week up 1.5% before today's trade so a 2% gain week to date. 1356 for gold. florida bracing for hurricane irma let's get the latest on where the storm is tracking. kalee dionne joins us now. >> reporter: as of 5 clock the storm has weakened a bit more. it's down to 155-mile-per-hour winds. the storm very strong. still a large, major hurricane what's happening here, why it's weakened is because it's going through an eyewall replacement cycle. there's stronger thunderstorms

outside the eyewall that is now having the inner eyewall collapse we expect once that eyewall forms back up again for it to increase in intensity. so you will see fluctuations going from category 4 to category 5 it's still over very warm water and it will continue to do so until it gets to south florida here's the updates overnight hurricane warnings issued for south florida. hurricane warning for the bah a bahamas and some of the northern shore of cuba also hurricane watches as far north as west palm beach and the southern edge of central florida a lot happened overnight we are still expecting the potential in regards to track, if you want to move over here, you can see the track better that will go towards south florida. everyone needs to be prepared and finish that this morning >> thank you for the warning there. wanted to ask you -- i'm read being barbuda's prime minister saying the island is

barely habitable as we look at some of the destruction irma caused now we're on guard for hurricane jose what do we know about this. >> hurricane jose won't pose a threat to the united states but some of the islands will be on the outer edge of that storm it's a major hurricane, category 3 storm. they'll not only deal with storm surge once again, but also some very strong win gusts. unfortunately that island is in for it again as we go into the rest of the afternoon today. >> we'll continue to watch the track. thank you. among the top corp trorate stories, equifax says a cyberattack revealed the data of 143 million consumers. >> reporter: equifquifax says tt criminals used a vulnerability to get access to certain files potentially 143 million

consumers were affected. the data includes names, birth dates, driver's licenses and social security numbers. in addition, three equifax senior executives sold sock on august 1st and 2nd after the breach was discovered but before the cyberattack was revealed the firm said the trio had not been informed of the incident and had no knowledge of the issue before selling shares worth almost 1$1.8 million look at the stock. equifax shares are tanking on the news, down about 13.5% on early trading. >> third of americans now have their information exposed on the dark web we're talking about social security numbers how do we know -- >> you can call in, but some have tried to call in and it wasn't working i haven't had the update yet, they are setting up ways to see if your information was exposed. right now, hope for the best >> just to be clear, do you have to be an equifax customer or is it just anybody who has had a

credit check. >> do you have to be a customer. you have to call in, check and see if you were one of those like you said, it's a whole, whole ton of the u.s. that uses this service >> landon, thank you very much for that all sorts of corporations use it to do checks even if people are not sure they themselves have signed up for equifax, they could be used by it particularly damaging for a company like equifax whose job is data analysis jt a >> and identity theft. >> it's a damaging blow for their image. down 13% this morning. don't miss the 2017 cambridge super summit on october 4th bringing together top technology leaders, ceos and officials to discuss the latest on cybersecurity there's a pair of economic reports to wrap up the week today. july wholesale trade numbers out

at 10:00 eastern at 3:00, july consumer credit. philly fed president patrick harker speaks at a conference on consumer behavior. kroger will report before the opening bell the cfo will be on "squawk box" at 8:20 eastern. a few weeks ago, the ceo of kroger came on cnbc to talk about the new whole foods deal and how he was not threatened by it, wasn't threatened by lower margins or the move into online groceries by amazon. i think there's still questions for investors. >> we'll hear the answers later today. new york fed president bill dudley says the central bank should continue gradually raising interest rates in a speech the policymaker pointed to expectations for a rebound in inflation unlike his comments from a few weeks ago dudley did not go as far to say he expected to raise rates once more this year. don't miss steve liesman's

exclusive interview with dudley today at 10:00 eastern can he stem that slide we saw in the dollar this week the house is expected to pass a 15$15.3 billion disaster relief package today that bill linked to an increase in the debt ceiling which would keep the government operating for three additional months. it was passed by a vote of 80-17. the house vote would send the plan to the president for the signature. this is the deal he made with the democrats attaching the harvey aid to both the continuing resolution and the debt ceiling in corporate stories, adp is pushing back against blackman's pershing square. in a lert the hedge fund said it would end its proxy contest if adp expand its board but in a statement adp responded that pershing square's approach spren hissings to

risks to shareholders. shares of akzo nobel are down the company says it will not achieve its operatingised was tr in july, akzo's ceo also quit due to health reasons. second quarter results for c cloudera rose. it is raising its full-year outlook. up 44% this morning. shares of american outdoor brands are sliding the gunmaker reported first quarter earnings and revenue that fell short of forecast. this quarter faced a challenging comparison to last year which was driven by demand for firearms on concerns about potential gun control legislation in the u.s finisar is reporting first quarter earnings in line with

estimates. the fiberoptics company gave a second quarter outlook that missed forecasts. veriphone reporting a surprised third quarter loss due to restructuring charges related to china operations. they also gave a weak outlook for the current quarter redfin's second quarter earnings in line with expectations. the. zumiez is reporting a narrower second quarter loss revenue slightly topping forecasts. same-store sales rose nearly 5%. merck says a closely watched clinical trial shows combining a drug with chemotherapy appears to provide durable benefits for people with advanced lung cancer that was previously untreated. the fda approved the drug cocktail in may.

merck says people in the trial survived 19 months on average before the disease got worse versus about nine months for those on chemotherapy alone. the fda sent a warning letter to a unit of fiz their manufacturers the epipen saying the company failed to investigate product failures even in cases where patients died the epipen is sold by mylan but is produced by pfizer's meridian unit between 2014 and this year meridian received 171 complaints about injectors that failed to activate in a statement pfizer says it is confident in the safety and effectiveness of epipens produced at its site. >> when we come back, wells fargo one year later did they manage to shake off the fake accounts scandal? and then later this morning, don't miss an interview, nelson peltz is joining "squawk on the street" to talk about his new white pipe argaper arguing for s

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single nickel of personal earnings >> mr. stumpf, are you considering resigning? will you give up your own bonuses? >> tim sloan will take over as ceo of wells fargo and that ceo john stumpf will retire as chairman and ceo >> i guess all of that happened within the first month of that breaking you've been following the developments since then. and some news items to still worry about here. >> yeah. and a perspective of what comes next for them. it got worse for stumpf, he had to $69 million of pay nine members received 70% approval or lower. that led to a new chairwoman being announced last month but the most significant recent revelations, as you were saying, the original sales scandal could have affected 3.5 million accounts rather than 2.1 million

on top of a fresh issue in auto insurance. that raised questions about the new year-old leadership team given their messaging earlier in the year >> you said in the past that you thought things would get worse before they get better where are we on that sort of scale of things? is the worst behind you? is it improvement in sales numbers in terms of trends from here >> i think so. i think so we accomplished all the business changes we wanted to accomplish, now it's about execution >> where do things stand now do new revelations of false accounts, auto lending issues and lawsuits need to lead to more ninl cofinancial costs? the company says no. secondly, has the share price taken a hit? the price has underperformed the bank index by 27% already, almost all of that from lost multiples, not lost earnings question three, does there need to be more board changes the august announcement saw 3 of 15 leaving with one new addition final question, tim sloan's

position, is it safe given the most haven't extension of the cross-selling scandal under his watch? that's a question for the new chair, betsy duke to answer. certain politics would love to have their say that share price relative to the rest of the index quite stark. why are the new revelations and issues coming to light why hasn't there been a more thorough investigation to put it behind them as they've been trying to do for the whole year? >> that's a totally legitimate question clearly these things did not happen on tim sloan's watch, but in march he said the worst is behind him you're seeing this come out later. it's a worry for the bank. if you talk to the analysts, they're not that bothered about the extension of the number of potential accounts in the cross selling scandal. that came from an extension of the time frame the auto lending issue is more of a wildcard for them the other wildcard is if these guys have to go down in front of another political hearing, it gets so much focus with that

does that do more reputational damage so far this hurt the bank share price based on multiple as opposed to earnings. still 30%. >> feels like one thing going for the banks, there's a mood in washington to alleviate some pressures on the banks, to deregulate, make life easier, get them loaning again so you don't have the bankers coming in facing the tough questions like you used to. >> that's one factor a big factor the other factor is mr. stumpf faced this at the end of a period -- a congressional period coming into an election, they didn't have much else on the agenda now they have so much on the agenda, that pushes the likes of this down for the consensus view. when we come back, the pharma breaux o at it again. why the dsfe wanted shkreli's revoked.

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the dollar index drops to its lowest level since january 2015 irma taking arm e ining aima the category 5 storm roaring in the atlantic and historic hack. equifax breached exposing more than 140 million americans to identity theft what you need to know coming up. it's friday, september 8, 2017,

you're watching "worldwide exchange" on cnbc. good morning welcome back to "worldwide exchange" on cnbc. i'm sara eisen >> i'm wilfred frost good morning and happy friday to you from me as well. >> let's check in on global markets. stocks are lower for the week as a whole. and this morning we're looking at continued weakness. a little bit on the futures. dow futures down about 16 points s&p futures down by less than 2. nasdaq down half a point saw some weakness yesterday in groups like financials on the back of those lower treasury yields disney issuing a profit warning. comcast and cable stocks getting beat up yesterday. the u.s. dollar, that's the main theme of the markets this week and overnight. we see new lows for the u.s. dollar against the euro, charging towards 120.54 it is near the highest point since back in 2015 dollar weaker against the japanese yen, also this morning

by 0.6%. that's a strong move into the yen. and it's even weaker against the british pound, 131.55. a lot of reasons for it. draghi seemed to spark the move yesterday on that stronger euro, not doing enough to squash the stronger euro, even though the ecb is not happy about it. you have factors like north korea, which a lot of people say is boosting the price of gold, the weaker dollar boosting treasuries you have got the political turmoil in the u.s. and some uncertainty around the legislative agenda all of this factoring in either way it will be helpful for the multinational u.s. companies reporting earnings to have that weaker dollar >> sure. the dollar index against all of these currencies down, including today's moves, 1.6%, 1.7% a bigger move. y yields have moved lower, 2.4% on the ten-year treasury note, all of this sparked by mario draghi on the ecb side why are we moving to clearly to the down side against all of

these currencies it is a surprisingly big move. >> there's the ten-year. it's below 2.04. we're at the lows of the-year. >> it is i feel the moves sparked by things like mario draghi yesterday, who did not even say anything particularly -- >> some saw him as dovish. >> i thought he was dovish >> they massively reduced their inflation target for next year that's what dollar is doing who would bet against it at moment asian equities for you now as well, which are finishing the week mainly in the red mixed. hong kong posting a positive return european trade for you, which has been quite diverse this week japan -- germany is up over a percent for the week as a whole coming into today. the ftse 100 is down over a percent for the week oil prices which have had a decent week have been up nearly 4% coming into today they lost half a percent or so more like 3.25% of gains for the

week 48.8 gold prices to round things off, up about a percent and a half coming into today. adding about a half spent more 1356 the price of gold. florida is bracing for hurricane irma let's get the latest from kalee dionne >> we were waking up news this morning that irma downgraded to a category 4 hurricane i want to put it in perspective, first, it's 155-mile-per-hour winds. category 5, 157 miles per hour it's a huge major hurricane still. and look, jose right behind it, it's a major hurricane, category 3. you can see a huge distinction in size. irma is huge it's very wide the wind field will be 185 miles per hour -- or 185 miles for tropical storms for winds, up to 70 miles wide in regards to

hurricane-force winds. this is a huge storm when could south florida see something? it will move between cuba and the bahamas throughout the day today. and looks to make landfall in south florida early sunday morning. way before that you could see tropical storm-force winds in you look at the area in yellow, they could see those winds as early as saturday throughout the day saturday it will inch up higher into central florida. into sunday, those hurricane-force wind also go up. we'll watch this we'll track it still looks on track for a south florida landfall guys >> thank you very much for that. let's move on and get a look at how things are in florida this hour jackie deangelis joins us from ft. lauderdale with the latest >> good morning to you there's a lot of activity on the ground even this early in the morning. especially at this gas station behind me which still has gas. the manager told us on a normal

day at this time he has 5,000, 6,000 gallons, he got a shipment last night that gave him 10,000, but he thinks that will only last through half of today people are taking a wait and see if they should get out of here, but today is the last day to get out. the gas station across the street from me is completely out of gas, boarded up governor scott said yesterday they would take emergency precautions to get some of the remaining supplies, gasoline supplies out of the port and into the places that needed them we actually observed some of this process happening some of the petroleum products going off of the ships, getting loaded into trucks we have video of that for you. but at this point it's one of those situations where if you have not left yet, you probably want to leave early. we're hearing reports that traffic on the roads going north right now is pretty heavy and it has been heavy a steady stream of it as people try to evacuate.

i will say this it's been orderly. i got gas at this gas station last night people were not fighting they were patient. doing the right thing by one another. so let's hope that that momentum lasts. guys, back to you. >> absolutely. thank you very much from ft. lauderdale >> the impact hurricane harvey had on east houston and east texas is showing up in the economic data. jobless claims jumped by 62,000 to 298,000 the largest increase since 2012 after hurricane sandy. flooding and damage in texas expected to cause economic disruptions including significant job losses temporarily. joining us is kathy berera from zip recruiter. it's interesting that harvey hit america's fourth biggest city. so we are expecting this to have a continued impact on the economic data and florida also is home to some major hubs

>> that's true, when we look at mick indicators for the labor market we're better off looking at local indicators rather than the national indicators when we look at the impact of a situation like harvey. >> how will this compare to a storm like ka treen trina in te impact >> labor markets unlike other markets fors good and services are highly localized workers tend to live closely to where employers are situated when you have a big daisaster like this, it will impact both sides of the market, both the number of jobs available and the labor availability katrina was an interesting situation because so many people were displaced there was a labor

shortage that resulted in some areas wages being driven up. when we look at these indicators, we need to look at multiple data points in order to get a feel for the situation now, it seems that in houston fewer people are displaced so in new orleans, they lost about half the population a year later, it seems like around 100,000 homes were impacted in harvey >> it's a question of the jobs coming back online as posed to the labor being available. >> it's both so we want to look at two things one is the business side obviously repairs to facilities, rebuilding are issues. you also want to think about whether the demand for the goods, those businesses are producing is going to be impacted so in the aftermath of katrina that was an issue because the economy there was largely

tourism base that may not be an issue in a place like houston then you also want to look at what's happening with the displaced individuals and families and whether the labor is still going to be there in katrina that was a big problem. it seems like that's going to be less of a problem with hurricane harvey >> when you talk about the temporary messiness of the data as a result of these storms, how temporary is that? how long does that last before it gets back to normal >> that depends a lot on the issue of displacement. so for the aftermath of katrina, people were displaced for a very long time. in more recent hurricanes like sandy, people were able to get back into their homes much faster so there's less disruption to the labor market >> you talked about this being more of a local issue if we step back and think of the nation's data, gdp, will this have an

impact >> i'm not sure that we'll see it reflected in the numbers for a couple of reasons. one is that again, these are such localized places that it is unclear whether or not we'll see it particularly again in the labor market numbers houston has slightly less than 1% of the u.s. population, so i don't think we'll see huge jumps in something like the unemployment number. that being said, there's a lot of national businesses there, so when we look at indicators like gdp we might see more of an impact >> you said look at the localized data how do you do that what kind of data? >> the bls will break down their numbers, jobs added, even unemployment by state, and you can sometimes even get to more localized regions if you look at some of the detailed data. >> got it, kathy thank you for

dropping by. >> thanks for having me. talking about the labor market impact of some of these storms equifax says a cyberattack has exposed the personal data of about 143 million u.s. consumers. the company says criminals exploited a website vulnerabilities to gain access to certain files here's what we know. equifax discovered the breach july 29th. the data exposed includes names, birth dates, addresses, driver's licenses and social security numbers. in addition, three equifax senior executives sold stock on august 1st and 2nd after the breach was discovered but before the cyberattack was revealed the firm said the trio had not been informed of the incident and had no knowledge of the issue before selling shares worth almost $1.8 million. to check if you're involved go to www.equifaxsecurity2017.com

equifax shares are tanking on the news, down 13% the story here is how broad this is and how much data is compromised. you often hear about cyberattacks, like yahoo! huge in scale, affecting a lot of americans but not involving peoples social security numbers, addresses, birth dates that's a new level >> the other question is who will take the fall for this based on recouping the customers that have been hit clearly we don't sign up to equifax directly if we're taking a mortgage out, getting a credit card, the bank checks with companies predominantly like equifax, but equifax itself. is that then falling on the bank who you went through to get your data to equifax? i'm not sure where it will land. equifax down sharply this is what they do, which is why it is such a hit >> fib fb locoming up a look at

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welcome back to "worldwide exchange." time for some must-read stories grabbing our attention mine is from the "wall street journal," the latest from peggy noonan trump pivots but will it last. she digs deep into the deal with the democrats, and the change in posturing and the dealmaking of

this president and talks about some of the pros and cons that could come out of it if he continues to side with democrats a trump in close alliance with them, it would be disorienting to his closest allies in the house, the conservative members of the freedom caucus they broke with the president on healthcare but they come from largely pro trump districts. they defended him and more voekvoek vocally than the gop has, but they are traditionally conservative on their philosophy and stands one more thing for the president to thick about as he makes this new strategy with the democratic leaders. we've seen a lot of inconsistencies in the policy positions, where he stands she says on one hand it's not surprising he is siding with the democrats, because he'schummy we

republicans. >> it's hard to see many other issues where the democrat also side with him. are there any meaty issues where they side together -- >> that depends. they have to discuss daca, tax reform a biggie we saw a brief move up in yields when that was announced but have moved lower. >> my must read is in "the financial times" by adam pozen stanley fischer's departure reveals weakness at the fed. the article is not just about stanley fischer but more about the formal structure of the fed. the current design of the fomc and the federal reserve system which ensure as majority of bank presidents will be more important than ever given the rapid turn of the board of governors, when the time comes to redesign the fed part of the

reform should be reducing the discretion of all fed officials including the chair, vice chair for supervision and the federal bank of reserve new york president in the interpretation and implementation of financial policy and interesting he compares it a bit to the bank of england where there is more flexibility by the members to sort of go against what the governor is wanting, things like that it's a good geeky comparison about the structure of the two he sat on the monetary policy committee of the bank of england. >> i'm not sure anything will change but the president will get a lot of opportunities to shape this fed >> absolutely. he goes what this could mean by certain members have more ability and -- >> it's crazy how many vacancy there's are for what is a coveted, powerful position >> we know it's coveted. gary cohn covets it, that doesn't mean you would get it. i think sara eisen would be a good pick. >> i would love to have an fomc

vote >> as long as i could get exclusive access in terms of interviews we're approaching the temperature of the hour, the team is getting ready for "squawk box. andrew ross sorkin has a look at what's coming up >> we will be talking about what i think you imagine we'll talk about. we'll talk about irma and the impact and what it all means our big guest this morning, we have a number of big guests coming to us from florida. jeb bush will be with us in the 7:00 hour. we'll talk to him about the preparations being made in florida now. also about a whole number of other issues we'll talk to mike jackson who is down in florida we'll talk politics with jim vandahi of axios, and dominos will make a delivery at 8:00 >> that's a little early for pizza. >> thin crust. >> andrew, would you like a seat on the fed >> would i

>> yeah. >> they need names >> i'm with gary, it's too academic for me. >> oh. >> it needs a bit of a change, maybe mr. sorkin should go >> they need more women. >> i'm voting for sara and be y becky. >> i agree >> see you at the top of the hour. still to come, stocks look set for a downbeat day the dollar slipping to a two-year low we'll set you up for the trading day ahead. and delivering alpha less than one week away don't miss the lineup of newsmakers, steve mnuchin, jamie dimon, ray dalio and many more that's happening september 12th. for more dai gtoetlso delivering alpha.com ♪ (music plays throughout) ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪

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james lu is with us. the weak dollar is a driving theme. any implications for stocks? >> the dollar is one of the most watched metrics out there. we're watching it closely given everything that's happening with central banks. the reason for the weak dollar are twofold. one is there's strong global growth abroad. the other issue is that the policy promises that drove the dollar higher at the end of last year have not come into play the silver lining with the weak dollar is this should help stocks over the medium term. this should help corporate earnings, it should be the reverse of the weakness we saw in 2014. >> we had such a run in terms of dollar weakness so far this year it seemed to reinvigorate yesterday based off one of the pairs giving impetus in terms of the euro side and dollar weaker against everything do you think there's short tore go in the short-term or is this the final move in terms of dollar weakness nor 2017. >> we think the dollar weakness

will hover in the 90 to 95 range. right now we're at 92. we think the dollar will stay in correction territory there's lots of reasons for that in addition to the central bank action yesterday's move was interesting, because the ecb statement, you know, it wasn't very hawkish by any means, but it drove the euro up further the bottom line for invest sers that the weak u.s. dollar is a positive over the medium term. this should boost stocks and give some justification to the earnings expectations that we have for stocks over the next 18, 24 months. >> what drives the treasury yields this morning at 2.03? the treasury yield is the biggest conundrum we're facing if you look at the yield curve, it's completely flattened. the fed moved the fed funds rate up to 1%, the ten-year moved down to 2% we think there's a few factors there. over the medium to long run we expect those yields to slowly

creep back up. but it looks as if slow global growth over the last several years, the structural issues we're having with the economy, around 2%, we think that's probably is keeping yields pinned down at the moment. >> preference between u.s. equities and international equities >> it's not that we don't like u.s. equities. we think if the u.s. dollar stays where it is, u.s. equities can do fine. the challenge for investors is that the opportunity set is shrinking around the world because nothing is cheap the only cheapness you can find is in places like emerging markets. europe had a lot of positive events this year unlike last year that's boosted european equities for investors they have missed out on the bulk of the returns around the world the u.s. is up 10%, but in u. ds are up 15%, let's look at those as well. >> thank you very much for joining us >> thank you

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shkreli. it's friday, september 8, 2017, "squawk box" begins right now. live from new york where business never sleeps, this is "squawk box." >> good morning. welcome to "squawk box" on cnbc. we are live from the nasdaq market site in times square. i'm becky quick along with joe kernen and andrew ross sorkin. yesterday the dow was down by 22 points look at what's happening with the futures this morning right now we are looking at declines once again. modest declines. dow futures indicated down by 28 points s&p futures off by 3.5 the nasdaq down by 4 the top story, hurricane irma just downgraded to a category 4 this morning but it still could destroy parts of florida winds of 155 miles per hour let's get the latest on where the storm is tracking from kalee