it's friday january 12, 2018, "squawk box" begins right now. ♪ live from new york where business never sleeps, this is "squawk box. good morning, everybody. 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 andrew ross sorkin is off today. even after yesterday's big gains and everything we've seen since the beginning of the trading year, dow futures are indicated up by triple dij jigits once ag. s&p futures up by 8 points the nasdaq up by 17 points just listen to some of these records. yesterday the dow, the s&p 500, the nasdaq, the dow transports, the russell 2000 all posted record closing highs

the nasdaq is on track for its best monthly gain since july of 2016 the s&p 500 is at its biggest monthly gain since last february the s&p and nasdaq have risen seven of the last eight trading days if you were waiting for things to slow down, you are still waiting. triple digit gains for the dow already this morning overnight in asia there were gains this came after the strength yesterday with the dow up 200 points. the hang seng was up by 1% shanghai was up by 0.1%. the nikkei did give back some ground in europe this morning, there are some green arrows across the board. gains of a quarter percentage point for germany and the ftse in london. the cac in france is up by a third of a percentage point. if you want to look at treasury yields which have been picking up ground, you will see the

treasury yield for the ten-year, sitting about the same, 2.544% lawmakers in germany reached a break through in talks to form a new government the euro rising. you need a government. euro rising to new highs on news that angela merkel recommended that conservatives enter formal talks with social democrats. this follows months of political uncertainty and deadlock in the largest economy in the eurozone. there are some stocks to watch this morning there's going to be more once we start seeing results fiat chrysler plans to shift production of its ram heavy duty pickup trucks from mexico to michigan it will invest $1 billion in the u.s. plant and add 2500 jobs, and add a bonus to some workers. that's a move that was made

possible by the pathetic new u.s. tax law nancy pelosi pathetic amd is admitting the exposure to the spectre flaw is much larger than first thought last week amd said there was a near zero risk of its chips being susceptible to the flaw. and intel is asking customers to hold off on installing patches that address the spectre and meltdown flaws the patches have bugs whic could cause computers with older chips to reboot more often than normal facebook is unveiling its biggest changes to the news feed in years they will prioritize posts from friends and family over public content like viral videos and posts shared by businesses mark zuckerberg saying he is changing the goal i give our

product teams from foe kcusing u find relevant content to helping you find more relevant interactions this could affect the social ned work's metrics overall he says he expects engagement to drop but time spent on the site will be more valuable. but i expect the time you do spend on facebook to be more valuable and if we do things right we'll be good for our community and for facebook this is in the face of fake news, russian manipulation over the presidential election. shares of facebook are up 44% in the last year. >> almost an oxymoron. >> what's that >> social contact on a screen. >> not if you're in touch with family there are cousins i never get to talk to. >> this is social contact. you're there i'm here >> yeah.

wouldn't you love a screen between us >> if you're looking at a little phone, by definition, it's not social contact >> i was skeptical of it before i got on it, then you talk to people from high school, you talk to family i never get to see. if someone has a death in the family, that's usually the way i learn. friends from long ago, people you have not talked to people you remember fondly i have to say, i think this is something that would make me appreciate it more i don't need it as a flu news f. i get plenty of news here. >> too much lately, like a fire hose >> right >> blackrock out with quarterly earnings profit came to $6.24 a share compared to the estimate of 6.02 revenue beat estimates as well

like a real number, up 12% year over year. blackrock announced a 15% increase in its quarterly dividend now that would be 2.88 a share ceo larry fink will join us to discuss the quarter in just a couple of minutes. the political buzz, if you need one this morning, there's one. a profane comment coming from president trump creating a stir inthe immigration debate eamon javers joins us with more. >> before i get to that, let me bring you up to speed on some tweets from the president overnight. he made some rare late night tweets last night stirring the pot on a couple issues including immigration. here's what the president tweeted last night on immigration. he said the democrats seem intent on having people and drugs pour into our country from the southern border risking thousands of lives in the process. it's my duty to protect the lives and safety of all americans.

we must build a great wall, think merit and end lottery & chain. usa. so those are his thoughts on the negotiations going on on capitol hill he also tweeted last night about his decision to abandon his trip to london. he was invited last year by the queen through theresa may to visit london at some point they thought that would happen in 2018, but not so says the president. the president gave the reason as i'm not a big fan of the obama administration having sold perhaps the best located and finest embassy in london for peanuts. only to build a new one in an off location for 1$1.2 billion wanted me to cut ribbon, no. it was actually the bush administration that began the process on that. and there's some critics in london who say the president is canceling because he won't get a

good reception politically not a lot of fans in london. so come questions there about what the president's motivation was. let's go to this comment yesterday that everyone will be talking about today. the president was in a meeting with republicans and democrats on immigration in the oval office at the white house. he was briefed on efforts to include haitians and el salvadoran immigrants. he said why are wehaving all these people from shithole countries come here. that's a dramatic comment from a president of the united states got reaction from around the world. the interesting thing here is that the white house put out a statement after that, it was reported, this was not on camera, reported by the "washington post." after that the white house put out a statement not denying that the president made that comment. here is the white house statement. certain washington politicians choose to fight for foreign countries, but president trump

will always fight for the american people. so the white house not denying those comments mia love, a republican congressman from utah, she said these comments were unkind, divisive, elitist and fly in the face of our nation's values. she said this behavior is unacceptable from the leader of our nation those comments last night, joe, will scramibble that immigration debate that the president was tweeting about we'll see where it all lands this morning a dramatic and profane remark from the president of the united states at the white house. >> saw those mia love comments she's great. unedifying, low brow, that's what they are calling it the "journal" combined his comments with nancy pelosi's comments about i'm supposed to be negotiating with five white

guys to do immigration what are they going to do, open a hamburger stand next steny hoyer calling this offensive. a mudslide not to compare it to the horrific events in santa barbara, but calling this a washington mudslide. once you think you have gotten to the lowest point, you can get, there's a floor below you can go to the basement >> the president said he doesn't want immigrants from hate pi itr questions why they should be here, but he would prefer immigrants from norway the subtext of that is racially tinged >> hundreds of thousands of comments >> this has set off a debate around the country on whether or

not the president is a racist, whether he said something racist or whether he in his heart of hearts is a racist he is not doing himself favors in the debate with comments like that. >> all right thank you. i don't know whether we'll see you again. if not, have a good weekend. we can always use weekends lately >> fridays thank you. when we come back, blackrock out with its quarterly results they beat the street we have the chairman and ceo, larry fink, he's here with us o set to talk about the numbers and what else he sees in the numbers and around the world "squawk box" will be right back with larry fink. let's begin. yes or no? do you want the same tools and seamless experience across web and tablet? do you want $4.95 commissions for stocks, $0.50 options contracts? $1.50 futures contracts?

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welcome back blackrock earnings are out this morning. that company coming in with earnings of $6.24 a share versus $6.02. r revenue up by 12%. larry fink joins us. blackrock has about $6 trillion a sets under management. larry, thanks for joining us >> great to be here. >> numbers are better than the street was expecting what's happening is this a continuation of etfs

more money coming in what are you seeing? >> over the course of the year, we added a trillion dollars. that gives you the extent of what market beta has done. we also grew across institutional, retail, cash. a couple of statistics i look at for the breadth of the type of demand we saw last year, we had 14 countries where we raised over $1 billion we had 67 individual differentiated products that grew by a billion. so the demand was global worldwide. you know, all different products i think the surprise for me, when you reflect on the year, we still saw about 1$190 billion o inflows and fixed income everybody is calling for a change in the regime of fixed income yet we saw huge flows in credit. that's why credit is so tight. and many other different types of fixed income products

about 150 billion of flows in equities, multi asset, cash and alternatives >> we are warren buffett on this morning. he talked about bonds. he said i told people for the last decade or so, they should be in equities, not bonds. that's the right call. when you look out broadly, just because you mentioned those bond inflows what do you see as somebody who knows these markets so well? >> what we try to tell everybody is to be mostly in equities. i've said this over the years. be 100% in equities i said in 2012 i think people are not good at market timing. for those who are saving saving is not as much fun as consuming. if you're saving for the outcome of retirement, a 30-year, 40-year obligation, that thing should be in things that can compound over a long period of time equities is a far better asset

class than fixed income. that being said, if you're a responsible pension plan that you have to navigate around, men and women in your pension plan who are 70 years old versus young people who are 30, you have to have a mix of bones, equities and alternatives. for the individual investor who is listening, they should be even at 50 years old, the majority of those assets should be in equities no question we've had a dramatic run up in equities yet over a 30 to 40-year period of time, even at this entry level now, i believe you'll do better in equities and in bonds. >> let's talk more about your earnings touching on that point, that's a huge call to hear that from you this week, from warren buffett this week. even with stocks at these levels, you're telling people that this is the time to be -- >> if your horizon is two weeks, that's not a good decision >> if you're 50 years old,

you're telling them to do this >> sure. >> let's talk more about earnings what else stands out to you. as i think you said earlier in the show, revenues are up 12%. >> by growth in base fees, performance fees and technology and risk management. >> technology was up 14% we're seeing more and more you'd utilization of our aladdin system it's -- our penetration with clients is deeper and broader. i think i said this over the years. if we can work with our clients on outcome investing, not momentary investing, if we can provide them a holistic review of what -- of all products, passive and active, we're winning more and more clients, more of their wallet

across the board, worldwide, we're pretty humbled by this, but we have greater and greater confidence with clients and working along side blackrock >> etfs are 30%? >> they crossed 1$1.8 trillion t blackrock. so under 30% still growing rapidly. we had 2$245 billion of growth i etfs this year if you add up the growths of etfs at blackrock and our ishares products, the growth over the last two years is more than the entire pool of etfs that we bought in 2009 in 2009 when we bought bgi, ishares had 3$340 billion that was only in 2009, october of 2009 when we closed and now today it's 1.8 trillion. >> let's talk about markets once

again. you told us the last time you were on you were concerned about the fed po tententially raising rates too quickly. the economy is chugging along. unemployment is continuing to fall to record low levels, 4%. what happens we don't see inflation yet >> we had numbers where inflation was more muted than we thought. however this is an unusual time. we have had a path by the federal reserve that is a tightening path. you rarely see fiscal policy stimulus when you have monetary policy tightening. >> you mean the tax plan that just passed. >> people will tell me, if you can get a tax plan, lower corporate tax, you do it any time i'm not trying to suggest timing, but it's unfortunate when we have that stimulus and we believe that tax bill will create at least 1% added stimulus 1% gdp growth.

so we're more constructive on the competition of the tax ccomf the tax cut and what it will do to the economy at the same time there's going to ab certain point ificat be a where the tax cut is stimulating the economy but also slowing down tax cuts front end a lot of growth, the question is whether it will create permanent growth. >> larry, two things when you go and -- davos man, when you go and have your 150 meetings over there, which you do, keep one thing in mind number one, certainly we're going up in rates. but they're so low historically, i'm not sure it means the same thing. number two, if there's headwind from going up, you might think it's a time where to offset some of the headwinds, and it's not a

bad time to have stimulus. >> i don't disagree. >> factor that into your globalist thinking >> i appreciate you helping me out. by there's going to be a certain point where the tightening can pull down the economy. you're right that may be the appropriate thing to do. if rates were coming down and we were at 4% and adding stimulus, i would be like, wow, we're throwing gasoline on it. >> but we need to look at the composition of the yield curve if the short rates rise up much faster than the long rates, if we see incredible tightening, we've seen tightening on the tens tens the question will be could we see -- this will be linked to how the federal reserve unwinds qe, and begins selling

could we see a point where -- i think i talked about this last time i was on the show, could we see a point in time where we have an inverted yield curve i don't believe those are good for anybody. so -- i'm not suggesting that, but i blooelieve there's a grear possibility we may see that. >> do you use the long end of the european curve we already got one what does that mean? >> it means that there's more demand for intermediate investments than -- >> but how do we get -- >> is this time different because of central banks around the globe? >> 40 basis points in germany. >> i agree >> it's weird. >> i'm speaking about our yield curve, not the german yield curve. >> i think ours is because of that, right? we look so much more attractive. >> i think our flows at blackrock are evident of the type of demand we're witnessing.

we've seen so many clients stand on the sidelines, despite the flows we've had, we still see most investors underinvested, we see most investors sitting with the duration of their liabilities longer than the duration of their assets so there's a lot of -- there's quite a bit of purchasing power even at these levels that keeps the markets stable. this is why we're still quite bullish on equities at these levels this is why we think we'll see high interest rates, but not as high as people fear, and inflation is muted we don't see it this time inflation changing the two keys for inflation are dominated by are we at a point in time where wages now will start increasing dramatically? we're seeing that in the

high-end area, the programming, engineer types we're seeing large wage growth we're seeing this throughout the country. the key is paying attention to china. if china aggressively does reforms that they talk about, what the reforms mean to me, they will take out the excess capacity china has been an exporter of deflation. could china become something different? that will change the metrics of global i flanflation >> your investors, because you have so much assets under management, you're investors are not just the rich effort aest a wealthiest, you have a democratic view of what's happening with investors >> right >> who are they? >> somebody walking down the street right now they're -- we're the largest

manager of pension assets in the world. it's a deep responsibility we are in charge of school teachers, police >> so what we see gives us an average feel of what the investor sees. >> the investors are looking to put money to work now. they're underinvested. this is why we're not as frightened as some of the fear mongering going on related to rates and the market we believe the u.s. economy and the synchronized global economies are strong enough to continue the upward bias on equities we believe the demand that we see in credit and other assets is going to keep a spike in interest rates to be more muted. we think interest rates will be higher, but we're not frightened as joe was talking about we don't think this is necessarily bad. >> so your people -- >> my people >> called cnbc and said is rick

going to be on and can larry come in? >> i'm sure that's true. >> you heard a song, and you said that's the umineers so rick allen will be here the dead guy is steve -- >> with a c. >> like an important guitar player he died early on rick allen lost his arm in 1984. >> before "hysteria. it was their album "pyro mmania" was taking off >> we're showing our age >> our audience knows this. >> much more from larry after the break. we'll continue to talk about what he sees happening around the globe. also still ahead, quarterly results from jpmorgan. we'll bring you those numbers and reaction from the markets. as we head to the break,

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consumer price index is out at 8:30 a.m. eastern time that comes along with december retail sales at 10:00 a.m., november business inventories. eric rosengren and patrick harker will speak today. we will hear from robert kaplan right here when he sits down with steve liesman on "squawk box" at 7:10 a.m. eastern time stick around that is just about 40 minutes away on the earnings front, jpmorgan results will be in the next half hour and wells fargo will hit the tape at 8:00 a.m. eastern time we'll bring you those numbers and reaction on wall street when they hit u.s. equity futures, even after a 200-point gain for the dow yesterday, you're looking at a triple digit gain in the futures this morning dow up by 110 points s&p futures up by 7. the nasdaq up by just over 15 points this comes after a phenomenal run we've seen in the early trading days of this year. look at the euro rising to three-year highs on news that

german lawmakers made a break through on efforts to form a coalition government >> so that was -- larry, we'll get back to you that was from "pyroman "pyromania." >> that was the one before rick allen's accident "hysteria" was the huge one. >> i recognized one other song on "pyromania. i was reading more about it. >> think about the hair we had in the '80s. >> yeah. not quite what those guys had. >> let's get back to larry fink. we have not talked about some recent developments in washington as far -- we saw walmart, another company today, depending on your political persuasion, these are either

one-offs, throwing a bone to the workers while you're getting big bonuses yourself and share holders are getting big dividends, or it's the start of this long-awaited narrowing between the middle class and -- is it possible that we're starting to address that in a more substantive way >> i think we began a trend a couple years ago, some states started raising wages to $15 >> sometimes that doesn't work >> i understand that >> this is organic this is from the companies themselves >> wouldn't you rather have it this way than -- >> than mandated absolutely but i believe the legislation in some states is causing that pressure too some state also have higher wages than other states, and they'll have to equalize them. the most important thing that i don't think will happen is a narrowing in wages you'll have wage pressure, but it will be in the high -- >> you already said about the

high-end -- >> we have labor shortages, and i think those labor shortages will continue. >> if the gap stays the same but both the skilled go up and the lower go up, is that necessarily a bad thing? you're not unhappy that the skilled people are making more money. >> if we're elevated, that's fine that's your insinuation. >> no, i'm not insinuating, i'm poz s positing the question. >> this is a good outcome. how can i say this is not good >> i don't know. i'm like pulling teeth to get it out of you so, were you for this tax deal >> i'm still unhappy related to a few things, the state taxes. >> for you >> and for you, joe. >> you throw in my agent fees. we're working in new york city

>> you know about our agent fees >> we'll move on about that. here's some things, it's a great bill >> as much as state taxes. >> it's going to do wonderful things especially for small businesses. >> bringing money back >> bringing money back to me is not that significant areas of that i thought they should have done, which is almost -- i don't want to say irresponsible but should have been done, that was they should have totally eliminated carry interest that is an unfair tax advantage. >> agreed. >> there's a surcharge now for income over $1 million for not for profit entities. if you're trying to get the finest leader of a president of a university or a president of a hospital, they're competing with a private sector, and now they are taxing not for profits in

addition to everyone else's taxes. >> stan druckenmiller has been upset by this, too >> you can't itemize >> no, it's a 5% surcharge >> for you -- >> for any not for profit, anyone running these, they will pay a special surcharge. >> we kept carried interest. >> yeah. >> it's not a lot of money >> it's small. >> i know you're talking optics, in fairness. and charities largely escaped any of the draconian methods that were being considered >> yes >> the most -- the one thing i can complain about is that average people -- the only reason average people would give money is because they need to itemize it. >> a massive amount of charity donations did happen in december >> overall, it will stimulate the economy. it is strong for strong and

medium businesses. the one thing people miss, a tax cut is below the line. for large companies, they're measured by revenue growth that's one thing when you talked about blackrock's credit, you talk about revenue growth, margins, operating income. that's above the line. so the marketplace is recalibrating. it was assumed by analysts that the new tax rate was going down from 31% to 25%, it's going down to 23% so the marketplace is rallying because there's a new rec recalibrati recalibration. that's a one-time thing. a lot of this market run-up is a recalibration of how corporate earnings will be and you will adjust now the stock price to the new eps level. after that one-time event, now we have to see does the tax cut stimulate more growth, more demand, we'll see that in the

revenue line >> it will make american businesses more competitive than where they had been before >> what it will do is going to make the u.s. more come pettive for a company to come back to the united states. for companies to put factors here one of the problems that will face mexico is now the u.s. corporate tax rate is lower than mexico so historically companies identified mexico as their place of where they should be domiciled for tax. because companies have businesses in the u.s. and mexico but they identified mexico now company also reidentify and pay taxes in the united states >> like what we've seen from fiat chrysler, them saying they will be relocating to a factory in michigan from mexico. maybe that's a way of smacking down nafta without doing anything >> that's -- i don't know if

that was considered in the nafta negotiations, that's just one of the effects of having a lower tax rate >> you were not expecting 35%, or 30% last year, you're probably not expecting 30% this year >> 30% in market movements you're right i didn't think that. i didn't think that last year. >> i'm sure -- in your world is it global synchronous growth, it's not deregulation or the tax law? >> those are all good things >> how much credit do you give it to those things versus global synchronous growth >> i think we have a gdp that's growing. >> but how much of the stock market is due to the gdp going up 1%? >> look, corporate earnings are stronger than i ever anticipated. i talked about that a year ago, two quart otherser quarters ago.

corporate earnings have been -- >> larry, do you think the government being kinder to the private sector than historically seen in democratic administration is responsible for lifting the market, lifting gdp, lifting the quality of life that's not your party that usually wants to do things like that >> let's not go there. >> why not do you think we would be doing this if hillary clinton had won? >> i don't think we would have had this deregulation. >> right >> i don't think we would have had the tax cut. >> so where would everything be? >> i don't want to speculate where it would be. >> do you wish you had voted for trump now? >> let's not go there, joe >> why. >> i'm on television, i'm not here to talk about that. >> you're reaping all these great benefits

>> you are, too. >> i know i am >> good for you. >> okay. i just wondered -- so this is happening because -- >> synchronized global growth. >> everybody said the waterboarding of the private sector ended on november 8th >> we never anticipated japan to be where it's at >> they're back to 28,000, not back to 40,000 we'll pass them with our market. we were at 10,000 when they were at 40,000. >> they have 2% growth they're the third largest economy. >> are we helping their growth >> maybe yes. sure we buy a lot of their products but there's many things that are helping their growth tourism is at a recordhigh many things. china no one thought it would continue to grow at 6% we had merkel create the coalition. >> you've given me a lot of concessions that it's good to hear from you. another 100 points today

this is crazy. we were at 25,000. in the first week of january, first six days, almost 100 points every day >> yes >> a 12-point pull back, 200 yesterday. unless this is building into some sort of inflated b ed bubb >> i don't feel that >> that's the interesting part we had this conversation in the break, based on what you're seeing, you think there's another leg in this. >> i don't think we'll see a 30% market movement. could we see 12%, 14%? i would like to see the market grow 10%, 12% this year and digest this growth >> i wonder whether you feel the narrative that the u.s. economy because of slow population growth and low productivity is no longer capable of growing faster than 2%, whether that was a false narrative. >> we'll find that out >> we will but the market is not perfect in

forecasting the economy, but it almost seems like it's saying maybe we can get back to those -- >> i don't know if the market is saying that. the market is saying that -- >> so you don't think 3%, we'll do that year in and year out >> i would say no, demographically, i don't see that i could be wrong i don't see a new normal being 3% >> jamie dimon said 4% we can put him on. >> put him on. >> were you surprised when he said we could do 4%? >> no. >> you just said we can't do 3%. >> i'm not going to question somebody else's opinion on this. you're asking me opinion my opinion is i think we'll see accelerated growth the next year, year and a half. i do believe demographics do matter i do believe that we have shortages with -- in the upper job market where we're going to -- where we have shortages,

and we're hiring more people in different parts of the world because we can't find them here. >> you know the millennials are starting to get married and have kids they may finally come through for us >> we will to wait 22 years for this >> before we change the child labor laws >> we have other issues we'll have to find help on >> there's an economist who says technology advances are being underestimated >> i totally believe that. >> you see it. >> that could bring us -- >> i actually have told the japanese who have horrible demographics, they should embrace technology because their demographics are so bad. if they embrace technology as a country with the horrible demographics, you will see a rise in standard in living in japan. because if you substitute more machines for the decline of humans in japan, and if you're not going to have immigration,

the only way japan over a long horizon can build the standard of living for the remainders is through technology >> right >> i'm a big believer that technology is a great assistance for -- >> i want three people working on every robot >> then blackrock, one of the great statistics, we doubled our asset base with a growth in human beings a fraction of what it was years ago >> which is why we look at the margi margins, too >> that's why blackrock's margins have grown as fast >> larry, thank you very much for joining us on this earnings morning. we'll continue to watch blackrock shares when we come back, jpmorgan is set to report the next of the big financials we'll bring you numbers and market reaction. in the next hour, dallas fed president robert klaapn will

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jpmorgan is reporting and the stock is initially off it doesn't mean it's going to end the day here, but we'll see it's down .8 of a percent. a couple of numbers. the adjusted earnings per share

is $1.76 versus estimates of $1.69. the managed revenue number is 25.5 billion, 25.55. the estimate was 25.153. the net number, if you want to know, they initially posted $1.07 which comes out to $4.2 billion in net, but the company did say that the net impact in the fourth quarter of the tax cut and jobs act was $2.4 billion. other metrix that people sometimes pay attention, to the provision for -- did you see that for losses, for credit losses, $1.3 billion in terms of the individual parts of the company, this keeps moving on me, the homelanding revenue 1.4 billion and

community banking 12.07 billion in revenue and card, merchant services 5 billion, corporate investment bank 7.4 billion, so we'll obviously have to when we talk to an a analyst we'll see whether these metrix individually or are above or below. >> a couple of points we can tell you, too, jamie dimon, the chairman and ceo making some comments pointing out that for the first time the firm led the nation in total u.s. deposits as consumers and businesses continued to view them as their partner of choice. if you look at some of the global trends, dimon says the global economy continues to do well, and the u.s. consumer remains healthy with solid wage growth he said, unfortunately, natural disasters in the united states and abroad vim pacted many of their customers, and they have responded with financial support. consumer and community banking, card sales and merchant processing, volumes up once again double digits and loans and deposits he says continues to grow strongly. >> a lot of different

non-interest revenue, 12 billion, net interest income 13.had billion, expenses everything is broken out, but when it's all said and done people that are parading the stock right now have it down 1.2 stocks we'll see what happens on the open the dow component, up over 100 points i don't know if the dow is still indicating that. >> yeah. when we come back, we'll have much more on the jpmorgan earnings report. that's coming up right after the break. then, dallas fed chairman robert kaplan joins us and drummer rick allen is drumming for peace and he'll be on set with us to explain at 7:40 a.m. eastern when this bell rings... ...it starts a chain reaction... ...that's heard throughout the connected business world.

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>> good morning, everybody welcome back to "squawk box" here on cnbc we're live from the nasdaq market site in times square. i'm becky quick along with joe kernin and in studio with us steve grasso, stuart franco and a cnbc market analyst. good to see you. >> good to see you also. >> lots to talk about. a check on the futures at this hour on this friday. you're going to see that the futures are once again indicated up even with the declines that we saw in jpmorgan shares. you still see the dow futures up by triple digits it's a gain of 105 points. that's the implied open of where we would open if we started the market trading right now s&p futures up by 7.5 and the nasdaq up by 16. the nasdaq, by the way, is seeing its best start to a month since july of 2016 strong records across the board. every one of the major indices closing at another new record

yesterday. we'll see where this heads some of the headlines this hour. blackrock reporting a quarterly profit are $6.24 a share beating the estimates of $6.02 revenue also coming in above forecast it was gains of 12% year over year and they also raised their quarterly dividend 15% blackrock ceo larry fink told us in the last hour despite the big surge in stocks, he's still bullish. >> for the individual investor who is listening they should be even at 50 years old the majority of those assets should be in equities and no question we've had a dramatic run up in equities, and yet over a 30 to 40-year period of time, even at this entry level now i believe you're going to do better in equities than bonds. >> he also says that the new tax laws should add about 1% annually to gdp, at least in the first few years. two economic reports are due in 90 minutes time. we'll be getting december

figures for retail sales and consumer prices. retail sales are expected to increase .4 of a percent with the cpi seeing posting an increase of .1 of a percent. boone pickens has closed his equity hedge funds he pointed to his deteriorating health as well as poor fund performance. he took a fall last summer, as he pointed out, the recovery has been slow and he's says that he's not excited about trading oil when it's been trading sideways for so long. >> until now. >> yeah. >> jpmorgan results were out just moments ago wilfred frost has been poring over the numbers what have you been powering over >> that's a def leppard reference. >> it's p-o-u-r, i-n-g

anyway. >> this is a strong beat they have revenue 25.5, forecast for 25.2 eps 176 adjusted for the tax write-down versus 169. just a couple of core headline things, loan growth 2% quarter on quarter, top end of the estimate decent because loan growth was thought to have slowed before the effects of the tax bill came in trading is really interesting so the headline trading number seems very bad it's down 26%, but adjusting for the one-off effects. still worse than expected but not as bad probably down high teens they guided to down 15% so trading is worse than expected that almost all comes from very poor trading this to imlast year was a very strong quarter after the election and this is the last quarter where the comps will be very tough for trading, but in terms of why it's worse than expected in equities trading there's a

$143 million loss on a single client trade that they had to take a write-down on so we'll be asking about what exactly that was, but either way even when you adjust for the one-offs, the one-off tax bill, the trading is high teens down as opposed to just down sort of 15% as was previously guided. now, let's get into the tax bill, really, really interesting. so the effective tax bill for the last year was 30%. they are guiding that for 2018 it's likely to be 19% so this is an encouraging kind of announcement because people weren't quite sure of how that's intricate more obscure parts of the bill will guide them clearly below the headline rates still of 21% let's see what jamie dimon has said about the tax bill. the enactment of tax reform is a significant positive outcome for our country. u.s. companies will be more competitive globally which will ultimately benefit all americans. i'm going to skip the middle sentence and go to the last sentence he said we've also invested in

difficult times in our employees, customers and communities and as a result of the tax plan we'll be increasing and accelerating some of those investments. about a year ago they upped their minimum wage to $15, so they haven't followed suit after the tax bill but he's said they will be increasing and accelerating which is the kind of tangible effects that the tax policy wants to see in terms of boosting the economy guys. >> not down anymore, wolf. you're working magic there it was down, you know. >> there's a lot to pick through in this. a lot of up-offs and stuff so it's long one-offs pnc is a decent 9 cent beat on eps citing tax reforms as one of the reasons. >> and depending on who you are, it affects it differently. citi group with all the tax loss carry forwards. >> got that for jpmorgan as well not as big. >> that's why the headline eps was a big miss and adjusted to

176 but the guidance on what the tax rate is going to go forward. clearly not as below as it used to be. 30 versus headline and they are guiding 19% versus a headline of 21 that's encouraging. >> close to a high, and obviously, the yearly high is 110 so at a new high, 110.93 the all-time high so right where it was. >> you ready for wells fargo >> not yet i will be by 8:00. >> you redady -- >> you're not? >> jpmorgan mindset. red for wells fargo at 8:00. >> don't try to chew gum, doing two things at once thank you. >> joining us on the phone is dick bove, analyst and what are

some of the numbers that are jumping out? >> the very mediocre are right across the board if you just get to the bottom line numbers which are the most important, and i like to use the recorded numbers, not the pro forma numbers. the numbers are down on a quarter over a quarter basis, and their operating expenses are up you can't have anything worse than that. in addition, if you go into a number of the subsectors, you know, the revenue sectors that wilfred just described, most are down pretty substantially on a quarter over quarter base so i would say that i can't see anything in this quarty that would say. i really love this company, i want to go out and buy this stock. the important point, however, is that this is ancient history i mean, we've had a massive change in the financial system, in the economy, and none of that is reflected yet in the earnings report that they see today in other words, in my estimation, investment banking will be extraordinarily strong in 2018 because there's a shortage of shares, you know, to

meet the frenzy of demand for shares and, therefore, you'll see a huge increase in stock offerings. there's a bill passed on the mortgage sector hopefully in the next, you know, couple of weeks which should benefit the banks enormously you've had this tax cut which should benefit, you know, a number of businesses and we're already seeing though business loans were up in a very weak basis, you know, for the full quarter, the last couple of weeks, business loans have started to pick up relatively meaningfully we've seen a change -- the head of every bank regulatory agency is changed the number of people on the boards of these regulatory agencies have changed, and, therefore, we'll see reduction in regulatory costs. we've got a tremendous increase in technology which is simply driving the cost of running the

banks lower. >> dick? >> yes, ma'am. >> i heart laundry list of reasons you like the stock you said the earnings report is not anything that would make you go buy the stock, but you said it's ancient history does this mean based on laundry lives other things you would still buy shares of jpmorgan today? >> yeah. i think it's very clear if you're going to live in history, you know, which is what the fourth quarter report, is you know, you're not going to buy the stock because this is not a good report. if you live in the future which is what could have happen, you know, given all of the significant changes that i just listed. >> right. >> then you definitely want to buy the stock. >> and how would you look at jpmorgan versus its peers if you were looking at banking stocks which would be at top of the list >> well, i think right now jpmorgan is the best bank perhaps the country has ever seen, so it's very hard to say that there are other banks better than it, but i think the stock that i like the best in the banking industry is bank of america because it's still coming from a major hole and

it's getting back to more normal operating, and as i was look at the investment banks, given what i think about what will happen in investment banking, i think goldman sachs which we've had a sell on all throughout 2017, i think goldman sachs is an outstanding body. >> great thank you very much for your time today, dick appreciate it. >> thank you. >> gm is locking to take the steering wheel and the pedals out of the autonomous drive cars self-driving car with no manual kroempts joining us first on cnbc is general motors president dan amonand our auto reporter phil lebeau. i guess we all figured eventually an autonomous car would not have a steering wheel, it's superfluous but you have to file for approval to leave that out. is that what gm did? >> this is a really exciting

mixed step to deploy self-driving cars in 2019. we've filed a petition with nhtsa, the regulatory body to seek approval and meet safety standards in a different way without the driver in the car. need to meet a different set of safety standards with a different approach and that's what that becities about. >> you know, i like driving. godspeed to what you're doing, but when will i not be driving anymore? just give me an outside -- what do you think >> our goal was to deploy these vehicles in 2019 so you'll have the option to not drive in that time frame. >> you're kidding. >> have the option to not drive far out into the future. >> right when our kids are -- >> exactly. >> okay. you know this inside out is gm the first to do this or just the latest. >> there are others who have

worked on prototypes without steering wheels. waymo is a good example of that, but general motors is petitioning to be the first to put this practice into atleast seven fleets in the u.s. what do you think is going to be the reaction of the driving public in the first time you say let's say you have these deployed in san francisco, the first time someone sees this drive up, no driver, no steering wheel, what do you think the reaction is going to be? >> we think it will be pretty interesting. you've seen the image of the inseerior of the car without the driver controls and quite striking when you see that for the first time our whole approach here is all about safety and safely deploying these vehicles and in conjunction with the petition that we've filed today we're release our self-driving safety report for this year which describes how the technology works, the approach we're taking to safety and why people should feel safe deploying this technology there will be an adoption curve

and it will take time for people to get used to the idea but everything we're doing is all about the safety and the approach and we want people to feel comfortable with the technology right from the outset. >> can i sit anywhere i want, dan? >> i'm sorry, say. >> encan i sitanywhere i want? can i pretend i have a driver and sit in the back. i don't know if andrew has ever been in the actual driver's seat he'll automatically get in that right rear back seat can i sit back there >> you can absolutely sit back there. >> really? >> wow. >> that's -- >> cool. >> i feel like i might be dreaming is this -- phil, are you surprised that this is as lows, 2019 >> i'm not surprised look, i was out in san francisco and had a chance to go for a test ride in one of the first autonomous drive vehicles that they are developing out there, but joe brings up a good question, dap. ultimately this is about the ride hailing program that you're developing and testing in san

francisco. you want to free up that space so it's not a driver that's occupying space within a vehicle. you're potentially opening up a revenue source, correct? >> exactly right. >> we see these vehicles getting deployed, first of all in, a ride share environment and that's what we're aiming to do in 2019. obviously having maximum space inside the vehicle available for passengers as customers is a benefit of what we're doing here. >> what do we need to do infrastructure-wise for you to -- to make this absolutely safe i don't know my -- i wouldn't want to trust my gps sometimes i'm driving off -- driving into a river i mean, what do we need to do infrastructure-wise? >> so, the approach we've taken is we need the technology to work inside of the existing infrastructure environment we decided we couldn't wait for, you know, for infrastructure to have to happen

that's different that's what's on the road today so our system and our technology is designed to work entirely in the current environment with the current infrastructure. >> crazy. >> and some of that is detailed in the safety report we've released sglad dan, it's steve grasso to joe's point when will the laws catch up? you'll be ready in 2019. when do the laws catch up to you, and you've done the analysis do people fear this as a safety spleen do they want a failsafe to have a steering wheel >> well, we think -- >> you think safety is real the critical dimension here and everything we're doing around this technology is focused on deploying it safely. the vehicle that you're seeing images of today has multiple players of redundancy, redundant systems to deal with any kind of, you know, technical issue, so we have multiple layers of safety in these vehicles because in order to get people comfortable with the technology, we need to be able to articulate

why it's safer than what they are doing today. >> phil, we've got to go, phil thanks, dan. >> have you thought about uber, do they make more money because they don't need any drivers now? what does this do in. >> look, joe, they still need to get this out on the road. >> no, i know. >> i'm talking about is the target date. >> down the road. >> and it's not just general motors anybody who is developing an autonomous drive ride-hailing or ride-sharing service, whatever you want to call it. they are looking at the cost per mile, and you get rid of that driver it drops dramatically. >> this is a bigger disrupter than uber. >> theoretically it could be now it's not going to happen overnight. you won't see uber drivers and taxi drivers go away but it's coming. >> thank you >> dan ammann thank you. appreciate it. coming, a cnbc exclusive with dallas fed president robert

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welcome back, everybody fnlg right now it's time for a cnbc exclusive. let's get to steve liesman who has a very special guest steve, good morning. >> becky, good morning i'm other across down with dallas fed president robert kaplan thanks for joining us, rob. >> good to be here. >> president cap lap, excuse me. >> thank you. >> let's get right to it last time we talked you had not raised or altered your economic forecast because of the tax cuts. >> right. >> i think it was early days you haven't quite passed yet have you done so now >> yeah. >> so how much >> for 2018 we've marked up our gdp forecast by a few tenths of a percentage points so we're expecting 2.5%, 2.25 gdp growth

for 2018 a little less of a positive effect for '19 and even a little less for '20 so we think the effect of the tax law will be front-end loaded and will tail off. >> why does it tail off? >> well, the first -- there's a corporate tax reform element we hope that part will be sustainable. >> right. >> which encourages people to domicile invest and all that have and there's part that's a tax cut financed by the increase in the tax debt. that's the part i was more concerned about which gives you a short-term bump which then tails off in the out years, and so that's the reason for this. >> okay. so you can write the next question i'm going to ask you. if you bumped your gdp forecast, have you changed your rate outlook in. >> my base case is still that we should increase rates three times this year. i probably have a little more stronger conviction, the three times, not less than three times is appropriate it's possible that it could be more than three times but that's

still the base case, and i have more conviction that we're going to get down into the 3s in terms of headline unemployment ie, we're going to overshoot full employment and have a tighter job market than we even would have had. >> does that make you nervous about the sustainability of the expansion? as a central banker, will you have to lean against that low unemployment rate? >> the history of overshooting full employment in this country has not been a happy one normally what happens is you get an overheating and then the fed has to then play catchup and what happens then is you tend to have a -- often have a recession or an inverted yield curve and a recession so it's my view the best way to prolong this expansion is for us to move now in a gradual way but to continue to remove accommodation, and i think that that gives us a best chance to extend this extension. >> the reason you come on and we talk is we're trying to understand the reaction

function. >> right. >> what input of data causes your reaction by central bankers. tell us what is a scenario of four rate hikes look like, a 3.5% unemployment rate and does that lead to you a four-hike scenario >> i would rather not speculate because the economy is going to unfold and the views will change and so i would rather just stick with base case is three. i'm still focused on though the big drivers of economic growth, not just in '18 but in the outyears aging population, slowing work force growth and sluggish productivity not at companies companies will be far more productive, and they are becoming far more productive i've worried about what happens to workers, particularly high school educated and less who get squeezed out, don't get retrained and find their incomes going down those are still the drivers that i would rather focus on. >> but we have situations like walmart yesterdayration the minimum wage so it looks like on the low end skills area of the job market, those wages are

going up >> yes that's right, so here's what we're saying and what i'm saying when i talk to businesses and our survey skilled workers, i.t. specialists, registered nurses, construction workers, oil field workers, half of all businesses say they can't find skilled workers. >> right. >> and then if you make less than $15 an hour, $10, $11, $12 an hour, no question there is wage pressure there which is why you're seeing the companies react. if you're making $20 an hour or more, the supply/demand in the workforce is still pretty good. >> one thing of a lot of importance to you is the oil price. gone up nearly $70 what's your expectation of supply when it comes to oil, and what does that mean for prices >> 2017 was a big year for increase in supply in the united states you'll have another big year in '18 is what do i mean by that our best judgment just in the

permian basin, 70% of production, we think it will be up 700,000 in new production net. >> okay. >> wow so u.s. production right now let's say ended last year at 9.6, 9.7 we believe it could be in the low to mid-10s and by the end of '19 that could be 11 million u.s. production so u.s. drilling is going up. now what will happen -- >> i've got to the do one more here real quickly. china recently, a concern about it buying bonds. >> how much. >> how much concern does that cause you for rates and we're out of time. >> the quick answer is i still believe there's over 20 trillion in central bank liquidity in the world so china's reball i think ought to be manageable we'll have to be vigilant about it by thinkwe'll have to be manageable. >> dallas fed president, robert

kaplan, thanks for joining us. and thanks for the short answer on the back end there. back to you guys across town. >> three tikes we'll see what happens when we come back, an outlook for retail in 2018 with the ceo of the national retail federation and the president of saks and we'll rock. drummer rick allen is here we'll hear about his project to help military veterans there's some of the art he's put together, some right there >> what is the most streamed song of all time on spotify? the answer when cnbc's "squawk box" continues and a gentle wave-like motion... liberate your spine... aflac! and reach, toes blossoming... not that great at yoga ya but when i slipped a disc, he paid my claim in just one day. so he had your back?

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report still ahead this morning. we're expecting wells fargo to report at the top. hour wells fargo is expected to report $1.07 of on revenue of 22.4 billion jpmorgan chase and blackrock both beat forecasts with their latest numbers jpmorgan is mostly flat, you would say, and -- and black rock with a nice gape but it's up in the 500 area already but up just less than a percent and facebook is making some big changes to its news feed. it's going to prioritize posts from friends and family over public content like viral videos or posts from businesses mark zuckerberg says the change is geared towards creating more meaningful social interactions >> when we come back, retail taking center stage right here in new york this weekend the national retail federation ceo matthew cia and saks president mark metric will be

joining us after the break and give us an outlook for the sector in 2018 take a look at the u.s. equities future, dow pulling back ever so slightly but still you're looking at the dow futures indicated up about 93 points and s&p futures up 6.5 a tndhe nasdaq up by 15. "can squawk box" will be right back squawk box" will be right back squawk box" will be right back squawk box" will be right back squawk box" will be right bk

tens of thousand will be packing the jacob javits center in new york for nrf 2018, retail's big show. for more on this let's bring in the national retail federation president matthew shay and saks fifth avenue president mark metrick who is executive director of the committee. gentlemen, thanks for being here today. >> nice to be here. >> matt, let's talk about the state of retail. we went into the holiday season, went into last year thinking that this was a really difficult time for retail, what was happening with online shopping and decimating some of the bricks and mortar things, but we came out with a pretty strong overall holiday shopping season because consumer was back in full force. >> we did, and we're doing see that later this morning when the department of commerce releases their numbers so we'll be releasing our final numbers for the holiday sales period.

>> give us a hifnlt was it north of 4.2%. >> our forecast was 3.6 to 4 and steve liesman and i have a bet on whether who is taking the over and the under. >> i think we'll on the high side. >> you probably nope what the numbers are later today. >> we don't get commerce. >> that's an input into our final numbers. >> at 8:30 we'll get that and i think we saw from thanksgiving weekend it was very clear consumer is back and retail is a good place and i think that's carried through most season and we'll find out later this morning. >> mark, how but do you think you've turned a corner how dependant is it on the economy and the consumer doing well and how dependant is it on retailers kind of changing how they do some of their presentations in. >> for us i think that's about how the consumer feels at saks that's what we're focused on, a good sign and a good way to propel us into next year. >> sure. where are you in the -- everyone thinks that amazon is going to kill every retailer in the world.

where are you as far as digital, as far as artificial intelligence, virtual reality in the stores >> you know, i think what's important about when you think about the online versus the offline experience, we have -- we don't need ai in our stores we have eye. living, breathing 4,500 style advisers in our stores so the focus for saks in the luxury space is convergence between tech and this living, breathing selling associate, and that's what we're focused on at saks. >> let's talk about that we've seen a huge surge in the consumer's health and just consumer confidence, the way people are feeling what toss that mean, and is that something -- the changes that we've seen, can they be sustained if the consumer is not feeling quite as healthy in. >> i had this conversation with a ceo the other day who said that he feels like this is really sort of a hockey stick beginning to the year because november sales were 6.1%, and if you strip out the non-store sales in november, store sales were 5.1% so the majority of the sales came from the stores in

november we think it will continue in december so the wind is at the back in the way the fourth quarter went and then you have the tax cut so the estimates we've seen from the joint tax committee is there will be an extra $100 billion of consumer spending generated, and then you combine that with a lower corporate rate which you talked about earlier with larry this morning, i think there's a lot of wind at the backs of the retailers which give them the room to then make investments that they need to make and marketing and e-commerce and all the channels they need to be representative. >> if you're look at the different categories of retailers, is there one or two that you think benefit particularly well or most likely to benefit well from these tax cuts is there going to be the discounters out there? what would you say >> i guess you would say based on those that have been under the greatest pressure, they are likely to benefit the most all paying the 35% corporate rate and then it's close to the 40% marginal rate and if you're

under a lot of pressure you'll benefit the most because you get a big influx of tax that you can redistribute across the portfolio of your grand. >> did you dodge a bullet with the border adjustment tax not snapping. >> that would have been a 500 billion hit so we ended up 100 billion on the good so a 600 billion swing. >> why don't you talk about your expectations because those are two fairly different areas what are you seeing? >> i'm real excited. there's a tremendous office and i'm really excited to get in there with the team. >> saks off fifth, there have been some talk of some of the luxury off price areas being hemmed back in because there hasn't been enough excess stuff that you want to offload and what is the future for saks off fifth? >> that's the goal

the goal is to have a better balance between supply and demand so what the opportunity is for saks off fifth is to deliver something special, give them a reason to come in and shop with us so not too different what you would see at the full line retailers. >> l there be expanded offerings or additional stores or is this focused on a smaller number of stores with maybe a better mix i feel good about our store base now, and, again, i'm two days in, but i think it's focusing on the core and focusing on what we have right now. >> marc and matt, thanks for being here appreciate your time. >> thanks very much. >> and when we return, squawk rocks with def leppard drummer and philanthropist rick allen. we'll hear about his new project and what's next for the band as we head to break a look at european markets at is hour. "squawk box" coming right back

becky, our next guest turned a personal traj ghi an ongoing project of hope. let's bring in rick allen, drummer for rock band def leppard, also an artist and many other things allen's work will be exhibited in the new york and philadelphia metro areas this weekend with the proceeds to benefit veterans organizations. rick, thanks for joining us. you had 300 pose, and they all sold, right? i read that in an article. >> that was one of my first shows. that was in vegas, and now i've joined up with wentworth gallery. you know, that's pretty much an exclusive deal, but they have got galleries all over the country, so it's -- it's a great deal for me because, you know, i -- i said, you know, i want to sell art, and they know how to sell art >>i mean, i've seen -- you have some -- i think you drew one of your band mates that passed away, steve clark, and have you

a talent you seem to imply that your painting is child-like, but you say it in a good way. >> right. >> because it's not trained, but you have a talent. i could not do any of this. >> for sure. there's some tricks and techniques, but the steve clark piece in particular, that's the one i'm most proud of and the fact that that i sent a photograph of it to my mother and she keeps in touch with steve's family and she -- she took it around there and made had a little print of it and took it around there and steve's mother was sitting there with tears rolling down her cheek so it had the desired effect. >> so much to talk to you about because becky, you weren't a groupie. >> no, no, no. >> kind of seem like one just now. how old were you, 15 and 16. >> you did not get backstage. >> you did try

>> maybe. >> what year was that, 1987. >> steve was still alive at that point, and did you still have your arm at that point >> at that point -- >> it was a couple years after you had relearned to play drums but more with your feet which is unbelievable. >> it was a huge blessing, but i did discover the power of the human spirit and that's what propelled me. >> the greatest success for you as a band and drummer as after you lost your arm. >> that's true. >> i had to figure out all this stuff. it was after pyromania and before hysteria. >> so it was the last day of 1984 that i lost my arm, so as you can imagine i ruined a lot of people's new year's celebrations. >> exactly. >> sorry about that. >> you've done a lot with vets and everything else because you understand ptsd to some extent becae it happened to you it's not always in combat.

it can be in a horrific accident. >> you're absolutely right it's not combat-related but people who have been in car accidents or abusive relationships or you name it, you know the mind sees it as trauma. it's trauma. it's not that different, so, you know, when i started hooking up with the vets, i realized that they were speaking the same language as me and a lot of experimented that i had gone through through meditation, breathing, diet, you name, it i brought that to the table and we were able to have a conversation about it and can i help other people. >> how did you first meet up with some of the veterans? >> actually through walter reid. i want to walter reid and held it together and saw so much suffering and also saw a lot of mow tension and that's the thing that caught my attention i called my wife and said we need to refocus the foundation on wounded veterans and that's exactly what we did.

>> what do you see about the music landscape which right with streaming? how has it changed from the '80s to what you see now, better, worse? >> that's a really good question music these days for us has become more of a calling card for, you know, to preempt playing live shows obviously there's technology that is moving in a direction to favor us, but it's still not quite there, but i -- i see it coming around. >> how come when i go on spotify i can't get so many of your most popular songs? >> that's another good question. our record company finally came to the table, and we sorted out the digital rights and i hope that that will be available soon. >> what's behind the scenes? are you allowed to talk about any of that? >> not really. >> no. >> that's a personal annoyance that i can't play your songs. >> a personal annoyance of mine for a long time, and, you know,

when we first made a lot of these records digital didn't exist and there was never any provision put in there so we're trying to work it how the. >> crossing my fingers >> i think of def leppard not locked in a time warp necessarily but not a certain genre a lot of people are repeating, a lot of good music that i like is good. who do you like right now? i'm sure it's not hair bands or metal bands? are there some still >> yeah. i still keep going back to sort of the age of discovery. whenever we are making a new record, i'll always go back and start, you know, start listening to music that inspired me when i was, you know, first >> like what >> zeppelin, you know, the stones. >> yeah. >> the beatles, you name it. >> anyone new? would you ever listen to like alt nation or the second wave of new wave >> i do, but i -- i tend to -- i

tend to sort of stick with what i know. >> as far as getting out all of your creativity, what does it better for you, music or -- or painting, if anything? >> both. it takes -- music takes me to -- don't get this wrong that mindless place where you just are in the moment and painting is the same it's great therapy it's great therapy for my ptsd also and music kind of does the same thing. >> it's not just painting and music though it's also jewelry that you're wearing and photography, too. >> yeah. all this stuff is inspired by, you know, some of the designs that you see on the artwork. i was -- i was told to mention about the things that went on inside the telephone boxes during bad weather. >> like what >> it was a way -- it was a

refuge you know, when it was raining outside or whatever, that is where we would hang out. >> and that's part of the reason that you paint the telephone box. >> that part of my life experience, you know, and -- >> so you can't talk about spotify but we can talk about the telephone booth. >> yeah, that's fair game, you know. >> you paint the american flag and the union jack as well the wounded vets make you patriotic, would you say are you american or british or both right now >> both. i -- i -- i tend to deal with what's in front of me, and i live in america so moy focus is on, you know, on this country. >> even with the flag there's always -- i mean, there's a respect for the flag but you might also do something a little quirky you might put a peace sign. >> peace sign or whatever. that to me is a way to boil it down to a common denominator,

something that pulls people together as opposed to the stereotypical views of what, you know, of what a flag means i just want to soften it, soften the edges and give people a reason to talk about it, you know it's a flag, but it's got a peace sign on it wow, that's interesting. why? well, i want to bring people together and give people something, you know, something in common. >> i guess the last thing, just technically i'm trying to figure out dish mean, if you told someone it's a great band, they have a one-armed drummer, wait a second it seems like -- it seems very difficult. paper hangers, it seems like it can't be done. what did you transfer to your feet, the snare or -- >> the snare drum and tom-toms. >> and tom-toms go there and then this is just -- >> so right hand is playing, you know, tip kit and then my left foot is playing everything that my left arm used to play and interesting enough there was

less learning involved than you would think. the information was in my mind and what happened was the information just champed out to all of my limbs, so i noupd i could do things with my right hand that i could never do about. i was very right footed playing soccer as a kid and after the accident i realized i could kick with moy left foot nearly as well and it just happened automatically. >> i mean, if you're a fully abled dri abled drummer, you feel bad about yourself, you're not using one of your legs. >> there eat got to be a trick to there. >> anyway, where's -- >> in the control room. >> you are not the groupie >> our ep is out of control. he told me a week and a half, i was talking about not being here today for something. look, you've got to be here that day. >> i just signed his entire

record collection. >> rick allen is going to be that who the "f" is that? >> thrilled to have you here. >> great having you here >> thank you for having me. >> love the hart. >> thank you for sharing. >> lovely. when we come back this morning, we've got some stocks to watch ahead of the opening bell and at the top of the hour senator heidi heitkamp will be talking infrastructure, energy policy and energy prices and much, much more. stick around "squawk box" will be right back.

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earnings alert quarterly results from jpmorgan, backrock and wells fargo financials in focus straight ahead. >> another record rally. stock futures jumping as the s&p remains on pace for its best week in more than a year >> plus, new this morning, facebook making major changes to its news fed we'll tell you why and what it could mean to the company's bottom line as the final hour of "squawk box" begins right now. >> live from the most powerful city in the world, new york. this is "squawk box. >> good morning, good morning. welcome back

haiti heitkamp is here. >> the girls are ganging up on him, that's right. >> live from squawk square at nasdaq in this very new studio. >> very nice. >> how have you been >> oh, my goodness, that's just beautiful. >> real good. >> oh, yeah. >> i'm joe kernin. >> there you go, you guys have a nice place here. >> real do you bet we do. >> are we done with this in. >> are we done picking on the way i talk now, joe? >> we're done now, senator. >> andrew is out becky is here. our guest host for the hour, north dakota senator heidi heitkamp which says "fargo" was from brainerd, minnesota. >> there is a difference you always say you betcha. i say there you go >> there you go. >> that's really good. >> that's kind of a different. >> if you don't like something you say that's different. >> you don't really criticizing. >> that's kind of interesting. >> kind of like bless his heart. >> she looked at my hair and

said that's kind of interesting. let's get a check on the markets this morning up again, triple digits. at least they were jpmorgan reported. the dow component and it's been moving around, just barely triple digits now but we were up 200 yesterday. great start to the year so far is it -- it's the 12th, right, i think i got that right once i get the year, then i can't possibly get the right day but it's 2018 now. the futures on the s&p up just under 6 and the nasdaq is strong up 15. nasdaq having a great start to the month and the year treasuries which looked like they were -- yields were off to the races, they have moderated in recent sessions now 2.54 on the ten-year. >> and today's top stories, blackrock posting better than expected fourth quarter results. the firm alsoration its dividend chairman and ceo larry fink joining us in studio earlier this morning >> over the course of the year we add $1 trillion that just gives you the extent

what have market beta has done, but we also grew 367 billion in asset across institutional retail, ishares, cash. >> $6.3 trillion under asset management at this point and blackrock is the largest manager of pension assets in the world fink is quite bushel on equities and calls the recent run-up a re-calibration of lower corporate tax measures jpmorgan also posted higher than expected quarterly profits gains in net interest income offset a slowdown trading ref now and if you take a look at the shares of jpmorgan this is a dow component. when we first saw the results they were down by a little over $1 and shares up by over $1 and right now it looks flat line and we'll see what the company has to say on the earnings call and how that influences trading as well. >> famed oil manback pickens has closed his energy hedge fund as well as equities hedge fund. 89 years old, he pointed to his deer toating health and poor fund performance remember, he fell over the

summer and has had a slow recovery from that fall. >> there you go. wells frgo results just cross the table and wilfref frost joins us with the breaking details. >> reporter: revenues basically in line, a tiny bit soft, 22.75 billion. eps is a decent beat at 1.16 a little headline number, loan growth is down slightly and less than a percent but jpmorgan's was up 2%. wells fargo last quarter was also a bit behind, pulling back on a little bit of loan growth margins. jpmorgan showed a five basis points improvement in net interest margin, a slight slip so a little disappointing. on the tax rate some forecast for wells fargo it would be closer to that 21%, the baseline rate, but they have estimated 2018 will come in at 19% and that's the same as jpmorgan and

that's encouraging yet again for both of these banks that they are coming in below that line for the forecast for the year ahead. the one outlier, i'll get to the bot thomp because it sounds too bad on the headline is that the efficiency ratio, expenses over revenue so you want a low number is coming in at 76%. last quarter was 65% and that was seen as too high in itself, ie the expenses are too high there must be one-offs in there because that's astonishingly high if it's the true comparison number to the last quarter cost-cutting is an important thing for wells fargo this year. they haven't real delivered on cutting expensed in the last couple of years the way the others have. they need to this year this suggests they massively missed it in q4 and there must be one-offs in it. stock price basically florida. guys >> okay. wilf, thanks very much. other corporate news, corporate unveiling changes to the news feeding years

yulia, this is a pretty northern change. >> reporter: absolutely and, becky, this is really the heart of the facebook app. the facebook news feed is going look had a whole lot different, this as the company starts prioritizing posts from friends and family over public content that means you'll see more friends photos and fewer viral video and posts shared by publishers and businesses. mark zuckerberg saying after doing research an getting feedback from their community, quote, we're making a major change to how we build facebook. i'm changing the goal. i give our product teams to helping find relevant comment to helping you have better social interactions this could have a negative impact not just on publishers who rely on facebook to reach consumers but on the facebook metric i expect the people spending time on facebook will go down and the time you do spend on facebook will be more valuable, and if we do the right thing that's good for our community and business over the long term,

too. this comes after a year of unprecedented scrutiny of facebook facebook does report its earnings coming up on january 31st we'll be watching more on what zuckerberg's new focus means for bottom line of the company becky? >> julia boorstin, thanks very much now to our guest host, immigration, tax reform, all made headlines and what else is in store for 2018? our guest host is north dakota snort heidi heitkamp and we're so glad to have you here today. >> thanks for having me. >> we just heard from wells fargo, jpmorgan, blackrock this morning, all of the financial firms coming out this last year was a year where it was republicans only in everything that came through we keep hearing that this is potentially a more bipartisan year is this an area you think there could be bipartisanish us. >> reporter: >> there already has been a huge bipartisan success, at least for

seven hours and marked up a reg reform bill for small community and regional banks i think by the time we're done we're hoping we'll have about 70 sponsors in the senate that's a huge momentum we're trying to get floor time from mitch i think that eventually. >> mcconnell. >> sometime in the next 30 days we'll actually pass this out of senate hopefully it goes to the house, the house doesn't moaning around with it too much, and -- and we will have for the first time a very significant regulatory reform for dodd/frank for small community banks, small lenders and the regional banks. >> what does do specifically >> one of the problems that you have, especially with banks in rural communities is that they can't meet the compliance requirements if their mortgage has to be qualifying, it is hugely expensive, so they have retracted and moved out of mortgage alleged business, or they are using gimmicks like, you know, we'll take the title to your pickup to give you a mortgage for your house because,

you know, the equivalency in terms of cost and value, and so what we did is said, look, if a community bank or a small lender wants to keep that loan in portfolio, why is it the federal government's business if they want to take that risk as long as they are -- their institution is secure and sound and that's part of the relationship they have with their cuters >> this was a federal overreach that was went to the big banks that ended up affect all these small community banks. >> absolutely. and when you look at what happened, and there's so many people saying the big banks have gotten bigger and that's because we've basically put regional banks and the small community banks and credit unions at a competitive disadvantage with excessive compliance costs. >> i remember several years ago after the financial cries and dodd/frank came and a guest same in that said you won't have a bank that will have a market cap less than $1 billion. >> we've had some of those

you've seen huge consolidation because people don't want to rub the risk of an audit and high compliance cost and we've real excited about this package, working on it since i've been on the bank committee since '13 and this is just an excellent opportunity and i have to give a shout-out to chairman mike crapo from idaho, working with him as a ranking member and now as chairman of the committee and he's been absolutely willing to doing everything that he can to get this across the finish line so it -- you know, when a town where people don't say there's no bipartisan support, i think you're seeing a huge amount of willingness to do things that make sense. >> is this going to be a one-of course, or will it lead it additional issues in immigration and infrastructure, the headlines that we keep hearing every day coming out of washington >> i want to talk about infrastructure because it goes back, to you know, when you spend $is.5 trillion and you're running the risk that that is going to result in debt,

increased death, and we can argue about, you know, whether the joint committee was right or whether all the analysis on whether we're going to see economic growth that will pay for it is right, right now the number counters basically tell us that we at least dug ourselves a $1 trillion hole is that why you didn't vote for it in. >> yeah. it was fiscally irresponsible. what could we have done with that money that we're giving in tax relief infrastructure is one thing. you're talking about debt and deficit. my somers point if we pass on a highway system that is depleted and depreciated, if we pass on a rail system that doesn't work, that's another way to pass on debt and deficit we need to get our infrastructure spending back up. we need to make sure that we are a facilitating interstate commerce with the things that the federal government should be investigating in, like roads and

rural broadband, i can go through the whole list. >> would you say that you would still like to spend on it, even though you were worried about the potential for deficit building from the tax bill, would you still be willing to double down and do an infrastructure bill anyway and see what happens in terms of the economy? >> i think the administration wants to do infrastructure bill, but how it's going to be structured is it will be 200 billion to leverage an additional 80% i don't know any state so flush with cash right now that they could in fact make that commitment. >> it could come from private industry as well. >> i always tell people, you know, am i going to be able to find an investor who is going to find the road between steel and medina this really affects rural states like mine so we're looking at rural set-asides, but we're not spending enough on infrastructure, and by we i mean the entire country, not just the federal government, but -- and as a result our infrastructure shows it we have huge failing systems in

this country and we need to amp it up. but when we spend $1 billion on tax relief, that limits what we can do on infrastructure. >> all right we're going to continue this conversation senator heitkamp is with us for the rest of the show and we'll dig a little deeper in. >> thanks, becky. >> i know you got a couple of oil wells. is there any infrastructure in north dakota does the road count? >> actually what's really interesting is we have huge amounts of investment in infrastructure in north dakota because what have happened in western north dakota, and the state has ponied up because the state could afford it because of the oil extraction tax. >> and you're just rolling in it at 60, 63. >> it stabilized back -- actually there's two sides of the equation on revenue on oil one is what's our production numbers and the other one is price. this has been dish mean, what we're looking at is a $50 to $60 west texas intermediate -- west

texas intermediate price that will sustain the industry, and, in fact, we know because of the -- because of the reduction that the cost centers have been greatly reduced. this industry has gotten so much more efficient in the shale space that at 60 that's about where they want to be. >> right. >> because anything above that would encourage mammoth growth and once again we would get a surge and increase in costs so i think we're right at the speed spot for permanency in the shale development. >> you like hydrocarbons and you like fracking. >> i do. >> you like economic growth. >> are you comfortable where you are politically? >> do you write that down. >> if you did a ben franklin, i like this, this, this, this, this, this you would come out republican, senator. have you thought about it? people have done it. wouldn't be the first time you would feel like, you know, were -- you're uncomfortable doing that. >> does it matter what she calls herself though

>> thank you, becky. >> yeah, joe >> just trying to figure out where you'd be more comfortable. >> actually, you know, what you look at, you look at medicare and medicaid. >> you don't want those to go absolutely -- you probably want to reform those, too, don't you? >> i want to reform healthcare let's quick talking about reforming how we're paying for it. >> you're sounded like a republican. >> no, that's not. >> coming up, three big -- >> it's just common sense. i'm going to rename my party, the common sense party. >> three big earnings report ndom blackrock, jpmorgan a wells fargo. an analyst's view next stay tuned you're watching "squawk box" on cnbc what's team spirit worth? (cheers) what's it worth to talk to your mom? what's the value of a walk in the woods?

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wells fargo out with -- wells fargo out with -- they gave it to me. out with fourth quarter earnings just moments ago the company posting better than expected bottom line results however, revenue fell a bit shortstop joining us now, the principal and bank analyst the that was a really sort of overarching development a couple years ago when i -- it used to be warn buffet's favorite, you

know, the rolls-royce of banks and now we think of wells fargo, that's all we think about. are they past the problem? >> we're in the later innings certainly. in the coming couple of weeks we'll probably see an occ settlement and took a litigation for that and that will allow them to close the book thon. >> how come it's taken so sflong h -- so long? how do we keep getting dribs and drabs of that? >> you raise a good point. number one, virtually everybody out there needs to extract upon the flesh and we have a litany of regulatory bodies in the u.s. so each one is sort of taking their turn. >> it was their own investigation. >> that's where i was going next and once they uncovered the sales practices in the community bank, they shifted gears immediately and said, look, we can't have problems like this. we'll turn over every work at the bank in general so that's been a while. >> i would disagree with your characterization that once they discovered it. i think they discovered it and

thought they fixed the problem and had to go back had they dealt with it when they had the first indications they would be better off today. >> that's a very fair point. whether it's back in 2012 or 2013 it would have been a small thing. the big disappoint in investor mind, joe, as you pointed out, this was the gold standard of regional large banks out there but the real investment in investor minds and probably the community at large was that perhaps they knew about it and didn't act at all or certainly not aggressively enough, but, you know, i think the main point in my mind and for investors, is you know, you look at the changes we made over the last few years, new ceo and lots of turnover in the board and lots of turnover in senior management we've clawed back tens of millions of compensation and does that remove culpability, not at all but i think tim sloan is starting to turn the corner. >> but in damage control, first impressions matter. >> yeah. >> and in damage control first impressions, i mean, i was on the committee when the ceo came

in >> i remember you questioning him. >> and it was not good. >> yeah. >> and it was absolutely the wrong way to approach this kind of problem. >> oh, yeah. i mean, if we can turn back the clock, i think we all would have done a lot of things differently. this caught us all off guard in very unfortunate ways but, again, tim sloan, the still relatively new ceo, tried to take ownership of this to all degrees possible so, you know, i think -- >> there's a lot of -- got a lot of goodwill to try to claw back, with regulators in that vain. >> they were one of the first movers to move to a $15 minimum wage to their employees and i think they will donate $400 million this year to their found po days, so there's a lot to claw back and unquestionably this has been a huge almost extension issue for the company, but we think they are beginning to turn the corner >> just with the operating metrix, three highlights of this report three things we were watching

for, lean growth, the margin and the expense story, the third is the big one. fourth quarter in particular, so they reported 1.16 we were looking for $1 i think the consensus was around $1.03. concensus means nothing this quarter, kitchen sink quarters in the grandest degree, tax adjustments and business line sales, litigation, accruals, et cetera so the big thing markets will focus on is the company's cost guide, a number between 53.5 billion and 54.5 billion, right at the mid-point and the consensus is maybe toward the lower end of that range which could be a little bit of a disappointment but that's clearly the thing people will focus on on loans pretty much flat, where we were looking and margin down a couple basis points. need to do a little more work because there was perhaps a little more work in there but plus or minus is fine with me. >> did sandler get more bullish after tax reform on the group? >> yeah, you know, taxes are a big issue for this group

number one, the bank group is wholly domestic and two among the biggest taxpayers in the country and just to the exhasn't we were able to revise our estimates upward on account of lower expected tax rates, that's a direct benefit which makes the group look more reasonable on a pe basis in 018 and beyond what you'll see are the ancillary impacts, whether that means better capital return from the group, ideally more robust economic activity that will help for things like loan growth which has been confoundingly low for the past couple of years and we're finally moving the pendulum to a slightly easier regulatory environment and given that we'vin under the thumb of regulators for so long this is a favorable move so we actually just came out at sandler with an overweighting for the group a couple weeks ago, and we think the group is in good shape. >> okay, we've got to go i don't know a yield cure with 40 basis points in germany.

does anything make sense >> one glimmer of hope two things, one higher short-term rates are good for the group so that's number one number two, the curve is actually steepening just a touch. >> okay. >> talking to scott about wells fargo and now we're finished talking about -- >> say it again. >> there you go. >> play it again, sam. >> thank you, scott. >> thank you, guys. >> never gets old. actually, maybe it is getting old. >> just a little. >> maybe. >> not old for me. >> when we come back we'll look back for a rnd oouupf other financials to watch. stay stupid. you're watching "squawk box" here on cnbc and the international brotherhood of electrical workers helped make that happen. the ibew's outstanding union professionals have the skills and training to get the job done right. that's good for our customers and for our bottom line. ibew members are our power professionals. they should be yours as well.

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welcome back to "squawk box. breaking news. actually quite important breaking news. our december read on cpi up .1 as expected. strip out the all-important food and energy, up .3, that's .1 higher than expected no. revisions to the up .4, up .1 for last month year over year, 2.1, expected. .1 cooler than our last look and if we look at cpi from the perspective of the federal reserve, those numbers are a little bit hotter than ppi but still not hotter than they have been historically. you look at retail sales also out. up .4 on headline. you could say that's a tenth

light. you're looking for half of 1%, but you did gain that tenth back on a revision of last month. take out autos still up .4. that's better than expected with a .3 revision. last month up 1.3. autos and gas, up .4 and gained .4 on the revision last month from .8 to 1.4 the control group used to insert into the puzzle, the bigger puzzle piece what we're expecting the number up .4 there and maybe thatcism fielder's choice this process. it was up .3 .1 light, but like all this data it really reflected another upward revision, up .6 which is reallyquite large on last month's control number bringing it to 1.4. so, if you look at it from a sequential standpoint, maybe you're a bitdisappointed if you look at it and try to meld the two together thinking, that you know, you have some be a norm tis there, let's look tat from an averaging process pretty decent the big news today is the dollar

index, or the euro, whichever is your palette there or over 12 is on the euro versus the dollar and getting ever close to 19 on dollar index and this comes at a time when we're several basis points away from the highest yield closes since march of last year that's something to think about. beck, back for you. >> rick, thank you very much rick santelli. by the way, happy three-day weekend. we saw strange bed flows in m & a, most necessarically with amazon and whole foods it will continue in 2018 as established retailers search for growth joining us is rob sweeney, global head of banking at whole foods. >> we mentioned sustaining bed flows, amon and whole food caught everyone by surprise and we look at where everybody needs to be heading to

is that a trend right now? >> i think it's certainly a trend. we'll see as it plays out. >> it was not the needed for rick and mortar and i say that because us a mentioned the other day, joe, domino's is not really a store, it can be a store, a store of a future can you go in and pick up your food or have it delivered. i think that first validation is brick and mortar is part of the future the second is that's a low margin industry. delivery of retail and low margin, compression and margin, that lead to consolidation so that's likely to be on the delivery of retail side as well as on the packaged food side the strange bed fellow point, our common enemies become friend and with amazon's approach to technology we're seeing google

express, walmart, target, see it in other markets that will continue. >> mark mah ha ney joined us a couple weeks ago and said he sees amazon buying and taking out target is that a thesis that you think holds water? >> i won't speak to specific names in that context. i think the idea of being at the point of everyday consumption is important to all of our clients, both technology and retail in commerce is the idea that a technology company could buy another retailer plausible yes, i think so. >> who does that make the winners of this year, in terms of stock prices because people look at it because there's a whole new layer of value here? >> it's treacherous to bet on winners on the likelihood of technology companies buying that that's a longer term trend the winners in retailers, put themselves at the point of consumes, whether that's on my phone or in my neighborhood or in a store with a compelling proposition develops a

relationship with me and leads to -- through the use of data and technology, a longer term relationship and a lifetime value that exceeds the cost. >> they are going to be everywhere that the consumer wants you to be basically. >> everywhere you the consumer wants you to be. >> the purchase of whole foods, they already have amazon prime pantry so they are already delivering groceries so with whole foods it's spoking to a whole different consumer, what they think is the millenial consumer of the future, but one of the challenges for retail long term is marketplace fairness hand what we're going do with the sales tax, and there's huge developments in d.c., either supreme court is going to take cert on the anti-coal case or we might move something out of congress to basically once and for all deal with the state sales tax issue. >> that would be fantastic. >> yeah, i think, you know, i litigated it so it's been 25 years in the make nothing finally get this done, but, you know, when you're looking at margins as small as what you have in retail and you're now

saying, okay, at 5%, so% in some cities including the sales tax, that's a huge hit on the bricks and mortar and we've got a level playing field. >> do you think there's been a shift in washington dish remember back in the late 1990s, maybe 1999 when that -- when you know, the sales tax exemption to the internet was given as a way of trying to boost them up, and they were getting a lot of help from washington for a long time, including in the last administration do you think that shift -- that things have shifted and that now internet conditions and internet retailers will have to be on the defensive? >> i think, number one, as they are looking at next day delivery they are seeing more physical presence and amazon can say we're now on board and we think this is justice. they have to have physical presence in order to meet the requirements of next day delivery or same day delivery so it's a little disingenuous i think, but when you look at kind of long term, the internet tax

bill was basically on internet service. it was never on the sale of product, and it's always been the quill case, that line of legal restriction that prevented states without physical presence jim posing a collection responsibility, i think it's going to change. gorsuch wrote the opinion and kennedy on the original court said we need to revisit this in the next couple of weeks we'll find out if the court takes cert. >> we've seen walmart and a lot of wage hikes coming, i remember a wage price spiral and we don't even use that term anymore for inflation because we've been on the flip side of it for so long. >> is there any danger eventually that there's some margin pressure from what's happening, whether states go to $15 or whether they sort of me, too, do it because everybody else is doing it do they have to worry about it ever

there's absolutely danger of it, and i think we're seeing it as the wages rise i think the tax reform which we haven't spoken about has given retail which gives them ten plus points of margin which helps them reinvest in the store. >> is it crumbs or actually meaningful >> i think it's moaningful where there's a potential disconnect the market expects more will come to shareholders. >> what happened to -- walmart came out kudos from everyone and they closed how many sam stores >> 63. >> was that a tin ear or what happened with that >> there's a cover >> many of those are being converted into distribution centers as you saw. >> maybe 12 or 13 of them. the 63 are being converted into distribution centers. >> something to watch is the overlevered retailers. we talk a lot about the benefit to retail which is largely correct. the overlevered retailers generally don't pay cash taxes

so they don't benefit from a reduction. they have nols, deferred taxes that are left. they have business expenses less than a third of ebitda and can't deduct the expense. >> people hated the border adjustment tax, and then they went back to that. >> how are the retailers >> what. >> when you replace the border adjustment tax with the s.a.l.t. thing. >> that looked pretty good. >> a year ago, change in sentments, all we talked about was border adjustment tax. >> we've got to the see the shift in technology replacing some of the menial jobs and the support can that productivity

ghan be invested back into the economy to encourage job growth somewhere else. >> thanks for coming in. >> if you didn't have to work at goldman sachs, you would have to go to work at goldman sachs. >> you could you'd need to play a ceo on television. >> stay tuned. >> hold on, hold on. >> we're still on. >> i didn't know there was a goldman sachs look. >> that's it, seniw. >> he's well put together. >> so flattered by your -- >> you have a dictionary.com search goldman sachs. >> yeah. >> and the picture -- >> you don't look anything like gary cohn. >> i can't believe you said that >> lloyd does not look like you. >> jamie dimon, jpmorgan jamie dimon and cfo marion lake. you never know where it's going to, but funny things happen. joins us on the breaking news desk. >> just to quickly sum up the

earnings as a whole for jpmorgan, pretty poor trading and still a beat overall and a large part of that is strong guidance on taxes in terms of weighing out the plusses and minuses. just got off will call first i'll go the into the $143 million loss they have taken against a single client, margin loan in the executive derivatives department and was related to the south african home retailer called stein ohoff much in the news, using steinhoff stock as collateral. the stock was around 6,000 round and turned it around to 25 and they have turned it around to market and it's already down 90% so they havealready taken the full substantial loss on that. trading more broadly, equities despite that was pretty good the fixed income commodities was very poor indeed and a reason why they were a bit worse than

their guidance they were down 17% that bodes badly for the heavy fixed income traders, particularly goldman sachss a we get those numbers next week and say the environment feels similar to trading as well and the low volatility continuing. tax reform, as we said, the guidance there particularly good jamie dimon said great companies are coming forward and boosting wages. they haven't announced their own plan on that and already at $15 an hour minimum wage from last year they said that in the next two weeks they will come out with their announcement about what they are doing for their staff based on the tax reform bill so that's coming. not got it yet and in terms of loan growth, cni and industrial loan growth, whether the tax firm little will boost that going forward. looking for high single digit growth next year from the 1% that we've seen because of the tax reform bill. guys >> all right, wilf thank you, it's livelily here, wilf. >> the big story on facebook

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businesses, paid content mark zuckerberg says that that change is geared towards creating more meaningful social interactions, but obvious think could put some pressure on the money they will make so stocks are down 7.4%. >> the nasdaq is up 25 and it's now down 2. >> look, this is an important change and a way of pushing back against what's been seen as problems in facebook over the last year or two >> let's see the nasdaq now. >> it's actually down. >> unbelievable. >> and the dow is no longer up by triple digits. >> yeah. >> so dow up by 70 points still and s&p still hanging on with a point above fair value nasdaq down by three points. when we come back, we have jim cramer joining us live from the new york stock exchange and we'll get his take thon nirning's stories, earngs reports and lots of other things we've about talking about. stay tuned you're watching "squawk box" on cnbc

let's head down to the new york stock exchange. jim, this just happened. we've got things we usually talk bork jpmorgan and wells fargo, but did you see the nasdaq was up 25. it's now down just in the last half hour or so. >> yeah. it's finally reacting to the

facebook news, and i think the market wants -- the sellers of facebook frankly don't really understand the implications longer term about how positive it, but they are obviously saying, look, this is a big-cap stock. it's obviously the nasdaq, drive the rest of the nasdaq down. i think the move is necessary because facebook is peaking and can't do peak and autoplay, and ruins the user experience. and you've got to hear what the government is saying what they are saying now, if facebook is look we're experiential and about family and community, come after us. >> it kill help uwill help user. he's not thinking about the six to aeg months that just happened but what will happen the stock is down because the analysts don't get it. but they will get it by the time it gets to 175, 174, they'll figure out it's good, not bad.

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welcome back to "squawk box. new news this morning. jeff bezos announcing he's donating $33 million to a scholarship fund for so-called d.r.e.a.m.ers. the immigrants brought to the

u.s. illegally as children this comes amid the debate over daca in washington. our guest host this morning, senator heidi heitcamp the question becomes how do we pay for it you've got a few ideas. >> i think public/private partnerships can work. we have a great example with the red river valley diversion program but the state was able to do that because it had a ton of oil and gas revenue coming in we have to be realistic about rural areas and state contribution that we're expecting and thaen we have to be realistic about how we expect to privatize or bring in the private sector the example that always gets talked about the parking meters in chicago you know, they continue to believe that that was a bad deal we've got airports in australia now that are restricting who can fly in they've been privatized. we don't want to just pass that

off and not make sure that those are public assets. >> the traditional role of a utility or public asset. the bottom line, $200 billion over ten years is too anemic and we need more dollars in infrastructure. >> one idea is raising the gas tax. how do you feel about that >> i feel this is one -- you go first because everybody looks at it as we saw gas prices come down with the advent of the shale development and more supply in the market we think we've stabilized oil and gas prices could consumers wouldn't take a big hit. all of the truckers association, major infrastructure groups are promoting a gas increase we have to be realistic about fuel switching and new high mileage vehicles the gas tax is a great user free but it's inadequate even at its present level. >> you would be in favor of it, may not want to be the first legislator to say i'm add vo indicating for it but if there

was a bill -- >> i think -- >> that's not what i heard. >> you would be in favor of it >> no, i'm saying you can't do a user fee without taking a look critically at how you fix the gas tax structure. and so -- >> meaning it can't be spent for anything else? >> absolutely. i think you've got to look it up and say it's just for infrastructure or you would have a revolum volumvolum volumrevolt there's a lot of bipartisan work being done, come up with an infrastructure package that does increase gas taxes but you have the house with the pledge. we aren't going to raise any taxes. if you look at across the state governments, state governments have found a path forward and very conservative estates to raise the gas tax. >> let's talk about this idea of another way of funding it could be from raising taxes sales tax numbers on internet retailers and there's -- i didn't real rise this is somethinging happening in next two weeks. >> it's happening in the next

few weeks if it happens in the courts and there is decision in year end plans, what i call year end, now the beginning of the year, on funding either extenders or on the in a infrastructu infrastructure you could see an argument that look, we're giving you the ability to collect these sales from remote sellers. that's money that you now will have to reinvest in infrastructure and to pair up with whatever federal investment there is. >> you think there's a daca fix and immigration plan to be had >> i was in the meeting on monday and i walked out of there believing we could come to some kind of agreement and then yesterday it blew up again so we've got to take -- >> blew up because of the president's comments or not being able to find legislators on both sides? >> i think the president is in the middle at one point and i think it was on the live television feed, i feel like i'm the moderator and that's exactly the role he's playing in the hard line over here does not

want to -- the tom cottons and the steve millers do not want the deal that was done by the six bipartisan groups. so the question is, how do you begin to have this discussion, not taking out o emotion, it's hard to take out emotion of kids who have incredible stories. how do you -- achieve the commitment that we wanted to do something for these kids that's the criticalpiece and we're talking immigration, and lottery system do you think there are certain elements that would like the government to shut down to score political points. >> i do not think that is in any way any position of anybody in the democratic conference. >> absolutely. i don't think anyone thinks anyone wins -- >> there was a time when

democrats -- now anything has anything to do with the law it's a nonstarter. >> but that's not true either. i mean, my big argument on the wall and i sat down with the homeland secretary -- homeland security secretary and basically said, you haven't given us a plan tell me where it is and what the plan is. that's exactly right tell me are we going to be able to see through it. >> senator, you go ahead, great to have you. >> fun to be here. >> we laugh. we do. wish we could show off camera stuff but we can't. >> enough made it on camera. that's right enough off camera stuff made it on camera. now you have to sit in a borg me boring meeting in washington. >> can i take becky? >> yes ♪ good friday morning, welcome to "squawk on the street."