bancorp and m&t bank that will happen before the opening bell after the closing bell, we'll get americanxpress, qualcomm and t-mobile u.s that earnings picture taking front and center stage let's talk a bit more about the earnings picture we have joining us now lindsay bell investment strategy from cfra research. i have to say, it's shaping up to be another decent earnings season take us through some of the mechan mechanics. why you are showing or seeing positive momentum for earnings >> it's been a good quarter, but we're in early stages. 74% of the companies that reported have beat on the top and bottom line. that's in line with average for this point in the earnings season early on that will come down as we move on the banks stole the headlines so far. good quarterly results, weak guidance was the story there wilfred i'm sure can tell you about that we're looking forward to see how the regional banks fair. technology will be the second best leader in growth with 10.8% earnings growth. that's after energy. emerging from earnings drought, i would say. and we'll get some of the -- the se

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. >> >> let's get to the opening bell at the bottom of your screen it's bancorp it's national geographic bringing wildlife from six continents live to viewers this sunday let's check out jpm at the open and some of the financials as they respond to rates this week. >> why are people not talking about that why serve talking about tesla? do you think tesla is more important than jp morgan honestly i'm asking you right now is tesla more or less important than jp morgan to the economy and the u.s. in the stock market >> no, jp morgan is most likely more important than tesla. >> i rest my case. >> >> elon musk may be more important as a human being than jam j jamie dimon. >> he has electric cars. he has a hyper loop, that guy has a lot going on. >> there was an article about two billionaires do he they talk about taking over the world. >> they talk about a lot of different ideas. >> i feel like jp morgan going up is the life blood. >> people understand that. >> and tesla going down just sport. >>> ihs market has a study that finds tesla registrations in california down 24 year on year. they a

bob jones, wonder -- chairman and ceo of old national bancorp, and another name in the running to fillhe vacancies. does this mean that donald trump has got his, you know, appointment-making engine revved up and we will see more of those as well? interesting. randy quarles, no surprise. this has been out there since mid-april. everything else going on at the white house, this comes to the top of the queue today. yvonne: we'll see if janet yellen's position makes it on that list for president trump as well. and interesting t story on the bloomberg, a correlation between inflation and the u.s. and china. we did get the ppi inflation numbers out of the mainland yesterday. it seems a to show stabilization. it has stopped in its tracks. when the u.s. is trying to get its inflation to move higher, what does it mean if the world's second-biggest economy has inflation that is best stabilized and maybe does start receiving more? the year-over-year ppi stabilized at 5.5% after coming down for three months in a row. the cpi, the broader measure of inflation, at 1.5%, a little bit below forecast -

bancorp based in minneapolis, they did better loan growth was up 3.5%.or 2% banks are doing better and tech stocks are doing well. all of the f.a.n.g. stocks are doing better facebook, amazon, microsoft is there, netflix at a new high as well we've had a weak dollar for a while now. that's helping some of the aerospace stocks boeing is there, stanley black & decker and borgwarner. and for at&t, new 52-week lows for at&t it's down 16% of the year. of course, we're still waiting on that time warner merger the dow is up 33 points. back to you. >> thank you very much, bob pisani investors are not over the moon in this market and that's a good thing for the health of this rally. he believes there are no expectations joining me is jim paulson. good to see you. you actually think we could have about 130 or so points to the upside on the s&p. that sounds really bullish >> it's not as much as it used to be. it's 2600. it's around 5% from where we are. but you know, i guess i think the biggest thing that hits me, melissa, is that we're kind of in a backdrop for th

and one of the biggest gainers in the financial sector,fifth third bancorp, thanks to higher net interest income and improving credit quality, though revenues did come in slightly weaker than wall street was expecting. that stock though up 2% today, kelly. >> we have half an hour to go here, and, again, we've broken a string of gains for nasdaq see if anything turns around and some declines following on from europe's session earlier today dow down 56 and s&p down 4 and nasdaq down 11 amazon under fire with reports of a new probe by the ftc. coming up, find out if that could impact its deal to buy whole needs. >> being hailed as one of the best films of the year but can christopher nolan's world war ii film" tailor made for imax theaters, can that save the summer box office? that's still to come their experience is coveted. their leadership is instinctive. they're experts in things you haven't heard of - researchers of technologies that one day, you will. some call them the best of the best. some call them veterans. we call them our team. she can't become a guitar legend just by playing ai

bancorp, customers took out more loans and the bank benefited from interest rate hikes. >>> weak guidancental. a red arrow there, they're down 4%. tough year for united continental. the airline of course. look at the stock price since the april dragging incident. it is actually up almost 7%. >>> the 25th annual congressional "pig book" is out. it shows, one of the most wasteful spending in d.c. according to the "pig book." 163 earmarks cost taxpayers $7 billion. look who is here. gerri willis with some more alarming examples. number one. aquatic plant control. >> you need $9 million for that, right. what they're doing, they're killing these noxious plants in the country's waterways, rivers lakes. so you know -- stuart: that is not wasteful. i have no problem with that. you got a problem with that? >> i thought you had a problem with that? stuart: no i do not. number one. your example is awful. >> you asked for it. stuart: i will pass judgment here. >> all right. stuart: next one. >> do what i'm told. stuart: save american treasure. what is wrong with that. >> this will tick you off, my fr