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i'm becky quick along with joe kernan andrew ross sorkin is reporting live on the uber ipo he is justock exchange andrew, go am. >> good morning to you we've got that news. i know we've got a lot more coming up, too, as well given the china news

our andrew ross sorkin is live at the competition this year where he is hosting four championship rounds, mr. trebek, i mean andrew. >> calm down hey there how are you? we are live now at the council of economic education's 2019 national economic challenge. there are 11,000 students that competed to be here today and we're about to kickoff the david ricardo division finals. high school students who have been now completed one semester of basic economics are about to be quizzed on their knowledge of these principles and apply it to real world events so now we will officially after all of that, guys, we are going to officially get started. so is everybody ready? >> yes, we are >> you have your buzzers we're ready to go. let's start here, what economist is credited with developing the concept of conspicuous consumption. >> thornson -- >> please wait to be recognized by the judges before you answer, but that is correct. [ applause ] >> okay. will that do it? >> what does the price of roses, sorry, why does the price of roses increase before valentine's day but the cost of beer does not incre

the alex trebek successor obviously on stage there, that would be our andrew ross sorkin. back to the markets right now. we'll check in later with that exciting competition throughout the show and later today all right. the markets expecting a rate cut later this year but if you listen to feds speak, a cut is less certain atlanta fed president raphael bostick tells steve liesman his take earlier this morning. >> the market is ahead of where i am, so i would say i am not expecting a rate cut to be imminent, certainly not by september. i'm open to move in either direction and right now, not really tilted to the cut side as opposed to the hike side. >> let's bring in sareek kumar joe, let me start with you are you on the side of the fed, and you think the markets may be leading us a little too quickly down the rate cut path >> well, i think the fed is going to take its cues from the market and what you're seeing is when you look at the 10 year now going under 2.4, you see the 30 year collapsing as well, the whole yield curve is telling you that something is going on and when

andrew ross sorkin sat down with the ceo earlier who identified a surprising competitor for the companysten >> the ultimate competition we think is car ownership the car is this ultimate transportation bundle. you use it to get grocery or take your kids to school, et cetera, and we and our competition are slowly debundling what i call the car bundle >> bill, the debundle? >> i love that, calling my car the transportation bundle. you're not unbundling my car i'm not going anywhere >> the greatest thing that happened to me in the last year and a half was getting back to the burbs and getting a car. it is hot stuff. >> do you uber to the market >> i will uber back to my apartment because i don't want to carry two big bags. >> you got to get a cart >> i don't want to be that person on the sidewalk -- >> i don't have to prove anything to anyone i was a cart person. >> the cart contends on getting up and down the sidewalks, going around people the right way. they're cumbersome and tricky to deal with. >> i could get more from trader joe's. if you're a sima and you live in the city, uber is fa

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i'm becky quick along with joe kernan andrew ross sorkin is reporting live on the uber ipo he is just outside the new york stock exchange andrew, go am. >> good morning to you we've got that news. i know we've got a lot more coming up, too, as well given the china news >>ed markets are anxious about what's happening railroad. >> let's talk about that really quickly. we'll get back to andrew in a minute take a look at the u.s. equities futures. even though the tariffs are, on the market at this point is down, but only by 35 points. dow futures indicated down by just over 35 points. s&p futures off by six the nasdaq down by nine. again, yesterday we did see some declines, but the dow was down by 140 points at the he wanted of the day again, a lot of concern, a lot of questions wondering what comes next, but the market has managed to kind of hold in there every day. >> the cac up by .3% the ftse up by almost half a percent. then overnight in asia stocks in china soaring after the u.s. hiked tariffs on china we'll get a live report from beijing coming up in just a minute. >> to put that $

i'm joe kernen along with andrew ross sorkin. , nebraska, ahead of the berkshire hathaway annual meeting this weekend she will be joined by andrew ross sorkin. when's your flight >> this afternoon, about 2:00 p.m. >> and lands >> about 4:00 or 5:00. >> and then dinner tonight >> dinner tonight. >> yeah? >> then we've got warren and charlie tomorrow, all day. >> yes, you do. >> questions from the shareholders, sending us questions by email >> all right >> got some good ones. >> becky's out there on a scouting expedition. you got everything all set for andrew's arrival now, becky? i mean, you feel like it's -- >> almost. almost >> have you looked into his, like, accommodations are they -- >> his lodgings? no >> you haven't -- are you going to do that after the show? >> i'm sure it's the same as everybody here um, sure andrew, where would you like your room, facing out towards -- >> it's being swept like they do for the vice president or something. anyway, the futures right now are indicated up 63. those are some of the best levels w

i listened closely to andrew ross sorkin's interview of dara. he said two things let's have a smooth price after the open, that's what i'm looking for. two, let's not have a huge pop but not have it go down. let's have a small amount of positive price movement so the investors who took a risk last night make some money but not too much that's what we're looking for. if they priced it too conservatively, that's a problem and they handed money away and that's costly. >> i wonder, in general do you have ipos have a first day pop at the nasdaq? >> no, i don't think that's the issue. when i was selling against the nasdaq, the issue i would come back, i would say, look, ipos tend to have less volatility at the nyc. with respect to the pop, there's not data to support that exact point. but there's a more recent example which is direct listings there is zero pop. one of the things i said to dara when i met with him a year and a half ago, hey, i'm working quietly on this thing called a direct listing, maybe you should consider it. he said, look, tom, may

i'm becky quick along with joe kernen and andrew ross sorkin.ur guest is joe terranova he is a cnbc contributor. >> i'm just glad he's here i'm excited on a friday. >> beautiful out >> we've already been talking about what's happening here. >> he's a guy that has a job >> the jacket and the pants? >> mrs. terranova matched, put all the shirt and tie combo. is that all you? >> sound asleep when i left. >> so she didn't all right. >> well, well done well-dressed man joining us for the morning. we have the u.s. futures yesterday's stocks were off pretty significantly this morning you're getting half of that made up for with the dow futures up by 136 points s&p futures up by 14 and then the nasdaq up by close to 40 points again, yesterday you did see stocks down by twice the levels you're seeing now. overnight in asia, take a look you're going to see that the nikkei was off by just over a tenth of a position. shanghai was relatively flat the hang seng was up by 1/3 of a percentage point in europe there is early trading taking place green arrows acro

andrew ross sorkin asked the ceo.w he responded. >> pricing a deal is an art, not a science, so we probably went at it imperially but we thought this reflected the environment environment is uncertain right now, and any time there's uncertainty in the market, investors are going to be a little hesitant to put 8 billion of their dollars to work we wanted to put our stock with a group of funds we know aren't going to hold for the next week, the next year and the next five years. when we looked at the environment and we balanced how we really think of this company long term, this was a great result $8 billion is plenty for us to build and grow on top of >> what kind of runway does that give you >> very significant. we're confident in the road ahead. >> there was a little bit of caveating about the overall market and also about lyft which reported its earnings earlier in the week uber was saying, we're not totally sure about it. >> we've had these two major transportation sore advises give their opinion the last month or

i'm andrew ross sorkin along with joe kernan and melissa lee. becky quick off today.shark tank's kevin o'liarier, mr. wonderful. waking us all up this morning. good morning >> great to be sheer >> you've added an accessory, we see.

are live in the nasdaq market site in times square i'm becky quick along with joe kernan and andrew ross sorkinth both of you guys we're all back together for the first time in a while. >> nice to see you so nice to see you >> nice to see you, too. >> yesterday's big sell-off in the markets. the dow posting its worst session since january 3rd. dropping as much as almost 650 points before actually closing down by about 473 points at the close. at the weakest level the dow was down by 2.5% s&p was off by 2.4% at the weakest level and the nasdaq was down by 2.8% at the close, utdown 1.8%. you can see

i'm becky quick along with joe kernan and andrew ross sorkin. let's take a look at the u.s.are relatively flat. this comes after an update for the markets yesterday morning. you did see big gains that came. you can see all of the gains we saw yesterday. there are changes in the policy with huawei, and some of the weaker policies actually making people think that there's more hope than trade talks ahead. ha. s&p futures by less than a point, and the nasdaq off by 7 lerts ta let's take a look at what happened in asia you can see that the nikkei was flat, closed by less than a tent

i'm joe kernen along with andrew ross sorkin and melissa lee.guest host, kevin o'leary, chairman of o'shares etfs, "shark tank" host and a cnbc contributor. the futures right now are up about 140 points this morning. the s&p indicated up 16 and change nasdaq indicated up 57 treasury yields are about flat with where we've seen recently, 2.41% on the ten-year. >>> a couple stories investors will be talking about today. the big one, president trump taking to twitter this morning to talk about trade, tweeting "the u.s. is in a much better position than when a deal with china was said to be close this month. he says they will strike a deal, quote, when the time is right, and that america has to be able to make up ground it's lost to china since the world trade organization was created >>> separately, walmart now fighting back against amazon, the retailer rolling out free next-day shipping for orders of $35 or more. that's going to happen in phoenix and las vegas. and walmart says it will gradually expand to about 75% of the united states by the end o

i'm joe kernen along with andrew ross sorkin. gh, is in omaha this morning with a very special guest. warren buffett joins us fresh off the berkshire hathaway annual meeting we're going to hear from becky in just a minute, but first take a look at the futures. big move this morning in u.s. equity futures this hour, tumbling after president trump threatened china with some new tariffs. we have the perfect guest this morning for the market move. let's get right to becky quick and warren buffett hey, becks >> hey, joe. thank you very much. again, picking up with warren buffett where we left off. warren, we did talk at the top of last hour about what china tariffs potentially mean for business and what they mean for berkshire, but you're looking at the market's down almost 500 points this morning. and for people who are just waking up and just kind of trying to figure out what this means for them, for their portfolios, for their businesses today, i'm sure they've got some questions. what can you tell them what do you say when you look

welcome to "squawk box" here on cnbc andrew ross sorkin along with melissa lee. got your ticket to omaha becky quick will be reporting live from the berkshire hathaway meeting. often called woodstock of business tens of thousands of investors waiting to hear from warren buffett and so many others the ceos of berkshire companies benjamin moore, as well as investor mario gavelli joe moglia, reddit co-founder will be there along with sue decker coverage starts tomorrow at 6:00 a.m. eastern i'm flying out right after that. if you have questions i should tell the audience, if you have questions that you want myself or becky to ask of mr. buffett saturday, send them to us on twitter. >> you're leaving after the show tomorrow >> after the show tomorrow, getting on a plane i will be in omaha, ask the questions. >> then back on monday. >> back for you on monday. becky will be out there in omaha. >> if there's any question about whether you're cutting it too tight or something, it's okay. what time do you -- i mean, we're doing the show tomorrow. >> we are. >> but you're g

right, good morning, everybody, welcome to "squawk box" on the cnbc i'm becky quick along with andrew ross sorkinere down yesterday. the dow was down by more than 100 points, s&p futures down by 28 the nasdaq off by 100. all of these are continuing themes that we've watched the marketings roll around over the last few weeks again concerns over

i'm becky quick along with joe kernen and andrew ross sorkin.joe terranova he is a cnbc contributor. >> i'm just glad he's here i'm excited on a friday. >> beautiful out >> we've already been talking about what's happening here. >> he's a guy that has a job >> the jacket and the pants? >> mrs. terranova matched, put all the shirt and tie combo. is that all you? >> sound asleep when i left. >> so she didn't all right. >> well, wel

we're live at the nasdaq market site i'm andrew ross sorkin along with joe kernan. becky quick is with us live this morning in omaha at berkshire hathaway's annual meeting. getting ready for it, becky. what's coming up >> good morning, guys. it's good to see you what's going on, joe you're on camera >> do you know what the number is. >> i saw that. >> she looked ahead. >> i don't have the number in advance. do you >> no. >> but i did look ahead to the rundown. >> you know what the number is for expected, though it was just on worldwide exchange

are live from the max market site in times square i'm becky quick along with joe kernan and andrew ross sorkin of course, that would be trade president trump speaking at a rally in florida last night. he talked about his threat to raise tariffs on chinese goods as soon as tomorrow. >> by the way, you see the tariffs we're doing, because they broke the deal. they broke the deal. they broke the deal. so they're flying in the vice premier. good man but they broke the deal. >> the global markets continue to follow the trade fight very closely with u.s. equity futures

i'm joe kernen along with andrew ross sorkin.'t know you moved to music like that. that was -- really >> it's moving, animating. >> you will completely go wild at times with a strong beat? >> absolutely. you need that in this environment. >> yeah, yeah. ♪ >> love it >> the futures right now -- actually, he didn't move at all. i don't. i move my little finger and then my whole body starts, and i won't lotte it happen. anyway, we're down 180 on the dow. the s&p down 20. and the nasdaq up -- i'm sorry, down about 58 points treasurys were 2.39% earlier, 2.36% this morning on the ten-year. >>> let's tell you about some of the stories investors will be talking about this morning suppliers of chinese telecom giant huawei taking a big hit, i should say a massive hit in overseas trading this morning as the trump administration banning impact on the sales outlook of those companies having a huge impact, investors worried about the possible impact of the huawei action on trade take a look. sunny optical by the way down over 10% right now we

back to "squawk box" here on cnbc we're live at the nasdaq market site in times square i'm andrew ross sorkin melissa lee with us today. becky is off she'll be back tomorrow. let's start with a stock market's incredible turnaround during yesterday's session at this time, dow futures are down 500 points. everything was in the red. the dow recouping to finish all of there that in the red the comeback from mixed trade headlines. we'll have a lot more on what those headlines are saying and what's behind those headlines a little bit later >>> we are indicated lower the dow looks to lose about 121 points at the open the s&p looking to be done by 15, and nasdaq down by 43. a key level to watch in the s&p 500 will be $2898. that was yesterday's low stocks in tokyo reopened after six session holiday commemorating the new emperor. the nikkei closed lower by 1.5%. stocks in hong kong and shanghai after yesterday's big sell-off in china we had the shanghai up by .7%. over in europe, taking a check over there and see how they're fairing. we have the dax down by .4%. mostly red arrows across the board. a c

i'm becky quick along with joe kernan and andrew ross sorkin. let's take a look at the u.s. equity futures you have to see that things are relatively flat. this comes after an update for the markets yesterday morning. you did see big gains that came. you can see all of the gains we saw yesterday. there are changes in the policy with huawei, and some of the weaker policies actually making people think that there's more hope than trade talks ahead. ha. s&p futures by less than a point, and the nasdaq off by 7 lerts ta let's take a look at what happened in asia you can see that the nikkei was flat, closed by less than a tenth of a percent and the shanghai less than half a percent. the chinese ambassador saying the door is open for trade talks with the united states but they are in no rush. >> i don't want to talk about that i watched that interview we were talking off camera about it andrea, you should have seen this we got to get to lowe's. i'll tell you about it in a second with a straight face, he was saying things like wow, it was like baghdad bob, we're not interested in g

right, good morning, everybody, welcome to "squawk box" on the cnbc i'm becky quick along with andrew ross sorkinhings are under some pressure this comes after the markets were down yesterday. the dow was down by more than 100 points, s&p futures down by 28 the nasdaq off by 100. all of these are continuing themes that we've watched the marketings roll around over the last few weeks again concerns over china. things seem to have learned that it will be a long event. the zhang shy off more than 1 and a third% the nikkei is down by .6 of a% all as they continue to see the reverb racing of hauwei lack of a deal with the u.s. saying you can't do business with that. that is playing out if several other countries uk firms also saying they will not be doing business with hauwei, they use underlying u.s. technology in europe, red arrows across the board. the dax is off 1.8%. the footsie off by 1.3%. if you look at the treasury markets this morning in the united states, you will see that the ten-year here is yielding 2.3506%. we have fallen well below the holding ground wee seen if recent weeks. >>> right

i'm becky quick along with joe kernen and andrew ross sorkin. our guest host is ian shepa shepardson thanks for being here. let's start with the u.s. equity futures. things are slightly down nasdaq off by 36 points. s&p 500 down by 1.5. dow futures are up by about 9 points this comes as the dow has tracked four weeks in a row of losses take a look at what happened overnight in asia. the nikkei ended up by a quarter of a percentage point. the hang seng and sheng high lower. trading is taking place. there are red arrows taking place across the board the cac off 10%. italy, stocks off at 2%. if you take a look at the treasury yields here, the treasury market here in the united states, ten year is sitting just above 2.4% to 2.403. >> we have some news this morning and it's big google looking to hang up on huawei suspending key business activities for the company's future smart phones. this is a major blow google had pulled the company's license. president trump signed an order banning sales to huawei saying their equipment could be used to spy posin

are live in the nasdaq market site in times square i'm becky quick along with joe kernan and andrew ross sorkin. it's very good to be here with both of you guys we're all back together for the first time in a while. >> nice to see you so nice to see you >> nice to see you, too. >> yesterday's big sell-off in the markets. the dow posting its worst session since january 3rd. dropping as much as almost 650 points before actually closing down by about 473 points at the close. at the weakest level the dow was down by 2.5% s&p was off by 2.4% at the weakest level and the nasdaq was down by 2.8% at the close, utdown 1.8%. you can see 25,965 falling below 26,000 on these declines yesterday that is below the 50-day moving average. boeing had the biggest impact on the dow accounting for nearly 100 points of yesterday's drop, as you might expect, because that is a company that would be affected by any potential tariffs. interesting to see that this has had a bigger impact on boeing and pushed it to lower levels than even some of the other issues that it's been dealing with that are boeing-specific issues

i'm becky quick along with joe kernen and andrew ross sorkin. we're watching the u.s.looking pretty dow future down by 243 points. s&p futures off by 28. the nasdaq off by 103. we did see the markets close up on friday even after some red arrows in the morning. last week was the biggest declines we have seen from the markets in the dow, the s&p 50

welcome to "squawk box" here on cnbc andrew ross sorkin along with melissa lee.ket to omaha becky quick will be reporting live from the berkshire hathaway meeting. often called woodstock of business tens of thousands of investors waiting to hear from warren buffett and so many others the ceos of berkshire companies benjamin moore, as well as investor mario gavelli joe moglia,

welcome to "squawk box" here on cnbc i'm andrew ross sorkin along with joe kernen.y take a look at u.s. equity futures at this hour they are in the red in large part because they're under pressure from what's happening in china overnight we'll show you that in a second. dow off 86 points. s&p 500 off about 10 points. nasdaq looking to op

i'm becky quick along with joe kernen and andrew ross sorkin. u.s.akness in recent sessions dow futures indicated up by 60 points after closing down by 221 points yesterday s&p futures are up by 8 points s&p yesterday was down by 19 points the nasdaq up by 25 after losing 60 points yesterday. right now you are looking at the markets off of their recor

back to "squawk box" here on cnbc we're live at the nasdaq market site in times square i'm andrew ross sorkin with us today. becky is off she'll be back tomorrow. let's start with a stock market's incredible turnaround during yesterday's session at this time, dow futures are down 500 points. everything was in the red. the dow recouping to finish all of there that in the red the comeback from mixed trade headlines. we'll have a lot more on what those headlines are saying and what's behind those headlines a little bit later >>> we are indicated lower the dow looks to lose about 121 points a

i'm joe kernen along with andrew ross sorkin but just let me get to this quickly.maha with warren buffet we're going to get out there i'm he going to do this quickly, becky. >> big news. >> trump's been tweeting. >> big news. >> you know what i think, guys he's back to house money we're near new highs he's like, you know what -- >> push it. >> house money, here's -- here's the time to do it. first though, here is some breaking -- there's the news we're talking about. u.s. equity futures tumbling to start the week yesterday the president looked

i know andrew ross-sorkin is a friend of mine, over at cnbc, tried to say he was the first to say makan could go through. he said that about 18 hours after we reported it on your show, cavuto's show, put it on fox business, we have been way ahead of this story. bottom line is this. the staff of the justice department antitrust is against the deal. it always has been. they are career antitrust lawyers. lot of them are from the obama administration. lot of them are democrats. they don't like when you go from four to three. they think you go from four wireless carriers to three, automatically a problem. the deal as it's being sold which has immense support at the top of the economic food chain in the trump administration, is like by the way, you don't really have four, you have sprint which is an outlier, they are not very powerful, and they are not very profitable. liz: not at all. >> if they merge with t-mobile you will have three good ones and guess what, then you will have three major players, at & t, verizon, sprint, t-mobile, competing against the chinese on 5g. liz: like abc, nbc an

i'm becky quick along with joe kernen and andrew ross sorkin.ere. let's start with the u.s. equity futures. things are slightly down nasdaq off by 36 points. s&p 500 down by 1.5. dow futures are up by about 9 points this comes as the dow has tracked four weeks in a row of losses take a

i'm becky quick along with joe kernen and andrew ross sorkin. we're watching the u.s.ities at this hour and it is not looking pretty dow future down by 243 points. s&p futures off by 28. the nasdaq off by 103. we did see the markets close up on friday even after some red arrows in the morning. last week was the biggest declines we have seen from the markets in the dow, the s&p 500, the nasdaq all down more than 2% for the month of may that's the first time we're seen losses for the month of may since 2012 obviously this doesn't bode well for what we've seen later. obviously people still reassessing with what happened with the trade talks last week and what happens next. overnight in asia, the heng seng was closed for buddha's birthday if you look at what else was there, the nikkei was down by 7% shenzhen composite down by just over 1%. in europe where there is some active trading taking place now in the early hours, you're going to see a mixed picture ftse is flat you see pressure coming on all the other major markets. dax is off and cac is off. when it comes to the tr

andrew ross sorkin is live this morning, what's going on >> reporter: good morning, becky.to some of georgia's biggest business leaders about the hot button issues from the business worlds from today's big tariff news to taxes and the economy and of course the controversial abortion law that has companies like disney and netflix and our own parent company questioning their presence right here. we're going to bring you interviews including a rare one with tony resler, billionaire fo

andrew ross sorkin sat down with the ceo of uber, da dara khosrowshahi. he joins us with more from his conversation and only can wonder at this very moment, andrew, what dara may be thinking but you did have a great conversation with him earlier on the bigger picture for this company. >> i'll tell you what i think he's thinking in just a moment but why don't we show you some of the tape because i did set down with the ceo, dara khosrowshahi, before the first trade about pricing. that was actually the question and specifically his definition of success for this ipo and here's what he had to say about it >> pricing deal is an art, not a science. so we will probably have had it imperfectly, but we thought that at this price, it reflected the environment and listen, the environment is uncertain right now and any time there's uncertainty in the market, investors are going to be a little hesitant to put 8 billion of their dollars to work and we wanted to put our stock with a group of funds who we know aren't just going to hold for the next week but for the next

i'm becky quick along with joe kernen and andrew ross sorkin. u.s.quity futures are indicated higher after weakness in recent sessions dow futures indicated up by 60 points after closing down by 221 points yesterday s&p futures are up by 8 points s&p yesterday was down by 19 points the nasdaq up by 25 after losing 60 points yesterday. right now you are looking at the markets off of their record highs. major averages the dow is down 6.8% from its record high. s&p down by 5.8% the nasdaq off by 7.7% let's look at what happened overnight in asia. the nikkei was down by a third of a percentage point. hang seng down by 0.4% shanghai down by 0.3%. if you look at what's happening in the early trading in europe you will see there are green arrows across the board there. the dax is the biggest gainer of the three major averages up by 0.6% stocks are higher in italy and in spain with stocks in spain up by almost 1% look at treasury yields here in the united states. this is the issue that is confounding the markets. ten-year note trading at 2.267%. yesterday we

i'm joe kernen along with becky quick and andrew ross sorkin this is, like, he's yelling from over inn't he even though we're showing times square our guest host today, "shark tank's" kevin o'leary. futures indicated slightly higher, up 61 points this morning. that's not sharply, but better than we've seen all session. it was actually up three or four, five the other averages were actually down earlier, but now we've got the s&p indicated up five and the nasdaq up 16 1/2 maybe it's because people realize, wow, i can borrow money really cheaply the ten-year, 2.29%. >> wow. >> it was 2.28% earlier. pretty interesting. >>> plenty to get to on the potential full merger of fiat chrysler and renault in just a moment, but first, let's get you caught up on other stories that investors will be talking about today. >>> alibaba is reportedly debating whether to offer new public shares through a second listing, this time in hong kong. according to reuters, the company could reportedly raise up to $20 billion. alibaba is currently working with financial advisers to offer the listing as early as th

i'm andrew ross sorkin along with joe kernen and becky quick.c funds. we have a lot to talk to him about and will do that in a moment. >>> quickly looking at u.s. equity futures this hour we are now looking at a screen of green the dow about 167 points up, nasdaq looking to open higher as well call it 75 points right now higher and the s&p 500 up about 20 points let's tell you some of the headlines that may be moving those numbers around this morning. >>> the u.s. has temporarily eased restrictions that had been imposed last week on china's huawei they are still prohibited from buying american parts and components to make new products but will be allowed to buy what it needs to maintain existing networks and provide software updates to existing handsets that's important and of course, google revisiting that decision then just 24 hours ago that it was going to no longer provide its services to huawei on a temporary basis. >>> separately, snap has completed an overhaul of its executive ranks, naming derek anderson chief financial officer and laura

i'm joe kernen along with becky quick and andrew ross sorkin and again, the futures are showing some it is may day, may day. >> and good april for the averages the nasdaq up 5 percentage points and the s&p up what, 2% >> 4%. >> 4%? and the dow up 2 but we're adding to the gains. this morning, 94 on the dow, 54 on the nasdaq. apple's strong the s&p up a little. and the ten-year's now at 2.498%. >>> here are some of the stories investors are going to be talking about today. apple shares, as joe mentioned, popping in the premarket second-quarter profit and revenue fell, but the company still beat the street's expectations iphone sales dropped 17% however, services revenue was up by 16%, and that was better than expected apple's third-quarter outlook also came in above estimates, and the company plans to spend $75 billion to buy back more shares that stock this morning up by more than 5.33%. >>> it is decision day for the fed. the federal open market committee is slated to issue its latest monetary policy statement at 2:00 p.m. eastern time at the conclusion of a two-day meeting. wall st

live let's do it live yeah, i'm joe kernen along with becky quick and andrew ross sorkin the futures161 points. the nasdaq down almost 50. s&p down 50. that would put it, i believe, below that 2,800 level treasury yields, i'm ready to see anything at this point i don't make any forecasts nothing surprises me anymore 2.22% now on the ten-year. just be ready for anything with that, right? >> following your mind is -- >> huh >> what? where are we >> would anything surprise you at this point? >> no. okay, a one handle would surprise me. >> you're only 22 basis points from a one handle. >> it would still surprise me. if you called that up and we had moved 22 basis points in the last half hour, i would be surprised. >> you're giving people money, getting back less all around the world right now. >> okay, so 1.9% or 3% sooner, which do you think happens which side -- >> i would say 1.9%, of course, wouldn't you even liesman would say that. >> would you, steve? >> i want to do a sitcom, called it "222. oh, wait -- >> already did that. >>> meanwhile, let's get to the big headlines -- >> cotte

are live from the max market site in times square i'm becky quick along with joe kernan and andrew ross sorkin. let's get to today's top market story. of course, that would be trade president trump speaking at a rally in florida last night. he talked about his threat to raise tariffs on chinese goods as soon as tomorrow. >> by the way, you see the tariffs we're doing, because they broke the deal. they broke the deal. they broke the deal. so they're flying in the vice premier. good man but they broke the deal. >> the global markets continue to follow the trade fight very closely with u.s. equity futures at this hour under some pressure right now it looks like the dow futures are down 112 points. this is kind of a here we go again every morning when we come in the futures have been under pressure, but yesterday you saw the dow actually clouds slightly higher s&p 500 is down once again it's bun down five of the says last six sessions, and this morning it's indicated down by 14 points. then the nasdaq is indicated down by almost 50 points overnight in asia, you'll see that the nikkei ended down an

andrew ross sorkin is live this morning, what's going on >> reporter: good morning, becky. atlanta this morning talking to some of georgia's biggest business leaders about the hot button issues from the business worlds from today's big tariff news to taxes and the economy and of course the controversial abortion law that has companies like disney and netflix and our own parent company questioning their presence right here. we're going to bring you interviews including a rare one with tony resler, billionaire founder of apollo global management he's now executive chairman of aries management he has a number of provocative things to say about the trade war. you're going to want to hear some of the things we talked about about. also ed bastian, the ceo of delta airlines the president and coo of focus brands, of course the company behind jamba juice and cinnabon, and a jpmorgan executive who was named one of the most powerful women in banking and our host this morning john hope bryant, founder and co of operation hope, and we will talk to him later in the broadcast right now we