i'm becky quick along with joe kernen and andrew sorkin.elcome back andrew. >> good to see you. >> we were a week natural ago. >> briefly for a day. >> one day. >> now it's september and it's back to school and back to seriousness for us. we hope you're ready to get back to work too. let's take a look at the u.s. equity futures at this hour. see at least right now things looking slightly higher. nasdaq up by close to 2. still a lot of questions swirling

he n but you also have some others who, as andrew sorkin wrote in his column, hesitant to criticize himnd maybe privately support him. >> john, thank you very much. john harwood reporting from washington. > aller gan, tonight's market focus. the maker of botox will acquire tibera pharmaceuticals. it was worth $190 million at yesterday's close. aller gan will add experimental drugs to its portfolio to treat nonalcoholic fatty liver disease. shares fell nearly 3% to $238.67, but look at tibera, up more than 700% to 38.91. it was a $3 stock. >>> sinclair broadcast group said it would miss quarterly revenue estimates as lower presidential campaig ad spending is expected to hurt results. this news is in sharp contrast to the broadcasters' august remarks when it said this would be a record year for political ad spending. sinclair down more than 9% to 25.99. >>> h & i lowered its quarterly sales and profit guidance as the office furniture maker expects demand for products to fall more than expec the company also cut its full-year forecast, citing impact from the economic uncertainty. shares hi

we'll go to andrew sorkin with the latest. >> good morning. in the business corporate world, tim armstrong, the head of aol, in the midst of this verizon/yahoo! situation, especially given what just happened with yahoo! and the big breach, security breach. we'll talk to him. it is ad week. so there's a lot to talk to him. >>> also the controversy with facebook and the numbers they put out about video and what all that means, we'll discuss that with him. senator chuck reid is going to talk to us about the scandal that continues to consume deutsche bank. and in the 8:00 hour, we'll talk presidential debate with peter navarro and steve radner. we're going to be talking debate, debate, debate, debate. >> we look forward to it in eight minutes' time. >>> taking a look at futures this morning, they are pointing to a lower open. the s&p 500 is looking like it is poised to close 11 points lower. the dow jones industrial average poised to open 80 points lower and the nasdaq poised to open 80 points lower. joining me is casey clark, vp at glenmede. case

i'm becky quick with joe kernen and andrew sorkin. you did see the nasdaq hitting a new all-time high. markets picked up during the course of the day. we did see the s&p and dow down slightly. nasdaq at a new high. also, we've been taking a look at some of the markets that had been in asia as well. get you caught up on all these issues in a bit. there's asia. the nikkei down .33 when it closed. the hang sang up . >> third of a percent, i sul

andrew ross sorkin is kicking off our new squawk the vote series. he's live in des moines, iowa. od early morning to you. >> hi. >> hey, becky, we have six big electoral votes here that are up for grabs and we'll be telling you about it. joe is giving you a hard time already, fly over country. this is real america. we've been spending some time at gentlem java joe as. not a lot

i'm becky quick along with joe kernen and andrew ross sorkin.y on the markets yesterday. actually two days in a row. we are looking aet the markets that are a little bit weaker as we head into a trading day. s&p futures off by eight. nasdaq down 11.5. nikkei closed at

you saw andrew sorkin presenting numbers to one of the guests y saying listen, one of the top 100 guests, none have given to trump. you have this classic republican money going to a democrat and then you have an outside and a lot of anger in the country and the outsider will gain adherence if that outsider presents himself as being someone who could be a little more trustworthy, so to speak. i know that's a loaded word. i'm not trying to load anything. roger ailes, ever since he left fox, has been influential, according to the article, in the trump campaign. i'm seeing a trump that reminds me of the trump who was helped immensely by mark burnett in "the apprentice," not making a judgment, that was a very successful show. >> if you get a trump bump, higher goal, what happens to the market? >> initially higher vix, i'm not saying permanently. >> from the macro standpoint, you want those positions anyway. right now, as a hedge in the portfolio, i have the vix products, i have silver. one of the better trades out there right now betting against the overall risk-on type mentality is the yen.

i'm becky quick along with joe kernen and andrew sorkin. welcome back andrew. >> good to see you. >> we were a week natural ago. >> briefly for a day. >> one day. >> now it's september and it's back to school and back to seriousness for us. we hope you're ready to get back to work too. let's take a look at the u.s. equity futures at this hour. see at least right now things looking slightly higher. nasdaq up by close to 2. still a lot of questions swirling about that weak r than expected job report from the fed. we're going to talk a lot about that this morning. in the meantime, take a look at what happened overnight in asia. the nikkei was up a quarter of a percentage point. markets higher in china too with the shanghai up .60%. hang sang putting in a similar gain. if you take a look at what's happening in the early trading in europe, things are mixed at this point. dax is up a third of a percent. cac is up just under .20%. ftse is down .20% and check out crude oil price this is morning, up 1% settling in just under $45 for wti. >>> among st

. >> rose: and my friend andrew sorkin of "new york times" talks to diane von furstenberg about fashion during fashion week. >> how am i going to live the next ten years of my life in a way i can still participate, that i'm relevant and not ridiculous, okay? the best way to deal with our age is to embrace it. so if you embrace it, what is it that i have to offer at this point in my life, and it is my experience, my wisdom, and use my voice for people who have no voice. so all of a sudden, this gives a big, huge panorama of things that i can do that will give me pleasure, that will help people, that will help women -- >> rose: and roge matt talks toe director and stars of the new movie "snowden." >> he's very gentlemanly and you don't expect that because the stereotype in our culture right or wrong is guys who were good at computers are socially awkward and i guess i admit i was maybe, you know, guilty of some of that prejudice in expecting he might be that way because he's really good at computers, but that's not what i found. i found he would look you right in the eye, give me a warm h

as people seem to think that perhaps we're in a late inning, that was actually a question that andrew sorkin put to his panel, a best global opportunities panel last year. which inning are we in terms of the stock market, the reasons -- the answer is varied from middle inning to late inning. but, you know, obviously, it's still going. so i think what your view there is, of course, is going to affect what kind of names you're talking about. >> kate, thank you. look forward to it tomorrow. kate kelly. the hits or misses in terms of what has done well since last year. but if you had to invest today, are any of these calls worth a look? what would you say? >> if we're talking about the ones from last year, you know, i think the phrma space is clearly interesting when you consider the pressure. some fantastic companies in that space and even in the biotech world. and we talk about them every night on the show. i think the one place where we're going to hear guys talking and where they have position is financials. that is clearly the place a little off the beaten path. >> tune in all day tomorrow

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>> rose: welcome to the program, i'm andrew ross sorkin filling in for charlie rose away on assignment. we begin tonight with a look at politics and the media, i'm joined by brian stelter of cnn and ben schapiro of the daily wire. >> you may read a hundred stories where it feels like trump is being let off the hook, the press is going easy on trump. there are a hundred other stories on the facebook feed where he is being severely screut niezed, rig losely covered. we live in a choose are your own venture, choose your own news environment which makes it increase leigh difficult for the audience to get to the reality of the situation. >> we continue with ray kelly who discusses his new book vij lens, my life serving america and proteching its empire city. >> i think the lone wolf threat is going to be with us for a long time to congress come. the self-radicalized or small groups who through the interin the become radicalized and then decide to act. and what we have seen is after they do radicalize themselves, they act pretty quickly. so it's difficult to predict who is going to react to

i'm becky quick with joe kernen and andrew sorkin. you did see the nasdaq hitting a new all-time high. markets picked up during the course of the day. we did see the s&p and dow down slightly. nasdaq at a new high. also, we've been taking a look at some of the markets that had been in asia as well. get you caught up on all these issues in a bit. there's asia. the nikkei down .33 when it closed. the hang sang up . >> third of a percent, i should say. >> nikkei did not lose. that would be war or something. okay. >> let's also take a look at europe. you see the early markets there. the dax and the cac are slightly lower. the cac is essentially flat. ftse up .50%. check out crude this morning, this is going to be interesting. this comes after the largest weekly draw down in crude stocks. crude oil was higher yesterday during the session. when that news was released after the close of the session, wti traded everyone higher in extended hours, up another 1.8 to 46.32. new data from the american petroleum institute showed a surprise plunge i

andrew: good evening, i'm andrew ross sorkin of "the new york times." sit in for charlie rose tonight who is on assignment. the media's coverage of the president shall campaign has been a topic of heightened interest throughout the primary and election season. donald trump's handling of the press was a decisive factor in his path to securing the republican nomination. this week, hillary clinton's health is the latest source of rampant speculation after a delay in revealing she had pneumonia. brian skelter is the host of cnn's "reliable sources." it examines the week's top media

i'm becky quick along with joe kernen and andrew ross sorkin.pr hotel in new york this morning where the cnbc delivering alpha conference is taking place today. we've got a great lineup and coverage all day long here on cnbc. here's behind the scenes. but we're kicking things off today with jack lew. his keynote starts at 8:30 a.m. and he's going to be kicking things off. we'll bring you his comments as we get to this at 8:30 a.m. you'll be able to see it live right here on cnbc. right now the futures we've been watching pretty closely. showing some improvement. earlier we did see another triple digit decline for the dow. right now looks like the dow futures are down but only by 72 points. s&p looks like it would open down ten points from here. the nasdaq down by 21. >>> small business sentiment fell slightly in august. monthly index dropped to 94.4% from 94.6% in july. the climate registered the biggest negative impact on sentiment in the history of the survey. >>> crude oil prices under a bit of pressure this morning. that comes after the inte

i'm becky quick along with andrew ross sorkin. joe is out today. joining us is gillian tet, and peter boockvar. great to see you. >> hi. >> we'll get to them in a moment. futures are higher. the dow up by 163 points after the fed decided not to raise rates. that's a gain of less than 1%. you wonder how much more potential upside is really in this entire market at this point. again, you see the futures, up by about 54 points. we have been up every morning as we come in. s&p 500 up by six. nasdaq up by 16. doesn't always translate into gains. we'll see as we get closer to the opening bell. overnight in asia, japan closed for a market holiday. the hang seng up by a third of a percentage point. the shanghai up bay hay a half percent. the kospi up. in europe, in early trading. green arrows there. much bigger adavans than here. this is playing catch up and then some. the dax up 1.9%. the cac up by 1.8%. the ftse up 1%. crude oil having its best day in two weeks yesterday. it was up nearly 3% at 45.34. this morning up 1% to 45.79. big question around whet

i'm becky quick along with joe kernen and andrew ross sorkin.ou can see this morning once again we see a move close to 50 points for the dow. this time in the upward direction. this comes after the dow was down by about 250 points yesterday. we have seen three days in a row where the dow moved 200 plus points. in one case almost 400 points. a bit of volatility creeping back into the market. this morning s&p futures are up by 5 points. the nasdaq up by 15. overnight in asia, the nikkei closed down by 7.5%. hang seng was down slightly. down by just over 0.1%. in europe, in the early trading, the dax is up by about 0.4%. ftse has bigger gains, up by 0.6%. green arrows across the board. look at crude oil prices which yesterday late were a little bit higher after numbers came in indicating there was less of a draw down than expected in the united states. right now wti hanging in around $45. >> it is a lighter day for your economic agenda. at 8:30 a.m. we get a report out, the august import price report. despite the rather boring name, it's actually a

i'm becky quick along with joe kernen and andrew ross sorkin. yesterday we did see a big surge towards the end of the day for the equities markets fueled by the oil price increase. we'll talk about that in a moment the dow was up by 110 points yesterday. s&p gained 11. the nasdaq was up by over 12 points. in asia, the nikkei up by 1.4%. hang seng closed higher. ha shanghai was up. you do see green arrows across the board. look at europe. some of the early trades. concerns about deutsche bank have been affecting some markets up to this point. after the gains we saw here, gains in oil prices, this morning the dax is up by 0.8%. the cac and ftse 100 up by better than 1.1%. italian market, spain market, gains across the board better than 1%. let's check out currencies right now. you can see the dollar is up across the board. euro at 112.11. dollar/yen at 101.40. all of this is because of what we saw with oil prices. >> that is the big story we're watching now. watching it quite closely. prices spiked yesterday on word that opec agreed to limit produ

it came up in terms of the founder, who talked to andrew sorkin on stage and he brought up the inflowsalked about the volatile parmt and he said look, the whole question is whether their value add, especially in bad times, the market environment will be interesting and it is now. >> do with fewer people. >> he was daughter on the econo. >> to me, one of the most interesting take aways was him saying i just try to position myself for six months down the road or possibly even six days. that is how hard it is to engage in long-term planning now. >> kate, thank you. >> get a check on the market niehaus. the dow, a rise in triple digit, now on track for its best week in six weeks. early, donald trump spoke about the economy and the fed. >> i believe the fed is very political. it's become very political. like many other groups in this country. beyond anything i would have thought possible. so i think you're going to have low interest rates until the end of the year, maybe no increase at all and the market will stay artificially high. and then we're going to see what happens after that, but i

i'm becky quick along with joe kernen and andrew ross sorkin.et's check out the u.s. equity futures at this hour. yesterday the markets ended essentially flat slightly down even after big gains we've seen on the futures where we looked at triple-digit gains. this morning futures once again indicated higher with the dow up by 67 points above favor value. s&p futures up by eight and nasdaq up by close to nine. overnight in asia, check it out the nikkei was down slightly. these are very slight losses across the board for the hang seng and shanghai composite. early trading this morning things look better at least for the three major markets. dax is up by half of a percent as is the ftse. cac in france up by quarter of a percent. check out crude oil price. crude oil down by 16 cents. 43.14. big news is what's happening in georgia and "atlantis" and other markets where they are having difficulty getting oil or getting gas to the pump. it's been shortages for a lot of drivers showing up and much higher prices for some of those drivers. that's a story w

here to talk about politics in the corner office is andrew ross sorkin and cnbc contributor ben whitestart with you. fascinating column and essentially there are studies that show when ceos donate, employees fall in line. >> maybe this was obvious to everybody. you would think everyone has common interests, so if a ceo votes one way, the employee votes the same way. but what some of these studies have found is it's much more correlated than even that. there's a culture within these institutions. some might even call it coercion pressure in certain cases, oftentimes bosses whether they're the ceo or simply down the line of other people will solicit money and donations. when you start to look at the money piece of it, what some of the academic studies have really done, you start to see it is much more correlated than you might think. three times as much money is donated by employees to the choice of the ceo than otherwise. and by the way, most interestingly when a new ceo comes in, right, so it's not just this is their philosophy. when a new ceo comes in who has a different candidate in

i'm becky quick along with joe kernen and andrew ross sorkin. we've been watching the u.s.es, dow futures down about 15 points. s&p down by about 3, nasdaq off by 4. this a day after the markets, equity markets, staged a ral limit dow up by 133 points yesterday. picking up a lot of the losses it made in the session before. you have that session from friday hanging over things, but the s&p up by 13 points. look at what happened overnight in asia. you will see the nikkei closed down by 1.3%. the hang seng

andrew: good evening, i'm am andrew ross sorkin of "the new york times."ege to sit in for charlie rose. the media's coverage of the president shall campaign has been a topic of heightened interest. donald trump's handling of the press was a decisive factor in securing the republican nomination. hillary clinton's health is the latest source of rampant speculation after a delay in revealing she had pneumonia. brian skelter is the host of cnn's "reliable sources."

i'm joe kernen along with becky quick and andrew ross sorkin.it all morning long. the dow is now indicated up 41 points. 42. 41. the s&p 500 indicated up just under six. the nasdaq indicated up 13 or so. and last time we looked at the energy complex, it was down a little bit after a nice session yesterday. we'll take a quick look at wti down 89 cents. actually down 2%. it was up 3% i think yesterday. but there wither. i love guys that predicted for 40% range. they were so smart. >> they've been right for a long time. >> so amazing. >> had another analyst yesterday saying the same thing. for the next year. you're not going to look at maybe $60 for at least a year. >>> we have much more on last night's debate in just a moment, but first why don't we take a quick look at some of the other top headlines from today. housing is in focus today? the case-shiller report today expected to show an increase close to june's jump in prices. the release on that comes at 9:00 eastern time. of all complaints concerning wells fargo in recent years. in a letter to

i'm joe kernen along with becky quick and andrew ross sorkin. our new music. >> this is for neil degrasse tyson and space. >> he uses this? >> we do. talking about space. >> we're going to do that consonant vowel thing you always do. the thing that teaches you about vowels. >> i'm just a bill up on capitol hill. school house rock. they're great. >> look at the futures. the dow up 11.70. and then the nasdaq up 1.75. we were down 300 on friday and monday. so i don't know. ever since the last five or -- when we started getting some volatility, it's been triple digit days up and down but we're where we started. >> right. same story, just more dramatic moves on a daily basis. >> like running in place. frantically in a rocking chair. >> there's a good reason for that. people aren't sure which way the economy is headed. they're not sure which way the fed is headed. >> when are we ever sure which way the economy is headed or the fed is head snd. >> if you had to bet right now, which way would you go? up or down? >> on the market? >> yeah. >> i always fa

i'm becky quick along with andrew ross sorkin. joe is out today.s is gillian tet, and peter boockvar. great to see you. >> hi. >> we'll get to them in a moment. futures are higher. the dow up by 163 points after the fed decided not to raise rates. that's a gain of less than 1%. you wonder how much more potential upside is really in this entire market at this point. again, you see the futures, up by about 54 points. we have been up every morning as we come in. s&p 500 up by six. nasdaq up by 16. doesn't always translate into gains. we'll see as we get closer to the opening bell.

i'm becky quick along with joe kernen and andrew ross sorkin.terday we did see a big surge towards the end of the day for the equities markets fueled by the oil price increase. we'll talk about that in a moment the dow was up by 110 points yesterday. s&p gained 11. the nasdaq was up by over 12 points. in asia, the nikkei up by 1.4%. hang seng closed higher. ha shanghai was up. you do see green arrows across the board. look at europe. some of the early trades. concerns about deutsche bank have been affecting some markets

i'm becky quick along with joe kernen and andrew ross sorkin. see this morning once again we see a move close to 50 points for the dow. this time in the upward direction. this comes after the dow was down by about 250 points yesterday. we have seen three days in a row where the dow moved 200 plus points. in one case almost 400 points. a bit of volatility creeping back into the market. this morning s&p futures are up by 5 points. the nasdaq up by 15. overnight in asia, the nikkei closed down by 7.5%. hang seng was down slightly.

andrew ross sorkin joins us. >> looking to see more sara in china.ot that coming up, but in addition to all of that, michael dell is going to be on the program in the 8:00 hour. of course completing deal with emc. talk about that transaction and ha happened to dell as a private company so that's a big interview we're going to have around 8:00 a.m. also the author has a new book. he's going be joining us. one of our favorites on squawk. a lot to talk to him about. talk politics. senator john is going to be with us. and, of course, talk apple. apple. apple. given the big news later today about what we'll see. what the phone or what's in the phone or not. that's what is on tap. >> andrew, great stuff. look forward to "squawk box" in a little over ten minutes time. >> we're going to go to break here. coming up the dow is on a three-day winning streak for the first time since late july. talk markets with bill orlando coming next. in a programming note, don't miss wilfred's live interview with a bank of america ceo. catch that live on "squawk box" tomorrow

. >> andrew ross sorkin with a good column in the "times" today. basically calling it a sham. a breathtaking sham. >> yes. >> i think john stumpf will argue that a lot of this is untrue, that the bank founded itself, that the bank has fired a lot of people, including managers who were involved. i bet, john, when we ask him about who's going to have to pay in management, will defend upper level management and, therefore, you get the situation where the secretary said they. and i think that the key issue for me to try to evaluate tonight is who is they. is they the bank managers and it stops there or is they the board? is they john stumpf. there's such a level of outrage for it to stop at who has so far been caught, so to speak, will be unacceptable to washington. >> i don't know what to make of a fact that it was $1.5 million over five years. such a small amount of money. this is something that andrew pointed out in his column and yet the numbers, the other numbers, the 5,300 employees, the hundreds of thousands of fake accounts. >> okay. >> the number is tiny. >> maybe that nu

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i'm becky quick along with joe kernen and andrew ross sorkin and as joe mentioned the u.s.tures at this point look like they are in positive territory. dow futures up by 34 points. s&p futures up by five. nasdaq up by 12. you have to remember this came after a second day in a row of losses for the markets. the do you was down yesterday with s&p down by 19 points. if you want to take what happened overnight in asia you'll see that the markets there ended in positive territory. nikkei was up by .8%. me

andrew: good evening, i'm am andrew ross sorkin of "the new york times." it is my privilege to sit in for charlie rose. the media's coverage of the president shall campaign has been a topic of heightened interest. donald trump's handling of the press was a decisive factor in securing the republican nomination. hillary clinton's health is the latest source of rampant speculation after a delay in revealing she had pneumonia. brian skelter is the host of cnn's "reliable sources." ism los angeles, ben shapiro a columnist, author, and editor-in-chief of "the daily wire." i am pleased to have both of them with me. let me start with you, brian. let me start with the issue of hillary clinton's health. there was a lot of speculation about hillary clinton's health in the news media prior to the revelation of these images, prior to her disclosure about pneumonia. you called some of the spec -- speculationch back then reckless. now that this news is out there, was it still reckless? brian: some of these figures feel vindicated. ld.on't think they shou there is a baske

i'm becky quick along with joe kernen and andrew ross sorkin. let's check out the u.s.tures at this hour. yesterday the markets ended essentially flat slightly down even after big gains we've seen on the futures where we looked at triple-digit gains. this morning futures once again indicated higher with the dow up by 67 points above favor value. s&p futures up by eight and nasdaq up by close to nine. overnight in asia, check it out the nikkei was down slightly. these are very slight losses across the board for the hang seng and shanghai composite. early trading this morning things look better at least for the three major markets. dax is up by half of a percent

our andrew ross sorkin live in iowa on his squawk the vote tour, trade, manufacturing, immigration, allme, in the hawkeye state. i believe there are six electoral votes at stake there. and here's

i'm becky quick along with andrew kernan and andrew ross sorkin. security is tight in new york city after multiple explosions in the area. also a mall stabbing in minnesota over the weekend. we will have the latest in just a moment. >>> first, though, we'll get a check on the markets. the u.s. equity futures this morning are indicated higher. the dow futures up by 90 points. the s&p futures up by 9 points. the nasdaq up by 19 after the market did make some gains for the week last week. overnight in asia, the nikkei was closed for a public holiday. this is in celebration of respect for your elders. you can see the asian markets that were open, the hang seng was up .90%. simir

andrew: good evening, i'm andrew ross sorkin of "the new york times."t is my privilege to sit in for charlie rose tonight who is on assignment. the media's coverage of the president shall campaign has been a topic of heightened interest throughout the primary and election season. donald trump's handling of the press was a decisive factor in his path to securing the republican nomination. this week, hillary clinton's health is the latest source of rampant speculation after a delay in revealing she had pneumonia. brian skelter is the host of cnn's "reliable sources." it examines the week's top media sources each from los angeles, sunday. ben shapiro is a columnist, author, and editor-in-chief of "the daily wire." he was formally a top editor at breitbart and newspaper. i am pleased to have both of them with me. brian, let me start with you, and let me start with the issue of hillary clinton's health. there was a lot of speculation about hillary clinton's health in the news media prior to the revelation of these images, prior to her disclosure about pneumo

i'm joe kernen with becky quick and andrew ross sorkin. this is distracting.re sending a signal here. buying intentions. i don't know. it's working on the nasdaq. >> i like it. >> let's check out europe. we had a good day on friday. there's the price of oil above $45. >>> it is a big day for apple. holding its product event in san francisco. company expected to unveil the newest version of its iphone. also sony has a new product event today as well. i don't know why you would do your own if apple is. the company expected to do a new version of the playstation 4 console. and the federal reserve is out with its latest beige book today. that's out at 2:00 p.m. eastern time. >>> in other corporate news, activist investor bill ackman's hedge fund taking a nearly 10% stake in chipotle. he believes shares of the fast casual chain are undervalued. the company has suffered from repeated food illness outbreaks. the fund is in the red though for the year so far. more on bill ackman today. he's also leaving the board after four years of canadian pacific. that freed up $1.

i'm joe kernen with becky quick and andrew ross sorkin.a morning drinker. you keep coming back though. >> it's amazing to me you haven't got a broken leg yet. that's the amazing thing. >> in an accident. >> accidents happen. >> as you slip off the step. >> our guest host this morning is david steiner. amazing i haven't got a broken leg. i love that. ceo of waste management. one of the greatest ceos in the history of all businesses. >> better. >> is that better? meantime, futures right now are indicated actually they're getting worse. and yesterday wasn't great either. now they're indicated down about 75. i don't know what's ailing the markets at this point. oil's up. >> technology was weaker yesterday. apple was weaker. gains for the nasdaq. >> headphone jack. maybe it's all related to that. markets in europe at this hour are indicated -- or have been trading mostly in the red. that's worse than it was across the board. >> among today's top stories, north korea is conducting what it's called a successful test of a nuclear warhead. the coun

i'm becky quick along with joe kernen and andrew ross sorkin.ositive day on the markets yesterday. actually two days in a row. we are looking aet the markets that are a little bit weaker as we head into a trading day. s&p futures off by eight. nasdaq down 11.5. nikkei closed at 11.5%. markets in taiwan, hong kong, and south korea are closed today for a mid-autumn festival which is really a harvest festival which is really related to the full moon which you may have seen on your way in. >> walked in. >> just driving. i saw it as i was driving. >> but it's still summer until september 20 something. >> it is but it's still harvest. >> i got it. >> let's take a look at the european equity markets. you'll see in the early trading there, many of these markets are a little weaker. the dax is down by 0.4% and so is the cac in france. ftse is flat but you can see in italy the decline is 1.5%. crude is down after traders cited the reduction of oil exports from libya's main ports and they talked about delivery to a new pipeline in nigeria. you can see wti

i'm andrew ross sorkin along with becky quick and brian sullivan.this morning is jeremy siegel from wharton also known as the wizard of wharton. in the meantime let's get a look at the futures at this hour. looking up. we're going to tell you what happened across the pond or across the world, the boj. i don't know if that's what's impacting this or not. dow would open up 77 points higher. nasdaq up about 24 points. in europe right now we're also looking at green across the board with the dax and the cac up over 1%. >>> let's talk about the boj meeting. this morning the bank of japan rebooting their monetary policy. they did not cut rates further into negative territory or expand asset purchases. instead it's introducing a 10-year interest rate target. the goal here is to try and stoke inflation. came as a big surprise to most players. there were all kinds of moves that the boj could have done to ease policy. like lowering their interest rates further below zero. maybe buying additional bonds. the bank of japan will buy some low government bonds to k

i'm joe kernen along with becky quick and andrew ross sorkin.arry is here. at this time futures indicated up a little. we had a high fair value close. if you see the futures up 74, it's not quite that good. it is indicated up 44. another thing i was talking about earlier that i always get a little nervous in september because there's been so many october lows. the reason there's so many over the years is because september is not great. >> yeah. and when the first day people get back in and it goes down 400 points they get back from vacation. >> welcome back to business. >> yeah. then you got up 250. i was like, see, they were wrong. then it was down 250. we'll see what happens today. >>> breaking news. oh! becky. >> the bank of england is leaving rates unchanged. the end. >> surprise, surprise. >> yeah. >> we expected. >> not counting on that to drum up viewership. >>> in the meantime, let's get you caught up on everything else. >> okay, we found out. let's turn on the "today" show. >> what else is going on today, it's more than exciting than ju

andrew ross sorkin is kicking off our new squawk the vote series. he's live in des moines, iowa. drew, good early morning to you. >> hi. >> hey, becky, we have six big electoral votes here that are up for grabs and we'll be telling you about it. joe is giving you a hard time already, fly over country. this is real america. we've been spending some time at gentlem java joe as. not a lot of people here. >> tie fell out of your pocket again, andrew like it did the other day and no one there -- that looks good. >> i figured today was one of those days. we spent some time on a farm yesterday, joe. >> that's right. >> you head back out to the north 40. north 40, andrew, is a term that people out in that part of the world use for the 40 acres that are -- north 40? >> yeah, andrew is going to be bringing us up to date on everything that's happening in middle america right now and give us a real view from the front lines on all of this. we'll be back with him in just a few moments. >>> joining us is the u.s. managing editor for the "financial times". we'll get to her in a moment because we

our andrew ross sorkin sitting down with the biggest gop donor in iowa. moines with more on that. hello again, andrew. >> good morning. this is a battleground state, i should say donald trump does look like he has the edge in the state right now by about 5% to 7% depending on what poll you're reading. but hillary clinton was here physically in town yesterday. tim kaine was recently in town. pence was here. so a lot of movement trying to persuade the voters to swing their way. we did sit down with bruce rasstetert try to understand what are the biggest issues that are effecting both this state and the way farmers are thinking about this election. take a listen. >> if you look at for instance a couple weeks ago, china instituted 35% tariff on distilled grain, didn't matter if we had a trade agreement. they decided they were going to have a 35% tariff. if you're someone relying on that market, that's really a bad thing and an unfair thing. same thing on japan on their tariffs on beef and pork. they have 16-year tariffs that will go off 16 years from now, andr

i'm becky quick along with andrew kernan and andrew ross sorkin. security is tight in new york city after multiple explosions in the area. also a mall stabbing in minnesota over the weekend. we will have the latest in just a moment. >>> first, though, we'll get a check on the markets. the u.s. equity futures this morning are indicated higher. the dow futures up by 90 points. the s&p futures up by 9 points. the nasdaq up by 19 after the market did make some gains for the week last week. overnight in asia, the nikkei was closed for a public holiday. this is in celebration of respect for your elders. you can see the asian markets that were open, the hang seng was up .90%. similar gains for the shanghai composite and the kospi in south korea. in early trading in europe at this hour, you'll see green arrows as well with the biggest gainer among the major markets. the cac in france is up by a third of a percent. and wti crude is up by 1.5% to 43.68. >>> back to the top story, another explosion near a transit station in elizabeth, new jersey, after a back

i'm becky quick along with joe kernan and andrew ross sorkin. we have been watching the futures after big declines on friday with the trend continuing this morning. the dow futures are under pressure. dow futures down by 83 points below fair value. the s&p futures down by 11. the nasdaq down by 29. we should point out for the third quarter all of the major indices are still holding on to gains but for the month of september the s&p 500 and the dow are now in the red. take a look at what happened overnight in asia. you'll see that the nikkei was down by 1.25%. the markets in china down by a little more than that. the hang seng off by 1.5% and the shanghai composite down by 1.75%. and in europe in the early trading there, very similar trends. dax down by 1.5%. the cac off by 1.75%. and the ftse 100 down by 1.25%. wti is up by 30 cents. of course, we did see give back at the end of last week with wti pushing back near $44.78. >>> a couple big stories we are watching today on the economic calendar, we are looking for august new home sales out at 10: