joe kernen is in new york with a look at what's coming up on "squawk box." ng, joe. >> it's hard to be constantly questioned about wearing a piece or toupee. >> you can relate to it, huh? >> i knew his was real and you can tell it's real. he has not chosen to do this yet. that was when i took the actual leaf blower special. we were doing it when people put buckets on their head. remember, we were going to do this, take the leaf blower challenge. >> is it sort of relaxing? >> like therapy? i was really worried that the glue wasn't going to hold. was a little bit scare. i'm going to talk about something in "the wall street journal." what were you able to watch football on last night, will? what was that again? >> twitter. >> twitter. now, you've been in here and learned how to say it. i just -- why don't you say it as you know that you can. give it to us just once. >> twitter. >> anyway, we're back to -- >> one word that always makes joe laugh. >> twitter? he says a lot of other funny things, i don't know that twitter is the best one. >> you're right. rubbish.

joe kernen joins us this morning from new york with what's coming up and what is on joe's mind this morning we are a team. i don't think of it that way all the time but we are a team throughout the day. i'm thinking about actually this morning the overall stockmarket, the vix moving a little bit and some triple-digit moves and i worry about september. sometimes it's a cruel month. not as cruel as april, i guess. i don't know why april is cruel. it's spring. but a lot of times the reason you have october lows and again and again we talk about those in previous years, but stocks are low. we're trying to make it. that's an interesting inflection point. so there's something going on, some undercurrent there that bears paying attention to which maybe we haven't had so much throughout the three months in the summer and then one other thing i was thinking about. i love, you know, media matters, i read it to get a laugh. it's kind of the p.r. arm of hillary clinton. they've got the eight things you don't know about dr. oz and i have a ninth thing. you know, they're obviously trying to undercut dr.

joe kernen joins us from today's alpha conference. joe?ay was a reversal of friday now today a reversal of monday. all triple digits. i'm starting to realize that was pretty quiet trading we had in the dog days of august. three straight days. i don't understand really the move today. i guess europe didn't follow through with our positive market action and i don't know what we want from the fed at this point. what scares me is if we do get the idea that the fed won't hike, but we come back to focus on the weakness that caused the fed to put off another hike and when that finally happens, i don't know what we're going -- i don't know what will move the market higher at that point. at least we got a lot of people that are going to be able to explain these things to us throughout the day, including treasury secretary jack lew and steve liesman. we searched high and low for a hedgeman guy back being trump. he's a long time guest of the show and he'll be on for about an hour and will explain ration education rationale. a great year to have these

i'm becky quick along with joe kernen and steve leisman.ss than 90 minutes away from the number of the month. this is one we're watching closely because we know the fed is too. this is the august jobs report. it's going to be released at 8:30. the unemployment rate is forecasted to tick down slightly to 4.8%. and the u.s. economy is expected to have added 180,000 jobs last month. that compares to the huge number that we got in july, 255,000. but that 180,000, if we see a number like that steve leisman tells us at least it's much more likely we will see a fed hike on september 20th. check out the markets. right now the dow futures down by 5.5 points. the nasdaq up by just under 2. >>> we have some breaking news this morning from the clinton campaign. john harwood joins us now with more. >> you talked about in the intro mylan and how it's under the gun. hillary clinton is taking advantage of that fact and coming out with a new plan to indicate how she would try to stop controversies like the price hikes for epi-pens which we saw blow up in th

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 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 s

joe kernen gets 4% and the exit prn he's not going to speak to a black voter. >> hoose also speaking on one of largest african-american network in the country. >> he's doing one-on-one interviews. >> but it's also night in fro frontone of the things that people wanted donald trump was on to kmkt with them. not speak at them in a rally or anything else, but you're going to go to the church taug snrn we got to the point of the wall that you're going to build on the southern border. we still don't have clarity on how it's going to get paid for. >> at least there are admitting there are mountsans now. >> there a lot of questions that still come from this about but we have some very, very interesting questions that left unyou're going to be talking to your le yourless. >> i'm curious to see how your respond to this specific tape. >> i think the net-net is i don't think that the immediatele was moved. at the day began, the day probably ended. i come back to one day to set. george herbert walker bush got the the country has changed. donald trump doesn't seem to recognize that. >> i take tha

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 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 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

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

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

i'm becky quick along with joe kernen. andrew is off today. august is officially in the books at this point. here's hour the markets closed out. check it out for the month. dow and s&p 500 breaking multi-month win streak because of the losses they saw yesterday. they weren't major. looking at possible advances until we saw yesterday's close. both of them actually fell fractionally for the month. see the dow was done less than .20%. s&p down just over .10%. the nasdaq posted though its second positive month in a row. up nearly 1%. take a look at the u.s. equity futures at this hour, you'll see green arrows. s&p look like they would open up 2.5. nasdaq just over 13. overnight in asia the knnikkei s up .25%. the hang sang up just about as much. if you take a look at the early trading in europe, at this point, the dax is higher. the cac is france is up .80%. the ftse is down .10 pkts. >> strong over there. the scuttlebutt yesterday looking at it. i wasn't here in the morning. adp was strong so the market was weak. there we go again. >> it was that

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

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

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

i'm becky quick along with joe kernen and andrew ross sorkin and as joe mentioned the u.s.y futures 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%. some pose gains for the shanghai composite. in europe some negative numbers. dax is one of the losers for the major markets. down by .9 of a percent. italy and spain seeing some losses. as joe mentioned if you look at crude oil you'll see that crude oil yesterday actually managed to have a positive session. up to 3.26%. that was the november number. so it was november trading yesterday. it went up yesterday by over 3%. this morning giving back 1%. >> what's the correlation? >> market was down. the financial sector was down. >> 300 points. >> real estate was up. >> 300 points i

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

i'm becky quick along with joe kernen.ndrew ross sorkin is kicking off our new squawk the vote series. he's live in des moines, iowa. andrew, 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

i'm becky quick along with joe kernen. andrew is off today.ust is officially in the books at this point. here's hour the markets closed out. check it out for the month. dow and s&p 500 breaking multi-month win streak because of the losses they saw yesterday. they weren't major. looking at possible advances until we saw yesterday's close. both of them actually fell fractionally for the month. see the dow was done less than .20%. s&p down just over .10%. the nasdaq posted though its second positive month in a row. up nearly .

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

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 joe kernen.ss sorkin is kicking off our new squawk the vote series. he's live in des moines, iowa. andrew, 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

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.

i'm becky quick along with joe kernen. steve leaseman. andrew is off today. down to the august jobs report. comes out 8:30 a.m. eastern time. payrolls increased by 188,000 in august. the unemployment rate is expected to tick down a tenth of 1% to 4.8 %. we keep saying this is an important number. this time around it might actually be important. odds are the feds watching this very closely and could ride on this number today, whether or not they decide to raise rates later this month. more on this in just a moment. in the meantime check out u.s. equity futures.

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

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.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