plus, an exclusive sit-down with goldman sachs president john waldron, ahead on "closing bell." >>> 45 minutes left to go and the major averages are hugging the flat line. here's a check on the markets, the dow is up 11 points. the s&p is just about flat and the nasdaq is up fractionally as well stitch fix is trading higher after posting a break-even quarter with revenue coming in higher than estimates. ceo katrina lakes spoke on "squawk alley" exclusively this morning. here's what she said about where the company is investing >> we are doing a lot of big invests. we opened up the uk and kids last year. we are annualizing those investments. those are still investment markets, so we have that we're investing a lot in technology and data science. we have a lot of stop base compensation, which is how you can see the investment that we're making in the team and that's really against the product. against, how do we take shop your looks and make that fully integrated into our experience, roll it out to everybody there's a lot of investments we're making at the same time, we are showing lever

likely something that will come up with conversation with john waldron tomorrow on the closing bell roberththizer are going to pass a revizzed version of the usmca. they have been meeting for months to try to hammer out a deal but have been unable to narrow differences in recent days the biggest divide is over revising the agreement on enforcement of labor rules. >>> big tech is back under fire this morning a global body of regulators from the main financial centers says big tech to thin tech is raising privacy. share user data with big banks to prevent unfair competition. >>> well, developing story overseas that could spell trouble for future u.s./china trade talks. eunice yoon joins us now good morning, eunice or good evening to you >> reporter: good morning and good evening to you, too, courtney well, you know, the trump administration has been trying to curb the use of chinese technology, but it appears that beijing is now hitting back. the financial times is reporting that the government here has ordered all state offices and public institutions to remove foreign pcs and software with

howard marks, john waldron, keosong lee.nd brian moynahan he is coming that morning particularly good timing mike we mentioned a lot of risks next week in terms of ecb meeting. >> yes. >> uk election and december 15th tariffs falls next week. >> obviously headlines could test the tape a little bit i think it's logical that we took back some of that decline, most of the decline we got early in the we can but stopped just short of blasting to new highs the market sometimes reprices in an orderly way when it's treating macroevents, known macroevents especially going into the weekend we have the december 15th tariff deadline it's on a sunday who knows if we go down to the wire or not i think the headline sensety is there but the market is in a good place. >> we did end the week high for the week as a whole on the s&p 500. that does it for "closing bell." "fast money" begins right now. >>> indeed it does live from the nasdaq market site over looking times square this is "fast money." i'm tyler mathen in for melissa will lee trade

i refer people back to john waldron's comments to me last week he was very, very clear on the strategypdate, well prepared, he's confident about it. some other reports suggest he lowball it or don't give estimates. possible that both could be successful in q1 sticking with goldman sachs, ceo david solman out with a new op-ed in the "financial times" on social and environmental impact investing dco calling attention to what he says are two defining challenges facing the economy, climate change and economic inequality saying there's not only a powerful investment case to act on those issues. writing that goldman sachs plans to target $750 billion of financing and investing over the next ten years in areas focused on climate transition and inclusive growth solomon suggesting the best way to fight climate change is to have governments put a price on carbon through a carbon tax or other means. it's a very good read, and most importantly, that general theme about making this something that capitalism has to support rather than it always being a charitable cause is the only way to solve it mi

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