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Squawk on the Street

Earnings Barrage, Exxon CEO Fires Back At the White House, Day One for the Fed 1/31/23

Squawk on the Street

CNBC

Business, Investing, News

4.1567 Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

On the final trading day of January, Carl Quintanilla, Jim Cramer and David Faber discussed what investors should make of Tuesday's earnings releases from the likes of Caterpillar, McDonald's, Pfizer, Exxon Mobil, General Motors and UPS. The anchors also reacted to Exxon Mobil CEO Darren Woods blasting the Biden Administration's criticism of big oil companies' stock buybacks. He told CNBC, "The White House needs to get its facts straight." Also in focus: The Fed kicks off its two-day policy meeting, activists pressure Salesforce as Marc Benioff once again becomes sole CEO, plus Nike sues Lululemon. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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0:00.0

It's Jim Kramer here. You're listening to the opening bell of CBC's Squawk on the Street.

0:04.7

Don't miss a minute of the action.

0:07.7

Good Tuesday morning. Welcome to Squawk on the Street. I'm Carl Kintanian with Jim Kramer and David

0:11.5

Faber at post nine of the New York Stock Exchange. Final day of January. S&P enjoying its best

0:16.7

January in about four years as the earnings from industrial giants roll in. Q4 employment costs

0:22.3

soften a bit. That did turn futures green as the Fed meeting begins today. A roadmap begins

0:27.2

with corporate earnings in a gauge of the economy. McDonald's, UPS, CAT, GM, Pfizer, among the names

0:32.7

crossing the tape. We'll break down the numbers. Plus Exxon is smashing records, notching a $56 billion

0:40.2

profit for 2022. CEO Darren Woods pushing back against White House criticism, saying it needs to get

0:46.4

its facts straight. And the S&P is headed for its best month, as you just heard from Carl since 2019.

0:53.2

Futures though this morning, let's call it a bit

0:55.4

muted this is investors away of course what we're going to hear from the fifth let's get to the

1:00.9

earnings parade jim i heard you talking uPS with andrew is that the most important name at the moment well

1:06.3

i think it shows you the difficulty of figuring out on a day when we have so many earnings about what

1:12.9

the right direction is. So UPS reports, there's a computer generated line basically, which says

1:19.4

that the revenues were like. And then you read the release and you realize, you know what,

1:24.2

they're doing better than we thought, and that that revenue line is not

1:27.8

which is not dispositive. And then the stock goes from being down two to three to being up five.

1:35.2

And that's really the tail of this particular tape, as people reevaluate and realize Calton

1:40.1

May is doing a pretty good job. And that's going to be the whole thing. I mean, GM reports,

1:45.8

and it's instantly good. But then we may hear the comments call. I don't know. I've got Mary Barra.

1:50.5

I just urge people to recognize that because things are so jumbled today, David, you could be incredibly wrong.

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