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SOTS 2nd Hour: Jones Act Waiver, Iran Market Latest, & LIVE: Docusign CEO 3/18/26

Squawk on the Street

CNBC

News, Investing, Business

4.0566 Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2026

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Top of the hour: President Trump waiving a U.S. shipping law for 60 days to steady oil markets... but not helping prices or markets in the early trade. Carl Quintanilla, David Faber, and Michael Santoli broke down the news before turning to longtime market veteran and Evercore strategist Julian Emanuel - along with Goldman's Co-Head of Global Commodities Research - with more on what could come next. Plus: a new era at Disney as new CEO Josh D'Amaro takes the reins... Former executive, of 15 years and onetime TikTok CEO Kevin Mayer weighed in on challenges ahead. Also in focus: a fresh read on whether AI disruption fears should be believed when it comes to software - with the CEO of Docusign, fresh off earnings from the company... and a look at Washington State's first ever income tax - which includes a hitch for married couples. Squawk on the Street Disclaimer

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0:00.0

Good Wednesday morning. Welcome to Squawk on the Street. I'm Carl Kintanay with Mike Santoli,

0:09.9

David Favor here at Post 9 of the New York Stock Exchange. Sarah Eisen co-hosting the View today,

0:14.8

although no flipping. Coming up this hour, we'll talk to Evercores Julian Emanuel on this Fed

0:19.6

day as the latest street on inflation comes in much hotter than expected, why he says we're in one of the

0:25.1

riskiest moments of the century.

0:28.3

Goldman's co-head of commodities is with us, investors tracking these new developments in the

0:31.9

Middle East.

0:32.9

We'll get his prediction for where oil prices might be heading.

0:35.8

And there's a new boss of Disney officially today.

0:37.9

We'll talk to former Disney executive, former TikTok CEO Kevin Meyer, on the challenges facing Josh tomorrow.

0:44.9

First, though, some breaking economic data that is just crossing.

0:47.7

Rick Santelli has that for us.

0:49.1

Rick?

0:50.3

Yes, thank you, David.

0:51.5

These are January reads, fresh reads on factory orders. We're expecting up one-tenth, and it delivers exactly up one-tenth. And the rearview mirror, at least now, still unrevised, was down seven-tenths. That was the weakest going back to July of 25. Now getting changed, it is now revised to down four-tenths, and down four-tenths would still be the

1:12.3

weakest since July of last year, so a decent rebound up one-tenth. Strip out transportation,

1:18.3

we could see transportation pushed it lower because it rises to up four-tenths. Up-four-tenth

1:24.7

says now back-to-back, up four-tenths. Those are the best back-to-back read since July when it was up 5-10s.

1:31.9

Now let's switch gears. Let's go to durable goods. These are final reads replacing mid-month January reads.

1:38.4

So unchanged remains unchanged on durable goods. Ex-transportation, it rises to four-tenths and stays there.

1:46.4

That's where it was our first look.

1:48.6

And up four-tenths, actually, is a pretty nice read, considering up four-tenths would be the best level going back to last year's December read, which was up 1.3, which was a very powerful read, if we strip out

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