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Good morning and welcome to Squawk on the Street.

I'm David Faber, along with Billy Joel's buddy, Jim Kramer.

We're live from the New York Stock Exchange.

Carl has the morning off.

We're going to have an exclusive interview with Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins. That'll be just a few

minutes from now. And let's give you a look at futures as we get ready for the open of trading

here for a Thursday, a half hour from now from the New York Stock Exchange. You can see we are set up

for what would look to be a slightly lower open, which always leads us to our roadmap.

And it does start not with the stock market, but with the big company named Walmart and its shares,

which are set to open at a new all-time high.

The retailer delivers an earnings beat also forecast what is, quote, a good holiday season.

Plus global technology, global technology spending, slowdown concerns. Cisco shares, they are sinking ahead of the bell, as we told

you. Chuck Robin's going to join us. Rain or shine, we always like that. He'll be with us in a few

minutes for an interview. And Elizabeth Warren on attack, the presidential hopeful dropping a fierce new campaign ad today.

She's targeting a handful of outspoken billionaires who've criticized her publicly, many of them, right here on our air.

Let's get shares of Walmart.

They are on track as I said, to open at a new all-time high.

Quarterly earnings were ahead of expectations, comparable store of sales up for a 21st

consecutive quarter.

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