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Squawk on the Street

Watching Powell, State of the Tax Union, Chatbot Wars: Microsoft vs. Google 2/7/23

Squawk on the Street

CNBC

Business, Investing, News

4.1567 Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2023

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Carl Quintanilla and Jim Cramer discussed the markets anticipating Fed Chair Jerome Powell's remarks in Washington on Tuesday, as some Fed presidents are calling for much higher rates following Friday's blowout jobs report. Hear what Cramer is calling the "saving grace" of this economy.The anchors also looked ahead to Tuesday night's "State of the Union" address, with President Biden expected to call for a quadrupling of the new stock buyback tax. Also in focus: Microsoft and Google ramp up their battle over artificial intelligence and ChatGPT, DuPont beats, BP's buyback and record profits, travel stocks rally and Activision's CEO defends the company’s merger deal with Microsoft.

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0:00.0

Market moving insight and analysis join Jim Kramer, David Faber, and me, Carl Kintania, on the opening bell hour of CNBC Squawk on the Street.

0:08.5

Good Tuesday morning. Welcome to Squawk on the Street. I'm Carl Kintania with Jim Kramer at Post 9 of the New York Stock Exchange. David Faber as the morning off. Market waits for Chair Powell today speaking in the noon hour, but already the 10-year yield back near 3-7. That's a one-month

0:21.5

high as Bostick and Kashkari-talkish vix back near 20. Our roadmap begins with the street

0:27.0

as we await the Fed shares remarks and seek some clarity about rates. Also, the president

0:32.1

expected to push for quadrupling the stock buyback tax at tonight's state of the union address.

0:38.3

And then, of course,

0:45.3

Microsoft and Google ramping up their AI battle with Chat GPT in focus. Let's begin, though,

0:50.1

with the markets ahead of the Fed and the chair later on today. Yesterday, Jim, it was Bostick.

0:54.6

This morning, it's Kashkari, not lowering my rate path, still 5-4.

0:57.7

Argues that Core Services X Housing has made little progress?

1:00.5

Well, I think it's the opposite.

1:05.1

I think the only thing that has not made great progress is that they have not had disinflation in wages.

1:06.2

Everything else, you know, whether it be free housing, is actually lowered.

1:10.4

A lot of the hot areas,

1:11.6

which matters tremendously, a lot of the raw costs that go in. Obviously, natural gas is so

1:16.6

incredible, important to our fabric. And that's been, that's talking about disinflation, that's crash.

1:22.2

So, I mean, I find that where we are now is that there are companies that have put through

1:26.9

price increases and they

1:27.9

got to roll back and Costco will take care of food Tyson took care of it with its own bumbling

1:33.3

it was one of the worst conference calls of the year my god it's like they should have just said you know

1:37.5

it really screwed up and catch us next time was that bad but there there are lots of areas where

1:44.1

things are quite good for pal and i think he can

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