Inventory Trends - Wholesale inventories increased by 05%, tying with February 2025 for the second-largest inventory increase of the year, only surpassed by January 2025 [1] - Sales decreased by 02%, marking the weakest sales performance since May of this year [2] - The undesirable trend of rising inventories and declining sales is highlighted [2] Economic Indicators - Continuing claims showed a decrease of 100,000 [2] - Initial claims had a questionable drop the previous week, which was reversed this week [2] Seasonal Factors - Seasonal adjustments related to the Thanksgiving holiday are likely influencing the continuing claims data [3] - Continuing claims data lags initial claims by one week [3]

Time for Jim and stop trading. Carl, >> a lot of people like to to uh invest it in irony. They see say, "Hey, wait a second. Cisco hit this level at the end of March of 2000. That was the beginning of the end.Well, actually it peaked at March 15th. " I come back and say, "Well, listen, before you do that kind of thing, Cisco now sells at 19 times earnings. Cisco back then sold some people think as as much as 100 times earnings, maybe 150 times earnings.So stop investing on irony and understand that Cisco is ...

So, you've got to be able to bring in the best and brightest to the country. You know, this concept where you just get online to come into the United States of America and you just come on in. I mean, the average green card holder in America makes onethird less than the average American.We should be bringing in the best and the brightest. And that's what Donald Trump is changing about our immigration system. Let's expedite the best and the brightest who are going to give a million dollars to the United Stat ...

Welcome back to Worldwide Exchange. Asusu is a leading fintech platform that helps renters build their credit by reporting their monthly payments to the major credit bureaus. The startup, which joined the CNBC disruptor 50 list this year, works with twothirds of the country's largest real estate owners and covers more than 5 million rental units.It's also struck a new deal to help to fund the company's growth. Joining me now to break down that news is Asusu's co-founders and CEOs, Samir Goyle and Muimo Abby ...

Trucking rates may be rebounding. Let's get the bell and the CNBC real time exchange at the big board. It is Time magazine celebrating the reveal of its 2025 person of the year this year.It's the Architects of AI. We'll get into that in a moment. At the NASDAQ, it's Lumix and Imaging doing the honors after pricing an IPO yesterday.Jim, it's a great cover. Uh they got some people on the on the beam like the steel workers. It includes Musk and Zuckerberg and Lisa Sue and Dario Amodi and some others.>> Yeah, y ...

consumers in good shape. They're spending money. Uh we just your team had Liz Ever on earlier and she does a great job describing it.And when you look at the broad base of what they're doing, about 4% of the money yearover-year, November, November went in the economy. Uh the consumer's healthy. There's money in deposits.It's a little bit they were talking about Kep shape or alligator shape. They had all different points, but a little bit uh faster the upper tile of income versus the lower. And but it's all ...

Welcome back everybody. Time to bring in our next guest, Senator Elizabeth Warren, who is the lead Democrat on the banking committee. And Senator Warren, thank you for being with us this morning.Um, from your position on the banking committee, thought we might start with the Federal Reserve, what you thought about what happened yesterday, and maybe more importantly, what you think about this overall conversation about who will take over the Federal Reserve next, who the next chairman will be. I I know in th ...

Richard Clar is here, former vice chairman of the Federal Reserve and global ep e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e economic adviser at PINCO. Thanks Rich for coming in. Um yeah, glad to be here.>> And I was going to start with a half empty half full analysis. So if if JPAL on the one hand says man um we look at at what's going on and we're worried about inflation and we're worried about uh the jobs market. This is a really complicated time for monetary policy.That's the half empty. the half full is, you ...

Good morning and welcome to Squawk on the Street. We're going to start our show this morning with some breaking news from the Walt Disney Company and Open AI. The two reaching what they're calling a landmark agreement to uh bring more than 200 characters to the Open AI Sora platform.The short-term uh short form, excuse me, video platform of course that is uh become so incredibly popular. in part so popular that OpenAI needs ever expanding amounts of compute which will get us a little later to Oracle of cour ...

And welcome back to Worldwide Exchange. A check on a few other big stories that we are following this morning. Oil reversing earlier gains after the US confirmed it seized a sanctioned oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela.The Venezuelan government calling that move an act of piracy. Venezuelan OPEC member holds the world's largest oil reserves and exported around 586,000 barrels a day last month. Most of that went to China.Shares of Adobe under some pressure this morning despite delivering an upbeat outloo ...