Let's get to Jim and stop trading. >> One of the remaining areas that's been really strong is fintech as other tech rolls over and I still don't see the major uh players by the way in in the data center going up. They seem to be struggling.Uh a firm has been my favorite. That's Max Le. She's great.But everybody seems to dislike PayPal. Morgan Stanley comes out with a piece so devastating downgrade to underweight. This is PayPal used to be Venmo.They're talking about they're talking about Aentics not helping ...

Six minutes before we get started with trading here at the New York Stock Exchange on this Thursday. Let's get a mad dash in. We're going to stay on the power generation theme if we >> uh with GE Vernova.>> Yeah. So, we have two themes. One is we have the actual building the data center and the other is we have the do you have enough power do it.Now, GE Vernova is the cheap way to do it because they're natural gas. The problem is is that they did not increase capacity. There's only three companies that actu ...

Western Dig. Those are not the ones to be in. They can go on, but Mike is the one that is really outstanding.Sant who [music and bell] said this could happen two years ago in January. Two years ago, he said this could happen and it happened. Congratulations.>> That's good. Let's get the opening bell here in the CNBC realtime exchange of the big board. It's Depard Medical, maker of the Sincardia Total Artificial Heart, celebrating a recent IPO.And at the NASDAQ, it's IT and enterprise software company Metall ...

Now the number of the morning the CPI >> oh maybe coming in a little bit better than expected 2.7% a little light here I'm not calling I'm just reading the headlines here year-over-year 27 x food and energy core 26 so 410 off that is a very good number here um and it really I I have not looked at the internals I'll look at them now but it suggests that the internals are good as well uh let's see year-over-year over the last 12 months there is no monthtomonth But some guys will be able to calculate seasonall ...

Let's begin with this market reaction to CPI shelter uh carrying an awful lot of water which is kind of a consensus view Jim going into 26. >> Yes, you got to go with what Lenar is saying too. Giant home builder uh dovetales with this.You go to you go to Gemini uh you put in Lenar uh you put in home prices LAR and you'll see uh way back all the way back to 2019 before there was inflation you know but this is the 40% inflation in housing David. Yeah. >> Done.Okay. See you then you look at CarMax you look at ...

is House Minority Leader Hakee Jeff. Uh good morning to you. You heard the president uh last night.He says the Democrats are in the pockets of the insurance companies uh and that the price of uh your healthcare is actually going to go down under his plan. What say you. >> Well, good morning.Great to be with you. Uh the Republican health care crisis is devastating the American people and Donald Trump has zero credibility on the issue of healthcare. This is the party that has enacted the largest cut to Medica ...

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Yeah. Uh here we go. We got Java is just coming straight across here falling to 224 in the week of December 13th from 237.Uh that was revised up from 236. So not a big deal. Uh let's see.4-week average rising to 217 because remember we had that big low number from Thanksgiving. So that was a seasonal problem I think. Continued claim rising to 1.897% in the week of December 6th.Um that's below consensus and it is up from 1.83% the prior week but still not at 1.9%. Now the number of the morning the CPI >> oh ...

and is now threatening to penalize EU tech companies in return. Ambassador Greer uh joins us this morning. Good morning to you, sir.Um where does this stand and and just so we understand the the various chess pieces here. Uh what kind of leverage do you think you have to actually affectuate this in the EU. >> Uh well, good morning.Good to be with you. There are a couple of things. You know, first of all, the EU itself knows that uh it lags on innovation.You know, we had the EU put out the Mario Draghy repor ...

Let's bring in our panel. Joining us now, Brookings Institution Economic Studies senior fellow Wendy Edelberg and American Institute for Economic Research Monetary Economics Managing Director Lydia Mashburn Newman. Welcome to you both.Uh Wendy, I mean, I know you haven't kind of been able to dig into the guts of this report, but it seems like a pretty benign reading. Uh how do you feel about it. Yeah, it's frustrating because they haven't even posted the information that I would need to to really um parse a ...