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Mark Leibovich Dishes Out The Dirt On Washington D.C.
Wednesday, July 17, 2013 - 12:15pm | 451Mark Leibovich, Author of This Town and chief national correspondent at The New York Times (NYSE: NYT) Magazine, talked about his new book, and some of the process behind diving into Washington, D.C.'s dirt, as a guest on CNBC's Squawk Box Wednesday morning. Leibovich centered in on the rhetoric...
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CEO Michael Ward On CSX Q2 Results Chugging Past Analysts' Estimates (CSX)
Wednesday, July 17, 2013 - 9:13am | 336President, Chairman and CEO of CSX (NYSE: CSX) Michael Ward appeared on CNBC's Squawk Box to discuss the company's strong Q2 results. CSX came in at $0.52 EPS, both over analysts' estimates and last year's Q2 results. Revenue came in at $3.07, toppling estimates of $3.02 billion while also...
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Coca-Cola's Gary Fayard Blames Weak Q2 Results On Weather (KO)
Tuesday, July 16, 2013 - 11:25am | 242Coca-Cola (NYSE: KO) reported Q2 EPS at $0.63 ex-items versus $0.63 analyst estimates and revenues of $12.75 billion versus 12.959 billion analyst estimates. Gary Fayard, CFO of Coca-Cola, appeared on CNBC's Squawk Box on Tuesday morning, where blamed much of the weak performance on lower than...
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Citigroup's Nathan Sheets Makes Sense Of Bernanke's Moves
Tuesday, July 16, 2013 - 10:02am | 344Nathan Sheets, Global Head of International Economics at Citigroup (NYSE: C), thinks that after this week's round of testimony, Ben Bernanke will retire as chairman of the Federal Reserve. He discussed this view on Tuesday morning as a guest on CNBC's Squawk Box. "It's been eight, long,...
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Gulf Oil CEO Joe Petrowski Says Market Supply Will Bring Oil To $50 A Barrel
Monday, July 15, 2013 - 1:00pm | 242CEO Joe Petrowski of Gulf Oil (NASDAQ: GURE) thinks that oil will be around $50 a barrel by the end of the year. He explained why on CNBC's Squawk Box on Monday morning. "It's simple economics. We're producing record amounts of oil and natural gas in the United States and in Canada," said...
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'China Is Not Reforming' Says Forbes' Gordon Chang
Monday, July 15, 2013 - 10:17am | 288China's second quarter has shown annual economic growth slowing down to 7.5 percent, but Forbes columnist Gordon Chang believes that even a number that high is artificial. Chang explained his view on CNBC's Squawk Box Monday morning while discussing whether or not China is looking at difficult...
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Solvay's Jean-Pierre Clamadieu Is Excited For Next Steps After Solar-Plane's Flight
Friday, July 12, 2013 - 4:21pm | 207Solvay Group director and CEO Jean-Pierre Clamadieu was ecstatic with the effectiveness of their high-tech polymers in the development and flight of an airplane that weighs less than most cars on CNBC's Squawk Box Friday morning. The airplane didn't use any gasoline during it's flight across the...
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CFTC Commissioner Bart Chilton Talks Benefits Of New Global Swaps Regulations
Friday, July 12, 2013 - 3:48pm | 211The Commodities Futures Trading Commission's Bart Chilton pushed to pass new regulations on swaps trades on a global scale on CNBC's Squawk Box Friday morning. Today, the regulations passed 3-1. Related: Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) Defends 21st Century Glass-Steagall Act "We are doing a cross-...
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SecondMarket CEO Barry Silbert Sees an Investment Revolution on the Horizon
Thursday, July 11, 2013 - 12:10pm | 281Barry Silbert, SecondMarket CEO and founder, cycled through his reasons why he thinks the Securities and Exchange Commission's decision to remove their ban on ads by venture capital firms, hedge funds, and private equity will draw in more investors on CNBC's Squawk Box Thursday morning. "This...
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Steve Ballmer's 'Big Moment' Is Now, Says Former Apple CEO John Sculley (MSFT)
Thursday, July 11, 2013 - 11:45am | 270John Sculley, former Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) CEO and tech entrepreneur, said that Microsoft's (NASDAQ: MSFT) internal restructuring will be CEO Steve Ballmer's "biggest moment since he took over ten years ago for Bill Gates" on CNBC's Squawk Box on Thursday morning. Soon the company will be mainly...
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The Economist's Greg Ip Says Fed Has 'Lost Their Faith' In Expanding Balance Sheet
Thursday, July 11, 2013 - 11:16am | 316The Economist's Greg Ip appeared on CNBC's Squawk Box on Thursday morning where he discussed the ups and downs of the Fed maintaining low interest rates while tapering down bond buying. "I'm puzzling over why the market is so excited over [tapering]," Said Ip. "If you go back to May when [...
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Mandiant CEO Kevin Mandia On Security After Uncovering China's Hacking U.S. Businesses
Wednesday, July 10, 2013 - 12:19pm | 517Kevin Mandia made the cover of Fortune Magazine for uncovering major hacks on major U.S. corporations by the Chinese government. China's hacking program is extremely extensive, grounded in attacking America's economy by acquiring trade information. "The thing is, we never know if we know 99...
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No 'Knee-Jerk Reactions' With Economic Strategy Says Customers Bank CEO Jay Sidhu
Wednesday, July 10, 2013 - 9:06am | 530Jay Sidhu, Customers Bank CEO and Chairman, drew points to why the economy isn't going to get better while addressing the Fed's strategies for tackling the growing situation. The Fed has eased the stress of a tough economy with lower interest rates, which translates into soon-to-be retirees...
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Rafferty Capital's Dick Bove Talks Bank Earnings, Europe and Fed/FDIC 'Turf Wars'
Tuesday, July 9, 2013 - 12:41pm | 851Rafferty Capital analyst Dick Bove sees new banking regulation as a battle between the Fed and the FDIC. Bove also weighed in on Europe's growing interest in jailing bankers and talked about what we're going to be seeing from bank earnings on CNBC's Squawk Box on Tuesday morning. First Bove...
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TouchCast Builds A Foundation For Interactive TV
Tuesday, July 9, 2013 - 10:54am | 398TouchCast co-founders Erick Schonfeld and Edo Segal, who also acts as CEO, stopped by CNBC's Squawk Box to discuss their innovative app, TouchCast, that's currently free for the iPad, and is also available through web browsers. "We expect that consumers will be doing a lot of touching. They're...