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Jonathan Kraft, president and CIO of Kraft Group believes we will no longer see the spikes in jobs numbers we have seen in the last couple of reports. He spoke to CBNC ahead of February's unemployment release. "I think [jobs growth has] decelerated at the end of December, beginning of January. It...

T2 co-manager Whitney Tilson believes Howard Hughes (NYSE: HHC) is significantly undervalued with regard to its book value. In the several minutes Wilson spoke to CNBC on the virtues of the company's upside, HHC shares soared 3 percent. It is not the fact that shares are trading at a discount to...

At a time when Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) and five of the largest US publishers have been put on notice by the Justice Department for e-book price collusion, Bill Ackman thinks it is the Amazon's (NASDAQ: AMZN) outsized power in the book publishing space that deserves some antitrust attention. The...

"For every $10 dollars a barrel of crude oil rises in the market" Bart Chilton told CNBC's Squawk Box, "our GPD slips by half a percent." The US Commodity Futures Trading Commissioner thinks speculators are applying undue pressure on commodity prices, and that is hurting the consumer. "We have...

T Boone Pickens does not understand the political rhetoric centering expensive energy. He believes the United States already have the cheapest energy in the world--and politicians need to do a better job to communicate that. A huge proponent of the Natural Gas Plan, Pickens detailed to CNBC's...

Yra Harris thinks traders are catching a breath going into this Friday, avoiding chasing the momentum and weighing whether a better value can be found elsewhere. He weighed in on CNBC's Squawk Box this morning, at a time when futures are sharply down. Asked whether markets are treading water...

Jim O'Neill, the chairman of Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS) Asset Management believes a good print on this week's employment reports will be a far more prevalent indicator on the health of the economy rather than rising oil prices. O'Neill spoke to CNBC's Squawk Box this morning, where he said rising...

David Tepper appeared on CNBC's Squawk Box on Friday. In his brief appearance, he laid out his investment thesis for the short-term: the market is presently a "difficult investment environment" and there will be no more quantitative easing unless the S&P 500 drops several hundred points. No...

Meredith Whitney, founder and CEO of the Meredith Whitney Advisory Group, appeared on CNBC's Squawk Box Wednesday morning. In her appearance, she reiterated her call for municipality defaults. She stated that she anticipated some form of restructuring in the municipal market, as local politicians...

The president of the Dallas Federal Reserve Bank, Richard Fisher, appeared on CNBC's Squawk Box this morning. In his appearance, he admitted that QE2 may have been partly to blame for the recent increase in the price of commodities. Fischer opposed QE2, and said he would oppose QE3. He stated that...

PIMCO's Bill Gross appeared on CNBC's Squawk Box Friday morning. In his appearance, he echoed statements made by Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, President Obama, and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, stating that if the U.S. defaults on any future debt payments--even for a period of just...

On Monday, David Walker, former United States Comptroller General, appeared on CNBC's Squawk Box to tote his "Comeback America Initiative." According to an assessment tool designed by his organization, the fiscal problem of the United States is worse than the problems in Italy and Spain. In his...

In this 3-part interview, Lori Ann LaRocco talks about how people may become more educated by engaging in financial media and business news.   In Part 1, Lori Ann explains what her job is as CNBC’s Senior Talent Producer and producer of CNBC’s Squawk Box. In doing so, she gives us a...