CNBC's Squawk Box

United States Secretary of Education Arne Duncan noted the importance of a college education, citing high costs as an issue, on CNBC's Squawk Box Thursday morning. "People are coming up to me, middle class folks, where they're starting to think that college isn't for them, [that] it's just for...

United States Under Secretary of State for Economic Growth, Energy, and the Environment Robert Hormats has had a long and rich career in both politics and business. On Thursday morning, he sat in as a guest host on CNBC's Squawk Box, where he shared views on U.S. infrastructure expansion during...

J.P. Morgan (NYSE: JPM) Funds Chief Global Strategist David Kelly spent an hour on CNBC's Squawk Box as a guest host on Wednesday morning. His final thoughts were on finding balance in Fed policy by looking at both supply and demand. "I want us to focus on what the Fed can and can't do. it's more...

Joe Feldman, senior managing director and assistant director of research at Telsey Advisory Group, went over Home Depot's (NYSE: HD) Q2 results, and talked home improvement in general amidst the housing recovery on CNBC's Squawk Box Tuesday morning. "People have been pretty concerned heading into...

BHP Billiton (NYSE: BHP) CFO Graham Kerr discussed a large drop in the diversified natural resources company's annual profit, along with the company's plans to tighten operations, and China's need for energy on CNBC's Squawk Box Tuesday morning. "There is no doubt that our profit result was down...

Editor and founder of The Gartman Letter Dennis Gartman thinks that gold (NYSEARCA: GLD) will be on the rise. He talked gold, as well as some of the other investments that he likes, on CNBC's Squawk Box Monday morning. "I'm not a gold bug, but I am bullish of gold, I've owned gold for a while and...

The PGA Championship teed off at Rochester, NY's Oak Hill Country club Thursday. With buzz around the season's last major championship, Pete Bevacqua, PGA of America CEO went over possible viewing issues, the course, and the general state of professional golf on CNBC's Squawk Box this morning...

Piper Jaffray's managing director and senior research analyst Gene Munster talked to the folks at CNBC's Squawk Box about Groupon's (NASDAQ: GRPN) recent success, evolving business and future competitors. Munster noted that the company can keep up with its current trajectory path, saying that...

Like hot dogs? Sonic (NASDAQ: SONC) Chairman and CEO J. Cliff Hudson discussed National Hot Dog Day with the folks over at CNBC's Squawk Box. Hudson also talked about the future of the fast-food industry into the year. Sonic's National Hot Dog Day offer, $1 All-American Dogs and Chili Cheese...

Standard & Poor's Capital IQ Senior Equity Analyst Tuna Amobi commented on whether or not Netflix's (NASDAQ: NFLX) Emmy nominations will bring in more long-term subscribers, leading to better quarterly numbers on CNBC's Squawk Box Monday morning. Netflix will be releasing its Q2 earnings...

Peter Saleh, senior research analyst covering restaurants at Telsey Advisory Group, discussed McDonald's (NYSE: MCD) lower-than-desired earnings, and their claim that a wobbly economy is causing their costumers to pinch pennies, on CNBC's Squawk Box on Monday morning. McDonald's EPS came in at $1...

Jack Vresics, president and CEO of Step2, a company that focuses on manufacturing plastic toys for toddler and preschool children, briefly chatted about the company's growth, and expansion into new markets, on CNBC's Squawk Box Friday morning. Step2 now has over 800 employees in the United...

Jack De Gan, chief investment officer and principal and senior portfolio advisor at Harbor Advisory appeared on CNBC's Squawk Box to break down GE's (NYSE: GE) Q2 results. GE's Q2 revenue came in at $35.1 billion, a bit under analysts' $35.555 billion estimates. Their EPS came in at $0.36,...

AutoNation (NYSE: AN) had a record Q2 EPS of $0.73, a revenue-driven increase of 11 percent that came out a Q2 revenue of $4.4 billion, a 13 percent increase over analysts' estimates of 4.33 billion. AutoNation CEO and Chairman Michael Jackson expanded upon the auto industry after discusses great...

BB&T (NYSE: BBT) CEO and chairman Kelly King appeared for an interview on CNBC's Squawk Box Thursday morning after beating out analysts' estimates for Q2 by $0.03 a share, coming in at $0.77 EPS over $0.74 estimates. Revenue for the quarter came in at $2.5 billion over estimates of $2.459...