Few years, is leaving the business. Apple is trading down by. 8 . I want to take you to the gmm function to see what the big movers have been. Down under, australia and new zealand are doing well. Equity outperformance has been a feature, strong markets in the bond market. But equities have underperformed, and that is worth paying attention to. We will see some rebalancing coming in. To give you an idea of the risk narrative, we have this weird market were equities and bonds have gone up, and the yen has gone up. The british pound, not so much, down by 2. 36 . The front end of the u. S. Curve, something that has been factoring in what has been going on with the fed, bullying the fed and pushing it into maybe some of those big cuts the market is anticipating. Lets get back to Deutsche Bank. Reports out that Deutsche Bank is preparing to cut as much as half its Global Workforce in equities trading, part of a broad, another broad restructuring to boost profitability. Bloombergs german ban
News drop . Plus a big call in the financial space just aheard of earnings and were holding the investment committees feet to the fire with the Quarterly Report the Halftime Report with scott wapner begins right now. Welcome, good to have you with us on this tuesday. Joe terranova, steve white, jon najarian, and richard sapperstein is here, high towerer ceo. Shares of apple on the move today, down 16 from its alltime high. Doc, your biggest stock position, people say whats going to get stocks to break out of this range, were finally starting to move that next leg higher apple hitting that new high wouldnt hurt. It wouldnt hurt. As they basically cross the billion sales number as far as units out there in the field, scott, a billion handheads out there, thats huge for apple in terms of the Services Revenue that pete is always harping about. The issue for me is also that a lot of the services theyre selling now are bigger services, recurring revenue, for instance, from like the cloud and
The s p and dow. Nasdaq gains which it saw on friday. For the nasdaq and s p and russell 2000, it was the worst month in the year. For the s p and nasdaq with the dow slumping 3 . Nasdaq down 5. 8 for the month. Treasuries is the big picture. This is why we see the weakening. Treasury markets are picking up. 10year is now 4. 74 . The 2year treasury is up at 5. 11 . Mortgage prices are ticking higher. If you want a 30year fixed mortgage, you are looking at 8 . Check out the price of crude oil. Crude oil prices with energy back on the rise. Up to 91. 50 for wti. Brent at 93 a barrel. Joe talked about bitcoin. Picking up to 28,300. Up 4. 4 . Joe, the reason behind this is because gary gensler etf comments. I saw any Government Shutdown would delay any consideration for the spot etfs that everyone wants. Because the s. E. C. Staff would have been out and nothing gets approved. Does that mean i think they are thinking about it. They have been thinking about it check your watch. Thats a big
It is a big day for the bank of England Governor Mark carney. A report is starting less than an hour from now. Topping lists the banks Interest Rates and new forecast on the agenda. Republican president ial candidates will debate for the first time tonight at 9 00 eastern on national television, and 9 of them will be trying to stop donald trump from stealing the spotlight. He is dominating polls heading into the debate on fox. One republican strategists said survivalists must tread lightly. Time,has a set amount of six and half, eight minutes to engage in the audience something about you, your policy, and why you watch to be the next president of the United States and why we should vote for you. To waste time going after trump that will burn up a lot of those minutes. At the same time, if he goes after you, you cannot allow that to stand. You can demonstrate to Republican Voters he will be a candidate who fight back. Vonnie the second candidate who did not hold high enough to appear wi
In a defiling that it now owns 7. 5 of the food giant which makes oreos, ritz crackers and wellknown brands. Whats unclear is what the investor wants to do with the company. Ackman wanted the snack maker to grow revenue or cut costs or sell itself. Mondelez, for its part says they will welcome them as investors in the company. Ackman joins nelson peltz. His firm holds a 3 stake in mondelez. Well show you whats going on now in the premarket trading as a result of this and you wouldnt be surprised to see that they are sharply higher. What does he want to do with the company . He wants the stock to go up so he can sell the stock for more than he paid for. We were having a conversation off camera. Okay. Maybe he sees something thats not being optimized at mondelez the way that management is running things but what he really knows is i have enough money, 5 billion. I can make a splash and in all likelihood the stock will start going up just on that and then you agitate, you mess around, you