Says military cloud contract win. And Restoration Hardware surging at the open, Buffetts Berkshire hathaway revealing a new stake in the furniture retailer stocks are looking to make more history a day after the s p posted its 21st record close of the year futures up on comments from larry kudlow about progress of trade talks in china, upbeat news about the consumer adding to positive sentiment. Retail sale s rebounded in october. 3 but strip out gas, it is a miss. Strip out autos and gas, it is a miss as the threemonth average continues to slow. Jim . Look, i there is just the mixed picture keeps making it so it is bullish. It is amazing. If it were too strong, we would have to say that jay powell has they still play by jay powell there is just enough tease with trade talk i have my view on what is happening now and it is not as sanguine as what people are saying this is about farm, about ag, and it is about this is my understanding, not necessarily about soy. A lot of pork involved b
Today. Our road map begins with Global Growth concerns. China posting the weakest gdp in 27 years aed my fallout from the trade war. Well wrap up the first week of earnings season, two names in focus, coke and American Express, both rallyi ining aheaf the bell. Rick perry set to leave trumps cabinet. He will join us live this hour going to start with that slowdown, china saying the economy grew 6 in q3 from a year ago, believed to be chinas slowest gain in nearly three decades. Markets here largely shrugging it off Industrial Production was up from the prior five to 58. Retail sales up from 75 back to 78 so kind of mixed. This one we can say, look, there is something for everybody. Fed can still cut. But im doing a lot of work on American Express this morning. Consumer is still strong consumer strong, business, corporate spend, as barry said, still a lot of negativity among ceos, extends to the election, negativity extends to china, european woes. Go back to the ibm call, we didnt talk
Dp lets say it gave a nice boost to the averages. Dow up, s p 500 up. 33 . Nasdaq up. 33 interesting synergy there, huh but as important as the Federal Reserve might be, can we just say that its not the only thing that matters there are a lost constraints on companies these days that have nothing to do with the fed and after hearing from apple and facebook after the bell, can you imagine these two Huge Companies tonight, you know what its head scratching i mean, theyre up weve got to devote more attention to a couple of things in particular i never really talked about on this show. We need to spend more time talking about the lack of time to consume all there is out there and we need to spend more time talking about the government, meaning the newfound menace of government when it comes to classic digitized now big business while facebook and apple both reported strong numbers i think the stocks should have been up much more than they are in after hours. Theyre good but i expected grea
Sense that there are Different Things that come out we had the futures down, the equivalent the s p down 1. 2 and came out with a statement with hauwei we didnt come out. New york times cited sources saying there might be nonessential equipment. You understand what i mean, meaning that there is a story floated, let me be more accurate that made it so that the bear market of last night ended no stocks trading. Its kind of amazing when people started the futures in 1984. Did they ever envision a world, this is our gamble if there is no stock trades, its a gamble. I feel the momentum behind these talks. I cant believe theyre having talks after whats gone through this week. I dont know. Well, you cant listen to lighthizer, you know, the contradictory nature of this sometimes that we see from the administration, whether its navarro contradicting kudlow, lighthizer, mnuchin and the president s tweets, it makes it very difficult one would think for an investor to try to figure anything out ex
Cut wall streets Immediate Reaction was pure suspicion. Oh, he doesnt have the heart in the rate cut hes not as worried as he should be hes being dragged kicking and screaming to this rate cut because things are weaker overseas, not here thats why the averages initially got hammered before the market peoplely came to its senses later in the afternoon. Dow only closing up 36 s p advancing 0. 03 and nasdaq declining 0. 11 . The u. S. Economy does have a lot of strength. It does. The rest of the world does have a lot of weakness so we got what pundits were calling a hawkish cut. Theyre so clever, meaning its the last rate cut or maybe the penultimate rate cut apparently that wasnt enough for some money managers. What do they want they were so disappointed they wanted to be surprised and wanted powell to tell us hes enthusiastic about easing and it will find a way to strongarm the others the bulls wanted Bill Belichick fed chief, okay. Lets get this done. Do your job chairman who wont let