This morning, National Securities corporation chief market strategist, art hogan is hill, liz peek is here and James Freeman. Great to he see everybody. Thank you to all of our veterans this morning and their families. Liz peek, you have people in your family. Our son is a veteran. Maria thank you so much. And thank you everybody. We want to give a big shoutout all day today to our great heroes of this country. Our top story this hour is violence erupting in hong kong over the weekend, the protests now in the sixth month. Police fired gunshots at protesters early this morning sending one man to the hospital and the emergency room for emergency surgery, another man in Critical Condition this morning after being set oven fire for confronting protesters who had been vandalizing a subway station. This story is not going away. I think this is also creating pressure for xijinping in china but when you see things turn this kind of violent you wonder what kind of impact it really will have. It
Headlines are moving stocks much higher were going to dig into those. And driving the action this week, media disruption well get the Details Behind hbo max, friday is the launch of appletv plus, and disney plus launches next friday so all of this week on closing bell, were going to take a deeper dive into the strategies, investments, and personalities behind the changes happening in media. Today, well talk to billionaire, ted leansus, the owner of Washington Wizards and capitals about the value of live sports thats all coming up after the bell its going to be a very big show here today and joining us for the hour is stephanie link fr stephanie, it looks like today is kind of steady as she goes, it seems like we have a deescalation of the trade war and fundamentals of earnings actually moving some stocks. You hit it perfectly, actually good start to the week trade tensions seem to be easing a bit. Earnings so far, 50 of the s p 500 have reported. Theyre beating by 2 , i know against a
Nasdaq sank. We keep getting hammered by in sesant woes and worries about the economy even as we give a pass to the companies that indicator to the strong cumer, or just putting this out there, will we come to a realization that without some sort of trade deal with china, or at least mexico and canada, that this market is going to be headed lower, no matter what . I fear it will actually be the latter, because the strength in the stock market earlier this wee week was so broad, that the less lift you get from nabaf . Nabaf only works when stocks are going down like the bank stocks were going into this week. If theyve already run, nabaf doesnt offer much protection. Theyll need to deliver better than expected numbers and thats hard for companies to do in this environment. With that in mind, let me walk you through the game plan for next week. This is cramers game plan, its the only game plan that matters. Halliburton reports early monday morning. We call this one hal, and im not a huge
Amazon big quarter josh lipton live in san francisco. Besides the bottom and top obviously investors concentrate on the q 4 guided are guidance light. Between 86 and 86. 5 billion. Obviously for investors thats critical q 4, the Holiday Quarter dy just have a call with amazon cfo brian osafe ski. There are onetime items he mentioned weighing on q 4. He mention add consumption tax kicking in japan, from 8 to 10 . That created prebuying in september having a net negative impact in q 4. But the central question for investors is going to be the bottom line guidance well below what the street was looking for. On the call he fielded a lot of questions about that is it all oneday shipping he made it clear they are in investment mode and do believe where they need to be. They believe there is cost in the short run. He believes thats where amazon needs to be and there is evidence he says its paying off. Good increase in purchase behavior from prime members. Theyre buying more products, more oft
Holding this up is primarily the defensives in the utility sector, some consumer staples. Mcdonalds providing a little bit of a drag. Take a look at what is happening in the treasury market. Bond bulls undeterred. A lot of folks said this is going to be a dip buying opportunity, and that is what you are seeing. A lot of uncertainty that had driven the bond rally prior to that selloff, brexit, u. S china trade, those have not been resolved, but you will see the bond bulls remain active in this market. We saw the dollar knocked down a peg. You are going to start to see the price action like this. Take a look at gold. Gold actually had a little bit of a bid earlier today. Now it is flatlining, but holding at that 1500 an ounce level. A lot of analysts say that when you talk about the fair value of gold, they are looking at 1600 allers to 1800 an ounce. Guy lets talk about the brexit thing. Basically, the pound hovering around 1. 29 versus the dollar. We are a little way away from the 1. 3