The Investment Committee is ready to go. The Halftime Report starts right now. Welcome. Good to have you with us on this friday our Investment Committee here today joe terranova, john levanthal, josh brown, and marc lasry is here. Lets fwin with the markets. Stocks extending gains, more trade optimism marc, good to see you again. Thanks for being here. Ill turn to you first were looking at the major averages dow is about 70 points from 28,000 what do you make of the markets in the here and now . Are you surprised we are where we are in. Yeah. Im very surprised, actually why so . Well, if you sort of look ate it, gdp growth is slowing down youve got issues sort of everywhere youre turning. And yet the market keeps hitting new highs. I think thats its great if youre an Equity Investor for what we do we need sort of the market and gdp to be around 1 to 2 . I think what we do, its great i think on the equity side, its going to be a tough year for the next year. You do . Why so because of g
The us military releases the first footage of the raid in which the leader of the so called Islamic State group was killed. And wildfires continue to spread across southern california, as strong winds hamper rescue efforts. Good morning, this is newsroom live, im annita mcveigh. Campaigning has begun for the next general election on the day the uk should have left the european union. The labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, will launch his pa rtys campaign shortly. Hell say the election on december 12th offers a once in a generation chance to transform the country and will promise to go after tax dodgers, dodgy landlords and big polluters. The Prime Minister borisjohnson is due to make a series of campaign visits of his own, highlighting what he calls the peoples priorities education, the nhs and crime. He suffered a blow last night as one of his cabinet ministers, nicky morgan, became the latest tory mp to decide not to stand for re election. She told bbc radio leicester that the abuse mps f
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Inflation and pmi. A brutal bond selloff. Called it here on the show yesterday. Yields up seven basis points. Time now for the global exchange, where we bring you todays market moving news from all around the world. Joining us from hong kong is bloombergs stephen engle, from , and london, tadeo guy johnson and dani burger, and in washington, kevin cirilli. In hong kong, protests are intensifying. Stephen engle joining us for more. What can he tell us on the ground . Whats happened . As you can see over here stephen as you can see over here, police have formed a line. There have been some sharp words between officers and people on the mezzanine level looking down lotsthem, keeping lots of of swearwords in cantonese going back and forth. This is a cleanup operation by the police after what was a very raucous national day celebration, if you will, or commemoration of the national day in china. Here it is a very different feeling as protesters, tens of thousands of them, came onto the stre
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