The Investment Committee is ready to go. Halftime report starts right now. Good to have you with us on this monday. Our Investment Committee, joe, josh, steve, jon, shannon is here, the chief Investment Officer at Boston Private Wealth begin with the markets stocks modestly lower. Now some key questions about whether there is enough momentum to carry stocks higher between now and the end of the year. Weiss, optimism is rising and has been and you can see it in a number of different ways, interest rate, 10year pushing 2 there are socalled unloved assets that have joined the rally according to some which is another bullish sign justified . Enough momentum to carry us higher i think there is. The seasonal trade is difficult to bet against, however i took off a little exposure and sold some of the smh. I kept adding to it and added through earnings, because i thought the semis would have good quarters and they did now that that fundamental part is over, im more in the Market Movement trade
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Attacked by armed, masked men. We are live in the city. Welcome to bloomberg surveillance. Lets check in first off on the markets. We see gains across European Equity indexes. That should show through in terms of u. S. Futures, as well as s p futures. Oil is down. You will see the big majors weighing on the stoxx 600 index. Maybe a turnaround of the gains we saw oil take yesterday. The u. S. 10 year yield is currently up for basis points to 1. 54, so investors feel less concerned and are selling that that. Lets get bloomberg first word news in new york. We begin in argentina. S P Global Ratings cut the Credit Rating to selective default after the nation said it would delay payment on more than 100 billion of debt. They says criteria, constitutes default, but the new terms for shortterm debt came in immediately and they will lift argentinas rating to triple c minus. Boris johnsons suspension of parliament will get an early test. , saying are ruling courts, saying it is an affront to dem
My name is matthew goodman, i old the science chair year at csis. Welcome to our online viewers, we always have a good turnout online as well. Welcome to the event, building bridges, question mark, in u. S. China relations. This is brought to us with a kind sponsorship of the Carnegie Corporation of new york which has been a supporter of the dialog that lies behind this event which ill explain in just a second and ill introduce our terrific panel in a second and invite them up. First let me make a couple of administrative announcements. As usual, please silence your phones and if theres any kind of emergency, which is unlikely, weve never had that problem, just follow me. That are emergencies hears and at National Geographic one street down on m street. And i think that is all i need to say administratively. Let me just say that the actual narrow reason for this event is that were going to be rolling out a series, a collection of essays that have been written by u. S. And chinese schol
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