I think we should start by checking where we are. Were in the midst of a big snap back day the dow is back over 20,000. Pushing a 9 gain of 1600. The s p good for nearly 8 theres the nasdaq as well up close to 7 . Have we turned a corner . I dont think so. I think technicians is what is referred to as a counter trend move its nice to have. I think people could use a break from just the persistant and constant selling were looking at stocks in the s p 500 be p t the percentage of stocks making fresh hundred day lows that number is slowing down. A few days ago it was high 80s right now its low 60s i think thats pretty good i think well take that. Again, these are the types of days that give you the opportunity judge, if you were panicking and you felt you were too exposed, this would be the kind of day if youll lighten up from a 60 40 portfolio to a 50 50. If you look at the biggest names its happening in areas that have been thrashed mgm up 33 Royal Caribbean up 31 im looking at ual up
Public. Deciding that the scrutiny directed toward him had become too much of a distraction. The resiliency of facebook, despite the backlash over big tech. I get that. Im not the ideal messenger for this right now. We have work to do to build trust. What does the future hold as we head into 2020 . A special edition of Halftime Report in San Francisco, begins right now. And we welcome you to 1 market we have a great lineup today were going to be joined exclusively in a little while by snowflake chairman and ceo Frank Slootman as he prepares to take the Company Public in the year ahead. Frederick kerrest, the cofounder of okta, that stock up more than 90 this year were joined by Brad Gerstner who helped us take stock of whats happening in the valley throughout the year. Deirdre bosa is with us, covered the ipo and Venture Capital markets closely as anybody its great to have both of you here so brad, interesting year to say the least. Uber, lyft, they go public wework blows up. What do y
Where i was over the weekend among the headlines and there were a lot, a warning about potential risk for the u. S. If Tech Companies decide not to do business with the pentagon. My view is if big tech is going to turn their backs on department of defense, this country is in trouble. That just cant happen so we have to, it is up to the Senior Leadership to say i understand these are emotional issues, we dont have to agree on everything, but this is how were going to do it we are going to support the department of defense. This country is important. Meantime, heavily redacted 103 page document that was just made public a short while ago, amazon says President Trump launched, behind the scenes attacks against the company, which led to it losing out on the major jedi contract for Cloud Services that we have been covering so closely. Guys, in general the bottom line from jeff bezos at the event this weekend is amazon, you could make the argument origin, the Space Company looking for Nation
Well reveal one of the best investment ideas the smart money is getting into. Halftime report starts right now. Welcome on jon, pete, and carey firestone the ceo of arias Asset Management we focus on the russell 2000, which has come alive, confirming to many that the reportsetting rally has room to go the russell outperforms the major averages for the last three months. Certainly since 2018, theres been a significant underperformance whats interesting about 2019 is both for passive and an active funds, youre seeing outflows in small caps a thats qu50i9 contrary the composition of small caps is the problem, so small caps are carrying in overweight to financials relative to large caps, then caring in underweight to technology and consumer discretionary, relative to large caps so the composition is the problem. I agree with the premise in 2020 it could be critical in driving the overall indices higher, and i think you want to have inclusion of small caps and increase your exposure to it y
Sector of the year and the decade the Investment Committee is ready to go, Halftime Report starts right now welcome, good to have you with us on this friday our Investment Committee today, joe, jack, steve and liz, director of Market Strategy and margaret reed, senior Portfolio Manager with union bank. Lets begin with the jobs blowout, the reaction in the stock market perhaps the belief is that we can have the yearend rally after all. This says to me phase one. You just need the economy to keep humming. If we can have it, we are having it. And i think like the biggest lesson of 2019 is the industrial data is just so misleading and so unimportant for people to obsess over. But a lot of the Economic Data points that we traditionally Pay Attention to, they come from the 1950s, the 60s, the 70s. The economy has changed and its become more globalized and consumer centric i cannot stress enough how important it is to look at price versus listen to economic opinions if you listen to opinions