Kolanovic, just named number one in two categories, equity linked strategy and added to institutional researchers hall of fame. Its a big billing marko, welcome thank you, scott. Lets talk about where we are now and where we were when you made a big and important call back on march 24th, you said the following many taking into account the unprecedented monetary and fiscal measures being implemented as well unprecedented ambassador et sse over thepath month, our equity target is achievable in 2021 we sit about 4 away on the s p. It was a great call. I know our viewers want to know where you think were going now, though thank you, scott. So we are still broadly positive on the equities. As you said, we came a long way from march our price target right now is 360 for the s p 500. Obviously there is an important cat list so there is a relation based on the outcomes but broadly still positive what is it based on what can people take from this price target, which the team over at jpmorgan, w
We begin with the call from Goldman Sachs to avoid apple, to sell it. John, to you first it is your biggest position. Is this the right call from Goldman Sachs reiterated to get out of apple all right were not hearing jon. Well work on that the steve, youve trimmed a bit of it what do you make of this call. We see apples recent Stock Performance and trading level as unsustainable and will continue to recommend that investors avoid this stock i did trim some a number of months ago its still my biggest position i trimmed it to me, apple is the market right here the stock does not deserve to be where it is but neither does the market and neither do a lot of stocks. I believe youre in front of the companys biggest Product Launch ever, which will be the 5g phone. The market is forgiving lot of the sins if youre looking at purely does it deserve to be here in a microscope looking at apple . No you can make that case on anything im not selling anything let me take that back. I may trim a litt
Just about 1. 5 for everything nasdaq not quite add bad russell is down. You see the russell is down 3 really taking it on the chin this week. Steve, i think its constructive on a friday and maybe we should make it a consistent thing at this point given whats gone on in the markets to take stock of where you think we are today and how we should look forward to the week ahead. Friday has been a risk off day. Doesnt look like today is any different than others. I think actually the market is trading on physical theraa fairm today. As a share holder, im support that most important right now is to worry about employees and the communities in line with the business round tables statement that they put out on august 19th of last year i think that would give everybody comfort because the number one thing we have to worry about is the economy and that will help the consumer come back youre talk about Big Companies coming out like bryan monahain said earlier that they will have jobs not to ment
Good monday morning, welcome to squawk alley, im Carl Quintanilla with Morgan Brennan and jon fortt. We will start with uber. They lose their license to operate in london. Regulators citing a pattern of failures from uber that place passenger safety and security at risk cnbc contributor kara swisher joins us to talk about this. How are you doing. Not too bad we will see how the appeals process goes, the big question is whether other cities follow suit. Its a troublesome thing. Uber has been struggling for a long time in these cities and actually the first thing that the new ceo who came in after Travis Kalanick did was go to londer to assuage the critics there. It was one of his First International trips and it was very soon into his becoming ceo. So its really problematic if they dont get these cities straight, especially london which i think is its biggest revenue generator after the United States. The thing is it comes after a couple of really big stumbles including daras unfortunat
Day. Football and Financial Advice. Jets linebacker Brandon Copeland joins the desk. Hes a member of our Financial Wellness advisory counsel. The Halftime Report starts right now. Welcome to the Halftime Report. Joe terranova, the brothers najarian, Courtney Gibson and, Mario Gabelli of the gabelli funds. The s p heading for its 24th record close of the year what a big year its been. How are you doing . Terrific. Welcome back. How do you feel . Better than in months . The fact the market is hitting a new high, were looking at stock specifics and what are they doing. Like the viacom cbs. Next year the only challenge i see is the lower Interest Rate that has an impact on the liabilities of Pension Plans and how much cash they have to put in things are okay. How do you feel about where the trade talks are, where the fed is nothing nothing changes. Its fine. The fed is fine. We like the global competitiveness, that china is bringing in texy in house and trying to develop their own skill se