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
Vote for a cut now. Host another cluster of Companies Bring out earnings reports. They are going to write down wework that severely. We can adjust our set up to manage the situation. Everyone is getting a little more scared by the quarter. Sebastian the ceo of Goldman Sachs speaks exclusively to bloomberg. When we look back on negative rates, it is not going to look like a great experiment. Sebastian the current state of u. S. Monetary policy. I would say that policy is not that far off neutral. It is accommodative. We are slightly accommodative. I worry about the policy space we have. Sebastian that is all straight ahead on bloomberg best. Sebastian hello and welcome. This is bloomberg best, your weekly review of the most important Business News, analysis and interviews from Bloomberg Television around the world. Lets start with a look at the top headlines. Sunday, saudi aramco announced plans for an initial public offering. On monday, there was speculation about the valuation of the
Officially launching its disney plus platform. Goldman sachs customers, concerned about gender bias allegations, says, quote, we hear you, the bank reevaluating the apple card credit limits billion dollar cost cuts, juul labs set to slash 16 of its workforce. Were going to begin with disney entering the streaming wars, the companys disney plus Service Launching today with a Monthly Price tag of 6. 99 subs will have access to nearly 500 films, 7500 tv episodes, disney has spent more than 3 billion on technology and content prior to the launch. It is a big deal for kevin mayor, in charge of making this thing work and we have seen some technical hiccups here on this first day. Overload. Maybe high quality problem, not sure but i looked at all the offerings, i said to myself, when i had two little girls, i think i would have said, no, i dont have to go anywhere this is it, you go do that, and then i can go watch football in the other room that was my thinking and then the mand loalorian wa
Trillion, far below the target set by the kingdom. We are live from hq. Plus, flying high. Results season continues with ryanair. We are joined this hour. We will also keep an eye on the drivers of uber ahead of results later today. Manus welcome to daybreak europe. Ryanair, guidance. Pretax profit, beating the 41. 5 million, but it is to the future and the outlook i think the market will focus. They are talking about the risks to delivery of the 737, and with the guidance, this is what i can tell you. They see a narrowing of fullyear profit after the tax 809 million. these are the top lines coming through from ryanair. This is certainly comfortably beating fullyear profit. The 737 delivery. That is ryanair. Lets get you to the markets. We are risk off from equities, and the dollar, Michael Oleary shortly, us very, very i saw michael flash on the screen. He is joining me very soon, 6 30, and we will talk about the guidance and the risks with Michael Oleary. To the market, i mentioned t
In bangkok. He tells bloomberg exclusively the two countries can broker a phase one deal this month. Ross we are making Good Progress and there is no natural reason why it couldnt be. Matt saudi aramco finally launches its blockbuster ipo but it could be worth half 1 trillion less in the target initially set. Its ceo itsires seat fires it ceo over a relationship with an employee. Welcome to bloomberg markets. We are looking at continued gains in futures this morning after hitting again alltime highs, at least on alltime equity indexes over the weekend. The 10 year yield, we see it coming up a little bit. This is a three year chart. Straight line because japan is closed for a holiday. Other markets in asia are up and now that u. S. Treasuries are open, we see the yield as well. That means investors are willing to get rid of the perceived safe haven asset of the 10 year paper and into the riskier areas of the markets. Futures gaining across the board. Ftse futures of a half a percent. Da