Purchases. They remain over odds on that. Apple and nike are leading the dow higher joining us for the hour to talk about all of that stephanie link, a tiaa company relatively quiet day but that doesnt mean that theres nothing going on we had Economic Data and now this headline with u. S. And china still at odds. Here we go again. I thought the data today, the Economic Data was the driver pretty good. Initial claims, the trade data in general thats going to help Fourth Quarter gdp i thought this week ism services was pretty good. Were seeing okay. Overseas were seeing some pretty good data especially the pmis in china, europe, europe gdp today no worse than expected all of this seems to be setting up for better growth for 2020. We just need trade resolution one way or the other german factory orders and retail sales softer than expected i get the trend is less bad in general in the last month. Factory orders actually was revised last month higher. Lets see. Less bad, but i think theres
It is like a gulf. This is not separated in terms of politics. Actually, ill take this side. Im really not sure you may be closer to me than him this guy is a nut. Im going to need a lifeline. We could put Chris Christie in between us. Lets check on the markets this morning. You know what i didnt look at today, constitutional crisis concerns looking at the stock market, i cant see it there up 115 points on the dow jones the nasdaq up 41 treasury yields up 71. My mind is wandering the predicted volume and money is very small. I checked the odds of impeachment. They are up 60 cents odds that trump does not finish his first term or odds he does finish is 80 . At 4 00, there is a meeting. Maybe it is one of those situations you do it and hes not removed. How do you read that im no expert but saying this is a political decision. Impeachment is a political decision bringing charges is different than a case. They have an election in 2020, they may just want to wait for that i would think so.
Dropping below the s p 500 dividend yield which is crazy. You can make more money on the yield on the s p 500 than on the 30 year. Unfortunately the algorithms are utilizing global yields as the correlation to equities and that seems to happen from time to time. Remember prior to that it was the chinese currency any time that traded above a 7 Point Equities move lower. So youre looking at global yields and youre basically understanding that protectionism doesnt exist in global asset pricing. What do you mean . Thats exactly what is going on right now so the United States is blessed with technology. The United States is blessed with low energy. Zero versus the rest of the world. Correct but why is that becky . Because we are seen as the best economy globally and thats where i see protectionism doesnt exist in asset pricing the rest of the world is just driving capital here. So you can see bond yields coming down precipitously but still see it being something that doesnt drag the stock m
The part of republicans in the house and senate, but theres also a republican in the white house. To what do you attribute this change in attitude toward than thepending other fact that republicans were against it when there was a democratic president and now they are for it when there is a republican president . I see a couple of dynamics that go into it. First, the omb is still very much a deficit hawk. From the very hard budgets introduction on to try to keep that lower and i think with the president s encouragement and approval, but you got the big spenders, particularly in the senate, the appropriators on the republican side, who are happy to spend large amounts. They think it is good politics, and they dont mind if some of the money goes to democratic causes and some of it goes to theirs. You also have a complicating dynamic going on among republicans right now where defense hawks have basically made a deal for about five years you let democrats, if us increase the defense spendi
Here to tell you what the key is Going Forward for their streaming success. But we begin with planes, trains and automobiles, the transport surging back today trucker j. B. Hunt crushing earnings the airlines soaring that group up, 5 in just the past week so is the classic dow theory, the idea the transports are going to lead the market back in vogue . Its been around 100 or so years. Pete najarian, is that move a huge move for airlines, railroads, truckers, mean that it is all all clear for the overall market i dont think it is that easy i dont think the markets are ever that easy Everybody Loves to say that. Is that theory dead i would say this, it is a great sign the airlines, we watched them produce and produce and produce and people still dont want to seem to own a lot of the various airlines when i looked at delta numbers last week and it almost went by and nobody talked about it and yet they crushed it. They had a record Second Quarter. So we know right now that they do have Pri