Nevertheless, stocks are rallying, the s p 500 back above 3000. The dollar index almost reached 99. It is still a lot stronger but it is trading at 98. 61 now and that is having an impact on other Asset Classes like crude oil. Gold as well coming off a little bit. Some of the stocks that are moving in the s p 500, Restaurant Brands and Food Companies continuing their outperformance. Kellogg up more than 10 . Also yum brands had better sales. Performers in the s p 500 are performing very poorly, losing almost a quarter of their market capitalization. Analysts saying there is nothing left right now in this company. Problem withhad a its drilling wells. They space them to close together in part of the Permian Basin and they have to get rid of some and that is causing serious issues. Guy good stuff. Governor mark carney says he is less confident about the economy amidst a no deal brexit. Since may, global trade tensions have intensified, little activity has remained a no dealhe idea of bre
Quickly. Now we have to take a different path is a change coming . What will the impact be . It all starts right now. Heres scott wapner. Welcome. Good to have you with us on this monday our Investment Committee at the desk today jim cramer is the host of mad money. We begin with the countdown to the fed beginning its twoday meeting tomorrow amid Great Expectations that it will lay the ground work for an Interest Rate cut in july stocks rising over the past two weeks on those very hopes. Jim cramer, ive made you the chairman of the Investment Committee today. Thank you so much ive given you that title is it all about that its all about the fed i want to see monitoring, vigilance, cognizant concern i get any of those words in the statement, bingo you dont want to see patience thats the word they say will come out that could be wait until september. Did you say monitoring also i love monitoring they may be where you get to. We got those words then were fine s you get the new York Manufac
Picture. Goldmansachs expects the fed to begin easing in q2 of next year. Also ahead, were going to talk about what is next for the tech sector. This is in the midst of whats been a rough august at least so far. Were down 7 month to date. And letter x Surging Company rejects an unsolicited takeover offer from its rival, cleveland cliff. Lets get some other news, though, as well, as we start the show paypal has a new ceo whoa. Yeah. Alex, who currently runs the Small Business and selfemployed group for intuit, is going to take over from paypals longtime ceo dan shulman on september 27th according to members of the board a little earlier than expected they conducted the search for paypals new ceo shulman will remain a paypal director until next may. Chriss being hired was a result of the process where the board interviewed nine ceos. They reduced that pool to four candidates and then they chose mr. Chriss members of the Board Selection Committee tell me he impressed them with leading a d
In a defiling that it now owns 7. 5 of the food giant which makes oreos, ritz crackers and wellknown brands. Whats unclear is what the investor wants to do with the company. Ackman wanted the snack maker to grow revenue or cut costs or sell itself. Mondelez, for its part says they will welcome them as investors in the company. Ackman joins nelson peltz. His firm holds a 3 stake in mondelez. Well show you whats going on now in the premarket trading as a result of this and you wouldnt be surprised to see that they are sharply higher. What does he want to do with the company . He wants the stock to go up so he can sell the stock for more than he paid for. We were having a conversation off camera. Okay. Maybe he sees something thats not being optimized at mondelez the way that management is running things but what he really knows is i have enough money, 5 billion. I can make a splash and in all likelihood the stock will start going up just on that and then you agitate, you mess around, you
Big earnings out this morning set to weigh heavily on the averages, cat, mcdonalds, dow, dupont, 3m and coke all on the move. Wow express scripts shares falling down hard on news it is likely losing one of its biggest contracts. Well dig in on that and the companys earnings. The trade war is heating up. The u. S. Will impose a major tariff on canadian softwood lumber. Hear what the commerce secretary says about that action. Futures are getting a lift, earnings from dow components adding to the momentum. We mentioned cat, blowing past expectations with its results, raising their full year guidance, 3m exceeding consensus helped by renewed strength on latin and asia. The story of the morning may be cat, jim. Nowhere near what analysts were expecting, almost double the estimate. Whats happened with caterpillar . We call it leverage and a lot of people think leverage, what does that mean, leverage with the president with congress or leverage leverage as in debt, how we typically refer to i