Jimmy li will join me this hour in this exclusive interview. Markets on the upswing to begin futures. Take a look at dow industrials 344 points. Nasdaq up 109. Thats almost 1 . S p higher by 9 points. The dow posting best month since 1987 with gain of almost 12 , other averages also higher by 12 and 11 all this as we await key testimony from federal jay powell and jimmy mnuchin today and unused covid relief funding. Return to high seas, we are taking you on a port on how they are getting ready. Another missing monolith moved. Making a buzz this morning. Mornings with maria live right now. Maria all right, european markets meanwhile look like this as rally is underway on wall street. European markets higher across the board. Ftse up 123 points. Almost 2 , cac quarante up 62 and dax index up 135. British factories reporting fastest growth in 3 years. Purchasing Managers Index rising to 55. 6 in the month of november. In asia overnight green across the board. Chinas manufacturing pmi54. 9
Ss . The Trump Administration promising help for businesses big and small affected by the coronavirus outbreak. The cruise industry, will it be first in line, hat in hand, after getting soaked yesterday . Cruise line stocks are still getting buffeted by wild investor winds this session with major names halted multiple times in hopes of the government throwing the industry a life preserver. One of the worlds leading Infectious Disease experts faces off against cruise industry guru the cruise guy. He says cruise ships should not be taking off at all until the virus is better understood, while stuart says he would jump on one and travel the high seas right now. Stay tuned for that debate. One of the most respected Bank Analysts in the nation waved the warning flag on bank stocks five weeks ago. Dick bove way back on february 3rd said stay away from Financials Due to this mystery virus that appeared to be spreading back then in china. Dick is back today in a fox business exclusive. We will
Ready to go. Halftime report starts right now. Welcome. Good to have you with us on this monday our Investment Committee at the table today. Lets begin, where else, the markets. All three of the major averages are higher dow would be Even Stronger if not for the boeing drag. But with several major obstacles out of the way, is a melt up now in the cards thats how i look at this, josh. You go down the list and say, all right. You have this trade. Tens tensions are eased for the moment uk elections in the rear view and the fear of maybe missing out and performance chase over two weeks. Yeah. All is good in the market world. This is one of the interesting moments. They dont happen all the time where it almost doesnt matter what you own you could own value and growth and making money in either one theyre still below the old 18 highs but theyre on their way the banks have just broken above the 07 highs. All the mega cap banks look incredible tech is up 48 year to date and now you have europe
Trade talks in october and some disappointing data here at home. Home price growth loses momentum Consumer Confidence numbers fall sharply. We are covering all angles of the market and developments out of washington with bob pisani, eamon javers, and ylan mui, also standing by. First, lets bring in steve grasso from Stuart Frankel hes joining us for the entire final hour of trade. What do you make of the price action around these headlines around impeachment i think its what you said, it was the u. N. Presentation and then it led to a little harder stance on china and it went from there to the impeachment hearings or the impeachment process. And then when President Trump said hes going to release the transcripts, the market rallied. Because how incriminating could it be if they were going to release it, right right, they thought there was a smoking gun issue that was going to arise, so if he was going to release it, maybe that wasnt the case, and were back to the impeachment process ag
Main drivers for todays action. Coming up, sara eisen will talk exclusively to boston fed president eric rosen gren. These will be his quiet moments before going into a decision joining us for the hour is jim lacamp, Senior Vice President of Wealth Management at uvs i feel like when you look at this market there is a Little Something for everybody. You can find a reason to be bullish, bearish, we are all awaiting the feds decision what do you make of todays action and ahead of the fed decision. We have seasonality coming up, too, late july to late october is usually our most volatile time period in the market risks are symmetrical right now. We have upside, corporations are doing fairly well if you break it down to individual stocks and companies and a few sectors, theyre doing extremely well, and we have a tenyear treasury yield that is lower than the yield on the s p 500 so rates are very friendly, particularly if we get a rate cut, we think half a point based on what the fed governo