Go Halftime Report starts right now. Welcome good to have you with us on this thursday our Investment Committee today, josh brown, john ageri, Jenny Harrington we begin the markets where all eyes are on the white house. That meeting on trade with those new tariffs looming. Watching it all. The latest, including the president ial tweet sending stocks surging the best gains since october u. S. Negotiators have offered to cancel the december 15 tariffs and cut existing tariffs on 360 billion in chinese goods in half. Thats according to two people close to talks my sources offer a couple caveats on the offer reported this morning by the wall street journal. It was made to the chinese last week clearly, a lot of time in between then and now second, talks have been taking place at the deputy level, with the ambassador absorbed by developments on usmca. Lighthizer will brief republican senators on that deal at a lunch meeting today on capitol hill. President trump appears ebullient saying the
Is on the ecr route today running the length of san mateo county. It was traveling to the bart station. Officials say there were four passengers on the bus and no one was hurt. The bus driver was also uninjured. He has been taken for drug testing, which is standard article following an accident. Five years ago there was a study looking at constructing bus lanes but the street is too narrow for vehicular traffic and a bus lane. The investigation is continuing, we do not know the cause. We have been told they are not quite ready to reopen southbound lanes. If you can call for the area and we will have more for you this afternoon. So often we talk about surveillance camera videos, do you know if there was a camera inside the bus pointed at the driver or point it out where the street . Reporter excellent question, i was able to talk to officials who tell me the bus is fitted with these cameras. They are trying to determine if the cameras on the bus were functioning and if so, what the vide
Highest level in two years trade headlines have us on record high watch for the s p, a closer call for the dow and nasdaq and would be the 27th record close of the year for the s p. Joining us for the other, stephanie link, good to have you here this afternoon. What does it mean . The computers take each headline as if its fresh what a difference a year makes is all i have to say last year we had tight fed policy, no idea what would happen with trade. This year we have much more accommodating fed and seems were getting some pieces of certainty on trade may not be what we want but making progress. Now i would argue a lot of this is priced into the market given weve had Market Expansion on the multiple but, you do not fight the fed and at the same time the ism and pmis are stabilizing and the data this week has been pretty good on other data points on the economic front we might have risk to the upside in growth for 2020 and thats why the cyclicals are rallying ive been biassed, its been
Signal that the cell phones would give off detection. It didnt work. This is just a sample of more than 2 million worth of stolen stuff San Francisco Law Enforcement agents recovered in operation focus lens. It breaks your heart. Reporter heartbreaking because nearly all of it belongs to someone. Just the way rely on digital devices now having a lot of our personal things on there, having that taken away just is devastating. Reporter no el knows the feeling. Shes had her phone stolen twice. Now i just tuck it up in here. It usually works really well. No one can get close enough to me to get my phone and if they do, i will kick them. Reporter operation focus lens is unprecedented in terms of the level of cooperation by Law Enforcement and the dollar amount of what they recovered. What creates the incentive is if you can quickly turn whatever you stole into money. And a fencing operation makes that possible. Reporter 30 search warrants were executed turning up an electronic chop shop of
Turning to consumer news, were now down to just 12 more shopping days until christmas. But with each purchase, many shoppers are missing out on some substantial savings. Heres abcs rebecca jarvis. Reporter with the average american expected to shell out 825 on gifts this holiday, experts recommend using one of the 50 sites and apps from rakuten to retailmenot that pay you every time you shop, so you can give yourself a cashback christmas. If you dont start one of these sites you are literally leaving money or points and miles on the table. Reporter at rakuten, for example, create a profile, search your favorite retailers, activate their offer, and start shopping. Just through one program ive saved over 200. Reporter retailers pay different amounts depending which portal you use. With cashbackmonitor. Com, track and compare the different deals. The retailer gets additional business, the portal gets a little cut of the money that you spend. Reporter one caution, the whole idea here is to