And drop his las vegas show facade. Vinny how we doing, guys . Im the coconut man. Ukulele and the hat and the coat and the beads. Hey, its not just some schtick. Lemonis are you aware that some people see it as that . Im marcus lemonis, and i risk my own money to help businesses. I love investing in american businesses. These people are here because they care. Its not always easy, but i do it to create jobs, and i do it to make money. Do we have a deal . Vinny we have a deal. Lemonis lets rock and roll. Man yeah lemonis this is the profit. Vinny fresh coconut we got fresh coconuts right here lemonis in 2016, Vinny Zaldivar launched cocotaps, pioneering a new way to get the juice out of a coconut. Its extremely popular with the las vegas vacation crowd, including me. Vinny open it. Drink it. Its really good for you. Lemonis but i want to see if this is a product that will appeal to the mass market. The coconutwater craze is huge, and if i can tap into this, well, i can make a ton of mo
Day. Football and Financial Advice. Jets linebacker Brandon Copeland joins the desk. Hes a member of our Financial Wellness advisory counsel. The Halftime Report starts right now. Welcome to the Halftime Report. Joe terranova, the brothers najarian, Courtney Gibson and, Mario Gabelli of the gabelli funds. The s p heading for its 24th record close of the year what a big year its been. How are you doing . Terrific. Welcome back. How do you feel . Better than in months . The fact the market is hitting a new high, were looking at stock specifics and what are they doing. Like the viacom cbs. Next year the only challenge i see is the lower Interest Rate that has an impact on the liabilities of Pension Plans and how much cash they have to put in things are okay. How do you feel about where the trade talks are, where the fed is nothing nothing changes. Its fine. The fed is fine. We like the global competitiveness, that china is bringing in texy in house and trying to develop their own skill se
The dow right around the 28,000 mark. This after communist china says it will change their rules on ip protection. For more details, Edward Lawrence is live in washington with more. Edward . Reporter Chinese State media saying theyre very close to phase one deal between the u. S. And china. The chinese trying to show good faith here. China announced new guidelines within the last 24 hours, that would increase protections for intellectual property, and extend more enforcement to patent and copyright laws. Now on intellectual property, what china is trying to do, showing it could be a fabric. Trying to make it a social fabric within their company or country. The criteria. So protecting intellectual property will be one of the criteria for evaluating local government employees. Thus creating an incenttive to follow through. That follow through is the key for the u. S. Trade team. Robert lighthizer is pushing for a change inlaws to make sure protections stick. China is trying to show it ca
The idea of testifying into the impeachment hearings . Will the president give firsthand account of the call to ukraine to congress . The democratic divide is deepening as president obama throws shade on the far left candidates and they respond. What the moderate surge could mean for the election and your wallet. That and much more on making money. Charles after a monster run stocks naturally moving slightly sideways today. Theyre higher. Make no mistake. Feels like there will be a another huge move very soon. The bias is to the upside. Well take our cue from big week of earnings data. All tied into the american consumer. Well have Earnings Releases that will wrap up the entire earnings season which is not only better than expected. This is the most important point, folks, they move stocks higher in a big way. They caught wall street flatfooted. I want to bring in erin gibbs, First Trust Advisor chief economist brian wesbury. Erin, let me start with you. Last week all im reading about
Week, david banson is here, and it is great to have you here. Good to be with you. Maria thank you so much. You are focused on dividend payers, growth stories. How do you want to allocate money on the heels of what weve seen from the Third Quarter earnings season and ahead of the fed meeting this coming week . Whats interesting is we think its an allweather strategy. But i honestly really believe its particularly appropriate now. Theres a really compelling argument to make for increasing deespecially thive defensiveness. Youve had a huge runup in growth. You do have uncertainty around the 2020 election, around Global Growth conditions and, certainly, we know the china trade war is not fully fixed and the resolutions not readily apparent. On the other hand, i believe theres plenty of opportunity if you get resolution on the trade side. You dont want to be overly defensive. We think that Dividend Growth space provides investors yield in a low rate environment and, of course, they want so