Playbooks. And jon najarian is tracking the market for opportunity Halftime Report starts right now. Good to have you with us on this thursday. Your Investment Committee on boxing day no sparring. I know, a different thing. Lets begin with that market milestone, the nasdaq hitting 9,000 for the first time ever. He joe, i local feel like this is the fomo rally, feerp of m ff missing out. Is it sustainable when i the calendar flips over . I think it is for the month of january why not wait and see what earnings will look like before we moderate the rate of appreciation as you move into february and march and the reality of a looming election maybe takes the market and presents it as a pause but you mentioned boxing day remember, this all began one day ago on boxing day, you had the dow jones up over 1,000, you had the nasdaq up over 5. 5 . It began there it followed into the january 2019 with the tremendous pivot from the Federal Reserve and i think that that has been the story that has
The nasdaq is the leading indices and oil hitting a threemonth highly after military strikes in the middle east energy is the bestperforming sector today joining us for the hour is josh brown, ceo of Ritholtz Wealth Management josh, obviously seeing a little profit taking here is this a tax situation scenario or is there more to read into about losing steam and sentiment . If you see profit taking on the what penultimate the penultimate is that not an american word as well . It is, we just dont use it as much. And it doesnt sound as good when i say it. It doesnt, sorry when youre seeing profit taking on the second to last day of the year, thats not tax related, but it could be front running what others suspect might be fax related, meaning look at a typical investment portfolio this year, if they own sector etfs, for example, they have a ton of Technology Large cap tech has done unbelievably well this year. Or if they own individual names. If you own apple, youre up almost double. Now
Public. Deciding that the scrutiny directed toward him had become too much of a distraction. The resiliency of facebook, despite the backlash over big tech. I get that. Im not the ideal messenger for this right now. We have work to do to build trust. What does the future hold as we head into 2020 . A special edition of Halftime Report in San Francisco, begins right now. And we welcome you to 1 market we have a great lineup today were going to be joined exclusively in a little while by snowflake chairman and ceo Frank Slootman as he prepares to take the Company Public in the year ahead. Frederick kerrest, the cofounder of okta, that stock up more than 90 this year were joined by Brad Gerstner who helped us take stock of whats happening in the valley throughout the year. Deirdre bosa is with us, covered the ipo and Venture Capital markets closely as anybody its great to have both of you here so brad, interesting year to say the least. Uber, lyft, they go public wework blows up. What do y
Well reveal one of the best investment ideas the smart money is getting into. Halftime report starts right now. Welcome on jon, pete, and carey firestone the ceo of arias Asset Management we focus on the russell 2000, which has come alive, confirming to many that the reportsetting rally has room to go the russell outperforms the major averages for the last three months. Certainly since 2018, theres been a significant underperformance whats interesting about 2019 is both for passive and an active funds, youre seeing outflows in small caps a thats qu50i9 contrary the composition of small caps is the problem, so small caps are carrying in overweight to financials relative to large caps, then caring in underweight to technology and consumer discretionary, relative to large caps so the composition is the problem. I agree with the premise in 2020 it could be critical in driving the overall indices higher, and i think you want to have inclusion of small caps and increase your exposure to it y
After an incredible session where the dow surged 223 points breaking through the key 28,000 level. While the s p gained 7. 7 . Six straight up week nasdaq raising on positive trade chatter. I think its within reach. We need to approach this with a certain amount of skepticism but theres a possibility. All that needs the to happen is that the chinese pay market prices for boat loads of pork and get an agreement that opens up their markets to our financial companies. Pork deal wouldnt even be much of a favor chinese need pork. Their pigs have been dropping like flies because of that swine flu. President trump knows chinese want and need our pork yet they keep trying to bargain with him i mean, come on. At this point, i dont think they are that far apart, at least not according to larry kudlow if china doesnt give in and order some bacon it could be curtains the if negotiations fail that ushers in the next rounds of tariff hikes which would, of course, go into effect in december and might