Alltime high extending its gain into the fourth week as investors cheered corporate earnings. According to Lpl Financial today is historically the best day o the year f stocks and it stts the best sixmonth stretch for the ma det. Toda not disappoint. The dow jones industrtrl average was up to 27,090. Theed nasdaq a 82 and the s p 500 rose 16. And as you know, earnings can often drive rallie but this move higher appeave to be d by whats not being said on all ofhose earnings conference calls. Bob pisani explains. Were coming up on the halfway part of the earnings seas one word investors are not hearing is recession. Plenty of issues out there but the u. S. Consumer which is the engine of Global Growth istill holding up. Weve been scanneding the conference calls. 32 companies have mentioned the wordsion and that along with hopes of a trade deal is the major reaso the s p is hiing record highs today. The consumerer holding up. Bank and credit card ceos in partular have painted healthy pict
Bank. Micron issues a trade warning. Shares down this morning on a disappointing outlook and ceo san yjay mehrota joins us in a e minutes. Tell the story. Im sorry to interrupt. No problem. Eagles won last night i can do whatever i want. And half of the debuts trading below their offer price. Does that spell trouble for the ipo market wells is up in the premarket after naming bank of melon Ceo Charlie Scharf he held the top job at visa. Wells plagued by scandals struggled to find a replacement. Alan parker will stay interim until scharf joins the company the Conference Call is under way and well bring you developments on that. He had quite a run at visa and left for geographic reasons really. Yes, he did able to stay in new york, his family still going to be with him. One daughter right there, another one close by, folks nearby, very much dedicated to them i got to tell you, congratulations, or as people would say, as president ford would say, their Long National nightmare is over. I t
That offset the departure of ceo. Demonstrations continue after an 18yearold is shot by police after 17 weeks of antigovernment protests the risk off tone was set by wall street overnight. A heavy close after a very disappointing ism manufacturing print coming out of the United States showing it deeply in contracting territory. That set the tone for equity trading. You can see the stoxx 600 today, almost all of the heat map is trading in negative territory. We are only about an hour into the trading session or so. So very heavy losses lets talk about the indices the ftse 100 today with Boris Johnson expected to deliver his keynote speech the ftse 100 is down 1. 2 well get more about hard deal or no deal luxury hit there well talk about that in a second ftse, mib in italy down as well about. 8 travel and leisure the only spot in green basic resources down 1. 8 . Chemicals in decline down almost 4 there anything that has international expose youre or exposure to this trade war speaking o
Nasdaq advancing 6 . But we didnt get what we need, which is another reason to buy stocks here. This morning and last night i went over about 300 different stocks, 300, with an eye to finding new names to introduce to the actionalerts. Com club every month i give a talk where try to offer club members at least one new compelling idea. And you know what . How many did i find out of the 300 . Four yeah, thats right only four stocks only four out of 300 passed my test why am i being so selective . Let me walk you through whats worth buying in this treacherous moment first, i dont need stocks that need a trade deal to go higher as the trade talks with china drag on, the list of casualties grows longer and longer. Earlier this week we spoke to the longtime ceo of Emerson Electric he knows more than all of us i think he might be willing to break up the business, literally split it in half i love breakups. They tend to be fabulous for shareholders but does that mean you can buy the stock of e
Power lunch starts right now lets get a check on the markets which are fluttering close to record highs. Slightly higher today well off the lows the dow was down about 100 points early this morning. The s p still just 1 away from record highs as it gains about 5 points take a look at a pair of housing stocks hitting new highs d. R. Horton is at its highest levels since january 2018. The doctor is in we begin this hour with new dovish comments from st. Louis fed president. We know he was the guy who dissented from the last meeting. Now he says a sharker than expected slow down is possible it will determine that on a meeting by meeting basis he does not expect trade uncertainty. Its not going to go away any time soon. In addition to trade, bullard highlights these downside risks, slower growth. That could feed into the u. S. Economy. Second, contraption and global and u. S. Manufacturing and third slowing u. S. Business investment hes worried about the inverted yield curve that suggests