Balloons increasing 26 to just a little less than 1 trillion. Joining us for the hour is chris verona, Strategas Research partners here we are, we can see it, we can taste it, a new record high and everyone is really calm around hiere. The lack of euphoria is telling. Theres this great divide between perception and reality what are the headlines impeachment, recession, china, pmi under 50 but the reality is, signs of cylicality are starting to show up in every corner of the globe. You see it with semis and with trucking stocks, german dax is at a 52week high, the banks are acting better. I think the tone of the market is so different than what the tone of the front page of the paper says every day and i think thats bullish great to have chris with us for the whole first hour of the show, particularly given that we might have that record alltime closing high for the s p 500 the key level to keep an eye on, by the way, 3025. 9. We are at 3022 at the moment lets focus in on the big storie
Of to a good start on this tuesday. Negative atead is 1. 51 . Apparently Phillip Morris and ultra are going to try to get back together and altria are going to try to get back together. Phillip morris is down. Europe, a nice bounce with the stoxx 600 up 6 10 of 1 . The ftse maybe the best ib themer the ftse m best performer for individual indices. Weaker by 6 10nd of 1 . In a Bloomberg Opinion piece today, former new york fed president bill dudley calling President Trumps trade war with china a manufactured disaster in the making. The question for policymakers is e policy mitigate the damage or refuse to play along . Increasing the risk of a stateion, officials could officially that the central bank wont bail out an administration that keeps making bad decisions on trade policy, making it abundantly clear that trump will own the consequent is of his actions. We are joined by Michael Mckee, and it washington, d. C. Come a trade reporter shawn donnan. Michael, this is a very interesting
Small caps didnt do anything to begin the year but slowly starting to perk colate up. Our talk of the tape. You have the fed decision on wednesday. You have a very busy earnings season can anything should all the bears, if theres any left, should they go in to hibernation . Lets ask anastasia amoroso, icaps manager. Good to see you dow 11 days whats happened . I dont understand what changed from two weeks ago thats the point. The technical point is still constructive for stocks meaning if we stay around these levels well continue to trade above moving averages and all the key cta commodity adviser thresholds, so theres no reason to sell. Theres been a catalyst to sell. When i think about this week, you know, we go into just a monster week for Central Banks we have the fed, the doj, we have the ecb if the fed does deliver the last rate hike, thats the thing for stocks if big tech earnings deliver this week, thats again supportive for whats been driving this market all year long in this
Small caps didnt do anything to begin the year but slowly starting to perk colate up. Our talk of the tape. You have the fed decision on wednesday. You have a very busy earnings season can anything should all the bears, if theres any left, should they go in to hibernation . Lets ask anastasia amoroso, icaps manager. Good to see you dow 11 days whats happened . I dont understand what changed from two weeks ago thats the point. The technical point is still constructive for stocks meaning if we stay around these levels well continue to trade above moving averages and all the key cta commodity adviser thresholds, so theres no reason to sell. Theres been a catalyst to sell. When i think about this week, you know, we go into just a monster week for Central Banks we have the fed, the doj, we have the ecb if the fed does deliver the last rate hike, thats the thing for stocks if big tech earnings deliver this week, thats again supportive for whats been driving this market all year long in this
Small caps didnt do anything to begin the year but slowly starting to perk colate up. Our talk of the tape. You have the fed decision on wednesday. You have a very busy earnings season can anything should all the bears, if theres any left, should they go in to hibernation . Lets ask anastasia amoroso, icaps manager. Good to see you dow 11 days whats happened . I dont understand what changed from two weeks ago thats the point. The technical point is still constructive for stocks meaning if we stay around these levels well continue to trade above moving averages and all the key cta commodity adviser thresholds, so theres no reason to sell. Theres been a catalyst to sell. When i think about this week, you know, we go into just a monster week for Central Banks we have the fed, the doj, we have the ecb if the fed does deliver the last rate hike, thats the thing for stocks if big tech earnings deliver this week, thats again supportive for whats been driving this market all year long in this