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
I didnt think about it with the tie. Do you have an orange tie . I do own an orange tie. But you never wear it. I never wear it. Are those pumpkins from last year . No. Those are not. Okay. Can you imagine we had things made exactly like us. I have pictures of those. Those arent actually us, are they, andrew . Remember in the past our face has been on them. Our face has been on them. But not these. I apologize, we are going to talk about the markets. We have breaking news the tell you about, we talked about it a little on friday, but now its official. General electric and baker hughes are merging their operations. Now there was a lot of conversation about whether ge was effectively going to be selling its business. We talked about whether this was all happening at the wrong time. This is now what is happening. They are merging the oil and gas operations into a new company that both companies will effectively own. They are looking to get 1. 6 billion in synergies annually out of this tr
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