Right this hour, where there is still here one hour left of it. Good to have you with us here for closing bell. Im Contessa Brewer in for sara eisen today. It has been a big year for stocks the dow, the s p, the nasdaq all on pace to close the year higher by more than 20 well tell you which names have seen the biggest gains and with tech up by nearly 50 this year, well have an exclusive interview with Tech Hedge Fund giant, dan niles. Hell give you a peek into his 2020 playbook. Also, we didnt answer bills question lets do it what is your drink . Whatever gets put in front of me great answer. Very good answer, indeed mine might be an Old Fashioned tonight. We shall see but we have to get back to the show lets take a look at whats driving the show 59 minutes left. Were down 40 points on the dow. A little bit of rebalancing as investors get ready for the new year President Trump tweeting today he will sign the phase i deal with china on january 15 and Consumer Confidence data out this mo
And probably a vote we expect somewhere between 6 30 and 7 30. It is important that everybody remember that it is im not saying it is a side show there will be people who are going to be talking about and i heard some of them today saying, listen, there could be a surprise in the senate, might be some defections. I dont see it that way. I look at i only have history not a lot of history with these things, but day by day of when clinton was impeached in trial and anniversary of which is tomorrow. Yes, it is. And you got that period from january 7th, 1999, february 12th, really the most turmoil and thats where you at the height of when things were bad, the nasdaq lost. 18 s p down 3. 0 dow down 2. 6 and after that the market roared. If you want to know when to buy, might want it buy into the teeth of tomorrow, maybe even next day. Because it is just a great opportunity. It doesnt feel as though when it comes to the markets that there has been any real impact from this no. None whatsoever
Eamon javers joins us this morning with the latest. Good morning. Reporter good morning, carl. Its oddly quiet here at the white house today. We dont see Senior Administration officials out here defending the president or making arguments we dont see any events scheduled with the president publicly, other than his departure later on this afternoon. Nonetheless, the president has been venting some of his frustration that we saw boil over in that letter to nancy pelosi yesterday and continues in tweets this morning the president saying can you believe that ill be impeached today by the radical left do nothing democrats and i did nothing wrong. A terrible thing read the transcripts this should never happen to another president again. Say a prayer and, carl, having covered the last impeachment, so far today this day feels very different than the day on which the president president bill clinton was impeached back in the late 1990s on that day, there was a real sense of uncertainty about wh
And it just got a hunl buy call. Well debate in our call of the day. Halftime report starts right now. All right, welcome. Good to have you on this wednesday. Our Investment Committee, jon and pete, anastasia is the global strategist at jpmorgans private bank rich, one of barrens top 100 Financial Advisers we begin with the late e on the markets. Stocks are higher again hour the dow is barely holding on to a gain as are the major averages the nasdaq did a new record even as the house stands to impeach a sitting president for the third time in the history of this country. Well get to d. C. In a moment, but lets begin with the surge rick, you want to take a stab at the sector that keeps marching higher 70 is a new Record Facebook tops 200. Adobe. Nvidia, lamb research, all hitting new highs. Every investment portfolio has to have tech stocks its a part of the market and its important to have them for a lot of characteristics number one, theyre generating large amounts of Free Cash Flow.
Sessions we have all the angles of this market selloff covered for you, though but first, joining us for the hour is aerials investments director of research, Charlie Bobrinskoy here at post 9. Thanks for being here. Thanks for having me. Pulloff pulloff, correction, selloff, pullback, was this over due . Well, no, things changed today. The momentum had been wonderful around trade and people say that people spend too much time worrying about trade. I actually dont think thats true free trade is very important and people say in 1776, the most important thing written was the declaration of independence. It wasnt, it was wealth of nations by adam smith the idea that trade helps us all is something that the markets believe in and when that gets called into question, you get an appropriate big reaction do you think that it is, especially based on the comments we got from President Trump today, do you think that the market is, especially with this pullback that we have seen today, do you thi