Right now. And good afternoon im scott wapner live. Over the next two days the Halftime Report is debating the state of tech and where your money will work best in the space. From the latest ipos to the f. A. A. N. G. S. We are joined by jeff richards, Jason Calicanis and dan niles. Lets welcome in our guest host for the hour today. He is raise ing a new fund. They are going to invest in private software companies. Well get into that a little later on. Jeff richards is with us on set. He is invested in slack, square and air bnb. Thanks for having me. Good for us to come back out here. Six months dpoe we were here and taking the temperature of tech. Ill ask you first, the state of the market out here is what . Frothy. Word association. Frothy. Just think late stage private valuations are quite high. And then youve seen a bunch of what you would consider previously Growth Investors, Growth Private account investors moving earlier and earlier to get away from the frothiness and that is ca
Im Melissa Francis this is after the bell. There we go. S p 500 ending in negative territory. Both down 3 on the day. Fox Business Team coverage. Gerri willis is on the floor of the new york stock exchange. Edward lawrence where a lot of action was in jackson hole, wyoming where fed chief Jerome Powell was speaking earlier. Phil flynn watching action in oil and gold from the the cme. Hillary vaughn is at the white house. Well start with you. Reporter white house trade advisor Peter Navarro was on fox business this morning. He said that china continues to pay the price in this trade fight but he also said later on fox news that we have more bullets in our gun than they do. He says china exports over 600 billion to the u. S. We export about 100 billion. So he thinks that the u. S. Still is on top even though china has taken new action against u. S. Products going into their country. The president though on twitter promising to respond to this sometime this afternoon. We havent heard any
Lower on concerns about the health of the u. S. Economy and a number of new bearish notes from new wall street firms hurts the sentiment further. Lets check in on the biggest losers in the dow, which as morgan just said, is down sharply, near session lows, which were 462 points. Its currently down 410 points, as you can see, pfizer down 4 Goldman Sachs down 2. 7 cat down healthily 2. 56. The 30year just hit a yeartodate low of 2. 117 t the. Joining us for the full hour, victoria fernandez at cross mark global investment. Thanks for joining us. My pleasure when you see yields slip like they have done, like they did last week, does it make you want to press the sell button for broader u. S. Equities . We dont want to sell we have that longer term outlook. We think theres a lot of volatility going on and thats going to continue to play out. We are looking at these treasury buys, not just from Short Coverings but outright buying as well but i think you stay invested at this point there we
Good wednesday morning, welcome to squawk alley. Im carl kinquintanilla, with Morgan Brennan the dow down 538 and the other big story is the inversion of the yield curve which has preceded every u. S. Recession for the past half century. Were going to watch that carefully along with the vix above 21 dom chu is looking at some various factors about the curve and how it might affect assets all around the whorld. It was just around 6 00 a. M. Eastern time that we did see that inversion, the difference between the two and the tenyear looking like its moving higher. You can see the tenyear note yield curvely 1. 584 , no longer inverted however, it has widened out just a little bit two basis points separates these two particular yields. Thats going to be a big deal. Like you said, it has been a possible reliable recession indicator, and one of the ways youre seeing it here is how long its been since weve seen the last move in that particular yield curve. You have to go all the way back to 20
Welcome to squawk alley. Im Carl Quintanilla Morgan Brennan has the morning off. What a morning it is too beginning with major tech earnings four big one, twitter, amazon, alphabet and intel and intels ceo bob swan will sit down with us as we look at potential datacenter recovery, pcs and unbelievable characterization of what china was like last quarter. Yeah, surprising mix, the pull in from people freaked out about tariffs actually had some benefit, sounds like, for the pc business, of course, there were some problems there as well but interesting stock action this morning. Intel actually a bit in the red this morning it had been up as much as 4 , i believe, at the open and near there. Up kit a bit afterhours and amd higher than intel which is an interesting dynamic that ill want to dig into but, you know, beyond just intel, you have lots of different earnings story, people surprised. Google, alphabet had been in the doghouse compared to peers and a lot of people got surprised by the