Merger deal with pfizers generics unit. And disney domination. The studio breaking an alltime record for annual box office earnings, and of course, it is only july. So, theres a lot for investors to digest this week with stocks at record highs. Jim, coming off of those on friday, you were out, but a lot happened good to have you back. Thank you the starbucks calls kind of the emblematic of what happened this quarter. Starbucks had run big. So you had to figure, no matter what, how could it really move then it goes up big dollars because its better than expected, better than feared what were seeing are companies that we were worried about because stocks have run, and then the stocks do okay. So, this is a short sellers dilemma. Lets say youve been betting against companies because you truly believe theres been an earnings deceleration. If earnings just stay in line, the stock flies. If earnings are a little bit below, the stock doesnt do anything. Right. So, theres just this kind of bid
S p rising. 45 and somehow phony and engineer by the Federal Reserve, which means everything will end in tiers look, we definitely got a boost from the fed but it makes the whole move fake is ridiculous. When a day the s p broke out above 3,000 hitting an alltime high i want to put the fed mandated bubble talk to bed so yes, its true that the averages were looking its true the average were looking down before Jerome Powell gave dovish testimony how the economy is not in great shape. Powell admitted the business is slowing. Hes right although he probably should have mentioned the december rate hike played a role powells speech made it clear the feds are cut rates if the economy keeps deteriorating and hes expecting to continue to deter rate the prospect of a rate cut ignited the market today but you heard the same story from commentators that say its all one big hot air balloon. Practically a hydrogen filled zeppelin thats bound to crash in lake hurst, new jersey, when is a hinder berg
Amid heightened u. S. Iranian tensions. We have gasoline futures jumping this after an explosion and major fire at philadelphia area refinery. It is, by the way, the largest facility on the east coast. And slack soaring debut, shares poised to rally at the open but for other tech unicorns eyeing the public markets, is this a sign of peak ipo . Stocks are set to open lower after a record close for the s p. Multiple reports now say the president did approve military strikes against iran as retaliation for downing of a u. S. Drone and later backed off. S p still on pace for the best june since 1955. The nasdaq leading the major indices this month up a percent jim, how much further are people willing to go on the risk curve given the activity today i think were getting too close to the g20. I think that yesterday was a day where there was a frenzy of froth and euphoria i havent seen in a long time. A lot of stocks up 7, 8, 9 points and nothing had happened. I think were all starting to rea
The president ripping into the ecb chief for pushing down the euro, saying it is unfair to the u. S. And as you just heard, beyond meats incredible run continues. Shares surging once again. Now up close to 700 since its debut. Facebook is up in the premarket after launching a new cryptocurrency called libra. The move is designed to expand the companys presence in ecommerce and Global Payments also creating a regulated subsidiary called colibra which will roll out a Crypto Wallet based on the libra currency. Earlier, we spoke about the differences between libra and bitcoin. If you want to compare libra with traditional cryptocurrencies, the first big difference is that typically cryptocurrencies have investment vehicles or, you know, Investment Assets rather than being great medium of exchange and this is really designed from the ground up to be a great medium of exchange, very high quality form of digital money that you can use for everyday payments and cross border payments, microtran
Bag the dow attempting for a Third Straight interestrate session of gains but between the bulls and the bears as anyones game, the s p 500 and nasdaq on the other hand are little more firmly in the green as you can see, nothing to write home about but there in the green, as big tech and growth stocks, maybe the chip stocks to lead the way higher, nvidia, micro, their higher but not just tech and control, Steel Dynamics claim in the top spots on the s p 500 at this hour. Coming up by the way were going to dig into whats driving the gains in the rejection and rocking the Steel Industry the ceo of spring maker Cleveland Cliffs will join me whether to discuss whether or not he can seal the deal with u. S. Steel, that is a lot of rhyming. The Chinese Markets are reeling today as the countrys property crisis deepens the hang seng deeply more than 1 of chinas top privately run developer, Country Garden holdings failed to make its Interest Payments onto u. S. Dollar bonds. Could turbulence and