Lines. Epublicans, 202 7488001 democrats, 202 7488000. Independent voters, 202 7488002. You can always text us your opinion. We are reading social media on twitter and facebook. Once again, the president is beginning his day at walter reed after being diagnosed with the coronavirus. Im going to read a couple of quick paragraphs from the Washington Post that came out this morning. President trump taped a message for americans before he left for walter reed and put it out on his twitter account. I want to thank everybody for the support. I am going to walter reed hospital. I think i am doing very well. Were going to make sure that things work out. The first lady is doing very well. Thank you very much. Host thank you. We got an update from mark meadows. He met with reporters on friday to talk about the president s condition. We want to make sure that nunnally his health and safety look at we continue to that for all of the American People. He continues to be not only in good spirits but
The averages gave back their gains. The s p declining. Nasdaq dipping. 24 . There is a lot going on here i think even the tariffs on until china actually follows through with its promises since they doublecrossed us so many times makes a ton of sense it should have caused a rally, not a selloff. But maybe i was some sort of weird mistaken reason to take profits. First, lets consider how much good the trade war may have accomplished in our country in a short time tomorrow the United States and china will sign the historic agreement. They agreed to buy 200 billion in goods and services from us to roll back half of a 15 on levies on other products were still keeping tariffs on chinese goods and china allowed the currency to become much stronger the in exchange, were no longer ka a. K accusing of them of currency manipulation so for everyone that told us the Chinese Communist party is playing the long game, that there was no way we could win, and we would get nothing, well, how did that wo
Climbing ill tell you how its done. Market reached unheard of levels by triumphing over the concerns that caused Money Managers to stay on the sidelines to buy lower prices often hear we climb a wall of worry to get to exhausted levels but today we just didnt scale a wall but beached and busted through mine fields, force fields and cauldrons of boiling oil. This is a quite bull market. Tonight i want to go over obstacles weve overcome amazing list, outside of president on twitter seems to be celebrating is down. Challenges conquered thats a graphic obstacle number one, impeachment. I told you wouldnt matter to stock market based on bill clinton. Buying opportunity, not selling. But sitting president incredibly pro business and House Democrats are trying to take him down and stock market is ignoring whole process, maybe should impeach all president s works out for the averages obstacle number two, recession fears. Job growth is still robust versus the historical norm but over the summer
Smiledirect begins trading as a public company. Should you buy the stock today our Investment Committee weighs in and caterpillar shares getting a down grade its our call of the day Halftime Report starts right now. Welcome back, everybody. Thanks for joining us here today, the overall market doing well headed for seven in a row. Up 121 points and longest streak in a year and smiledirect just opening moments ago as carl, morgan and john just showed you. That opening not what the markets showed down 14 at the moment and off 3 bucks. A lot of optimism going in on smiledirect. The head of the ipo saying it is trading well or bullish upside potential. That is certainly not the case smiledirect sdc a new issue down 14 right now. All right, lets go now to the macro set up stocks there higher on trade headlines and easy move by europe central bank. If we do close higher on the dow, like we said, lucky 7 7 higher sessions in a row and longest streak in a year your stat of the day, nearly 100 o
How much traction do you think it has on the campaign trail for Bernie Sanders and others you support medicare for all . I think what do viewers mean onby medicare for all . Theres a lot of different visions for that. Whats gaining traction is this idea that the Affordable Care act was the starting point having built on that. There are still people who do not have coverage. People have a lot of concerns about their outofpocket costs and whats the best way to build on daca. Medicare for all has been by sanders one of thee. Different proposals out there. I think its easy to kind of look at them into three different pieces. Bernie sanders, none more incremental plants. O where they stood on healthcare. At the time, they had 23 candidates. All of them are for the expansion of daca expanding Affordable Care act coverage. What do you see in terms of care for all and traction for that among the democrats . Where do you see potential stumbling blocks . The first is exactly the right point, one