Barbara doran from b88 Capital Partners good to see you, barbara less than two weeks until the official u. S. China trade talks kick off and a new wrinkle as to what will actually happen when both parties meet. It is definitely a new wri wrinkle today. For me the bigger concern emerging is what happens to the consumer all of the consumer data this week was pretty terrific, except for Consumer Confidence numbers. Housing, et cetera, we continue to have strong wages, growth, that sort of thing but for the first time, were seeing Consumer Confidence down a little bit, consumers and surveys are saying, hey, trade issues have crept into their head and, you know, my real concern is the margins of companies, if they start to do layoffs, that hurts Consumer Confidence, and stops spending and that is the underpinning, which by all accounts, we all agree. By the way, the china has got markets spooked. Nasdaqs down 1. 6, the laggard of those indices. Bob is with us for the full first hour, which
Morgan brennan and jon fortt at post nine. Market improving on headlines from larry kudlow. Facebook, amazon, alphabet trading 7 to 15 below peaks on that, we turn to mike santoli about what it says about big tech valuations. Valuations moderated, sentiment has turned i think mostly were talking about alphabet, facebook, and amazon opposed to netflix. Analysts talk about potential some of the parts type valuation. Break up value Type Analysis of the companies, not because they think theyre likely soon to be broken up, want to surface the idea theres value not recognized in the markets. It was emblematic, saying google cloud partners is worth 225 million. If you buy into that, is Amazon Web Services worth all of amazons market cap . You can go on with the conventional wisdom that facebook was somehow broken up, someone some of those off, maybe the sum would be worth more than it is now, right so i think this is mostly a wall street exercise. But it shows you that faang became faang beca
Center stage and treasuries weaken with the curve flattening after last weeks definitive move higher. Joining us for the hour, dan nathan a real Holding Pattern here today. Are we waiting for news out of washington heres the good news, right we had this big rip up off of the lows last week on optimism that there would be some sort of grand deal as far as trade is concerned. The fact that it doesnt look like that were going to get that at the end of the day, the fact that were not down in a meaningful manner is fairly establish. Could things change pretty quickly if the fed decides top pull our negotiators away and we know were dead in the water for a couple of months no doubt about it. Its kind of interesting on a day like today, where we dont see staples and utilities. These are two of the bestperforming groups, deemed to be defensei you dont see them rallying and dont see the s p 500 down a lot either it seems like a lot of nothing despite some really potential for volatility later i
I sawed this loud and clear to everybody. Rob portman back immediate up. Theres nobody more honorable than rob portman of ohio he called up, please let the money go i said rob i hate being the country thats always giving money when ukraine helps europe and the European Countries far more than they help us theyre like a wall between russia and europe. Theyre like a wall. Theyre a big, wide, beautiful wall and he said, you know what but its important in fact, he came out and he said that this was my only reason. Because i dont like being the sucker country we were the sucker country for years and years. Were not the sucker country anymore. But i gave the money because rob portman and others called me and asked. But i dont like to be the sucker and European Countries are helped far more than we are. And those countries should pay more to help ukraine ask a question. Thank you, sir. What did you want on biden . Biden and his son are stonecold crooked you know it. His son walks out with mil
Market not able to meet that sort of pricing expectation. Well, your Investment Committee today, joe terranova, jim laichb thal, pete najarian, and rob sechan is there anything, joe, that we can take away from peloton even maybe uber and lyft we dont know the numbers. They havent had a public quarter. Im not asking you to analyze the stock. You want the good news first . Sure. Its not smile direct now if you look at the stock, you say to yourself, what is it . Is it technology what is it exactly that we just brought to the market . Fitness is very difficult. Pete and i were just talking about this before the show you go back to 2002. Think about may of 2002. Nautilus was 45 nautilus is basically 40 million market cap at this point. A dollar fitness is difficult to offer on a public exchange. Think about vitamin shop, gnc. Now, you get the occasional Planet Fitness which is falling back to earth right now. But at the end of the day, it is difficult to get a Portfolio Manager confident a