Prone to gaffes. In congress, no agreement on how to respond to the virus. The latest proposals, a payroll tax holiday for the rest of the year. In other words, your Social Security contribution, suspended. Another one, extend the april 15th tax deadline. However, congress had better get on with it. A oneweek recess starts friday. The market, not happy with any of this. Stocks will be down at the opening bell. You kind of get seasick watching it all. Down 2,000 monday, up 1100 tuesday, this morning we will open about 800 points to the downside. Similar losses for the s p and nasdaq. The virus, there are now just over 1,000 cases in the United States. Draconian action in new rochelle, new york, where the National Guard has been called out to help with a cluster of cases in that town. Seattle has restrictions on large gatherings. The first lawsuits have appeared, a cruise line sued. And just look at this. Students at the university of dayton rioted last night after the authorities announ
Josh lipton joins us with a look at the incredible stock, the incredible year. Hey, josh. Reporter carl, thats right. As 2019 comes to a close, apple investors have plenty of reasons to celebrate that stock has enjoyed a remarkable run surging more than 80 this year. That means apple is on track now for its best year since 2009 another way, it added 530 billion in market cap this year. Thats the equivalent of two netflix, three teslas, with a few billion left over. The nasdaq is market cap weighted, given apples size, it helped to power the index to a record 9,000 level today, most Analysts Covering apple rate it a buy. Nearly 60 in part because they think tim cook with the current lineup of devices will be able to keep iphone revenue relatively flat the next few quarters, even as services and wearables continue to go strongly theyre betting that should be enough to drive Single Digits growth for the company what are the risks for investors to consider . I caught up with gene munster,
The half. Im scott pop ner the next flicks numbers hours away now, those earnings coming up can the beaten up stock get back on track it is 12 00 noon and this is the Halftime Report. Announcer netflix facing its final quarter of calm before the streaming wars with apple and disney begin, but investors need to tune into retail sales falling for the first time in seven months are cracks beginning to form in the consumer and what does it mean for the market . Amazon getting a huge price hike ahead of its earnings next week the traders take their position. The Investment Committee is ready to go. Halftime report starts right now. Good to have you with us on this wednesday, our Investment Committee, joe chenova, steve wise the count down to the netflix numbers, competitors lining up to do battle with that company pete, you own it. I do. I think you are the only one on the desk who does doc, you do. John, pete its not the same we have a lot of different strategies going on. There is competi
It is down 20 again. The s p is down 26. The nasdaq is thinking onto a onepoint game. Qualcomm is down 9 after a disappointing Fourth Quarter. There is a slowdown in smartphone demand. Expedia had bookings falling short of high expectations. And we are watching the yield. The 10 year is up 4. 19. It is starting to get back near those october highs, which Rick Santelli warned us about. Lets get back to mr. Santelli. It is the chatter today, rick . The chatter is that there are some issues. Whether it is how much the markets move. Consider this. The fed raised rates a quarter point on the 26th. On the 27th, we had the gdp much smarts stronger. It is virtually unchanged, but it moved about 30 points. The spread has gone from 100 to now under 70. This is huge. Many say, what is going on with the higher rates . Well, the biggest curve trade in history was the twos to tens spread. Now, youre looking at the other side of the mountain. If you look at tens, 4 1 4 on the 24th of october, high yi
Debate on whether investors should be buying this weakness before other banks report. Citi had been trading at an intraday high in the session earlier. Yes equifax shares dropping on reports of another hack. Well bring you those details and how the company is responding shares down about 1. 25 . As i said on twitter, whats left to steal. Im one of these idiots, if you may, who signed up for the whole thing. Yeah President Trump signing an executive order, you saw it live on cnbc, regarding healthcare. Well tell you whats in the order and well get reaction from that man, the former ceo of aetna, ron williams will join us to talk about whether he would if he was still running aetna, would he participate in the plan thats being brought up in this executive order . But we begin in washington with that surprise appearance moments ago at the White House Press briefing eamon javers was there to witness it he has more on the story youre right. It was a dramatic moment in the White House Press