Biotech getting a bounce in the back of biogen two names you need to watch in the space. Halftime report starts right now. Welcome. Good to have you with us our Investment Committee today, joe, stephanie, josh, brynn is back lets begin with this big day for earnings stefrl dow stocks are moving this hour. Lets talk about some of those right there. Stephanie link, you go first mcdonalds is a drag comps below. They had the first eps miss in two years. Oh, my goodness, your sale completely out of this Company Earlier or later last week, whenever it was, looks good today. I actually thought it was going to be worse than what they put up today a 5. 9 global comp is impressive but the problem is they have to investment invest substantially to keep up with the competition. While i liked the story a while ago because of the Digital Initiatives and the ceo and all the things he has been doing they have to spend you dont get the operating leverage positively i was looking for. I got lucky, but i
Accusing facebook of misleading investors as the doj launches this antitrust review. Corporate earnings going to be weighing on some stocks at least this morning boeing and caterpillar disappoint trade worries remain u. P. S. Shares sinking ahead of the open. Profits soaring more than 13 for the quarter. David abney joins us first on cnbc this hour facebook up first. Three different Government Agencies today, the ftc formally announcing that record 5 billion settlement with the company over privacy violations, imposing new requirement oz on Mark Zuckerberg and making structural changes to the board the s. E. C. Simultaneously announcing 100 million settlement accusing the company of misleading investors about the misuse of user data. And lastly, last night, the doj is opening a broad review of Tech Companies, that will scrutinize leading Online Market platforms. Didnt name any specific companies, but obviously facebook, amazon, alphabet are all in play. Of the alphabet soup, what is mo
Washing machine. Felix and his nine lives early today starts right now good to be with you on this tuesday morning. Im Frances Rivera and im marlie hall breaking news, spacex pulled off its most powerful and difficult rocket launch with an explosive ending see that coming down on a is that a pretty good view . The rocket blasted off of Nasas Kennedy Space Center just moments ago. But the new core booster came crashing into the ocean, but the two side boosters did land safely the rocket was carrying 24 Research Satellite for the department of defense. The stage is set for another subpoena showdown this morning the white house is officially blocking Kellyanne Conway from testifying before the House Oversight committee. President trumps Senior Advisor was schedule sud to appear befoe the committee tomorrow to discuss violations of the hatch act. Nbcs tracie potts joins us from d. C. With the latest tracie, what happens next . Reporter well, what happens next is they are going to vote whet
Those are the two worstperforming sectors over the past five days. Investors are watching apple and nvidia ahead of its critical Earnings Report next week. The many pressure points for stocks, rates, earnings, china. Of course the fed too. So whats an investor to do . Lets ask dan greenhouse. Chief strategist here with me at post nine. Its a growing list of pressure points, right . It is. Fixated on the apple selloff. The rates have backed up. At least today theyre backing off which is maybe why the market is kind of hanging in. How do you see things here . Listen, technically obviously weve sliced through the 50day moving average on a number of indices, if not all the indices. In terms of apple, apple and those types, they were up 60, 70 , meta and nvidia are up 300, 400 off their lows. In the context of whats happening from rates, when rates bottomed earlier this year, the tenyear is up 100 basis points and the nasdaq is up the whole time, the s p is up the whole time. I think ultima
Which is red again too. A few moments ago it was green. This is the big story. Questions about whether its topped, an unwind is coming. We havent seen you in a few weeks. Youve been trimming this name like many others. Yes. We owned this name for a long time. When a stock doubles a relatively big position in three months its prudent to trim. We trimmed. Its okay we still own the stock. It has the perfect set up right now. Buyers with a lot of cash flow, concentrated positions. Too little capacity, too much demand. We think it theres nothing to stop it in the near term. But from a longterm perspective its prudent to take profits we think. Price target to 1200 from 900. As the stock has elevated the chase has continued on the street. You keep getting price targets going up up and away. Im wondering how you view the stock, if you view that as a moment that was 100 higher on friday, and then the reversal, whether we need to Pay Attention to this stock more than any other in the market. Unf