Halftime report starts right now. Good to have you with us on this friday. Our Investment Committee today. The cio of santo Global Advisers and lindsay bell is back. Lets begin with the markets with stocks rebounding today basically flat for the week. Our focus today on what has been happening on the ipo market. Peloton down again. Endeavor pulls the ipo. Actually quite encouraging, because the Public Markets are being more rational in valuation than the private markets that are just awash with cash and you have the soft bank effect of putting so much money in the companies. Its selffulfilling prophecy. Public markets says this is crazy. Lyft, theyre not going to make money for we dont know when. Uber. Endeavor is well. Theyre saying we dont want to do that. Unfortunately, its impacting some of the higher valuation equities in the u. S. Market. We see you take a stock like roku. Take a look at whats happening to that stock and others. I dont think it means we have a sustainable move in
Hitting record highs on their quarterly results. Amazon says sales in Web Services Division up 43 year on year. Microsoft says that they grew in the same period and alphabet beat consensus. Despite backlash from advertisers on controversial content on youtube in recent weeks. Guys, this is like a feast of information that we got in the past 18 hours. Overarching narratives or lessons were seeing right now . Overarching narrative is that the economy is headed into where these companies are both technologywise, consumer habitswise in a great position and theyre now reaping the benefits of many, many, many years of investing. I think another message is that this cloud movement, giants like amazon to some extend, microsoft, google wants to be in that pact eating traditional Enterprise Data center now in the way that smartphones ate into the pc business. You see that in intels results. Data center group didnt perform the way analysts hoped. Intel sort of hinted at that a quarter ago. The st
With me, as always, jon fortt and Kayla Tausche at post 9 as the dows down about 20 points. Busy day for poll kicks and business. One week since the inauguration. The president front and center on the world stage, moving one step closer, some say, to a trade war with mexico, ramping up rhetoric this morning, as the president welcomes his first foreign leader to the white house today. Our john harwood is at the white house with all the latest. Good morning, john. Reporter good morning, carl. You know, President Trump did not back away from what happened yesterday when the mexican president canceled their visit next week. He came before the republican retreat and said we have mutually decided to put off this meeting, unless we are treated properly and with respect, there is no point to it. Today he sent out a tweet underscoring that complaint, saying that mexico has been taking advantage of us for years on securing the border and on trade, and that has to change now, in all capital lette
Environment drives stocks highers, isnt it . Over the average either at or striking distance from the year, dow gaining 18 points, s p advanced. 13, nasdaq inched down, we have to go over what allows us to reach these levels. The backdrop thats conducive to higher prices for the overall market. In short, whats so special about stocks right now that we are at or near or challenging these high s . First, investors like to see low inflation. When you have low inflation, that means the longterm value of stocks, the future earnings streams youre buying are going to be preserved. High inflation erodes that value because it means those future earnings will have less purchasing power. Last friday we gotten a employment number that signalled there is no inflation in the system other than the mandated inflation that comes from higher state and local minimum wages. Tame inflation means that all stocks are worth more so even if you hear that the stock market is expensive, it might not be as expens
Members have been since that last meeting and why the market is certainly so much trouble making sense of it all. Netflix has been sweeping the emmys lately. Now it may be ieng the oscars, the company out with its first feature film, it opens nationwide tonight. We have details on that and we will talk to a shareholder who is not real thrilled about that. Silicon valley darling being called into question. We have the wall street journal reporter behind the controversial articles on blood testing startup pharanos. Lets start with this story about china and the problems for billionaire steve wynn and his casino empire. Jane wells has that story for us right now. Guys, you know what happened with earnings yesterday, they were not good, they continue to be bad. If you told me a year ago that steve wynn would criticize the Chinese Government the same week he hosted Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton in las vegas, i would have lost that bet. Wynn has long been a china fan. Here he is one yea