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Investment committee is ready to go Halftime Report starts right now. Welcome good to have you with us on this thursday, the first trading day of 2020. Our Investment Committee here today. Lets begin with the markets its the first day another record setting day for the major averages there you go right now dow off its best levels, not by much new record high, 28720 nasdaq back above 9000 s p 500 positive as well the russell is a drag. But for the most part, its the same story semis hitting fresh new highs. Apple extending its record high. The beat goes on. What im particularly excited about are the International Charts i know a lot of american investors say what do i have to Pay Attention to that for . Its note worjnoteworthy were g with countries in europe up around 1 , looking better than our markets. Germany is up over 1 . European banks this morning as a group are up 2 . European Technology Names as a group are up 2 . This is noteworthy emerging markets is up double what the s p is
Of ubs investment banking. Kaiser of ubs investment bank. Anything stood out to you so far . This is pretty much as expected. The key is to emphasize there is uncertainty, even though we have the emphatic conservative victory in the election, and we know that brexit is going to happen. Theres still uncertainty about what kind of brexit, and short for the bank of england, we dont know what the fiscal policies of this government will be. There is a little bit of stimulus built into their servitors manifesto which was not taken into account in the current bank of england forecast , but they have room to do a great deal more. If you have a budget in the next months from the conservatives which primes the me, has a lot of stem it economy, that has changes the outlook. Those seven who voted against change probably had that in mind. Alix are you trading cable at all . Stuart todays decision is pretty much in line with expectations. I think the view is the first half of the year you get the or
Mixed bag. The dax is down almost 0. 5 . The carmakers dragging on the dax. The ftse 100 is a different story, up 0. 3 . Some individual Companies Making gains. The british pounds giving back more of the gains of the week, 1. 3075. Pearson up after giving up the Penguin Random house it owns. Lets get to more with luke kawa, Bloomberg Cross asset reporter. It seems like this market is more and more moving on individual Company Names and less on a trade resolution or British Election resolution. Luke definitely. Weve taken a step back from the macro. That we are not really looking ahead to anything. We are just kind of in stall right now, waiting for the rest of the year to play out. Yesterday we tied for the smallest range in s p 500 futures of the year. We are getting a sense that last week was all of the big risk, and no we are winding down. Can year yield climbing higher could be the story of the year as we close it out for one more macro perspective. Vonnie we only have a few more s