Call on ge why he says there could be more turbulence ahead its our call of the day and michael farr is unveiling his top ten stocks for 2020. Part of halftimes game plan to get you ready for the new decade Investment Committee is ready to go Halftime Report starts right now. Welcome good to have you with us on this friday our Investment Committee, jim, josh, steve weiss, jenna, the chief Investment Officer at boston private wealth. Michael farr is the ceo of farr, miller and washington. Also with us today onset, keith banks, the head and vice chairman of bank of Americas Solutions group. Stocks are hitting more highs. Could be the first eightday winning streak in more than ten months we have news happening at this moment on boeing our phil lebeau has it scott, this involves united airlines, which is one of three u. S. Carriers that flies the 737 max. It has announced that it will pull the 737 max from its schedule through june 4th, which means when you look at the u. S. Airlines and w
China trade deal jobless claims fall. And real estate and staples are leading the charge joining us for the hour is stephanie link were both feeling the holiday red but we got a green market. Like a christmas theme were now starting to see internalsin the market thats confirming the stabilization look at the 210 spread, the yield curve is steepening. Nats a good sign asia stocks, they are breaking out. You look at oil up 10 in the past month all of these things are confirming were seeing stabilization and that sets us up for 2020 seeing better growth my biggest question mark does this translate into better earnings i think we will see better earnings which maybe not right away you have pmis globally that are stabilizing. I feel good going into 2020. It has to be an Earnings Growth year all three averages are up half a percent first lets focus on the big stories were watching Kayla Tausche has the latest on china trade and usmca. Then the senate spendling bill vote and Bertha Coombs has
Go Halftime Report starts right now. Welcome good to have you with us on this thursday our Investment Committee today, josh brown, john ageri, Jenny Harrington we begin the markets where all eyes are on the white house. That meeting on trade with those new tariffs looming. Watching it all. The latest, including the president ial tweet sending stocks surging the best gains since october u. S. Negotiators have offered to cancel the december 15 tariffs and cut existing tariffs on 360 billion in chinese goods in half. Thats according to two people close to talks my sources offer a couple caveats on the offer reported this morning by the wall street journal. It was made to the chinese last week clearly, a lot of time in between then and now second, talks have been taking place at the deputy level, with the ambassador absorbed by developments on usmca. Lighthizer will brief republican senators on that deal at a lunch meeting today on capitol hill. President trump appears ebullient saying the
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Trump card which is the economy. Americansare deeply divided over impeachment showing over half of voters, 51 , believe trump should not be impeached and removed from office compared to 45 that is reverse where the numbers stood before the many hours of hearings. Before they began, more voters voted for impeachment than against it the data on the economy is unequivocal. Showing three quarters of voters have it any time in the past 18 years. For those who believe the economy is on the right track approve. The white house wants to capitalize and that angry letter sent yesterday he wrote that, quote, democrats are desperate. Your party simply cannot compete with our record. Thank you. One of the Big Questions is the proxy for the election a lot of people have said, dont impeach. Lets wait and deal with this election and see where the public stands. If you have a group of candidates arguing that you need to bump up this election because of trump what does that suggest one of the interestin