Sector of the year and the decade the Investment Committee is ready to go, Halftime Report starts right now welcome, good to have you with us on this friday our Investment Committee today, joe, jack, steve and liz, director of Market Strategy and margaret reed, senior Portfolio Manager with union bank. Lets begin with the jobs blowout, the reaction in the stock market perhaps the belief is that we can have the yearend rally after all. This says to me phase one. You just need the economy to keep humming. If we can have it, we are having it. And i think like the biggest lesson of 2019 is the industrial data is just so misleading and so unimportant for people to obsess over. But a lot of the Economic Data points that we traditionally Pay Attention to, they come from the 1950s, the 60s, the 70s. The economy has changed and its become more globalized and consumer centric i cannot stress enough how important it is to look at price versus listen to economic opinions if you listen to opinions
Of december and november was a very strong month for stocks, even though you did see some declines on black friday youre looking at the best returns we saw since june for all of the major averages. Last week again, you did see some big gains too right now the dow, s p and nasdaq are still less than 1 to 2 of the intraday highs with these gains, youll see them challenging that as tom mentioned. Although, i also remember last the first trading day of december last year. Not quite as much fun. I still have some night mares about that. Would not be the only one with scars leftover from that. I think the dow was down 15 at one point in december last year we were having a great year. Markets were up, not up like they are this year. Bottomed on christmas eve, december 24th and saw things take off from there. Its been a very strong year. Will a santa claus rally power the s p 500 and dow to their best year in a generation . Could happen. Were up a lot. What will that take to get there, 5 . Pro
2020 the Investment Committee is ready to go. Halftime report starts right now. Welcome good to have you with us our Investment Committee with us today. Jim, the brothers, megan and cnbcs jim cramer. He, the host of mad money. Stocks up for the first time in four days. Trade headlines again the stories, still the worst week for the dow in four months investors getting whip saw ed b the deal no deal drama jim, just call me when a deal and im done okay i cant deal with this day in, day out. Theres a deal, theres no deal. May not wait, may not have one before the election. Were close, were not close i was a judge on the apprentice for many years. There are always two sides i have to tell you, many time, sworn about what happened in the actual room, but we wanted these guys to be pitted against each other. The ratings wouldnt go down if it was just resolve like this. We had to kind of have an eliminati elimination. You got kudlow schwartzm schwartzman, navarro perhaps. So what happens is t
Welcome. Our Investment Committee is at the table today. We begin with shares of target on pace now for the best year since the mid 1970s. Shares are up 89 year to date pete, naturally im coming to you first. We always joke about your relationship with brian cornell. You are friends. Yep youve pitched this stock for about as long as i can remember and youve been dead right and you deserve credit for that. Wow i appreciate that. They keep performing. But the reality is go back a year ago, stock was trading in the 60s when brian said we see strength everybody talks about recession and all the Different Things out there that are the boogeyman, but he never brought that up he continued to pound the table that the consumer is strong. And you look at each one of these Quarterly Earnings results, and just the last one that they had, their numbers were off the charts then once again he talked about Margin Expansion and the strong consumer they have just been executing the right way. And they m
I know. Alltime highs we have like, what, 39 trading days to go is that it . It is a tight time frame here the interesting thing around the market is it has shrugged off concern. One of the reason the market has gone higher is because of really light positioning. That mentality hasnt changed. That has fuelled the rally in the market you see the dow in the green but just barely. Nasdaq futures down by a point again, we are sitting at new highs after the gains we added on yesterday you look at the treasury market yielding 1. 85 xerox looking at buying hp. The company has an informal funding commitment xerox has a Market Company a third of hp. Both of these companies former technology stall waters. Xerox has had a couple of falls. Do people steel xerox things it is like faxing. Hp has tried to keep up it is like help me im drowning. Hp shares are up. Xerox somehow is the acquiring company. And there would be a premium to hps market cap. I just get depressed reading this xerox already scra