South korea, president moon calling the current Economic Situation as an emergency. The rhetoric is not positive even as what we see the beginning of a stabilization for some of these virus cases coming out of china. Certainly, the attention is on what regional economies are going to be able to do to support Economic Growth. Lets take a look at what we are seeing on the markets. A milestone for Chinese Markets in recruiting some of those losses since the Lunar New Year break, but we have seen very little positive price action since then. Absolutely. A little bit of a tempering of the positive tone we had seen. After we made up the post Lunar New Year losses, it is notable that you look at stocks on the mainland and they are trading lower, but off by just 0. 1 , so trying to hold in, trying to higherd continue to move with the cautiously optimistic town. Off slightly to the downside. Where we do see losses leading the way, that is in hong kong and japan. Both the hang seng and the andei
This hour. Were waiting possible new comment from President Trump this hour. The president set to depart the white house shortly, make his way to new orleans. He is attending College Football National Championship game this evening. Well bring you any remarks from the president , if he stops to speak to reporters on the white house south lawn. Plus protests raging in iran. Third straight day weve seen this. Antigovernment demonstrations. Reports of forces firing live rounds and tear gas. Target, how it is what it means for your store. Melissa Edward Lawrence and blake burman are live at the white house. Edward, starts with you. Reporter melissa, a feeling of glee of folks in the trade circles i talked with the signing of the trade deal expected to happen on wednesday. The chinese delegation is now here at the hotel in washington, d. C. The one, the chinese are expected to sign that trade deal on wednesday but two, tomorrow the chinese delegation will meet with u. S. Businesses to try t
Disney ceo has the story changed too . Apples meeting gets under way Halftime Report starts right now. Lot on our plate today. Let get to it. Our team here today, najarians, and Cnbcs Jim Cramer the host of mad money. The president of Yardeni Research is with us. A full table for this meal today. Lets begin with your money. Stocks are higher. Most important ly, perhaps, so are bond yields. Jim, ive been talking about stocks werent going to be able to stabilize until bond yields stopped falling like a stone. Right. You said this morning, quote, i think you have to start buying something. Right, but not be aggressive sure enough, yields went down again. Coming in a little quick sand here because if rates continue to go down, people will give up some of this if you havent bought any, the markets had a very big move in the morning. Theres a lot of stocks that are down so much its worth starting as a great man once wrote to me as i Read Everything in the morning, do you know what happens wh
Political relief rally banks are in focus this morning. This is bank of america calls citigroup its pick of the decade. The ceo of ulta will join us at post 9 this hour. Well begin with stocks on track to open at record highs. Also adding to positive sentiment, china confirming the vice premier will head to washington next week for the signing of that phase one trade agreement with the United States jim, its going to be busy next week between that and the kickoff of corporate earnings. It sure seems like everybody believes everything is going to be good. A sheer mention of the banks is really underestimated. There are so many people saying buy these. Why does that matter thats who kicks off earnings season already the expectations are pretty high. They better deliver after this run. And thats what these upgrades are mostly all about. I mean specifically on the banks. Goldman getting not one upgrade but two today out of buckingham and b of a, as b of a or it goes from 270 to 245 what ne
Dow only gaining 69 points, s p climbing. 35 . You got to wonder if the buyers are simply stooges are they ignoring headlines like fallout deep yeps for u. S. Strike that was from the wall street journal. And these headlines were as wide as you can get have we forgotten that iran vowed to get revenge for the assassination of its mastermind, general Qassem Soleimani are we whistling past the graveyard of their inevitable retaliation . It sure feels that way just a short 12 hours ago, the s p were looking down 1 news on the trumps adtrati administration 200 point dow jones deficit. What a comeback. So whats going on here . All right, look, im willing to suspend my belief that perhaps the markets wrong and give you some ideas because there could be many different forces at work first, investors have learned that these kinds of events tend to be buying opportunities since President Trump took office weve actually had three conflictrelated selloffs while they may have seen disturbing at the