Short bet. Traders take their positions fast money Halftime Report starts right now all right welcome. Big show today our Investment Committee is here joe, stephanie, josh brown lets begin with the markets those comments from paul jones, what he told cnbc in daf as about what he calls the explosion driving markets. We are just again in the crazies craziest monetary mix in history. Its explosive it defies imagination. And i dont think anything is changed. It reminds me a lot of early 99. So early 99 we had 1. 6 pce 2. 3 cpi we had ex act same metrics today. Thats out in davos josh brown, turn to you. Answer the question. Time to worry or party like its 99 i think most investors are doing a little bit of both the data does not show that any segment of investors, whether talking about institutions, hedge funds, retail, Family Office foundation, there is nobody out there right now acting in word or indeed as though its 1999 you just dont see that form of euphoria out there in the market do
Work of our National Innovation initiative. Now, another 17 years later, here we are again, once again finding ourselves at the precipice of transformational change. Today well hear stories about these changes as theyre foundational to our Flagship National commission on innovation and competitiveness frontiers. The commission cochaired by the Council Board on this stage is a multiyear effort to reimagine americas innovation potential and to chart a new path for competitiveness in the 21st century. And as this slide shows, just a little less than a year ago, with our core leadership team, we began to build this effort. And by august we had pulled together a powerful and diverse set of commissioners, nearly 60 leaders from across this country from industry, from academia, from our Labor Union Community and our National Labs. And the commission has already started their work. As deborah mentioned, todays launch is our 2020 roadmap of activities that we hope will change the future traject
Today. This time dow industrial rising. Nasdaq at 28. 1 . These were all miraculous record closed by the way. Where did that momentum come from momentum is a tricky thing i can tell the market is on fire because employment is red hot. We know adp, at least incredibly strong numbers the Labor Department will give us a positive non farm payroll report tomorrow. I can tell you people are buying stocks, good feelings, breaking up with u. S. And china thanks to phase one trade deal chinese seems to be placing large orders with american business, dont you think . There is just one problem. I am not buying that these i am not just pushing these medical forces i think theyre not the force of todays market momentum. Why . Well, because momentum is what happens when a stock keeps worrying for emotional reasons and not financial reasons. A stock that goes higher because buyers went in at any price, that my friend is momentum now especially i like it when stocks rally i am not a fan of momentum bu
We have a huge lineup this morning. Steven mnuchin will join us. That is at 7 45 a. M. Eastern at 8 00, well get reaction from political strategist hes been out all over the place what is there to talk about . A few things what did we say . President trump is ripping apple . Ive said all along, apple has to get on board. Switching sides no. Im not. It is not apples responsibility to keep us safe the issue is how much theyve been cooperating it does sound like the company has been pretty responsive they dont want to create an encryption key to allow any government to get any phone. They should cooperate in cases like this. I hope they are cooperating behind the scenes. I do want to see them cooperate on some of these but i can under the broader issue. The journals point is that in the meantime, apple shouldnt be seen as a public enemy no. So barr wants cooperation. Right but not just on this issue. He wants to create a larger issue. He wants to establish and create law for life that wou
And tony dwyer leaves the pen. Staying now is time to take profits. We tell you what has him a bit nervous. All that ahead we begin with earnings alerts on ibm and netflix. Both stocks on the move after reporting numbers. Both stocks moving higher. As always full Team Coverage standing by to break down the big moves. Julia boorstin digging in on netflix. Lets begin with deidre bosa. A green on the screen for big blue. Ending the streak of declining year over year revenues five quarters that have but is it too soon to call a turn around . Remember we saw recovery in 2018 but didnt last. The revenue grew a 10th of the . And shares popping because expectations were so low and now gains up lower than 4 a sustained turn around will depend on the bet on hybrid cloud and the 33 billiondollar red hat acquisition. There are early signs of promise. Cloud revenue hitting 8. 6 billion comprising 30 of revenue. Ahead of the report ibm saw downgrades from Morgan Stanley and every core this table sug