Course as tensions in the middle east are very high also new chapter for u. S. Cosmetics giant avon its not part of the brazilian personal care group nutura the groups new ceo will join us later this hour. Stocks are extending a selloff, oil and gold prices continue to climb. This is iran and the white house, trade threats following of course the u. S. Air strike that killed irans top commander. Jim, happy new year. Happy new year. Nice to see you, my friend. Good to see you, buddy, way too long i missed you. I know you feel the same but i havent heard you opine on this market and what risk there is in the geopolitics, in the backandforth, our viewers im sure are familiar with the president s tweets over the last lets call it 24 to 48 hours, sort of saying weve identified 52 sites that we would take action against if in fact you do something, and also notifying the congress, he said, as well, if iran should strike any u. S. Person or target wed quickly and fully strike back, perhaps in
Signals that are pointing up wards and onwards for stocks and the backlash against billionaires, Elizabeth Warren launching a fiery ad targeting leon cooperman and other individuals. Cooperman joins us to fire back. The Investment Committee is ready to go. The Halftime Report starts right now. Welcome. Good to have you with us on this thursday our Investment Committee, joe tearerranov terranova. And the brothers and the walmart retailer beat and raise quarter, stock opening alltime high today. Joe youve been making a cas for this one, you own it i do. And under review. All of the news, the good news is priced in i think walmart is trading a little disappointedly today. Still own the stock, im going to see in the next couple of weeks to see if theres something i want to do a tremendous amount of positive news, theyre separating themselves from the gap, the macys, brick and Mortar Retail names, theyre succeeding not only online, grocery has been very strong for them the ability to drive
With tim cook. And one company is shrugging off concerns about an economic slowdown in china. Well tell you which one it is. A moment of truth for lyft as insiders get their first chance to sell shares at the open stocks are set to build on fridays rally, were heading into this mornings trading session, the dow is within 394 points of recouping all the losses from that wednesday selloff of 800 points is the economy at risk of recession . Take a listen to what the president and some of his top aides said yesterday i dont think were having a recession. Were doing tremendously well. Our consumers are rich i gave a tremendous tax cut. And theyre loaded up with money. And theyre buying i saw the walmart numbers, through the roof. I dont see a recession we had some blockbuster retail sales consumer numbers towards the back end of last week. We had the strongest economy in the world money is coming here for a stock market also coming here to chase yield and our bond market. Vice president tod
Why am i smiling, author of upcoming persuasion, lee carter is here, new mom as well. You look amazing. What a day for you to be back, too, i cant wait for calm, rational analysis of the war of words. [laughter] dagen former investment banker and nfl player. Record run, futures are pointing to, take a look, at hope this morning, 16point loss on dow futures, the earning season fully underway, jpmorgan, chase and Goldman Sachs reporting ahead of opening bell while fargo released quarterly number this hour, john, what are you watching for and what are you expecting . I think we will see fairly recent reports, you will probably see Companies Beat expectations, stilet not forget that the consensus view of Equity Analyst is in the Second Quarter we will see roughly 3 drop, we are seeing the first back to back decline by corporate earnings since early 2016, nevertheless, i dont think the current slow do you know will match the severity of global slowdown we had in 2015, 2016, so the market sh