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And Boston Scientific has had a wicked good run over the last three months, but mike is working on a safer way to play going into both the Jp Morgan Health care conference and earnings its time to risk less and make more options action starts now. Yes, it does and welcome or welcome back, everybody. So let us dive right in. Well talk about the payment stocks because most cashed in a lot of big gains last year check out shares of mastercard and visa led the pack up 58 and 40 respectively American Express and paypal did well square lagging a bit, still up 3 on the year carter says one of these names is about to ring in more money in the new year. Carter is going to break down the charts for you carter lets jump right in were looking at amex, the setup here is recent outperformance relative to other financials and proceeding underperformance. Its a onetwo more often than not. The table is very simple over the past six months, yes, what we know is that the bank index has done 13, 14. We kn
The pharma giants ceo joins us live and a big downgrade for one of the big streaming stocks we will debate in call of the day. The Investment Committee is ready to go. The Halftime Report starts right now. Welcome. Good to have you with us on this monday our Investment Committee, joe tear nova, josh brawn, steve wise brand and rob seechin. Lets begin with the markets stocks at session highs. Dow going for its close above 29,000 all this in what is a critical we can expectations are high. Positioning is pull bullish. The numbers better live up dont you think . Numbers i think will in certain instances have to meet high expectation i agree with that, scott but it seems we have rolled into 2020 and not much changed from 2019 you have been able to disburse allocations a little bit outside the u. S. Chinese equities are off to a strong start the iem both of those performing well. We are in earnings season. I think the pressure is on Financial Institutions more than any other sector i agree
Well, less of an outperformance, but a little bit of one. We are seeing a bid when it comes to crude. European equities not exactly having the same story as the United States, only up by 0. 1 . Markets actually in negative territory. The you is a little bit softer today. Christine lagarde speaks in frankfurt tonight. Weve got a policy meeting next week. The rand, a little bit of surprise from the central bank in south africa, delivering a to five basis point cut today. The big question, is there more to come . Is there going to be further rate cutting and south africa in what is a critical year for south africa . Somebody are getting absolutely pummeled today. The Canadian Company under pressure on a number of fronts on the train business and the aircraft business. Airbus a220, the ramp up to that program costing more than anticipated, and a buddy are essentially talking about walking away. Essentiallyrdier talking about walking away. Lets get some more insights on these markets and wh
Signing of that phase one trade agreement later this week. Joining us is charlie from aerial investments charlie, welcome. Thank you for having my well, you have to go specifically s p 500, which is protectly where you want to be right now. Frankly its starting to get expensive for us they continue to run, but at some point growth will have had its day, and value still looks tractive growth does not look attractive to me at this point. Interesting to hear you say that mike san tollist pointed out that in many ways the market is right where it was in 2018 does it feel that way . Yes, different from 2019. Last year there was gloom, a lot of talk about trade wars right now theres not a lot of bad news i say unfortunately, because the best time to invest is when people are worried about things. Right now theres just not a lot to worry about in the meantime lets focus on the big were covering dave calhouns first day wilfred has a preview of the banks earnings, and mike santoli has the marke