Striking distance, stocks are on track for what would be well see, the first loss in four sessions, but really cant get much of anything out of the future moves right now plus, deal or no deal, tmobile sprint battle heads to court. 13 state attorneys general led by, of course, california and new york are seeking to block that merger. And it is an m a monday, we have two big premium deals in biotech, sanofi and merck. Im going to get to that jim does too stock picking so important there in terms of figuring out where those premiums are going to end up stocks overall set to look for a modest open this morning, this after fridays jobs report rally. That resulted in the s p erasing its losses for last week trade once again in focus here, heard jim talking about it on squawk box. The next round of u. S. Tariffs against chinese goods set to go into effect, this sunday so we are now counting down. And new data Shows Chinese exports to the u. S. Fell 23 in november i dont know how much more th
Street stocks set to open at new records once again the stock market just hit another all time in history high, meaning 401 k s and jobs everybodys getting rich and im working my off. Shares of deere sliding, ahead of the open. Issuing a profit warning for fiscal 2020 as trade tensions persist. The toys r us come back, after shuttering all the stores, the new Companies First toy store set to open in new jersey this morning as stocks look to set some new records on optimism about trade, Economic Data today is also in the mix. 3q revised up. Business investment up 1. 2 proxy for investment, that was not a good number last month making up for it now. In tune with what the market has been trying to say, which is that we had this soft patch, were pulling out of it, i think there is a real willingness by the market by investors to look through any near term kind of softness in the incoming numbers because they feel as if we kind of escaped the greatest risk i think these numbers would confir
Stocks bouncing around all session along on conflicting headlines about that december 15th deadline for china tariffs. Will it sfwebe extended. And House Democrats officially announcing articles of impeachment, two of them, against President Trump. Plus, coming up only today on the closing bell, wilfred frost is live from the Goldman Sachs Financial Services conference and hes got exclusive interview with Howard Marcus ks in just aw minutes. Joining us now for the hour is steve grasso from stuart frankel. Weve got to stop meeting like this i know, i know. We talked about this last night on fast money 5. Whats going to happen if theres no trade deal . Whats going to happen if the deal is extended and whats going to happen if a deal gets done there are three scenarios. Quickly walk us through each one. If the deal gets done, the market shoots higher but its only phase i of a deal. So i think it has a lot more ammo in its ability to move the market progressively higher from there. Nobody
Date trade tensions resurface as china rebukes the decision to sign a bill backing protests in hong kong. And retail front and center as we get forecasts from adobe and the National Retail federation, forecasting strong Holiday Spending joining us for the hour is allied chief Investment Strategy lindsey bell here we go, a shortened day today but a lot of excitement. Whats driving the action . Well, you know, there is lower volumes today. Coming into the end of november, going into december, this is the seasonally strong period of the year earnings season was a good one retail sales pretty good retail earnings were good even though a mixed bag and so i think were in the period of pause until the new year. What are you paying close attention to today. Well, today, i think its really all about this is black friday about the retail environment and the consumer theyve been very confident, wages going up Unemployment Rate very low, near 50year lows can the strength of the consumer driving th
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