With betterthanexpected earnings and you have what we have today, dow gaining 103, nasdaq, boy,. 70 nice when we finally get to the point we can focus on individual enterprises, we would be surprised at how well these enterprises are doing. Hallelujah so far, so good but next week was way too many jampacked earnings to keep track of, except for me. Let me give you highlights monday is expected to be a downer but im looking for a reason to buy, so thats at t. You might get a chance to by this midland quality phone company, yes, you heard me, once we scrutinize what will probably be bountiful cash flow from the time warner acquisition. We also hear from the one retailer that may disappoint us, amazon it used to be cv sfrmt but i think cvs are fine because they went and bought aetna. Then alphabet reported i cant remember the last time alphabet reported a clean quarter. Its always confusing. After the minoritysohot numbers from twitter, i fear another headscratcher who matters now . I car
The stock getting hit today despite a big upgrade. Should you buy on this drop . Its our call of the day Halftime Report starts right now. Welcome, good to have you with us on this wednesday. What a big day it is our Investment Committee is here joe, steve, carrie, we begin with the latest in the markets where stocks are clearly waiting on the fed i was going to go to you first, weiss, but you should. Go to weiss. Penalty box sometimes its best not to lean in, steve. What has to happen today in thats what i want to know first. What has to happen today powell has to come out and not be overly hawk in what he is p projecting for the economy so you have to have a cut and you have to have a dovish cut. You have to have a dovish cut. I think that we have a market that could be disappointed after today. I think a lot has been priced in in terms of the construct of the market itself. Lets keep in mind in january of 18, you had a cyclical pique. In september of 18, you had the fang pique and i
We should also note that yield curves around the world are feeling the pressure as well we did have on friday the german bund, the 10year, falling to its lowest level ever. As for the asian markets, the nikkei down by 1. 75 hang seng also pressured by what is going on in hong kong in terms of the protests there, down 3 . Shaun hi shanghai down 1. 6 in europe, red arrows across the board. Dax is down 1. 35 . Ftse down, as well we have a stronger dollar against the major currencies weaker crude, wti down 0. 7 . Brent down 0. 75 . Couple safe haven trades working this morning, gold prices are up. They actually have been on a great run. They were under 1300 about two months ago you see them up only slightly, little less than 1 , probably because they had been so strong lately not a lot of oomph year. Bitcoin also getting a little bit of a boost right here. Obviously, a lot of capital and motion across borders. That could help the sentiment toward bitcoin you see it up 7 at 11,750 lets talk
The United States makes major policy decisions based on the day to day action in the stock market is it wrong when he puts his thumb on the scales of favor of the bulls . When i say that trump is the most stock market sensitive president in modern history, im talking about days like today where the dow jumped 372 points, s p surged 1. 48 and the nasdaq went 1. 95 all because the president delayed some key tariffs that were supposed to go into effect on september 1st instead, certain important items like laptops, like cell phones are now exempt until december 15th so at the very least, Many Companies have more time to adjust and maybe they never get hit at all if the chinese agree to make real concessions why did he do it i think President Trump soaw the market melting down yesterday. Right on the heels of a major pull back on friday. And he took action to turn things around. After all, he does want to get reelected next year. Its easy to do when stocks are in great shape if you own sto
We need fed chief jay powell to listen to last nights big, bad Conference Call from csx thats a railroad. Or this mornings report from aerospace texron that showed a weakness in almost always Robust Aerospace sector or tonight, surprisingly not so hot guidance from united rentals, the Equipment Rental company at the same time, we need to innor ti ignore the bank Conference Calls from bank of america on the heels of the major bank stocks that have been good. Certainly happen we got lets hope he stays away from any Conference Call in the red hot airlines sector. Why . Because we have two economies and right now out of scn krrks nrks krrcn sync if you believe bank of america, j. P. Morgan, citi group, why not, consumers are spending but were taking down a little debt. Paying it off. Based on what is happening in the consumer economy, you could easily make the case for more rate hikes here but the Business Economy is a totally different story. That Conference Call, i have to describe it as