For hedge funds. The Investment Committee is ready to go. Halftime report starts right now. Welcome. Good to have you back with us on this friday. We have a super sized Investment Committee, josh brown, jon fortt, steve wise, meghan shoe is here, kate moore, also with us today, deproveco lake owes. Lets win with the market stocks as we know by now are lower. It is the move in key areas like bonds that we are watching very closely today. Kate moore, ten year hits 145. The ten i dont remember keeled down 30 to date 30 year yield record low is this a sign that a Tipping Point for stocks is in fact closer i dont think so many things have been affecting the bond market. The liquidity push from Central Banks into the bond market i dont think we should take too much signal from yields today and say at this point we are at an inflection and that equity markets have tosell off as a result everyone is looking for an excuse there is a lot of uncertainty, a lot of anxiety about the move we have ha
Welcome, good to have you with us on this new years eve tuesday. Our Investment Committee here today, joe, josh, jim and amy is back the chief Investment Officer of Chevy Chase Trust and one of barrons top 50 registered Investment Advisers for 2019 we begin with the markets. Stocks are trying to end a great year with another day in the green. Bouncing from the worst day in four weeks we do have big news today from one of our very own, hes making a move on a stock that hes been a big believer in for a big part of this decade. Josh brown, selling twitter. Im out feels good. First time out since the ipo in 2013. Tell us the reasoning. First of all, happy new year and thank you for ending your no, im telling the viewers, happy new year by the way, this is completely filled with gray goose, so take everything i have to say with a grain of salt. I got out of twitter today with a very small profit. I had been adding in the 20s, i owned some as high as 40 around the ipo. It has not worked out.
Is there a misprice in the market half ha the Halftime Report begins right now. Welcome, our Investment Team at the table today kourtney gibsons back, the president of loop capital markets. Also with us, the head of u. S. Equity strategies as jpmorgan. We begin where we usually do, the markets. Stocks looking to build on their gains in june. So much riding on whether the fed will cut Interest Rates or in the very least attempt to signal in their next meeting next week. Steve weiss, 2 from highs on the s p. Can we get there without a rate cut or signal that one is coming absolutely we can get there the market is trending up. The down days werent really down they were sort of nonevents. Up days had been much more significant. The market just wants to go higher, thats the bottom line look, it all comes down to trade. Thats the only thing that will matter as long as you get any breath about the market being positive, as the president last night, hey, i have no deadline for tariffs, the mar
Can the consumer hold up the economy . Or will a Strong Economy give the fed cause to raise rates one more time . Kelly . That is the question. Lets get a check on markets, tyler. Because we changed direction once again. Perhaps because of that concern about another fed hike now. The dow is down 77. The s p 11 both quarter percent drops. The nasdaq down under more pressure down half a percent. Is it rates or the fact that the chips have been one of the weakest trades today. Share of nvidia falling after the u. S. Puts new trade restrictions on chips exported to china. Its specifically targets some of nvidias most cutting edge products. Those shares down 5 today. More on that in just a moment. And activists are getting more active. Engaged capital built a stake in the company up 13 . Down 33 for the year. Wyndham hotels says its rejecting a takeover offer from choice hotels. Wyndham saying the deal involved significant Business Risks a nond in the best interest of shareholders. Wyndham
Comments and europe is mostly green and Oil Continues its run above 66 our road map begins with industrial earnings from cat and 3m and numbers from ford well dig in. The president is switzerland, well hear from him this morning and then an interview with our own joe kernan. And futures are up in the premarket on the rally this morning. Earnings news, lifting a pair of do you components, caterpillar with its Fourth Quarter results and issuing up beat guidance due to growth in the Construction Business 3m with q 4 results, increasing the dividend by 15 . Cat is the story this will be an all time high. They are talking about strong order rates, lean inventories and increasing backlog and this is all before we see the framework of the infrastructure, bill. Talk about two stocks that are kind of encapsulated, all of the themes for a long time its the kind of global reflation growth spot and also the theme of analysts not just being able to catch up to exactly how much earnings are going to