Whats at stake for them and tech investing the Halftime Report starts right now. Welcome good to have you with us on this tuesday. Our Investment Committee with us lets start with the markets theyve been up for three straight quarters. The s ps largest gain over that period since 97 the question is what comes next . You tell me what comes next, pete the economy doesnt look good. Looks like it slowed down more and slowing more. No doubt about it. I think the interesting thing is tony dwyer had a nice note out talking about the mini recessions hes talking about this one continuing to be a mini recession and looking for opportunities. Saying it looks like maybe this is an opportunity in terms of buying after this selloff today. Have we had a nice start in terms of September September was absolutely fantastic. Financials were rocketing to the upside technology continues to be a strong spot except f. A. N. G some of those f. A. N. G. Names, especially netflix leading to the down side. But y
Francine good afternoon if you are watching from asia. This was a couple of days after the news from the saudi attack on the infrastructure of saudi aramco. Bank raised its benchmark rate to 1. 50. They had flagged they would raise rates. Wereeason why people questioning whether they would do it is because the World Economy is more uncertain than a couple of months ago and you see a lot more dovishness from the ecb and the fed. Toit is quite difficult raise Interest Rates in this kind of environment. Eurodollar at 1. 1, and because it has been a very big week in oil, we have a look at the oil price. Norwegian krone on the back of raised, having a significant move to 9. 85. , we speak to the governor of the norwegian central bank. Dont miss that interview just after 10 30 a. M. London time. Lets get straight to bloomberg first word news in your city. New sanctions against iran are coming. This is from President Donald Trump in response to the attack on a key oil facility. Michael pompeo
Weakest number in 17 years. This is below that number. Retail sales also weaker than expected. The expectation was for 7. 9. You are looking at 7. 5 year on year for august. Again, below the july number as well. In terms of fixed asset investment, we are focused on the private sector and estate sector, also missing the surveys. 5. 5 . The survey had 5. 7 . So this is pretty weak data. In terms of retail data, we have seen month on month auto sales for example, a big component and retail sales, falling almost double digits. In terms of Industrial Production you have seen the impact of tariffs, but this awes this august that it doesnt account for the additional tariffs in september so that will be a further drag. Domestically you have weak demand as well. Investment, some economists suspected a step up in terms of local governance and the issue of special bonds to fuel additional estate sector investments. It doesnt look like that has spread through. Across the board this is a miss. In,
More precious than faang, the one surprising investment thats making some more money than all the top tech names that you know its thursday, august 29th and Worldwide Exchange begins right now. If the black keys cant get you going, i cant help you friends. Good morning, good afternoon, good evening, where where ever in the world youre watching look at this, dow futures are soaring up 209 points right now. They were not like this a couple of hours ago futures made a dramatic move around 3 00 a. M. New york time this morning, look at that boom, were muddling along down a couple of points this is at the same time that the Chinese Commerce minister, china opposes any more escalation of a trade war. They hope the United States will show sincerity and concrete action adding both trade teams have been in touch and are working to create conditions for what they call successful negotiation. Futures were up 209 right now. The bond market is not moving as much on the headlines. Yield still low, a
Point. Hang seng was up more and in europe theres active trading taking place with the early hours and youll also see that there are, well, its a bit of a mixed picture. Stocks are slightly weaker across the rest of the continent there. In the treasury yields here in the United States, thats what we continue to watch closely theres questions about what the fed does next and right now the ten year picked up a little bit of steam its 2. 073 . The ten year at 1. 584 so about 1. 5 and then the two year, look at that 1. 558 so no inversion at this point and you are seeing a little bit of gains in the yields. Thats a pretty big move. A quick move back. Right were not following it that closely. And the 30 year is well above 2 i think just psychologically its always like this but we give it to up days not just us but the collective we theres a point we were down 250 but we only ended up down 250. Right. But we did 372 yesterday but its very its the biggest two days of gains you have seen for s