This coming out of china this morning. The Unemployment Rates surge to 6. 2 in china, and bank of japan is boosting stimulus this morning doubling stocks purchases. They are buy equities at the bank of japan because yield and tenure fall this morning. Were down 18 basis is point on the tenure at. 800 . Over this 200 coronavirus cases now here in america. West virginia, the only state with no known cases. More school ises are closing major restrictions are being put on businesses and travel. The cdc urging no gatherings of more than 50 people. Vaccine trials meanwhile are starting today. That is one certainly note of optimism. Trump declared National Emergency urging americans against hoarding as Grocery Store is shelveses are emptying out. The president taking part in a Video Conference of with g7 lead percent today to coordinate a response to the coronavirus pandemic. Meanwhile this, senate is expected to vote in coronavirus release bill today. They were there late until 1 a. M. Frida
Strategy right now, less is more i dont think you want to be aggressively making adjustments to your portfolio. Myself, personally, i look at my Energy Exposure and look that i have a high correlation to the price of Oil Moving Higher i also have one oak. I suggested in the last couple days exposure to refiners. If the price of oil is going to move higher, im wrong in that suggestion what i have done is i have added sun corps. Why did i do that . Because if there is a need to tap production outside the middle east or United States, we look up north. The canadians have that. A canadian oil play. The chinese can access that, as well i think thats the right strategy i sold out of capital one. Why . I dont like where were sitting right now in terms of yield and the ism manufacturing, that was not a good number. So, too much exposure to financials gave up capital one. Took that cash and put it into suncor but less is more. Lets focus the impact of what we had overnight in the middle east. J
Friday, an incredibly strong job market and an economy. Maria bingo. Dagen i want to point out, there was a Consumer Sentiment report that came out from the university of michigan on friday, seven month high on Consumer Sentiment. Virtually none of the respondents, zero, or 1 of the respondents mentioned impeachment. You have wages that are growing in the november report for production and nonsupervisory workers, the growth in wages was near a post recession high, up 3. 7 . Thats higher than the overall growth rate of 3 . What does that mean . It means that income inequality is shrinking in this country. Thats what people feel. Thats what if anybody you talk to, theyre not talking about impeachment, theyre not talking about oh, what did trump say and wringing their hands about that. They know they can get a better job, they know they can get higher wages. Maria thats absolutely right. Dagen theres safety and security in their finances. Thats what matters. Maria incomeen equality, ive b
Ideas. The Investment Committee is ready to go. The Halftime Report starts right now. It is did to hais good to hh us joe terranovterranova joins us lets kick it off with stocks. Record highs for the major averages, volatility, the lowest since the summer the question now does it clear the decks for a major move higher by the end of the year, josh brown, that question goes to you first hey, judge, how is it going how are you heres the big picture. Take the s p and the dow out of it look at the etf for atwx, global stocks without the United States in it, or look at the efa index, theyre both hanging at new highs. That is something that not a lot of people expected going into this year. There was a conversation about how the trade war would be damaging to europe and brexit would be damaging to britain what if i told you german stock market is up 25 year to date, japan is up 17 , the United Kingdom is up 28 . You wouldnt have expected those things to be happening that back drop is importa
Senator Bernie Sanders and senator Elizabeth Warren at the debate last night tackling topics like Climate Change, tariffs and trade. You outcompete them and put chief manufacturing officer in place to make sure we rebuild the manufacturing base, we have to fill the factories, we have to fill them with workers that are making batteries, charging stations, making sure making solar panels. Senator warrens plan basically that she would put out we would not be able to trade with the United Kingdom. We would not be able to trade with the eu, its so extreme. Thank you, congressman. What the congressman is describing as extreme is having deals negotiated by the American Workers for American Workers. American workers want those jobs and we can build the trade deals that do it, people want access to our markets all around the world, then the answer is lets make them raise their standards, let their workers unionize, Environmental Standards before they come to us and say they want to be able to s