Before, and indeed is doing right now with the boston fed itself, running a special fund to back up money markets he says that regulatory changes will allow restructured loans from the banks can be brought to the Federal Reserve and be funded that way, and wont be frowned upon by supervisors, so kind of an encourage from the Bank Survivors to get to the to work with their customers and restructure loans. Finally, says its the need to support essential workers and its the best of times here for the public spirit here let me just talk about this rising unemployment rise dramatically were only looking for 0. 2 of an increase in the friday jobs report, but thats not going to pick up whatwear seeing in the more frequent data we had north of 3 million claims last week. Expectation for tomorrow is north of 3 million as well both of those together would raise the Unemployment Rate quite a bit by itself. So were looking beyond the data, tyler and kelly, because its not necessarily going to pick
Ready to go. Halftime report starts right now. Welcome. Good to have you with us on this monday our Investment Committee at the table today. Lets begin, where else, the markets. All three of the major averages are higher dow would be Even Stronger if not for the boeing drag. But with several major obstacles out of the way, is a melt up now in the cards thats how i look at this, josh. You go down the list and say, all right. You have this trade. Tens tensions are eased for the moment uk elections in the rear view and the fear of maybe missing out and performance chase over two weeks. Yeah. All is good in the market world. This is one of the interesting moments. They dont happen all the time where it almost doesnt matter what you own you could own value and growth and making money in either one theyre still below the old 18 highs but theyre on their way the banks have just broken above the 07 highs. All the mega cap banks look incredible tech is up 48 year to date and now you have europe
Just because a deal gets done that doesnt mean it will make sense. The dow finished flat, s p advanced 0. 7 , we need to address the merger mania because this market was dominated by deals today. Both real and imagined before we get into the weeds let melee out my position for you. I love mergers and acquisitions. The higher the stock market goes and it reduces the supply of stock floating around and anything that takes out supply is good news even if its applied to buy backs, however, i dont love speculating on mergers and acquisitions especially when acting on a tip as always, i say tips are for waiters if youre not for sure a deal is coming, Accurate Information is illegal. If you dont know, then youre just gambling. My rule of thumb never bet on a stock because of the speculation, only buy a stock of a company with healthy fundamental. Any potential deal activity lets say thats gravy which brings me to todays action this morning david faber reported that xerox wants to buy hp ink w
Were going to tell you about the new drug trial results weighing on that company today. Guess how it went. Well, it went well for someone else yeah. Exactly. Box office blues Movie Theater stocks are getting crushed again today. Six superheroes cant even save those shares being very opaque here but well explain coming up in a little bit. First, breaking news, just this afternoon on fed chair janet yellen, our dom chu has more on the story. All right, so guys, Federal Reserve chairman janet yellen will be leaving the fed completely in february and this is what some fed observers say is no real surprise. Fed chair yellens term as chairman expires in february we know this and President Trump has already made his pick to be the next fed head thats current fed governor Jerome Powell, of course, pending confirmation by the senate there had been some speculation around the notion, perhaps, yellen would maintain a presence on the fed board of governors since her term adds a governor of the cen
Getting a carryon of this sanguine sentiment coming through from asia overnight, we had some exuberance yesterday after hitting fresh record highs. Our hopes that we could get up three chris is tax reform surprise prechristmas tax but are concerned about a partial Government Shutdown if a deal is not reached by next week. Over all we are seeing a pickup in the markets. One thing we are watching his commodities. We of course have a situation where it has been a extraordinary bull run when it comes to commodities so far this year and a lot of it has in down demand in china continuing to pick up. We are going to be looking into the question of whether that will be coming to an end, ryan, given that we are seeing the Housing Demand pull off in china cool off and china. In north korea, sanguine reaction when it comes to the equities markets in asia. You can see on the chart, we ave had the increasingly repetitive indications that the missiles have gotten more advanced incapability or nuclea