Concerns over software and tech stocks lower weve been up, down, all around for the markets today. As we stand, though, with 59 minutes, were higher on the dow, lower on the s p. Joining us for the full hour, from capital usa, keith, good afternoon to you. Thank you, wilf. Earnings been Strong Enough so far or have they been resoundingly strong this week . Theyve been strong so far. I think the markets have been less than vigorous, shall we say, the last couple of months i think well enter a period less vigorous than it was before thats going to be a key component for how we evaluate the economy and market Going Forward. Lets check in on the markets. S p 500 down by about 0. 1 and the dow higher by four points so far. Retail sales, and eamon javers has the latest on trade lets start with wilf on the banks. Bank of america reported this morning. They continue to feed from yesterday, the impact of low rates, while negative, has been less bad than feared that interest margin was down only
Former dallas fed president Richard Fisher is with us live and we are hours from a key report from netflix. Which way is this stock going to move the Investment Committee is ready to go. The Halftime Report starts right now. A lot of good questions there. Of course, its good to have you with us on this wednesday. We have a very good Investment Committee as usual for you jim leventhal, steve weis, jonny in najarian. Not for investors, not for today. Csx shares derailed. Investors suffering their worst day in more than a decade. A lot to unpack here lets get to frank who has been following the story since last night. You were just talking about economic indicators. The economy is strong. Retail sales strong. Unemployment at record lows. Inflation not a worry. But their new fears of a freight recession. Now csx, lowering guidance from 1 to 2 growth to a 1 to 2 decline, largely due to weaker demand for domestic and export coal and the everpresent trade tensions first half volumes fell 4 ce
Wilfred frost. Lets check on Global Markets because we are on this friday seeing gains, at least on the futures side of things you can see futures pointing to a higher open, the s p up by about six points, the dow up by about 78 and the nasdaq up by about 13 points overall. Lets get a check on the fixed income markets on the treasury side specifically with the tenyear u. S. Treasury note, yields are 2. 362 , a little lower than they have been over the last couple of days. So the Interest Rate picture taking a little bit more clarity given the feds Interest Rate hike and some commentary about the future still, though, yields in focus, especially for those financials, courtney. Lets look at whats going on around the world in trading. So take a look at what happened in asia overnight. Mostly lower, as you can see the south korean kospi is the one outlier higher by about 0. 5 the hang seng was the biggest laggard, down 1 a lot of focus on whats going on here in the u. S. When it comes to o
Out. A little bit of brinksmanship, or brinkmanship, i should say, as joe corrected me. Less is more there are a couple more brinks, a couple senators youve got to wonder about. Okay, then. What happens with Susan Collins, what happens with lee from utah, who said hes undecided lee who mike lee . Oh, mike lee. Who wanted got two first names its confusing i dont trust people with two first names. Do you yes, generally. You do . Yeah. I think its confusing. Well youve got three, youre fine. Ive got three, three names some people say andrew ross, two first names, even though no, im talking about when your last name is a first name. Chris christie . Theres a lot of them, bill george, ted david. I just made that one up. I dont really think there is a person by that name. All right, lets look at what else has been happening in the markets. The tenyear note, one weve been paying attention to, too. Earlier this week you saw the tenyear pushing above 2. 4 , but now were back below 2. 36 . A cou