Tens of billions of dollars. You said thats it thats the top of tech the nasdaq was 4400 that week uber High Valuation Companies and use that as your justification to reposition your portfolio. Im not fan of it. Doesnt really work. It makes for better tv than it does for portfolio you dont take a step back and say its 100 times sales this thing has an incredible first day and you dont take a pause. Its not the whole landscape and say i dont think this is good weve seen a million kpaemexs of this. Its not in the s p 500. Investors dont own this in their 401 k its not an important stock. Its a great stock to watch fp lets address it in those terms. Now the stock is getting crowbared. Kramer makes a point. We have this tweet he had on nvidia as well and zoom. It underscores, if you will, i think, very well the landscape and what may be a pull back in some of these loved names especially over the last few months for what its worth, i dont know what octa does. I think that is indicative too
Cruise ship is being treated with an experimental drug made by Gilead Sciences. Hes in the Nebraska Medical Center in omaha. Overseas, virus cases linked to italy have spread to five other European Countries, and virus cases linked to iran have spread to iraq, afghanistan, kuwait, oman, lebanon and bahrain. Brazil is testing a man who recently visited italy. If a second test is positive, it would be the first case in latin america. Health secretary azar told congress quote, we cannot hermetically seal off the United States. The cdc says its not if it arrives, but when. Worldwide, economies are slowing, there is a fear of association with anyone who may have been in any way near a Virus Outbreak. Some borders are closing, flights canceled, hotels with any possible carriers, locked down. All right. Now lets show you the markets. Its all over the place. The dow at one point very early this morning was down over, well over 400 points. Now weve got a green arrow showing maybe a gain of 60 p
And apple named a top pick for 2020 the tech titan is on pace for its best year in a decade and one wall street analyst has five reasons it can continue to outperform its our call of the day the Investment Committee is ready to go. Halftime report starts right now. Welcome, everybody. Its good to have you with us on this friday. Your Investment Committee to wrap out the week. Jim . John and carrie. One of the top 100 investment advise advisers congrats thank you number 25 top 100 top quarter according to my math thank you the overall markets, the nasdaq is trying for its 10 th straight day of gains. If that happens it would be the first time thats happened in a decade so its great. People are buying stocks feels like almost like theyre worried about just gooing it up, santa clo santa claus rally, whatever you want to call it, but im worried about next week. Thats legitimate to be worried about it, but lets not worry too much lets be joyous and expect to ring in the new year with sp ent
Welcome. Our Investment Committee is at the table today. We begin with shares of target on pace now for the best year since the mid 1970s. Shares are up 89 year to date pete, naturally im coming to you first. We always joke about your relationship with brian cornell. You are friends. Yep youve pitched this stock for about as long as i can remember and youve been dead right and you deserve credit for that. Wow i appreciate that. They keep performing. But the reality is go back a year ago, stock was trading in the 60s when brian said we see strength everybody talks about recession and all the Different Things out there that are the boogeyman, but he never brought that up he continued to pound the table that the consumer is strong. And you look at each one of these Quarterly Earnings results, and just the last one that they had, their numbers were off the charts then once again he talked about Margin Expansion and the strong consumer they have just been executing the right way. And they m
Up more than 80 and its been named the best idea for 2020 well debate in our call of the day. The Investment Committee is ready to go, Halftime Report starts right now welcome. Good to have you with us on this tuesday. Our Investment Committee here with us today. Lets begin with the markets all three of the major averages setting new records today. Stocks going for their 25th record close of the year joe, momentum etf, growth etf, value etf, the text spider, industrial spider all new interday highs today, albeit briefly. Diverse rally, dispersion thats what you want in the market it has these rolling bull markets. Today its about bond proxies, yesterday pete and i were talking about financials and alltime highs technology is strong, it continues to roll into one sector to another youre talking about a melt up were in the process of melting up weave been melting up for the better part of three weeks now were getting retail names some interesting stories you have some names coming back t