Tonights program is a history of americas exceptional idea is part of our Eileen George speaker series. Its great generosity has allowed us to bring so many great speakers to the states i want to thank our chairman councilmembers who were in attendance this evening and thank you for your great support which enables us to do our work. Tonights program will last about one hour and it will include a questionandanswer sessionti. You should have received a note card and pencil as you enter the auditorium this afternoon this evening and if not my colleagues are going up and down the aisle with no cards. Following the program there will be a book signing and are storing s copies of the book wil be available for purchase. Tonight we are thrilled to welcome Richard Brookhiser back to the New York Historical society produces senior fellow at the National Review institute a Senior Editor at the National Review and an author of numerous books including Jon Marshalls the man who made the Supreme Co
Maria joining joining the convn fox business Dagen Mcdowell. Wall street journal assistant page editor james freeman, great to see everybody today. Great to be here. Maria we have the jobs number in 3 and a half hours. Dagen tweet get away last night. Jobs friday. Dagen we root for the american economy. Maria this week the kickoff to the Fourth Quarter, tough one for the economy and for the markets certainly dow industrials this morning looking down about 88 points, s p down 10 and nasdaq down 28, major averages on track since the worst week in august, investors waiting on jobs report, the expectations call for 125,000 jobs to have been added to the economy in the month of september with tun employment rate Holding Steady at 3. 7 , we are looking at this week that was tough because of manufacturing, ism data, the Manufacturing Sector weakening, but lets not forget this market is pretty close to alltime high. I think its 23 where it closed on christmas eve, 2018, as far as the job repor
Ready to go. The Halftime Report starts right now. It is great to have you with us on this wednesday our Investment Committee today, joe terranova, jon and pete najarian, carrie firestone, kevin oleary, and also with us on set, Kathy Entwistle weve got a full house of advice today. Stocks on track to recover their losses from last week. Being driven by strong earnings from target and lowes target hitting alltime highs topping 100 bucks for the first time ever. Do we continue to bet on this consumer, carrie are there enough unknowns in the back half of the year to make you cautious its a great question and what the market has been telling you for the last year is that its a battle its a tugofwar between deal or no deal recession or no recession. Interest rates up or down. And do we put the money in the mattress or the market this week its the market. So if you have earnings growth, which weve been seeing this quarter, and the consumer is strong, people forget that we dont have a trade d
The Investment Committee is ready to go. The halftime quart rotes starts right now. Welcome, good to have you with us on this tuesday. Joe, brothers najarian and Courtney Gibson the president of loop markets the stocks were positive not so much any more because yields are very much the story, yet again, steve this dazed and confused market as we said at the top. Doesnt know what to make what is going on in the current environment and neither does wall street because the notes and the advice being passed around today is at odds. So, when you invest in a stock, you want the reward to outweigh the risk. You know there is risk to everything you do. And you know that youve got to talk about a time frame and have one in mind. Here, i just think very uninvestful market and a best in balance and anything favoring the down side. Multiple expansion to get us to the levels where we are. Earnings have come down meaningfully and the markets held levels just 18 months ago when china was not so front
Giant as oil jumps today is this beaten down sector finally about to move up the Investment Committee is ready to go. The Halftime Report with scott wapner begins right now. Welcome our Investment Committee today, joe terranova, steve weis, john and Pete Najarian. Lets begin with the markets and that semi surge. The chips on pace to close above a key level. Their 50day moving average for the First Time Since early may still a long way to go to get back to the highs but, pete, if this is legit, it could be extremely positive for the overall market it sure could people were leaning on this. This is exactly why this particular name moving everybody else, micron, thats why it was beaten down as much as it was. You look at yearoveryear numbers, this is abysmal but they priced in the fact they werent looking year over year but for this quarter can they beat, and they did. They beat on earnings and on revenue by a little bit, not a lot. And you look at the company. We all talk about valuation