And small caps are outperforming. Joining us for the hour is steve grasso taken by semis, is is that ahead of micron, g20 . I think that it is a bit of both bullard was not bullish. Market was expecting one thing, not the other. And micron is after the bell, so people are getting ahead of that people so either earnings or semis, chicken or the egg there, but that took us down. Something the bears point to, semiconductors are traditionally a tell on the economy and they are not at record highs. I think that they are still in correction so if you had to poll everyone now within the marketplace, people are going to err on the side of growth is slowing. Cant find anyone that says growth is ratcheting up. So these have been the bullseye for growthand they have been your cautionary tale thus far within the marketplace and with g20 and with china and everything all encompassing. Microsoft also suffering. Ten year back below 2 all factoring into the selloff lets drill into the big stories. We
The Halftime Report begins right now. Welcome good to have you with us on this thursday our Investment Committee at our table, joe terranova, jim lebben thal, John Najarian, Jenny Harrington harringt harrington ceo and portfolio manager. Lets begin on the markets stocks higher on reports of a possible detente in osaka. Kayla tausche on the ground in japan with her own reporting on exactly where things stand right now. Kayla . Scott, both the u. S. And china are trying to manage the narrative of exactly who would stand to get what if there were a truce or a potential deal that emerges from a meeting between President Trump and president xi this week. In a call held earlier this week on monday, between the u. S. Trade representative Bob Lighthizer and the vice premier of china, china was said to ask for a balanced deal, something it has asked for in the past and im told by two sources that ambassador lighthizer responded a balanced deal is not possible because of all of chinas past trans
Was checking in around 6 00 a. M. To squawk box but still looking up road map this morning, it starts with a potential trade boost, stocks as you saw pointing to what would be a pretty good open at least if youre long after treasury secretary mnuchin said there is a path to a deal with china. Plus, trade head winds hitting home, fedex saying the ongoing disputes are creating, quote, significant uncertainty for its business outlook. Micron surging this morning, this on strong Quarterly Results. The chipmaker also resuming some sales to huawei and forecasting demand recovery this year. Stocks are looking to rebound this morning, this after treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin expressed optimism about trade talks in a cnbc interview. Here is what he told hadley gamble in bahrain. Im hopeful we see a deal there needs to be the right efforts in place this isnt a deal for having the sake of a deal we were about 90 of the way there. There is a path to complete this but well see where we get. Quo
Tonight. See if you recognize their names. Weve got the top Economic Issues that will be front and center and Dale Earnhardt jr. Joins us live power lunch starts right now. Stocks are up, after the session highs. The dow up 112 points earlier. Intel, apple, boeing fueling the gains now. There were reports that boeing is in talks to reimburse airlines after that 737 max grounding. Those planes still on the ground, kelly. Thanks. We are just a couple days away from the end of the second quarter. The s p racking up gains, but the gains are getting narrower and narrower bob pisani is on the floor at the nyse bob . The s p is up about 3 this quarter, but its been a super big cap rally. So just take a look. The s p, again, up 3 . The big caps only up. 4 small caps, look at this down for the quarter thats what i mean big cap rally. But the biggest of the big ones are the ones really pushing the markets around in this quarter so look here five stocks, microsoft, facebook, amazon, disney and ap
Big divergence energy and tech not gore man 1 . Health care down more than 1 . Joins us for the full hour jay jacobs good afternoon to you. Thanks for joining us. Whats your takes on the diversity of trade today micron kind of a bellwether . Yeah, what we are seeing in the semispace is a comeback from noo. Whats the best way to play that there have been some hopes what we like the most are Pipeline Companies they dont get paid on the pril of oil, but how much oil is transported through the system its becoming one of the Biggest Oil Producers in the world lets get to all of the stories. Bob pisani is here, jon fortt is covering microns big jump saryers has earnings from generl mills. Bob . Its about oil and Interest Rates. We had a strong drawdown in crude inventories, one of the best we have seen in many years. Thats driving oil prices up, Energy Stocks, including all the biggs production names are up. All the big refiners like marathon and valero also to the up side. The other big sto