Elected president in my opinion, the market drops 25 . We are americans. We believe in making these investments to create lots of opportunity. We are happy to do it. All were saying is if you make it big, i mean really big, i mean one tenth of 1 big, pitch in two cents so everybody else gets a chance to make it now lets welcome in Lee Cooperman, joining us today from florida, should let you know we invited senator warren to take part in this conversation with us today and we have not heard back from her campaign Lee Cooperman, as you can see is here its good to see you thanks. Youve created all the problems for me the whole thing started at delivering alpha im not a political analyst, im a financial analyst. It was your words, not mine, lee. Yeah. The only i would like to modify my words a little bit first of all, i want to say the significance of an event for the stock market is a function of what the stock market is discounting at the time the event occurs the market at 3,050 whereve
Because something looks like it is. That will be deemed a victory. Do you share that . I agree. Even a mini victory will be great for the markets. That is priced in. People are so nervous about a trade war. Businesses and consumers are holding back investing cash right now. 3 trillion sitting in money market fund, the highest in history. People are still neil 3 trillion in money market . Correct. Neil like money under the mattress. That has to be put to work. Money going to put to work. If you get uncertainty lifted that is a whole lot of money going into the markets to lift it higher. Neil the old story of lore, markets in this anticipation might sell on the fact. Where do you think this goes . Certainly this has been an ongoing drama for two years now. Weve seen this movie before. Expectations run high. Then they get dashed. I do think there is some momentum here for at least a truce. Certainly in chinas interest to buy some ago products from the u. S. They have the african swine flu
Percent. Nasdaq down 53. Major Market Indices falling better than 1 yesterday, the selloff coming after surprise decline in Manufacturing Activity after the World Trade Organization cut global trade forecast for the year, we told you about that yesterday, joining us hodges capital manager, craig hodge. What did you make of manufacturing data and what do you think that tells us about the economy and the markets. Its obviously not positive, we put all the manufacturing, its only ahird of the economy, we are a service economy, consumer is over 70 , one data p, as we go, the consumer what youre talking about the jobs and payroll, that would be more important as we go along. Maria look at the reaction, we have been talking about manufacturing weakening for a little while, dagen, but the market was sizable decline on this news. Dagen because this index contracted in august and expect today rebound above 50 plus and came much worse than expected, worse than literally every estimate that was o
Lets take a look at what is happening in asia too. Those markets were closed. Hang seng off by. 1 and the shanghai up about a quarter percent. Youll see at this hour, slight gains across the board italy up three major averages up. 1 to. 2 . The tenyear is yielding 1. 772 . The 30year at 1. 28. We were just talking about all of this. All of those moves made. Pretty confusing to figure out what was happening and why i think there are a lot of people looking at a lot of these small events and does it have bigger implications. In this environment where everyone is feeling uncertain. I think these fractures make more people nervous. Whether this is a bigger issue, i will know this weighs on investors sieky i had a 2007, summer of 2007 bnp scare. There was maybe 2 billion that was frozen, sub prime and there was a freak out. At the time, it didnt feel meaningful this is the first time the fed stepped in the only time they did this was in the middle of a crisis. Thats right. This is a warning
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