Francine, went up 15 . That was the kind of move we saw. Last night, and a lot of people missed this in america, exhausted from the election, we nestor8 00 or 9 00 p. M. , barr making these statements. I would suggest this mr. Barr mr. Barr making these statements. He was extremely careful. Every word was chiseled out. For me the headline is the 20year veteran of this under election crimes, mr. Pilger, a herk to james moody, resigned. To me that is the real headline. Francine it is a huge deal and we are trying to figure out what this means for the Republican Party and the strategy possible there. Stephanie baker says it could have something to do with the Senate Election in georgia. We will have plenty more on that. Lets get to first word news with ritika gupta. Ritika President Trumps attorney general, william barr, will let the Justice Department investigate potential voting irregularities in the president ial election. But barr has acknowledged there is no conclusive evidence and w
Short bet. Traders take their positions fast money Halftime Report starts right now all right welcome. Big show today our Investment Committee is here joe, stephanie, josh brown lets begin with the markets those comments from paul jones, what he told cnbc in daf as about what he calls the explosion driving markets. We are just again in the crazies craziest monetary mix in history. Its explosive it defies imagination. And i dont think anything is changed. It reminds me a lot of early 99. So early 99 we had 1. 6 pce 2. 3 cpi we had ex act same metrics today. Thats out in davos josh brown, turn to you. Answer the question. Time to worry or party like its 99 i think most investors are doing a little bit of both the data does not show that any segment of investors, whether talking about institutions, hedge funds, retail, Family Office foundation, there is nobody out there right now acting in word or indeed as though its 1999 you just dont see that form of euphoria out there in the market do
Lets take a look at what is been helping foment further gains across the asiapacific. That is the futures contract for the s p up to tens, hang seng three tens of 1 . And the nikkei has buoyed a bit. Also the topix doing rather well. We have a cna a tad week. Looking at that as we do. Also the yen, and the boj. 41 day since the boj came in and bought a sizable chunk of stocks in the japanese market. Someat stealth tapering, people are arguing because the yield on the 10 years unchanged. The yield has been lurching lower eight basis points. Weekhas been put less a and see what is going on in regard to the haven stages. The learn not willing to look at and take on risk right now. This is of course after the Election Results or we saw the landslide victory when it comes to democratic camp. She was talking about how she is ready to listen and stands by previous stances on protest demands. People who felt that our government has not handled, deadly the legislative exercise and its aftermath
Strikes. Iran has a Cyber Strategy of its own. How they are attacking u. S. Banks online. The continued back and forth between beijing and washington has put text squarely in the crosshairs of the trade war, impacting Companies Like apple, huawei and more. A new article details how chinas tech sector is insulated from exposure to the u. S. On many fronts. China has seen a surge in chip imports. Now more than 300 billion. For more on the trade wars ongoing impact on tech in both countries, we spoke to bloomberg techs ian king and our Global Executive editor brad stone. Ian esoteric parts like broadcoms switch chip, more common parts like an intel microprocessor or an amd graphics chip, china really cant replicate those yet. They have been trying for years and it just has not come close. Emily why not . Ian it is difficult. When you are arranging tens of billions of transistors on something the size of a postage stamp, you kind of have to know what you are doing. And making them costs so
Drone, and the Trump Administration responds with a cyber attack. But iran has a Cyber Strategy of its own. How they are attacking u. S. Banks online. First, to our top story, the continued back and forth between beijing and washington has put tech squarely in the crosshairs of the trade war, impacting Companies Like apple, huawei, and many more. A new article in Bloomberg Businessweek details how chinas tech sector is mostly insulated from exposure to the u. S. On many fronts, but there is one area where it is still dependent semiconductors. Over the last decade plus, china has seen a surge in chip imports. Now more than 300 billion. For more on the trade wars ongoing impact on tech in both countries, we spoke to Bloomberg Bloomberg techs ian king and our Global Executive editor brad stone. Ian esoteric parts like broadcoms switch chip, more common parts like an intel microprocessor or an amd graphics chip, china really cant replicate those yet. They have been trying for years and it