This market . I mean, look, i will tell you in a month you know all we know is that the market was relatively high based on relative optimism and the optimism has been punctured. Is it terminal who knows. A mean a few weeks ago the market had a bad day on coronavirus. A monday ago it had a bad day on iran will it be long term or short . Nobody knows. People sort of throw around terms like black swan event and waiting for those types of thing to really cause a dramatic market selloff does it feel to you in your gut through all the markets you have seen that this is the kind of thing that could evolve into that as long as you use the word could. It has the potential to be that kind of thing, a catalyst. But you know, will the you know, its its on fear now you know a week ago, people were talking about containment. Now they are talking about contention now they are talking about italy, and you know, moving beyond china so i think that, you know, in one of my memos bryn knows all the memos
For hedge funds. The Investment Committee is ready to go. Halftime report starts right now. Welcome. Good to have you back with us on this friday. We have a super sized Investment Committee, josh brown, jon fortt, steve wise, meghan shoe is here, kate moore, also with us today, deproveco lake owes. Lets win with the market stocks as we know by now are lower. It is the move in key areas like bonds that we are watching very closely today. Kate moore, ten year hits 145. The ten i dont remember keeled down 30 to date 30 year yield record low is this a sign that a Tipping Point for stocks is in fact closer i dont think so many things have been affecting the bond market. The liquidity push from Central Banks into the bond market i dont think we should take too much signal from yields today and say at this point we are at an inflection and that equity markets have tosell off as a result everyone is looking for an excuse there is a lot of uncertainty, a lot of anxiety about the move we have ha
Cooperman joins us for the hour. 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 today, josh brown, stephanie link also with us from boynton beach, florida, leon cooperman, we will get to the selloff in the market today, the fall off for apple first a story thats new at noon today. It is a new position position for David Teppers appaloosa intel sat is negotiate with the fcc. Tepper writing the governments proposal is quote manifestly unfair to the company in part because the terms are difficult to meet. Tepper projecting accepting the proposal would take on serious financial risk he wants a new agreement with the fcc or face the possibility of bankruptcy or litigation from shareholders i spoke with tepper. He said, quote, he want a smart agreement for all parties and this isnt smart for anybody you can see the stock there is a big mover today, up more than 17 . It has been a lose
S p indicated down about 4. 5 looks like the 10year is yielding below 1. 6 . 1. 549 well talk about what china did. Loan rates there dropping as the company tries to take on the impact of the coronavirus. Lets get an update now on the coronavirus. The people on the ship, a couple of people did die from the coronavirus. China as we heard cutting its benchmark lending rate that was expected. Authorities looking to boost the market unfortunately, two passengers from the diamond princess cruise have died. The first reported deaths in connection with the ship which was quarantined off the coast of japan nearly two weeks china is again, changing the criteria of confirmed cases adding confusion to tracking going up or down and whether weve seen a peak or close to a peak l brands reportedly selling shares of victorias sek receipt valuing that brand just over 1 billion. This had been expected that theyd pay for it. L brands chairman and ceo will step down as part of the deal but remain on the b
Oil did crack below 39 the s p 500 suffering its worst twoday slide in 4 1 2 years and stocks look to bounce slightly before the open. It is a new era for Disney Bob Iger has stepped down with a lot of questions, of course, why now . Techs tanking in correction territory with high names like alphabet, apple, amazon losing a combined 4 million on consecutive sessions the state department wiped out 1. 7 trillion in gains markets down 6 and jim, 7 on the s p, you think might be time to do something. Its interesting. You have to buy something. The cluster they find in america, i say it that way, got the green light to say it from the cdc and possibility of an ebola situation, remember, we lost someone in texas. That was a problem in texas. Would Something Like that here be shocking . We lost 14,000 people from the regular flu and perhaps the new flu and respiratory illness, its certainly possible. You will read everyday about somebody new and some new area, because the nature of the beast,