Some fears over china trade. Retail sails topped expectations in october, climbing by 0. 3 and oil pointed to surging Global Demand in the quarter. Joining us is lindsey bell thanks for joining us. Good afternoon. We mentioned on track for three record alltime closing highs at the moment and also on track for the sixth week in a row of gains for the s p thats a remarkable run. It is absolutely a remarkable run and theres a few things that have gotten us here we have more clarity on the fed. Theyve cut for the third time and theyre willing to maintain the stance where they are right now, keeping rates where they are. The Third Quarter earnings season was very good and weve seen an easing of trade tensions while theres a little bit of uncertainty there, that could rattle the markets going into the end of the year. All things understood, the economic environment though does still feel pretty good. Lets focus on the big stories we are watching today. Kayla has details on those china trade
Sometimes the glass shrinking a half full vessel look like it is overflowing and this is where we areright now and this, after todays session dow closed flat, s p up 6 and nasdaq up. And lets start with the thing that we all know which is the half full half empty this morning disney launched the new streaming service diocese plus and immediately overwhelmed with traffic and started having outages even though management assured us the technology was solid on the Conference Call last week. We were told they tested the system in the netherlands which must be a new worldwide peoria but it reminds me of hamsterdam. They botched the roll out of a promising new service but the Glass Half Full people think differently. Sure the site crashed but that is because there was so much demand and traffic diocese vetted this platform for millions of people and that wasnt enough. It is not hard to believe it has so much great content that it caused a stampede of subscribers. In reality both are right. B
Just because a deal gets done that doesnt mean it will make sense. The dow finished flat, s p advanced 0. 7 , we need to address the merger mania because this market was dominated by deals today. Both real and imagined before we get into the weeds let melee out my position for you. I love mergers and acquisitions. The higher the stock market goes and it reduces the supply of stock floating around and anything that takes out supply is good news even if its applied to buy backs, however, i dont love speculating on mergers and acquisitions especially when acting on a tip as always, i say tips are for waiters if youre not for sure a deal is coming, Accurate Information is illegal. If you dont know, then youre just gambling. My rule of thumb never bet on a stock because of the speculation, only buy a stock of a company with healthy fundamental. Any potential deal activity lets say thats gravy which brings me to todays action this morning david faber reported that xerox wants to buy hp ink w
Flight shaming is on the rise and one analyst says they will take a bigger hit than wall street expects as power lunch begins now welcome. Tomstoc stocks are under some pressure now. S p 500 back towards 30. Were still less than a percent away from record highs apple, one bright spot the stock is up after 2 well have much more on this later this hour. Kelly. That weak manufacturing gave us stocks lower today. Is it just pause on the race to more record highs or will recession fears hold us back again. Chinese officials skeptical as the u. S. Might not be able to do a long term deal. Its trade related this is whats happening today you could see this in the revers reversal the fed engineering has really helped banks for this month. Look down today and it says late yesterday and thats creating havoc with banks they have been big market leaders all throughout the month of october were seeing very heavy volume market concerns. We had some very light volume. Well see if that changes today. W
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