Leave big tech for long. Look at this. Apple is back up by 7. Microsoft, 3. 50. Amazon, thats up 40 bucks. Alphabet up 21. Facebook up nearly five. Solid gains. Got it. All right. Its 6 00 on the west coast and the people of seattle are waking up to a full scale insurrection. I use that word deliberately because thats what it is. The capitol hill district in the city is now known as chaz. That is the capitol hill autonomous zone. Police officers have abandoned their precinct, the anarchists are in charge and the mayor says its not terrorism, its patriotism. You ever think an American City would cede control willingly to anarchy . It just happened. Varney company is about to begin. They dont straighten that situation out, were going to straighten it out. What i mean is very simple. Were not going to let seattle be occupied by anarchists. Were not going to let this happen in seattle. If we have to go in, were going to go in. The governors either going to do it, let the governor do it. He
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Investment committee is ready to go Halftime Report starts right now. Welcome good to have you with us on this thursday, the first trading day of 2020. Our Investment Committee here today. Lets begin with the markets its the first day another record setting day for the major averages there you go right now dow off its best levels, not by much new record high, 28720 nasdaq back above 9000 s p 500 positive as well the russell is a drag. But for the most part, its the same story semis hitting fresh new highs. Apple extending its record high. The beat goes on. What im particularly excited about are the International Charts i know a lot of american investors say what do i have to Pay Attention to that for . Its note worjnoteworthy were g with countries in europe up around 1 , looking better than our markets. Germany is up over 1 . European banks this morning as a group are up 2 . European Technology Names as a group are up 2 . This is noteworthy emerging markets is up double what the s p is
Plus. Love gold. Goldman sachs sacks. And well explain why you shall too right now. Time to risk less and make more options action. Risk less make more has a nice ring to it. Lets get right it. As we know now the record rally rolls on the dow hitting another alltime high today while a tremendous year for the index a number of names sat out the rally. Lets look at three walgreens, pfizer and 3 m the only three components down in year but carter says one of the names is his dogs of the dow pick for you for next year at the plasma to tell us which it might be. Dogs of the dow, put together in 1950s its a dividend strategy, the thinking is a blue chip stock thats the worst perform ner the index by definition will have a high yield and that you get a little catchup trade here in fact is the index of dogs of the dow relative to the dow back to 2001 a lot of well efficacy, blows away the dow itself. In any event, lets take a look at walgreens. Here is the spread there is the dog walgreens, do
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