Accommodative policy and more from that interview with Christine Lagarde stepping down from the imf taking the top job of the ecb president in november take a listen to her view of the u. S. Economy right now its the longest period of growth in our country. The unemployment numbers are at rock bottom. Its in a very good place. Her thoughts on trade, china, and the likelihood of a global recession all coming up. First, mark tepper, ceo of Strategic Wealth partners, welcome back youve been surprised, impressed at the resilience of the market during september, which is not seasonally a very strong month september a usually a very sleepy month historically. Its down somewhere between half a percent and a percent, but so far this month, were up about 2 , so thats pretty good. I feel like were in a tina situation, where theres really no better laplace to invest your monday yields have come down on bonds its really not interesting to invest in the euro zone. Tina, there isno alternative. Ther
Right now. And good afternoon im scott wapner live. Over the next two days the Halftime Report is debating the state of tech and where your money will work best in the space. From the latest ipos to the f. A. A. N. G. S. We are joined by jeff richards, Jason Calicanis and dan niles. Lets welcome in our guest host for the hour today. He is raise ing a new fund. They are going to invest in private software companies. Well get into that a little later on. Jeff richards is with us on set. He is invested in slack, square and air bnb. Thanks for having me. Good for us to come back out here. Six months dpoe we were here and taking the temperature of tech. Ill ask you first, the state of the market out here is what . Frothy. Word association. Frothy. Just think late stage private valuations are quite high. And then youve seen a bunch of what you would consider previously Growth Investors, Growth Private account investors moving earlier and earlier to get away from the frothiness and that is ca
Something. The best stocks, theyre never cheap. They rarely come in. And when they do, you got to be ready to pounce. Buy, buy, buy the good news, rarely is not the same as never. Every now and then you do get meaningful pullbacks in truly high quality stocks. The bad news, when those pullbacks happen, most people tend to be too afraid, scared to do any buying. And you know what . I cant blame them case in point. The stock of costco. I think the world of costco. Im a proud costco member. Gold star. My wife lisa is an executive club member. She lords her status over me every time i shop there, im blown away by the prices im a twocart shopper the bargains are so great, one cart is not enough were like a train when we go there. We buy costcos private label products why . Because theyre usually better the place never fails to amaze my trainer jim, this week he bought a car from costco they gave him a better lease deal than anywhere else. Fish, beef, crab legs, glasses, diamond rings, shirt
Performance in the s p 500 right now. Saying ite and fitch weighed heavily on their quarter, down 13 . A little selling in the treasury market today. We will be talking about all that in just a moment. In europe, one of the bigger stories today, italy. Prime minister conte has accepted the mandate from the president to come up with a government, sending the ftse mib up to the best performance in europe. It is up in europe as well, potentially on china comments. The italy 10 year yield currently firmly below 1 right now,. 96 . The except to the exception nokia is the vonovia. Coming up, it is the end of the gso era in credit. We will speak with Bennett Goodman about his departure from blackstone. China indicating it will not immediately retaliate against the latest round of u. S. Tariffs announced by President Trump last week. Beijing instead, beijing is emphasizing ways to deescalate the trade war. For more, we are joined by john ryding, rdq economist and founder. John, looks like ther
Welcome stocks are surging dow is up nearly 500 points. S p 500 climbing back towards record territory were just about 3 below record highs and the nasdaq jumping almost 2 of the session check out the retail rally Department Stores like macys nordstroming and lulu lem hn that stock is higher well have more on those moves later on weve got the angles of the big rally covered. Seema at the new york stock exchange, eamon javers at the white house where optimism spurred this rally and Steve Liesman on the year of the right cut. We start with seema. A triple digit rally for the dow as u. S. And china trade officials confirm a meeting frg october. The s p 500 is back above with a 1 gain. For the week, the dow is up about 1. 4 being led by banks and industrials. And if we dig into the financials, youll see the big banks like citi and goldman are up about 1 to 2 2. 6 for goldman industrials that initially sold off this week on fears that a meeting would not take place between the u. S. And tra