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In the trade war the Halftime Report with scott wapner begins right now. Our Investment Committee at the desk today and back with us today is marc lasry, Avenue Capital groups chairman and ceo nice to have him back. Lets begin with the latest on the markets. Clearly waiting on the fed that News Conference just a couple of hours away the s p 500 just about 1 away from a new record high jim, is the market going to get what it wants today . It better get what it wants today, which is something dubbish from the fed i think were all chuckling. Jon is over there. If they turned to a hawkish tilt, you will see a drop in this market that will being dovish enough i think after december when chairman powell made two mistakes, i think hes not going to make a third mistake. The idea that hes caught in the political crosshairs and i think that is empty. Because i think at the end of the day, he wants to keep the expansion on track and he knows the stock market and the financial of the markets overa
Magnificent seven are in correction territory but nvidias getting a boost ahead of its earnings. And were going to keep focused on those economic challenges in china. The countrys central bank cutting a key Interest Rate by less, though, than many had been anticipating. Oh, yeah, who is many anymore . Slew of press over the weekend as well. The journal writing kind of a devastating headline. Is it over after 40 years . Yes, definitely over. Who can say this stuff . We were here. We were lucky enough to witness the fundamental change in the chinese economy. It happened over the weekend. Happened over the weekend. Theyre trying to be a service economy. That was it. Done. Maybe president xi has just said, you know what . Every bankrupt artist, every ridiculous guy who built too much and every ridiculous person who tried to get extra yield, sorry. Why not . Why not clean up the excess . Well, but the question, of course, is, contagion. Oh, contagion. Yeah, some of the huge promote companie
Hes the former Nixon White House counsel. John, you and i have spoken about this and donald trump so many times, but, you know, as i was discussing with one of our producers before this program got started, in the past, you know, we would talk about Donald Trumps tweets and his social media posts and wonder what the impact might be. But it sounds as though the Special Counsel in this case, jack smith, is really seizing on this very inflammatory, threateningsounding post from donald trump on truth social and alerting it to the judge. The government arguing that the restrictions that theyre seeking are necessary to prevent trump from publicly disclosing sensitive discovery information. Can you walk us through what this means . Yeah. It looks like the post from trump came out while they were working on a motion to agree upon a protective order in general to Exchange Discovery material. And this obviously caught their attention. This is not the sort of norm that theyre used to dealing with
Gold with the worst day yesterday down 1. 3 . Copper up 2 . It hit its highest level since april of 2022. We have been waiting for home depot. It hit. 3. 37. Closed at 3. 40. The same store. 3. 2. Overall, same store is down 2. 8. It was 3. 68 a share. Oh, its all on the teleprompter. Ill read it now. You heard this already. Home depot just reporting. 3. 63. Revenue missing. 36. 42 billion. 36. 66. I dont think those are people are expecting down 3 to 5. The same store sales fell 2. 8 . People were expecting 2. 2 . Ted decker saying the company is still seeing, in his words, continued softness and certain larger disregucdiscretionary pr. It is expecting sales growth of 1 . Lets bring in brian nagel for more. Still seeing same store sales. Brian nagel with oppenheimer. Brian, you figure the stock recently has been a little weak after a pretty good rebound after prior weakness. You dont think it is cheap . Good morning, joe. I dont think it is cheap. That is the key reason why i remain o