Alive that the consumer keep spending. The fed has two ways to look at it. The economy is slowing or the economy is hanging in there where it was with job creation little lower, but wages rising and the workweek a little bit longer. That means the expansion keeps going. David the question is what does it mean for the fed. Lets talk about that as we are waiting for jay powell to speak. We will come back to Michael Mckee. In the meantime, Kevin Cirilli at the white house. Finally, we have a plan from the white house on what to do with fannie mae and freddie mac . Kevin they are calling it a roadmap. Steven mnuchin unveiling a plan that would reprivatize fannie mae and freddie mac. It was back during the Bush Administration that the republican part of that 190 billion bailout from taxpayers issued a conservatorship for fannie mae and freddie mac. As of now, they make up about half of the mortgages in the 11 trillion Mortgage Market. It is a long shot to get them privatized. Even behind th
The big week for the bulls technique up 2 . Transports up more than that the semis, soaring the stocks to snap up right now. Time to take on. Why investors are checking into delta and American Airlines. Its our call of the day. The Investment Committee is ready to go, the Halftime Report starts right now and it certainly is good to have you with us on this friday. Our investment comphoot is steven rice, jon neg jarron, Jim Lebenthal and megan. Thank you we begin with the markets, all 11 sectors, 100 there in the green for the week four of them including technology up about 2 transports and some of the chip names, guys, soaring and doing very, very well. Joe terranova, we talked about it yesterday are you surprised by how strong the market has been this week . Where did this market scum after an august to forget . I wouldnt characterize it as an incredibly strong market. I think its a market that finally has broken out of a consolidation range when youre talking about equity postPreside
In the United States, are expected them to cut rate another quarter point, dropping the ball on all of this and president declaring not even two weeks ago that hes an enemy, reminder how easy it is to make friends in the city, dow 75 points, lets get the latest first on the trade front on whats going on there and growing talk that at least the talks are back on and so far no one is throwing dagerds. No one is throwing at each other, the jobs are fundamentally strong, 130,000 jobs in august, 3. 3 over the past months, the white house economic adviser say it doesnt really matter that the jobs missed the estimate because the Labor Force Participation edged up. The people on the fringes of this come are coming in and getting jobs, if you peel back some of the numbers, consumer is still spending and thats in construction 14,000 jobs in construction, half in Residential Home construction, people buying homes, consumers are buying, the other half divided among specialty trade construction and
Begins right now good morning, good afternoon or good evening and welcome from wherever in the world that you may be watching im Brian Sullivan and happy to be back with you on what will no doubt be a very busy monday. Here is how your money and the Global Markets are setting up their day coming off that. Friday, 623 point drop another wild session last week now futures right now if youre waking up, dow, that is not a misread on the screen. We are solidly higher. Dow futures are up 281 points. What makes this even more remarkable is that just about two hours ago they were down more than 100 points, but they made more than a 300point swing higher in the last couple hours. All that as President Trump said that china is ready to come back to the trade negotiating table look at that, that was about 3 00 a. M. In the morning when our hardworking staff is already here, by the way, futures making a big turn up and this is where we stand right now. What a turn. President speaking on the sideli
We have unrest at home, and abroad. New protests in hong kong today, despite the protests number one demand there being met. This weekend is not expected to be any quieter and then over the uk, lawmakers voting to block a no deal brexit thats the show down with the Prime Minister Boris Johnson, well talk about all of that plus Hurricane Dorian making landfall along the North Carolina coast as the storm continues to make its way north, were live on the ground with the latest on the Recovery Efforts. Melissa fox Business Team coverage Edward Lawrence is in washington, christina partsinevelos is on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange and blake burman and Hillary Vaughn are both at the white house. Lets start with edward. Reporter melissa today Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell hints he supports a rate cut, now he bases that around trade, not the trade policy itself. We would never comment on trade policy. We dont do trade. Its not a responsibility of the fed, but i think it is t