Halftime report starts right now. Welcome. Its good to have you with us on our wednesday. Jim lebenthal, Pete Najarian and from naples, florida, lizann sonders. Highs of the day, approaching big numbers, dow 30,000, nasdaq 10k, not that far away and cooperman weighing in on the state of stocks, telling us its not time to worry, yet. I would say were in the early stages of knocking on the door of euphoria but not quite euphoria certain parts of the market, like tesla, are in euphoria. Other parts, like energy, are in pessimism. These big numbers not all that far away, pete. All good, the market depends on what were focusing on. Are we focused on the coronavirus . If so, we go down. Generally were focused on earnings and we go higher. Thats where the market has been trading. Yesterday was interesting because apples with a little bit of both, right you look at apple. It was getting pushed down because of their guidance about what they were facing right now, what they were seeing Going For
Front, then disturbance, you know just a lot of different moving pieces in the atmosphere, but nothing out of the ordinary. Very typical stuff as are temperatures as will be the humidity. We have gotten lucky i think recently. Where a loft these dates that have been nice and warm havent necessarily produced ton of moisture, in other words, hasnt been terribly humid. Thats changing, if you have already been outside you have notice that change, as well. We go ahead start things off with one of the prettier camera shots here, one spot thats not really going to to get in on too much action with wet weather issues, lake harmony in the poconos jack frost, big boulder, it is warm on skycam 3, and great excuse to hit the lake, hit the pool, or maybe hit the beach for that mother, but that said, you want to definitely have your ears perk for thunder generally looking at scattered showers and or thunderstorms throughout the day, not showing too much right now we zoom it out satellite on top of t
90s but you have to look at the heat index values to see what it feels like and 89 right now. Heres what it feels like. The looks like the same as temperature map because the humidity is not making an i am possible out there this evening and that is why things are a whole lot better then they have been. Temperatures feeling like the thermometer tells us. 86 degrees at 7 00. Back in the 07s by 11 00. We have another hot, sunny weekend on the way, great for outdoor plans but just how long does this heat wave last . Ill have the answer to that coming up when i join you inside, ukee. In the news, could Surveillance Video from a neighborhood business hold a clue to finding a Young Mothers killer month. Man was found shot to death in her home last night, her baby daughter sitting nearby. Eyewitness News Reporter alexandria hoff is at the scene where a vigil is planned for the young mother later tonight. We spent all day, and, loving mother, a great friend with a conn stagers smile. And that
Can you make the case that bypassing you have done it here several times the 7179 business extension, if that is it will bring the debt . Iling limit closer assume that the expiring provision will not be renewed. Obviously, if it is renewed, that will have an effect on revenues in the short term. Im not sure, to be honest. We would have to sit down and do the calculations. I hate to yes. Federal Health Care Spending has been growing faster than the economy, of course. Did you see any differences in . At trend do you see a faster rate of growth for federal Health Care Spending, or do you see . It slowing down at all any changes . Keith we do not have some of the data yet. We will probably have that by the and in the year. To get an idea of if we want to adjust our forecast and premiums. Exchangeup rate in the is always a big unknown in our forecast. We do expect premiums to rise anyway. And the uptake in exchanges is always a big unknown in our forecast to my because we do not have any
What does his election tell us about who we are as a people and as a city . First of all, it tells us that you cannot trust pollsters. You simply cannot. This was he was the fireball. He was thrown into this. Everyone, when you look at first of all, speaking of fire, women were supposed to be hillarys firewall, and the majority of women, white women, voted for donald trump. The he had the same percentage of women, more or less, that mitt romney did overall, so this whole idea that women were not gonna vote for donald trump was completely wrong. He had a coalition of individuals that probably you simply you didnt know where they were coming from because they werent actually on the radar screen for most of the pollsters the hillbilly elegy people, the people who the blue collar, those who felt disaffected, those who the a lot of white collar im sorry white bluecollar workers. So i think he basically completely defied the odds and defied the pollsters. I still feel like a couple months ou