Ideas. The Investment Committee is ready to go. The Halftime Report starts right now. It is did to hais good to hh us joe terranovterranova joins us lets kick it off with stocks. Record highs for the major averages, volatility, the lowest since the summer the question now does it clear the decks for a major move higher by the end of the year, josh brown, that question goes to you first hey, judge, how is it going how are you heres the big picture. Take the s p and the dow out of it look at the etf for atwx, global stocks without the United States in it, or look at the efa index, theyre both hanging at new highs. That is something that not a lot of people expected going into this year. There was a conversation about how the trade war would be damaging to europe and brexit would be damaging to britain what if i told you german stock market is up 25 year to date, japan is up 17 , the United Kingdom is up 28 . You wouldnt have expected those things to be happening that back drop is importa
Home with two children in the living room. What saved their lives . Plus, the new charges in the College Admissions bribery case. How Actress Lori Loughlin is reacting to the news and the other famous parent being sentenced today. Later, the beer Company Making you an offer. What miller lite is willing to give you to put down your phone. Good wednesday morning, everyone. Thank you for joining us. Im kenneth moton. Im Kaylee Hartung in for janai norman. We begin with the impeachment showdown and the explosive new testimony from a top diplomat in ukraine. Diplomat bill taylor testified President Trump made military funds for ukraine contingent on ukraines public pledge to investigate joe biden as well as the 2016 election. That contradicts President Trumps denial of a quid pro quo. One congressman who heard taylors testimony called it disturbing. Abcs ines de la cuetara here with the reaction and fallout. Ines, good morning. Reporter good morning, kenneth and kaylee. Bill taylor testifie
Differently this time. The district will remain open. It canceled classes two weeks ago. Officials say not having school is disruptive and nothing can replace a teacher in front of the class. Pg e is saying the outage website will be ready to handle the load this time around. The site went down during the last shutoff. The company says it has an alternate address ready for the expected increase in traffic. They mistakenly gave out the wrong web address yesterday afternoon but veeventually corrected that mistake. Lets get an update on the weather and traffic with drew. Red flag warning later today. First beginning at noon in the north bay, then at 3 00 p. M. It will expand to include the inland east bay. Later on in the evening, it will include the Santa Cruz Mountains. Winds gusting over 30 Miles Per Hour. The peak times for this will be later tonight into early thursday morning. Well look at the warm temperatures in a few minutes. A debris fire in the transbay tube is apparently to bl
Russian and Turkish Forces are. Were just trying to ascertain where the president got the thousands of lives that have been saved on the kurds side. At this point, i am not questioning him, we have not found evidence or anyone to corroborate that. When we do, we pass that along. We want to make sure everything on the up and up and information youre hear something accurate. Separately we want to get to the Mark Zuckerberg testimony on capitol hill. This is about the libra currency at the outset or his hiring practice, whether he got too big for his britches and whether he alienated republicans and democrats and in the future his company is broken up. The stock bouncing up because they think he has done a pretty good job thus far. Hillary vaughn with the latest from washington. Hey, hillary. Reporter ohiohi, neil. Mark zuckerberg making the case or assuring lawmakers he will not move forward with libra whether he gets moving forward with regulators. He was asked what specific regulators
Right now. Welcome, good to have you with us on this thursday, our Investment Committee at the table, jorich sapper steen is here, high tower treasury partners, the cio, one of barons top 100 Financial Advisers s to ks higher once again led by tech, which has been on quite a tear this week the nasdaqs best week in ten. Powered by the semis, some of the fanangs is this something to build on or a oneweek phenomenon. It all comes back to trade, trade even trumps pardon the pun, trumps the inverted yield curve. Look, we got some positive news. I was talking to some people yesterday thinking that, look, trump really does want to go ahead with the september 1 increase of tariffs. Chine chinese probably dont want to go ahead i thought there was a 60 40 chance that he wouldnt. I think the chinese are sort of giving him cover in their comments this morning. You think the markets trying to sniff that out a little bit i think the markets assumed its going to happen, actually, and thats why the in