Moments ago. I think you have sort of a false market, buoyed by zero Interest Rates and you have to be cognizant of it. Of course, covered a lot of ground. Talked valeant, apple, herbalife. But in general, nervous about very big, bad things happening in the global markets. Without a doubt. If you have a billion dollars and youre over a certain age, it seems like youre really focused on the risks. The environment doesnt feel comfortable to you. Negative Interest Rates are something you never thought youd have to contend with. And its not to say its correct or wrong, but its one of those things, everyone understands the unease. If youre somebody like carl icahn who has made his fortune putting money at risk when everybody else was panicking and it seemed like things were cheap, thats not really the environment you feel like were in right now. You had an interesting discussion about these gentlemen on twitter yesterday. In part, the conversation went, are they uncomfortable with a communi
The hang sentence by 0. 75 . And hang seng slightly weaker. Right now, things are flat, relatively flat across the board. Youre looking at the dax, barely budged. The cac is slightly higher, wti was up for the second day in a row weve seen a gain of 7 over the last couple of sessions. Going back to 48. 96. These currency traders better know what theyre doing. That better indicate theyre going to stay. They better know what theyre doing. Right. But still, the polls are pretty even still. Betting markets they bet that it breaks first day. When People Get Ready to do it, they think, oh, my god, what am i they get too nervous. They say theyre going to be leaving and they dont. Obviously, the pound is hitting at 1. 47 this morning. George soros, the financier who has made a ton of money the last time it collapsed. His warning you could see the pound go to almost 30 if there is a brexit vote. Lets go to wilfred who is watching what is said on all of this, wilfred frost joins us right now fro
Reuters reporting he was a member of the u. S. Army reserve. Authorities say there was no connection to international terrorism. Dallas police chief david brown says it appeared the shooters plan to injure and kill as many officers as they could. The bloodshed unfolded blocks from where president john f. Kennedy was slain in 1963. We will have more as the situation unfolds. Again, were waiting for the attorney general to take the podium. Now lets send it over to scott wapner for the Halftime Report. Thanks so much. Sue herera. Welcome to the Halftime Report. I am scott wapner. 2 top trade this hour, saving stocks . At the highs of the day. With us for the hour today, jim lebenthal, jim brown, sarat sethi, and Steve Liesman here onset as well. We do begin with the markets. I said, session highs today, a strong rally following that blockbuster jobs number. 287,000 jobs added last month. Way better than expected. A number of class asset, not only stocks. Bonds selling off today. Gold as w
Coming off of the 1. 51 level yesterday. And the day begins with record highs again, and what could cause this market rally to slow down . General mills shares are up, and the ceo will join us on a first on cnbc interview after he rings the opening biell. And the Prime Minister set to take over for David Cameron and what the change at 10 downing may mean for the futures. And stocks looking to extend the winning streak, and make more history in the process, the dow and the s p hit new highs led by the indiscretionary and the industrials, and the nasdaq in positive territory for the year, and rising to the highest intraday and closing levels of the year, and ten sessions, and 7. 6 of the s p 500, and the best ten days in five years. I used a proprietary oscillator that i use that is so good, and we hit 10 yesterday which is historically when you are supposed to start selling. That is a very high level. 5 is the beginning when you should be worried, but 10, you should be worry and minus 5
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