About their role there seems to be some debate about this good morning, welcome to squawk in the street im carl cantonia. At the cnbc, they are delivering at the conference in new york city that was sec jay clayton as you saw. Moments from now, kobe bryant, the basketball legend quickly becoming an investing legend we will talk money in sports, futures in a tirade full of economic data. Of course, delivering alpha. The big story today, a number of heavy hitters at the investors summit a pretty good discussion about the nature of our Capital Markets these days yeah, i mean, look, one of the things we are all trying to figure out is in relation whats going on with the fed, whats going on with business as a force of change. Thats something that andrew is bringing up. Bring up at the Business Roundtable which is very interesting. Its a month or so already right things have Securities Exchange commissioned. Im curious to hear what mr. Claytop had to say. Thats what people buzz with me to fi
Arrows across the board. Nothing by more than a percentage point the dax is up just over a 10th a percentage point not surprising anyone with any expectations more rate cuts could come if the economy slows. 10year yielding 2. 237 . I saw there were three dissents they failed to point out one of them wanted to go 50 the future Federal Reserve, in raining. Right wanted the cut by 50 basis points a Job Interview right in the general news, they said, the Federal Reserve was doing okay it looks like a great economy but there are things to consider beyond the globe i thought that was his best perfo performance yet. Maybe not what you were hoping for and ending up on the day, you were effective am i here over there. Smile for the camera okay. New reports about how was that was that fake . New reports about at t plans for direct tv. Stock moving a little bit. Reporting the giant is considering options including spinoff. Fake news is it fake . I have taken calls on this. This is fake news. I sh
Facebook, amazon, alphabet and apple. The risks hanging over them and the tech trade. Goldman taking a big bite out of apple, slashing its price target on the stock by 25 . Its our call of the day. The Investment Committee is ready to go. Halftime report starts right now. Your Investment Committee today and im told one of forbes top 100 financial advisers. Thats good. Also the chief Investment Officer at boston private wealth. So here is your setup. The dow now looking at its longest winning streak since may of 2018. If went up on the dow today higher, it will be eight straight day. I know no professionals watch the dow. I get it. We can hear that all the time. It is a thing. Its something that appears on general news, the usa today or nightly news. It will pop up when we hit the numbers. Does a record high make any difference from a market psychology or investable perspective . I think its important. I think there is some element that record high means something. I think the other thi
Brian sullivan is reporting live for us from hong kong today. He will join us in a few moments. Behind me you can see the dows action from yesterday shedding more than 800 points for its fourth worst point drop on record, closing down by 3 or so after yesterdays historic move, here is how your money and the Global Markets are setting their day up today stock futures indicating the dow will open higher some stability brought to the markets. Interest rates are a huge part of that market story the dow jones up by 136 points we lost 0800 yesterday. Yesterday we saw the socalled inversion of the yield curve the twoyear treasury note and the tenyear treasury note yields, this means shortterm bond rates are now paying more than longterm bonds, historically this is considered a possible recession warning sign and new overnight, the yield on the 30year treasury, the long bond in the United States, dropped below 2 for the first time ever. You can see right now currently 2. 016 that move lower, a
Expectations china vowed to retaliate against u. S. Tariffs set to go into effect september 1 were now on track for a higher open lighthizer said its not possible given your past behavior so an awful lot to absorb today. Very interesting that the futures are up exactly the amount they are right now. They issued a very strident set of words toward us at the same time, announced stick l stimulus for hong kong where is what the president said on twitter what happened and without that, i think theyre going to view the olive branch of moving back to december as an illadvised move because the chinese arent playing ball were going to have Chuck Robbins later on this hour the chinese derailed their outlook. Asking them not to bid on business things are getting very, very tense. If we let that dominate the headlines and forget to look at what walmart said today, i think well have a false narrative because of how bad things are. Remember, we are not a big export nation. But yeah, the gloom is pr