Plus, there are fewer than 50 days until christmas and wall street is concerned about a retail apocalypse. We have the details about that, and later, its been choppy waters for Royal Caribbean the stock is cruising higher the ce will be here for an exclusive interview. Power lunch starts right now welcome toll power lunch. Im melissa lee. The major averages are recovering somewhat after falling in the red on reports of a delayed trade deal we have the dow and the s p 500 marginally higher right now. The nasdaq is down by a third of a the russell taking it the hardest. Lets get over to bob pisani for more theres been reports theres no clear deal yet over the terms of a phase one deal with china, or even whether president xi is going to come to the table on the deal industrials, theres your classic one, caterpillar, 3m, united technologies, theyre all down a bit today some of the semiconductors like micron also a little weaker as you mentioned, coming off their lows we had a buildup in c
Made an offer to buy the company. Josh brown, Wealth Management. Josh, great to see you today. Whats going on s p and dow basically hugging the flat line right now, taking a breather, i guess you could say, from the record run we saw earlier this week. I think you nailed it thats exactly what i see going on indices are stalling out given the runup, i dont think, should be a huge surprise. Rates are higher, which is interesting. Lot of the big winners of the year, like iyr, xlu. Anything rate sensitive also taking a breather. Xlf is falling out, the financials indexing etf got above a 70 rsi for the first time in i cant remember how long thats an overbought index when was the last time we were talking about the banks being overbought you have this confluence of things its perfectly natural keep in mind the big picture caterpillar, the whole industrials xli, etf, all hit new 52week highs yesterday. Honeywell, new highs these are things that do not happen in the context of a bear market o
Later, chipotle, one of the best stocks the ceo will join us power lunch starts right now welcome to power lunch check out the markets and the performance here today the record rally hitting a roadblo roadblock. Hanging onto gains ever so slightly here. Take a look at microsoft that stock hitting a fresh record high today. Its now up 50 so far this year well have more on that later. Tech stock really on tear having the best year since 2009 up about 41 bill, over to you. Thank you we start with two of the big movers today kohls and home depot. Accounting for nearly all the declines today both stocks sinking after slowing in sales are these retail reality check lets head over to bob for more on todays retail wreck. Hello good to see you. This is a difficult question right now because there was a lot of questions on the Conference Call about this home depot sales missed to what they call timing of certain Investment Initiatives whats that all about . Its up almost 40 for the year. Now its
Housing data rebounded with Building Permits at their highest levels in 12 years we are set once again for record time close on the nasdaq anything positive, of course, is a record the s p has just dipped negative the dow has been negative for most of the afternoon. Joining us for the full first hour of the show, steve weiss from short Hill Capital Partners steve, very good to see you. How you doing . Good to see you what stands out as to whether or not were going to issee a meaningful move higher or lower . Its all about trade. Home depots announcement aside, which wasnt terrible wasnt terrible or was terrible was not terrible. And the stocks appropriately are saying, theres lots of people buying it into the earnings. And home depot, lets face it, theyve delivered remarkably over the last decade, particularly since new management came in but i dont think its really a referendum this report on the health of the consumer, which is what the market is based upon. And appropriately, were b
Sevenweek win streak and tech is the secondworst performer in the s p. Joining us for the hour, Barbara Duran from bda capital is here at post 9, talking more about a market that happens to be happy as long as trade tensions are not escalated, pretty much right . That is for sure. And i think a lot is being discounted in the market in terms of global recovery, the fed is on hold, but watching careful. And we have yet to see the effect of the Interest Rates next year. But trade, i think, its what people are expecting is that therell be no more bad news i think hoping for something more, like a rollback of tariffs would be a bit much. This seems to have morphed into a geopolitical technological fliskt i think the downside is limited also for those same reasons, plus people are defensively postured and so on but i think what its going to take is next year, having to see what the earnings are going to be and thats a possibility is the market even considering that possibility is that priced