The nasdaq is the leading indices and oil hitting a threemonth highly after military strikes in the middle east energy is the bestperforming sector today joining us for the hour is josh brown, ceo of Ritholtz Wealth Management josh, obviously seeing a little profit taking here is this a tax situation scenario or is there more to read into about losing steam and sentiment . If you see profit taking on the what penultimate the penultimate is that not an american word as well . It is, we just dont use it as much. And it doesnt sound as good when i say it. It doesnt, sorry when youre seeing profit taking on the second to last day of the year, thats not tax related, but it could be front running what others suspect might be fax related, meaning look at a typical investment portfolio this year, if they own sector etfs, for example, they have a ton of Technology Large cap tech has done unbelievably well this year. Or if they own individual names. If you own apple, youre up almost double. Now
Morgan brennan, jon fortt at post nine of the New York Stock Exchange record highs all around the board. Dow, s p 500, nasdaq, but well begin with news regarding ford forward looks to do apples to apples with tesla. Elon musk tweeting a response, quote, bring it on and calling into question the physics behind musks video of the tesla towing the ford f 150. Is this really where we are . My mom might be watching, i am going to keep it clean, this is a classic measuring contest if ever there was one. Morgan, do you know of any woman watching this tug of war with any kind of great interest mary barra is probably not even watching this. This is classic like testosterone driven man versus man type thing. The nerd truck narrative lives. The truck will be sold to nerds, right . Thats the niche product theyre aiming for i wont call it nerds, but if you look at the numbers, the number two, two top states for electric vehicle registrations, use that as a proxy for tesla, california and new york.
At this hour in many locations in the north bay. Overnight pg e started cutting power to more than 500,000 homes and businesses, 200,000 in the north bay, thats due to the high fire danger and the red flag warning, this is a live look at the outages, you can see that large swatch of purple across the north bay, this is phase one according to pg e. Now a second phase is set to start about noon, and last at least through tonight. Outages will impact parts of contra costa, santa clara, alameda and san mateo counties. In the second phase, 234,000 homes and businesses are expected to be impacted. Also this morning, many schools and universities across the bay have canceled classes preemptively today. You can see our ticker there rolling on the bottom of the screen with the schools listed, and the south bay bracing for outages as well. We expect san jose mayor sam liccardo will hold a news conference, at 7 00 a. M. We will stream that live. Kari hall is tracking the red flag warning and conc
Joining us for the entire hour is dan nathan, founder of risk reversal advisers. Welcome back to you. Sara. So theres something youre looking at about the s p 3000 level and fed meetings if you go pack to july 31st, the last time that the fed met, they cut a quarter basis points Interest Rates the first cut in ten years and the stock market was above 3,000. And and it wasnt until the trump tweet the next day that we broke down and stayed down all of augusts here we are now, expectations are for another cut, and it seems like the s p has really paused again at the same level, about 3,000. Weve got lots to discuss with dan, but lets drill down on the big stories were watching today bob pisani is tracking the big reversal leslie picker has details. Mike santoli has a special market dashboard ahead of fedexs earnings which hit after the bell and well have for you here on closing bell. A big day in oil. Oil dropped right after the open on a reuters story that saudis oil output would be full
Conference calls later this hour fire sale. Sharps at nordstrom down almost 10 today. The traders assess the damage. Plus would you rather . Home depot getting the downgrade after lowes gets the upgrade whether they nailed it or not. In taste you hadnt heard foam is fed day steve leastman lays out the big picture from the fed survey. Wall street expects the Federal Reserve to cut Interest Rates tomorrow amid growing concern about economic weakness recession fierce and the trade war. 100 of respondents to the cnbc fed survey see the fed cutting rates by afare quarter point after announcing results of the september meeting, nearly all expect another quarter point cut by year end. The problem is that forecast for lower rates come with a reduced outrook for u. S. Growth and increased probltd of recession the schans of a recession in the next 12 months soared to 11year high of 32 of are according to the survey below 20 most of the year forecast growth is forecasted to 2. 2 this year and sin