Returning money back to investors. Whats behind it and what it means for the Hedge Fund World the Investment Committee is ready to go. Halftime report starts right now. Good to have you with us. Our Investment Committee in front of you right there, joe terra nova and pete that jdiana becky quick reporting it could come as early as today, 5trillion did assets under management best day since 08 Charles Schwab for its best day since november of 2011 a lot to talk about here. The potential synergies are all about costs. If you think about it, Td Ameritrade has been this serial acquirer over the last couple of years and have been able to with scott trade have cost synergies and in terms of reduction of 60 to 70 i dont think youll have that type of Cost Reduction here with Charles Schwab i think it will be somewhere around 40 to 50 in terms of cost synergies but a strong dea for them specifically. Obviously very negative for etrade. I had talked about a couple of weeks back that etrade poten
Because of the hong kong elections. Record turnouts sunday, big loss for scombrabeijing. I think its heartening to see the people stand firm. For xi jinping, its a setback. What will he do now . Investors round the world cheered. Its part of our rally on wall street today. No cheering for uber. The authorities in london will not renew ubers license to do business there. Ouch. London was its best European Market. Uber takes the hit because of passenger safety concerns . Gee, i wonder if londons famous black cabs had a hand in this. Ubers stock is down 4 premarket. Seconds from now, frozen 2 big box office, tesla, dare i say a smashing success, and a little blue box, tiffany, now worth 16 billion. Varney company is about to begin. Has elsa seemed weird to you . She seems like elsa. Theres voice. Voice, what does that mean . Head for the cliffs ive got you. Stuart there you have it. Frozen 2 debuted this weekend. 350 Million Worldwide. That was the opening Worldwide Box Office globally, t
Morning. Education secretary rick perry calling it a deliberate attack on the Global Economy. Plus oxycontin maker, pharma filing for bankruptcy this morning. First up, though, a series of attacks on two of the Worlds Largest Oil Facilities in the news the u. S. Is rejecting that notion saying the scope and the precision of the attack suggests the launch was made by the houthis but, in fact, originated by iran. Iran calling the claims baseless and unacceptable guys, weve been talking all year long about what it could take to produce a true supply shock. I think theyll come back 5. 7 Million Barrels. Look theres a temporary inability to get permian oil. You can only ship so much. You have one harbor who can handle it, two others. Corpus christi not yet i guess what im saying it cant. Were pumping too much and it does remind you if we had even more pipelines, we could just turn the spigot on its not the Strategic Petroleum reserve. Its the permian. There are a lot of key questions. One,
Now. Welcome g. To have you with us on this monday. Our Investment Committee at the table today. Also with us on set with the jp morgan. Good to have everybody here today. We begin with stocks. The s p up three straight weeks. Is this the week that ends it or prolongs it . I dont know that it exits. Obviously, we have the fed this week. There are all kinds of different news stories in front of us this week as we speak. I dont think this is something that absolutely derails us. When you look at personal spending and what goes in from the oil trade perspective, its very small. I think we are able to get back up and running faster than folks think. Today the big spike has everybody a little flustered as you get a big move in wti over 61, thats a big move. We have volatility that remains really, really low. I think that speaks volumes about what people are thinking right now. With the market down 100 and change and the volatility is not spiking to the upside after the big hard hit to the d
Being unhappy with policy. The drum beats louder for rate cuts. And people working closely together to protect interests in the escalating trade war, we are live in bangkok. You a check oft the markets at the close. It was a turbulent day with not only iranu. S. Tensions but futures and options expiring together on quadruple witching day. There was a record intraday high only to close lower by. 1 , industrials and real estate stocks leading the declines. We have one sector gaining ground, the energy sector. The biggest winner of the session. Wti rally 10 last week on heightening middle east tensions. U. S. Futures up. 2 . Lets see how we are setting up. Sophie with the event risks sex g20, we could see asian asian stocks set for a softer open. Look at kiwi shares continuing to climb while flipping the board, checking the kiwi dollar, it is slightly higher for a succession as funds go bearish the currency ahead of the rbnz decision. The kiwi could be limited if central bank stays dovish