Ideas. The Investment Committee is ready to go. The Halftime Report starts right now. It is did to hais good to hh us joe terranovterranova joins us lets kick it off with stocks. Record highs for the major averages, volatility, the lowest since the summer the question now does it clear the decks for a major move higher by the end of the year, josh brown, that question goes to you first hey, judge, how is it going how are you heres the big picture. Take the s p and the dow out of it look at the etf for atwx, global stocks without the United States in it, or look at the efa index, theyre both hanging at new highs. That is something that not a lot of people expected going into this year. There was a conversation about how the trade war would be damaging to europe and brexit would be damaging to britain what if i told you german stock market is up 25 year to date, japan is up 17 , the United Kingdom is up 28 . You wouldnt have expected those things to be happening that back drop is importa
It is official. Nasdaq approaching record territory appears to be just shy there as we watch it settle out. Connell four point below. Well check dow stocks hitting alltime highs today. Apples fourth Straight Record close ahead of Earnings Report on wednesday. Shares of microsoft higher after scoring a major victory against amazon, winning a 10 billiondollar contract with the pentagon for Cloud Computing services. Tiffanys surging today after the owner of Louis Vuitton offers to buy the iconic jeweler in a deal worth 14. 5 billion. Shares closing up 30 on that one. Connell we await for alphabet. That is the Earnings Report. Scott martin, kingsview a asset management. No alphabet i see yet, scott. Talk to us about the s p and nasdaq almost there. What is driving things there . Things feel good, connell. You guys talked about it in the leadin. It is funny, were at multiple record closes as far as as many we had. This one feel as little different. Weve been through so much. I say that coll
With the ceo bob iger. Joins us with the latest julia. Melissa, thats right dips disney beat revenue and earnings driven by success at the parks and studio the big news is about disneys big bet on streaming with disney plus launching tuesday bob iger announcing in the interview that they have a Distribution Agreement with amazon and lg pmt iger also announcing a new plan to bolster hulu with fx. For the first time fx will be creating original series for hulu in fact we start with four of them four of them in production now and theyll be available on hulu starting in late march were also going to enable viewers to watch fx shows on hulu soon after they have aired on fx a few hours later. Iger announcing that espn plus now has 3. 5 million subscribers, that the addition of over a million over the course of the last quarter now i asked iger if all of disneys investment in streaming threatens to cannibalize the core Media Network business. We dontbelieve what were doing is damaging the bre
Make their way into stores. Nordstrom opening up a monster Flagship Store in new york city. Well take you there. That and so much more on making money. Charles Vice President mike pence remaining defiant in the face of china, doubling down on his harsh criticisms from a year ago. His message was clear today. America is not standing down. Edward lawrence joins us live with what the Vice President had to say, edward . Reporter charles, Vice President mike pence took a hardline on china with some issues, but toned down part of the speech in the past 24 hours about the Economic Future of u. S. China relations. Vice president blasted china for creating one of the Worlds Largest surveillance states. He says china is starting to export that technology around the world to some countries that may not use it for good. Mr. Pence saying the u. S. Is watching what happens with hong kong. Saying china should show restraint or it may affect the trade talks. Hong kong is a living example of what can h
Imagine that. The president meanwhile will be heading to dallas for another rally this week, doubling down on his pledge to bring jobs back to america, as a new Louis Vuitton factory gets ready to open. Texas is open for business and so are we. We are watching it all. Varney company starts right now. Theres execution work to be done on the document, but this document is substantially done. We made a lot of progress, and our expectation is this will be concluded and signed by chile. Charles that was secretary Steve Mnuchin moments ago talking about phase one trade deal thats getting ready just in time for apec, the meeting that will be held next month in chile. China reportedly wants more talks before the deal is signed. I dont know. I think its normal. People are interpreting that as a red flag. Susan we heard about this on friday, by the way. They said it will take maybe four to five days to get this signed and worked up into ink at this point. Take a look at the rhetoric in the mainl