Continue to gradually reopen, auto plants are restarting some operations this morning and Homebuilder Confidence increasing as well ahead on todays show, President Trump host iing a rou b table with restaurant executives at t the white house this afternoon well speak with the ceo of restaurant brand, the Parent Company of burger king and pop eyes. Plus, billionaire entrepreneur and Restaurant Owner will join us to discuss whether people will actually come back to restaurants, casinos an sporting events hes got all three of those covered. Hooe also at that white house meeting. Lets focus in on the big stori were watching mike is tracking the big market rally. Meg has the latest on modernas vaccine progress Brian Sullivan watching the comeback for crude well tart off with the broaderr rally, mike, and what stands out to you obviously the market for months has been moving along this spectrum that goes from you know sooner and faster for a recovery to you know later and slower and right no
When the stock moves on it and it did so tim, whats your take on the action of wells fargo and whats your take on a possible m and a deal. Well, this kind of news, first of all, this rumor was out a couple of days ago in the market and the Market Participants didnt do anything with the move because we talked about the down move. This deal makes a lot of sense when we talk about the environment over the last couple of years for both of these players. I think this deal would be a ridiculously difficult deal even if were going hypotheticals to get through on the regulatory side i dont think either one of these have a lot of friends in washington i do think and again, this is not me saying that this is just my sense of where this would be, but look, i dont think this deal is going to happen i do think goldman has continued to build out their retail platform in markets. I think wells fargo has a lot of issues that im not sure goldman would want and the move weve seen and this snapback today
I also have a great guest for you, michael kolanovic, j. P. Morgan, he thinks the bottom is in and hell be here to explain why and well talk about what hes seeing and why hes studying coronavirus trends around the world to try to understand the stock market, netflix made a new high. Bed, bath and beyond, that stock is up a little bit after hours and its down about 80 over the past year. We got a triple whammy we have to start with the market bad data on retail and oil falling to 20year lows and the banks continue to drop on their earnings concern guy adami, of those three because i would argue and i didnt think data mattered at all, of those three which one matters the most to you . I think the fact that oil cant get out of its own way out of those three the way that banks have traded, we can talk about that, but the way the data we knew would be miserable and maybe its worse than a lot of people thought and the bloviating and the noise, it cant get out of its own way and the rally las
Eamon javers is inside the meeting. Meg, what can we expect outside of this meeting . We did see the executives head in just a few moments ago as well as research chiefs theyre expected to discuss the status of development of both vaccine and drugs for the novel coronavirus. Gilead and regeneron have medicines in development, while the others are working on vaccines, as moderna las already delivered a batch for testling Stephanie Duke is catching up with stan erk, asking what he hoping to get from this meeting. Im hoping to get a commitment from the government theyll help us expedite the process. The case numbers are continuing to rice here, with seattle and king county just announcing an additional four deaths, bringing the total in this country to six. Guys what are you expecting, meg, in terms of the numbers of those that are diagnosed, given the fact that the cdc apparently is starting to provide more contests or is it in addition, we are starting to see local Public Health labs, a
Call on ge why he says there could be more turbulence ahead its our call of the day and michael farr is unveiling his top ten stocks for 2020. Part of halftimes game plan to get you ready for the new decade Investment Committee is ready to go Halftime Report starts right now. Welcome good to have you with us on this friday our Investment Committee, jim, josh, steve weiss, jenna, the chief Investment Officer at boston private wealth. Michael farr is the ceo of farr, miller and washington. Also with us today onset, keith banks, the head and vice chairman of bank of Americas Solutions group. Stocks are hitting more highs. Could be the first eightday winning streak in more than ten months we have news happening at this moment on boeing our phil lebeau has it scott, this involves united airlines, which is one of three u. S. Carriers that flies the 737 max. It has announced that it will pull the 737 max from its schedule through june 4th, which means when you look at the u. S. Airlines and w