Is there a misprice in the market half ha the Halftime Report begins right now. Welcome, our Investment Team at the table today kourtney gibsons back, the president of loop capital markets. Also with us, the head of u. S. Equity strategies as jpmorgan. We begin where we usually do, the markets. Stocks looking to build on their gains in june. So much riding on whether the fed will cut Interest Rates or in the very least attempt to signal in their next meeting next week. Steve weiss, 2 from highs on the s p. Can we get there without a rate cut or signal that one is coming absolutely we can get there the market is trending up. The down days werent really down they were sort of nonevents. Up days had been much more significant. The market just wants to go higher, thats the bottom line look, it all comes down to trade. Thats the only thing that will matter as long as you get any breath about the market being positive, as the president last night, hey, i have no deadline for tariffs, the mar
S p 500 hitting record levels. Were about ten points below our intraday high. Trying to close at a record high for the first time in more than eight months all three avrnls on track for a Third Straight week of gains we begin this hour in washington President Trump explaining why he called off a strike against iran just minutes before it was scheduled. Eamon javers has the latest from the white house. Thats right. The president sat down with chuck here and went through his thinking last night as he contemplated the idea of issue ing the order to begin this attack on iran heres what he said. I said how many people are going to be killed sir, id like to get back to you on that. Great people, these generals came back, said sir. Approximately 150. And i thought about it for a second they shot down an unmanneded drone, plane, b whatever you want to call it, and here we are sitting with 150 dead people that would have taken place probably within a half an hour after i said go aahead and i di
Until the close, cnbc contributor stephanie link from tiaa a nuveen company. Welcome, stephanie thanks. Energy doesnt usually lead this market but is today on the oil bounce and questions about whether thats sustainable and given sort of the scale and increase in tensions whether the move is big enough to bring back the sector and commodity trade i dont know. I really dont because its been a tough industry for the whole year. For a whul of years now. So this is really more a supply issue concern. I think the Biggest Issue for oil are demand and the demand environment has been slowing and the revisions have been lower. So with that as a backdrop this might be just temporary. You would have thought oil would have been rallying much more than it did. I spoke as well about 20 minutes ago to one of the senior traders at one of the major investment banks and said was pleased to see the algos didnt disrupt the market when pompeo came out and clearly blamed iran on that. That could have been a
You have to get peoples attention when youre selling a product that melts so i always burst through the gate with a robust war cry, whos next for ice cream . I bring this up because when President Trump unilaterally decided to hit mexico with a big tariff for ten days, make them close the border, all i could think was, whos next for ice cream . Thats why the market got pole axed today whos next for punishment with the dow plunging, s p plummeting, and the nasdaq nose divi diving whos next for tariffs as someone whos generally been supportive of the president s hard line position against china, i feel like i need to draw a line in the sand here if you want a Strong Economy and higher stock prices which is what i favor the last thing you need is a president who bursts through twitter saying, whos next for punishment. I think theres a time and a place for tariffs. Ive been critical of our nations trade policy for ages, for all the time ive been on cnbc, for all these years, our old policy
Tariffs on mexico. Restaurants and railroads all taking hits today as wall street tries to digest just how big this impact could be now were fighting a trade front, a trade war with china and mexico what does the market look like for these trade battles . Hi, mel it tells you that tariffs are being used for any circumstances and this isnt about protecting the intellectual property and this isnt about control of technology and this isnt about politics and this is about elections and its about what its done on a twoday move. Look at bond yields and you went from 228 to 211 on the tebyear and almost 1. 5 and transports down 2 . Pick your cyclical leading asset class and you had a twoday move that was extraordinary and youve seen emerging markets have a better day over the last couple of days. Whether its unreliable entities which is a new term were learning to define which is what china will be doing to protect industries its not getting better, its getting worse. You had them throughout