We begin with a teching wreck on wall street. The fang stocks stumbling, all posting big big losses the past few days is this fangfree fall taking down the Broader Market tim . Some cht frank free fall is something i think we saw three to six months ago. Clearly with the regulatory headlines on doj in june big moves facebook and google have had a tough time getting out of their own way amazon got back up to alltime high has not exceeded that ill let the chartist tack about that but when you think about the market for the last month and four or five months yes we saw the interesting rotation into cyclical stuff a month aigt. But really the defensive rotation is something thats been alive and well for plshl six to nine months as evidence by utilities thats an environment you cant see fangout perform and the multiples caught up to the stocks i know the multiple on google. Not so much. I know the multiple on facebook, not so much. But i think again you have regulatory pressures on top of v
Power lunch starts right now lets get a check on the markets which are fluttering close to record highs. Slightly higher today well off the lows the dow was down about 100 points early this morning. The s p still just 1 away from record highs as it gains about 5 points take a look at a pair of housing stocks hitting new highs d. R. Horton is at its highest levels since january 2018. The doctor is in we begin this hour with new dovish comments from st. Louis fed president. We know he was the guy who dissented from the last meeting. Now he says a sharker than expected slow down is possible it will determine that on a meeting by meeting basis he does not expect trade uncertainty. Its not going to go away any time soon. In addition to trade, bullard highlights these downside risks, slower growth. That could feed into the u. S. Economy. Second, contraption and global and u. S. Manufacturing and third slowing u. S. Business investment hes worried about the inverted yield curve that suggests
Today then rebounded in the afternoon. House of pleasure. Closing down 80 points. The s p losing. 42 . Nasdaq falling. 85 . I think what were seeing here is nothing more than a wholesale repricing of stocks. As investors try to bake in all sorts of contradictory possibilities. The repricing ebbs and flows and you see intraday rallies as people realize the businesses are actually pretty good and the stock market remains the best place to put your money. Thats what happens when stocks fall if only because every other asset class is so unattractive does this occur. Its not because this one is that beautiful still, i think we have to have more pain like we experienced this morning, which is why you need to understand what striving when the pain happens, youre not paralyzed, because were going to see it again and again. First, there is a whole camp of people who believes that our economy is headed into a recession. Probably sooner rather than later. How do i know this because at the worst m
Whats at stake for them and tech investing the Halftime Report starts right now. Welcome good to have you with us on this tuesday. Our Investment Committee with us lets start with the markets theyve been up for three straight quarters. The s ps largest gain over that period since 97 the question is what comes next . You tell me what comes next, pete the economy doesnt look good. Looks like it slowed down more and slowing more. No doubt about it. I think the interesting thing is tony dwyer had a nice note out talking about the mini recessions hes talking about this one continuing to be a mini recession and looking for opportunities. Saying it looks like maybe this is an opportunity in terms of buying after this selloff today. Have we had a nice start in terms of September September was absolutely fantastic. Financials were rocketing to the upside technology continues to be a strong spot except f. A. N. G some of those f. A. N. G. Names, especially netflix leading to the down side. But y
Dropped 0. 01 , all these strange nonearnings are making it a lot hard story understand. What do i mean by weird metrics . The stock of netflix all right. I know youre thinking about that one heres a stock that has never traded on earnings per share ever theres just not the number anyone cares about youll never hear anyone say that netflix is really cheap at 80 times earnings. No, netflix trades on subscriber growth as these things go subscriber growth isnt too weird a nice objective number. Once you start evaluating a number other than sales or earnings you open the floodgates to other metrics so not just subscribers but on fomo per share. Fear of missing out as in the subscriber account adriven by the fear youll miss out on great content and in a world it trades on fomo but the emmys matter there wasnt anything that made them say im missing out see all those awards im missing out on too much content. I got to sign up and thats why the stock got hit or how about a couple of tech titan