A month. We begin with stocks largely shutting off dc uncertainty. Wall street on its positive week plus, count down to a shutdown the senator appears on track to reject the spending bill shares of ibm. Its first gain of the 20 quarters stocks are showing some resilience despite of a shutdown of the government. Yesterday the dow hit the all time high before soliciting blik to the territory i got to tell you of the little take up which some people want to magnify on a percentages bases. I dont know how to reverse it caterpillar and boeing, great industrials. You can perhaps come up with a thesis at a certain point and you want the dividend. There is so much money this is too good. Lets touch on the shutdown the house passes the funding bill last night, 231197 republicans have 51. We talk about markets not really behaving dramatically in a shutdown unless a debt limit is a factor which is it is further off. You perfectly summed it up. It is not about the s p, it is about guys trying to f
Now on america this morning. We do say good morning to you on this monday. We start with the breaking new information about irma. Moving very quickly overnight. Now battering north florida. Its powerful bands moved out of south florida but that is still getting hit with dangerous winds and a massive tornado watch ahead of the storm all the way up into brunswick, georgia. That storm surge is increasing in jacksonville. Heres the latest overnight, nearly 4. 5 million customers in florida are without power right now. That number expected to grow. All major florida airports including miamis are closed and at least 32 deaths reported from the hurricane. Most of those in the caribbean. And in lakeland east of tampa the wind and rain pounded that area overnight and matt smith of wfts shows us some of the conditions he faced. Reporter the wind is whipping harder. I can tell you the trees look like theyre bending but the good news here when those gusts stop, you can get a chance here, you can s
We do say good morning to you on this monday. We start with the breaking new information about irma. Moving very quickly overnight. Now battering north florida. Its powerful bands moved out of south florida but that is still getting hit with dangerous winds and a massive tornado watch ahead of the storm all the way up into brunswick, georgia. That storm surge is increasing in jacksonville. Heres the latest overnight, nearly 4. 5 million customers in florida are without power right now. That number expected to grow. All major florida airports including miamis are closed and at least 32 deaths reported from the hurricane. Most of those in the caribbean. And in lakeland east of tampa the wind and rain pounded that area overnight and matt smith of wfts shows us some of the conditions he faced. Reporter the wind is whipping harder. I can tell you the trees look like theyre bending but the good news here when those gusts stop, you can get a chance here, you can see this marriott behind me, y
Welcome to the Halftime Report. Im melissa lee in today for scott wapner top trade this hour, nike just did it the Worlds Largest Footwear Company posting strong earnings. The street buying the stock hand over phys today. With us for the hour, josh brown, Jim Leventhal, jon najari najarian, head of Global Investments at ubs shares of nike are rallying. Jim, you own it. Are you buying more . I bought a little bit more. I was hoping to load up the boat today, but i just cant, for two reasons. And i would love to get jays opinion on this, but its up 9 today. Im not going to go chasing it i think it will go higher from here, but the question is, i thought the Earnings Quality was really kind of low you had Gross Margins that went do down you had revenues that were okay, but a tax rate beat. So whyd you buy a little when the stock was up so much when youre throwing shade on the quality of earnings . Ive got a lot of dry powder left to go in this name. Im not going to buy it all today. Look,
Thursday, august the 17th, 2017. Dont call me mom. Maybe you should read that. Okay, dont call me mom. Trendy mothers, are ditching the name mom. What they want their kids to call them instead. Plus sheila oh, my god. Work it, girlfriend. Sheila s on good day this, this morning, and you know were just weeks away from the release of her new albumn, her message that she has for america. Coming up. And did you hear about this . Chris brown, breaks his silence. Did i hit her, i punched her, busted her lip. Thats the night he assaulted rihanna. Hes opening up, really opening up in detail. He even tells us what set off that argument in the car. Ya, hes telling everything. Interesting, though, we will talk more about it. When you watch, you listen to it, it sort of makes you uncomfortable. Horrible. Sounds like the relationship in general just wasnt a good thing. All right. Lets get this over with. Right at the beginning of the show. Get it over with. The kardashians have been around since 20