It is not but we are thrilled to have you here lets take a look at where the u. S. Equities are. Dow up by about 72 points. With these gains, the dow would actually erase the loss for the week at these levels s p up about eight points. S p up around 7. 5. Youll see the 10year note is yielding 1. 716 Global Markets continue to follow the headlines learning trade talks between u. S. And china are set to resume october 10 sources say Vice President premier lu will represent the delegation weve had lower level things happen but this is the next big event. Its the back drop amazing. Trump keeps plugging away. There is so many Business News headlines i think Portfolio Managers are losing sight we are coming up on the quarter. The dollar rally but most of the conversations im having right now, it centers on the Fourth Quarter of last year everyone is reflecting upon it and thinking to themselves basically, you go into the Fourth Quarter of a Football Game with a 207 lead and end up losing 272
1. 13 . Wowza. They jeweled that nasdaq they reacting to a glut of ipos. On the investment publics back. I take no joy in this but i told you so all year i predicted the ipo cycle would end with a whimper and now its here. Busted deals like peloton. On the heels of smile direct and lyft and uber. Boo theyre booing, becoming the norm there is a big reason why it keeps getting hammered especially the turbocharged Growth Stocks. Did you see them today kind of to the point the president i hope follows through to block more chinese iphonipos no, no, aagh i dont chatter about limitations by the president causing the market to get hit because anything thats not flat out suggesting compromise indicates that were much furthe further away from a trade deal than the bull has hoped. As someone who wants the chinese to play fair, i think a ban on chinese ipos would be a blessing its not whats in the cards, i can tell turns out talk is really about limiting American Investment in chinese companies.
Positive open to close out what has been a volatile week plus, more phones, please apple reportedly increasing production of iphone 11 models by 10 the shares are rallying. Also capitalism as we know it, is it dead or how much wealth is too much surprising thoughts from marc benioff and Mark Zuckerberg today. 136 is a good number the Unemployment Rate down to 3. 5. Retail loses 11 k. Manufacturing loses 2 k. Government up 22 this is a number which says to me that the fed can still cut because the sector being stagnant is manufacturing. A lot of that is the fact that the dollar is so strong. It is very interesting, they talked about hey, listen, we have tariffs, dont worry, the dollar is strong and the chinese currency is weak, it makes up for it thats something we have to be thinking about we continue to lose because of the currency so that gives the fed reason ability to move. I dont like that it is all healthcare again reminds me of the old economy. It is also a lot of government wor
The globe while hedge fun mannedders make money off their misery. I will tell you how this place into the 2020 election. All this and more on making money. Charles President Trump looking to close some deals while he stands with World Leaders at u. N. This week. All the while it appears progress is being made on the china trade front with the chinese saying deputy level talks in washington were constructive. I want to bring in to discuss former state Department Senior advisor christian whiten. I know it is lower level stuff. We got the official word from the official China News Agency to be honest had been pretty aggressive recently with some of their reports so its a change of pace. It is. Some of the messaging has turned more positive but what you didnt seen last week, what you havent seen, any sort of signal of fundamental change china would have to make. You did see President Trump reassert last week insists on a complete and comprehensive deal. There was talk of a mini deal but ho
S p 500 ended in the red check out these moves from citi, bank of america, wells fargo and jpmorgan all in the green. Few days ago rates were plunging birds and cats were living together now look have the banks turned a big corner i dont know about dogs and cats living together if you had to be a cat or a dog i think of myself as a dog. Its not a good question to answer on tv lets go to the markets i think what happened everything got ahead of itself. You go back to tuesday i think before memorial day we power pitched southeast banks. Citi, you know what boring market, slow week, into a holiday, market will rally tl tee gott ahead of itself. When citi discount at that discount tangible book its been a buy. Thats whats happening. I dont think again the landscape has gotten better for the markets. The trading landscape in the short term has does citi have more room yeah well undershot to 61. The head wind that they face still exist today. There are some rays of sunshine based on what the