Dutyfree. Sounds a lot like falling stock prices, doesnt it the averages started strong. But after the news broke the dow ended up plunging 281 points s p plummeted. 90 , the nasdaq fell 1 . One fell swoop, President Trump has given the hard liners exactly what they want if you import goods from china, hes making you pay, no exceptions that includes the iphone no wonder apples stock reversed it went from up big to just, well, ugly because its the most visible importer suddenly everything either they need to eat the tariffs or they need to make their phones even more expensive relative to samsung, which does its manufacturing in south korea can you imagine, the outcome of this is that samsung is the winner but apple is one example out of many i used it because its so in your face. The president figures hes given American Companies enough time to get out of china, roughly a year and a half sins aluminum and steel and change sourcing. Thats up to them. The reaction was so negative the yie
And welcome, everyone, to power lunch. Im Tyler Mathisen glad you could join us on a summer monday. A new trading month, a new half, and record highs for the stock market, but were off the session highs, as melissa just mentioned. The dow was up 290 points earlier. Apple leading the dow, boeing, the biggest dragger. And chip stocks soaring on that trade truce. Kelly. Tyler, thanks the rally is losing steam. Lets get to seema moda on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange with more on the action this hour. Hey, the key question for the market is whether those talks between u. S. And chinese officials over the weekend and japan will actually lead to a trade deal what youre seeing is some of the optimism around the trade talks starting to fade we started the day higher by about 1 the intra day high for the s p 500 was 2977 were currently at 2957. Still up about a half a percent on the names on the day. Names that initially jumped higher on g20 trade talks have come off their highs as we
Level, i was president thinking about the fed like everybody else i was thinking that stel, yes, stel is a wonderful thing. Hallelujah. What do i mean by scale a company with scale is a company thats big enough and powerful enough to control its own destiny. A company that scales is one that survives and then thrives in even the toughest environment that a fed chief is worried about or anybody else. Just listen to nothing but washington scale, scale simply being bigger than the other guy, a lot bigger is an enormous advantage we saw the benefits play out today. Exhibit a, amazon. It crossed the trillion dollar threshold this morning amazon didnt become this unstoppable behemoth because jeff bezos is brilliant, which he is. It got here by leveraging scale. Amazon is dominant because its so big they use that scale to get better price from the suppliers to pass on to you. We have antitrust law because when you get big enough, well, no one can compete against you bezos saw how he could use
Vietnam coverage lets look at futures now as we get set up 30 minutes from now for the opening trading for the week were looking for a higher open at this point after a strong week last week road map, it does start with geopolitical risks for stocks. Iran and trade remain, of course, key focus. Stocks set to open higher as you saw. The dow now on pace for its best june in 80 years. Plus, President Trumps rate rant the president calling out the fed saying it is acting like a stubborn child. In deal moves, eldorado i cs entertainment, 8. 5 billion equity val ue deal, well dig into it. We enter the final week of june, the upcoming g20 meeting, tengs between the u. S. And iran and President Trump once again criticizing the fed. This morning, a little while ago, he tweeted, despite a Federal Reserve that doesnt know what it is doing, raised rates far too fast, and did large scale tightening, 50 billion a month, were on course to have one of the best months of june in u. S. History. Think of
Spiking over those concerns over iran also coming up on the show, House Financial Services chair Maxine Waters on why she wants a hearing over facebooks crypto play, libra. Join us, stephanie link, from levine, welcome. Are you doing buying today little bit. Little bit like what little Semiconductors Semis little broadcom i started a position last week when it fell 8 on the day and i just kind of think that the valuation makes a lot of sense and well see. Its a china proxy for sure, so something good has to happen on trade but i think the valuation is discounting a lot stephanie i was talking to one senior trader who said that the threat of a cut on Interest Rates is more powerful than the cut itself and that therefore its harder to get this same good news again. Likely be dialing back the promise of a cut or it will be the cut itself youre coming from a much lower base than historical levels but it was good news that we got i think the commentary yesterday was exactly what was needed.