Brennan and jon fortt at post 9 of the New York Stock Exchange stocks rallying today with that trade deal reaching phase one in the books. Banks, earnings season capped off nicely by Morgan Stanley dow closes above 29,000 yesterday for the first time and we see s p 500 up over 3,000 for the first time guys, good morning. Chris, the question ive got this morning is where do you find opportunity in a market thats been roaring like this . You look at the growth fund, also small caps are small caps a place where investors should be paying more attention . They arguably havent run quite as much. I spent the last two days meeting with about 30 companies, small to midcap. And the excitement in the hallways at the conference were quite good the opportunities are very specific, though i think you have to look at the end markets. You know, data center recover will be better this year 5g weve talked about, infrastructure and devices but we also see Software Security, clearly after the iran situat
Corp. Downgraded we will debate on call of the day. The Investment Committee is ready to go. The Halftime Report starts right now. And it is good to have you with us today. Our Investment Committee here, jim lavin all this, jon fortt. Dave wise, jen, liz young is back also with us on set today is ed. Lets begin with the rally stocks hitting record highs today. The dow closing above 29,000 is it time to buy or is it time to worry, liz . I am an incurable optimist. Not really ever time to worry that much. I say this all the time. You must be present to win i always believe you should be in the market. I still think there are places you can buy stocks josh brown, big friend of the show, i think he posted on twitter yesterday the market isnt even due for anything. We shouldnt pay so much attention to the calendar or the fact that it has been a long time or things have gone on to a long time. You have got Pay Attention to valuation right . Not as much as we used to i dont even know. With Mo
Jerome powell was on capitol hill to update lawmakers on the economy and Monetary Policy. He spoke about the Economic Impact of the coronavirus, Cyber Threats in the Banking Sector and his influence in the Global Economy among other topics. This services hearing is three hours. I now recognize myself for four minutes to give an Opening Statement. Id like to welcome back chairman powell. As i discussed earlier, and at our last hearing with you, i remain very concerned about the president s efforts to interfere with the feds interMonetary Policy. A recent news story noted that trump has tweeted over 100 times about your nomination. Many of those tweets appear to be attempting to exercise pressure on the fed. Chairman powell, you and the fed board of governors must not be swayed by these aggressive tactics. Fedsolding the independence, you should also be mindful of public perception. Of course, trump continues to claim credit for Economic Growth that was put in motion by the policies of p
And bob pisani at the New York Stock Exchange hey, robert. Hello there, old friend narrow trading range were down second day in a row, but a small trading range. 16 points in the s p 500, maybe 200 points in the Dow Jones Industrial average the nasdaq, though, is eking out small gains. The dow gainers for the month, theyre still the gainers for the day. Look at apple, look at nike, look at sisco, all up on the month. The laggards, its interesting, the ones that are down in the month of december also down today. Boeing had a tough month even disney. They topped out the beginning of december, 153 now, 143. Visa ending down today a little bit here that was a big mover all throughout the end of december the one sector i would point out to you is the Energy Sector. Oil exploration product up again today. And you know all of those really beaten up small Exploration Production companies, witing, southwestern, all terrible year, terrible three or four years since the tax law selling seemed to
How he see businesses moving forward. What are you expecting on impact on growth and do you think theres going to be a different standard on jpmorgan than other banks . Youre not. A come of things there. When we get done after that, i dont know, i do think theres a little bit of decoupling between chinas Economic System and ours, china will continue to grow, i think they want jpmorgan to be there to set transparency and rules and if chinese, if they want to eliminate corruption, they need very good Financial Markets and therefore they can come in and set the standards, it should mean something when jpmorgan said we did Due Diligence, doesnt mean that we are always right but should mean something. Maria big deal for jamie dimon and jpmorgan, they just received their license, a bank 100 in china, spending 11 billion on Technology Every year, how is he going to protect that technology s he going to go to china and they will change things as how they will do things differently. Dagen part