Well debate it straight ahead. The Investment Committee is ready to go. Halftime report is ready to go right now. Welcome. Good to have you with us on this friday our Investment Committee today josh brown, jon najarian, tom lee managing partner and head of research and brian belski, chief investment strategist. We begin today with the market stocks are higher friday still, though, the s p on pace for its first losing week in the past tom, i turn to you i said in the show, were going to put two bulls to the test your year end target is 3200 and will you get there confident . Yeah, i mean, i think we could even exceed it in the next seven weeks. Because of . Well, you know, i think Economic Data is really improving. I think as people start thinking about next year, theyll see upside risk to growth and then when you look at positioning, i think people are still uncomfortably, defensivably positioned that movement of cash into equities is part of that rocket fuel belski on october 30th, i
You mentioned a few moments ago. Largely a result of Gang Violence and the report also says that low levels of Education Health care and high amounts of poverty as well as politicized and or corrupt Police Forces tend to correlate very strongly with high homicide rates the opposite is true for low homicide rates when Police Forces have a firm grip on the country are not politicized and the amount of social Development Education and health care is is growing there is another shocking statistic that came out of this report in addition to the ones that you mentioned in the graphic just a moment ago sammy 87000 women were killed in 2017 according to the report and the vast majority of those femen female homicides were committed by intimate partners or family members of the of the women who were killed. More interesting thanks so much rob brown. Plenty more still ahead on the news hour including a murdering enterprise calls for an investigation after accusations of systematic killings of po
Arent aware that the president will be making his speech about the environment today but they live it on a daily basis this is a very outdoors state youre very aware of the outdoors when you are here and i think people even some officials are quite costly to talk about manmade Global Climate change but at the back of many peoples minds is or what can we do about this were seeing this happening on a daily basis and then for the fires for instance the hotshot crews that are brought in from all over the country a very thinly stretched i know fire officials are thinking well if alaskan summers keep getting hotter and longer were not going to have the resources to deal with things like this and were not talking about Something Like deforestation where you can replant trees were talking about glaciers that of tens of thousands if not millions of years old rapidly disappearing and theres not much without radical policy change that anyone here can do thanks so much i think gallagher there. Cen
Reports and these investigations are not based on any facts so its unlikely that the investigation or the report released today will change the policies of president would be good to carry there when it comes to socalled war on drugs but Rights Groups are hoping that internationally the International Community will eventually act in its swifty enough all right allan duggan with the latest there manila thank you so add on aljazeera they will not be silenced hong kong protesters take their fight to a symbol of chinas growing employer works. And playing for time the migrants are desperate to reach the u. S. Theyre ready to risk crossing a dangerous for. Hello again or welcome back we have crossed we are seeing mostly dry conditions as well as hot conditions as well the rain though is going to be up here towards parts of turkey as well as into the caspian and that has been the normal trend over the last several weeks so expect showers here across parts of North Eastern turkey but down towa
Are also asking the International Criminal court who is currently carrying a preliminary examination to expedite this and to a formal process of investigating the war on drugs in the philippines and then what do you think should this United Nations Human Rights Council go ahead what do you. Think that will change because the philippines president remains defiant and hes already dismiss these reports interference by foreign governments it being the sled by force needs. Well the philippines is a party to Many International law continent and human rights covenant it is a member of the United Nations undertaken many obligations under International Law and therefore no one withstanding the president s criticism of this. The philippines have an obligation and International Community and the United Nations have an obligation to look into it is very severe violations of human rights which may amount to crimes against humanity so where we thing is a government that actually is extremely defensi