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Names on tech stocks mar mary meeker will speak any minute the Halftime Report with stot wapner starts now live from the new york stock exchange. Good to have you with us on this tuesday, welcome, our Investment Committee today, joe terranova, jon and pete najarian, lets begin with the markets where stocks have lost some of their gains today but the june boon is still the best start to a month since october of 11 the s p up 5 with tech the best performing sector. All feels pretty good right now, pete, in tech world after, you know, a pretty good upset. Now its back, up 7 in june, led by names like apple and microsoft, some of the semiconductors having a great week and were talking about a lot of the quality names are actually leading us to the up side doesnt mean its going to last forever. I still think this is a trading environment. I still think its very, very shortterm just about everything we report to you guys as unusual activity doesnt even extend out past three or four days but
Stop some of them. Today, ten state attorneys general sued to block the coination of tmobile and sprint which would be reducing the number of major u. S. Wireless Telecom Providers from four to three. The mergers have be in the works for year, but the new york ag is bigger and not always better and that such a deal would be bad for consumers, innovation and workers. T tmobile and sprint merger would not only cause irrepable harm to mobile subscribers nation wide by cutting access it affordable, Reliable Wireless Service for llions of americans, but were incomelarly affect lower and minority communities here in crossork and urban areas the country. The fcc has yet t formally rule on the deal and the Justice Department is still reviewing it, as well. Todays news sent shares of both sprint and tmobile lower. And cvs 69 billion acquisition of etna is facing a potential legalge chall in an unusual case the federal judgcould reportedlylock the deal even though it already closed late last yea
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