Date trade tensions resurface as china rebukes the decision to sign a bill backing protests in hong kong. And retail front and center as we get forecasts from adobe and the National Retail federation, forecasting strong Holiday Spending joining us for the hour is allied chief Investment Strategy lindsey bell here we go, a shortened day today but a lot of excitement. Whats driving the action . Well, you know, there is lower volumes today. Coming into the end of november, going into december, this is the seasonally strong period of the year earnings season was a good one retail sales pretty good retail earnings were good even though a mixed bag and so i think were in the period of pause until the new year. What are you paying close attention to today. Well, today, i think its really all about this is black friday about the retail environment and the consumer theyve been very confident, wages going up Unemployment Rate very low, near 50year lows can the strength of the consumer driving th
Youl uber, spotify is testing new lows stephanie we were just talking before we got started this market has to give you a little bit of whiplash. Were up for a second straight day but hold your breath maybe things will change tomorrow. You cant get obsessed with it you have to either have to be a long Term Investor or day trade. Very difficult at this point look trade is obsessing everyone i cant wait for earnings. Im super excited to talk about banks. Im watching technology today. Technology is 26 of the s p 500 waiting. We have gotten a couple of surveys in the last couple of days that suggest i. T. Spending is slowly. 4 this year, 3. 4 next year you have to start to be more selective in technology. Again, a big component of the s p. I still think you want to be in semis, cloud and security. You want to be very specific on software and hardware. We had a lot of calls cash coming after the close last night two days in a row of gains and almost all sectors positive both days so within
China promises a set of tariffs. Jay powell declining to signal more easy Monetary Policy. The yield curve inverting yet again. How will business respond . How will it impact the economy more importantly, what does it mean for the market and investors . And then a news making interview you cannot miss. Federal reserve vice chairman Richard Clarida from jackson hole we are covering the angles with the team of reporters as always. Elan, first to you on the china fears which appear to be trumping the fed speak today. Nice, sara. We are waiting to see if President Trump will make a statement on those latest trade tensions with china and the new 75 billion in retaliatory tariffs that were announced this morning. We know there was a meeting at the white house earlier today with mnuchin, kudlow, navarro and lighthizer and President Trump did tweet that he would issue a response this afternoon. He then went on to order American Companies to look for alternatives to china including bringing bus
Appetite reverses the trend weve seen of late joining us, steven weis, managing partner of weis managing partners. Thanks for being here. Thanks for having me. I like the no tie look. I do that on a friday. Hes, i guess, getting the positive sentiment going here. Absolutely. Even though its only tuesday. When you look at whats really leading the s p higher today, its tech stocks its the Semiconductor Names what do you think right now . So, i own smash which is semiindex, ctf i owned it coming in today, bought more immediately when the news hit its not something i typically do i sold some in the last halfhour. Im not sure this momentum is going to continue. Its highly volatile, and when you have profits and positions that arent core positions, take them, be happy look at where the market is. The market is no further than where it was actually, its lower than where it was. Go back a year and a half, its basically flat core positions you dont necessarily touch unless the fundamentals chan
Joining us is lindsay bell i hear you, i think earnings seeing the twoweek bounce in the market, whats happening with expectations . We are seeing second half earnings, especially the Third Quarter numbers come down a little bit this is going to be after a Second Quarter where we see a decline of 1. 4 . Thats the expectation as we all know, earnings coming in better than expected. I would expect flat to up slightly in the Second Quarter but it is all about guidance as it always is because these tariffs the numbers havent been accounted for in the second half. Broad come a wakeup call it was. Theyre expecting 500 billion of imports to be tariffed by the end of the year so we wouldnt be surprised to see more companies to do that with us for the first hour of the story. Kayla tausche has the latest, meg terrell with the latest and phil lebeau at the Paris Air Show kayla . Theres hearing under way, a last roadblock to President Trump putting those new tariffs in place on the remaining chin