Exchange, where we bring you todays market moving news from all around the world, from hong kong to london, to new york and washington. Our bloomberg voices are on the ground with todays top stories. In asia, hundreds of thousands joined hong kongs biggest demonstration in months in signs that demonstrations will continue into the new year. Joining me is stephen engle. Give us the update. You know, this has been a protest movement that is now into its sixmonth, and i have to say, there is a bit of protest fatigue. People are tired of the violence. People are tired of the vandalism. They are tired of the disruptions to their morning commute. They are tired of the damage to the economy. But they are also tired of what they perceived to be an intransigent government here, unwilling to make any concessions to the protesters. That left this weekends big mark. A big question will there still be momentum for the protest movement, which has dwindled in size, but increased in violence . That an
Ready to go. Halftime report starts right now. Welcome. Good to have you with us on this monday our Investment Committee at the table today. Lets begin, where else, the markets. All three of the major averages are higher dow would be Even Stronger if not for the boeing drag. But with several major obstacles out of the way, is a melt up now in the cards thats how i look at this, josh. You go down the list and say, all right. You have this trade. Tens tensions are eased for the moment uk elections in the rear view and the fear of maybe missing out and performance chase over two weeks. Yeah. All is good in the market world. This is one of the interesting moments. They dont happen all the time where it almost doesnt matter what you own you could own value and growth and making money in either one theyre still below the old 18 highs but theyre on their way the banks have just broken above the 07 highs. All the mega cap banks look incredible tech is up 48 year to date and now you have europe
Stocks slipping after hitting record highs this morning, u. S. China trade agreement came occupant and that is why we need the exact details from someone on inside weve got to go to Edward Lawrence joins us now from the white house, edward break it down please. We have the worlds first second largest economy saying phase one trade deal here chinese say that this is going to boost global markets, people market around the world, the u. S. , saying that this is going to rebalance, the trade relationship with china, as well as structural is change inside china chinese outlined Nine Chapters great perks for intellectual property ending forced transfer technology expanding is on, buying noer agriculture President Trump said china will apply 50 billion dollars more agriculture chinese according to source will not write that into a deal, chinese confirmed that they are going to buy more agriculture but, again, we dont know exactly how much. The president also saying that he is keeping some tar
Thanksgiving coma and the ending the threeday losing streak are a set of records around the corner or this rally a flash in the pan. First of all, welcome. Thank you. [ applause the man. The momentum killer i just drop the hammer on momentum up. We call these the ifbs they told me in your name that your name at hq is c. Quint. We might take the quint thing. So, quint, to answer the original question today was a flash in the pan december 15th columns. The december levies the tariffs, the market goes down i would think it trades down to 30, 90 or so handles from where we are now and then another conversation but today was a bounce from the market down three days steveo. I do believe the market will bounce back even the last two weeks of the year if he puts on the new tariffs. So i agree with that level too 3,000 roughly in the s p but the market who wants to he will is the market . Long onlies want to be long it long short hedge funds will underperform if the market trades lower so momen
Downgrading most advanced economies. You can see right there, these numbers 3 for the world, 2. 4 for the u. S. , 1. 2 for your area, 6. 1 for china. These are all down you see there from the prior forecast and also mostly except for japan down from last year. The imf saying in its report, Downside Risks elevated. Brexit related risk to hinder confidence and growth. Theyre down on this trade issue. Very quickly, they do see something of a moderation next here in 2020 we go back up to 3. 4 it isnt the advanced economies this get there theyre looking for a turn around in emerging markets and developing countries four things the imf notes needs to be done theyre saying International Response may be needed if things get worse from here. They say Monetary Policy cannot do it all. There is a financial risk created from low Interest Rates there. Fiscal measures to help with the slowdown along with structural reforms. Carl that is big news, steve were going to dissect a lot of that with the ea