Resorts. Should investors roll the dice it is our call of the day. The Investment Committee is ready to go. Halftime report starts right now. Welcome, good to have you with us on this tuesday. Our Investment Committee here today, joe terranova, stephly link lets begin with this recordsetting market. The big downgrade for apple after the epic run, shares up 90 last year. Keeps hitting new record highs as do the averages, dow and s p at new highs today about this downgrade on a number of levels, apple specifically is there a message within that for other stocks that have had meese meteoric rises start with apple cramer said if you are not in the stock, dont buy it. Wait to see if earnings live up to what the stock has done. Makes sense i did something that was not disciplined. I bought calls yesterday on apple on the way up side the reason that triggered me was there was monsterous call buying when it was trading in the 290s there was massive when i say massive we dont see that kind of p
Miss the mark. Joining us for the hour, stephanie link from nuvine what do you think is driving the action right now, if the calendar is so devoid of data points so much for a slow day today, right . You had boeing you had over the weekend, china, small stimulus, which i dont think got a lot of press, it should have. And the data was okay. Durable goods can be explained away from boeing for the most part new home sales, up 17 year over year i think thats good. Chicago fed at a twoyear high i think theres enough momentum between now and the end of the year to kind of continue to see green days maybe we tail off a little bit at the end of the year, but i think well continue to see green days into the end of the year were on a nice streak so far. Lets dive into the biggest story of the year, that is boeing our phil lebeau has the latest on that. Hi again, phil hey, carl Dennis Muilenburg was fired after the board met over the weekend. The decision was made sunday night. And this was not h
Level, i was president thinking about the fed like everybody else i was thinking that stel, yes, stel is a wonderful thing. Hallelujah. What do i mean by scale a company with scale is a company thats big enough and powerful enough to control its own destiny. A company that scales is one that survives and then thrives in even the toughest environment that a fed chief is worried about or anybody else. Just listen to nothing but washington scale, scale simply being bigger than the other guy, a lot bigger is an enormous advantage we saw the benefits play out today. Exhibit a, amazon. It crossed the trillion dollar threshold this morning amazon didnt become this unstoppable behemoth because jeff bezos is brilliant, which he is. It got here by leveraging scale. Amazon is dominant because its so big they use that scale to get better price from the suppliers to pass on to you. We have antitrust law because when you get big enough, well, no one can compete against you bezos saw how he could use
Discovered new Software Issues and financials outperforming ahead of the stress test results. Joining for the hour to break this down is josh brown. I asked you what the key stock indicative of this market is and what people are watching you said gld that was surprising. I thought that was a private conversation, sarah nothing is private with me. I said gld because it trades like a stock and the dollar doesnt but what im really getting at i really feel the dollar is at a very critical level and i mentioned it was kind of sitting on support i think what the dollar does next from here could have big ramifications for everything from earnings estimates to emerging market stocks. It keeps weakening here. It hasnt broken down since trump has been president its been fairly strong. Some would say too strong. I know he would. For sure. You asked me what are people looking at and focused on, believe it or not its the dollar again gold is huge fiveyear breakout and breaking of the down trend is
Across the board with the exception of the italian ftse. A quick look at wti crude right now, wti if youre buying it buy the barrel, you can do it for 48. 91. Hurricane irma one of the most powerful atlantic storms in a century. Its churning its way across the caribbean towards florida. Kalee dionne joins us live from cnbc headquarters. Whats the path . Reporter the path is westnorthwest at this point the question still lies when will it turn to the north . Thats something well be watching throughout the day. The latest update from the National Hurricane center, it maintained its 185mileperhour winds. Its just to the eastsoutheast of st. Marteen, and conditions are deteriorating there. This will continue to move at 16 Miles Per Hour that pressure continues to drop. As that pressure drops, the winds will maintain that speed or continue to increase. Everyone is wanting to know where is the track i dont want a lot of people to focus on where it will go as it moves closer to the u. S. At t