Rosengren. And speaking of the fed, yes, there is more. We have an exclusive interview coming up. Loretta mester is the president of the cleveland fed right after the close. Joining us for the hour is charlie with aerial investments. Was this a big sigh of relief after the data from earlier in the week yeah, you know the markets was really nervous about a recession. Thats the conventional wisdom in the market. Theres a lot of evidence that bulls like me keep pointing to that were not, but you can see when we get even a soso number, the markets react very positively Services Growth is slowing and thats the point of contention right now, is does the manufacturing upset bleed into the consumer . And it does, you have a problem. You had a very strong wage growth its not even the fact that unemployment is going down, its that people feel secure in their job. Its a tight job market. People are not worried about losing their job theyre spending more and were still 70 of consumer economy. If t
Bill, welcome back its been a while. Good to see you again. Thanks for having me. You look at the stocks that have taken the dow from 22 to 23k in only 76 days and its boeing, cat, home depot, goldman and i look all the way to the bottom of the list and the worst performer is general electric, a stock you say you are buying and it has become now a contrarian call because nobody seems to like it anymore why are you buying ge . Well, i guess it shouldnt be too big a surprise that a value firm like oakmark is buying something that is tremendously out of favor we think this is a very Different Company looking forward than looking back. New Ceo John Flannery is going to be very focused the return on invested capital and Capital Allocation both within the income statement and on the Balance Sheet we know theres a big earnings reset coming the stock wouldnt be trading at 23 if that werent the case. But we believe from that number this company is going to show much better than average growth,
Can these stocks keep surging. With us for the hour, Pete Najarian, steve weis, also with us on set is tony dwyer. Weis, ill begin with you. You like this group . You own netflix. I do. You say you may buy facebook today . I would love to buy facebook. Ive been talking about it for a number of days, a couple of weeks. I agree that Mark Zuckerberg is one of those unique individuals, like a steve jobs, who is creating an entire new asset class, as we look at it, and technology, of course. Look, the nasdaq is not expensive. And if you its like 18 times earnings as you go forward, youre still going to have this low inflation. I mean, we looked at durable goods orders today it was a disappointing number. The revision was disappointing if you have that low inflation, youll want to go for growth youre not going to get the tenyear moving much above where it is. So growth is personified by the f. A. N. G. Stocks. So they will keep going. Theres no doubt in my mind in this environment youve been