It in boston businesses talked about a delay of getting product from other places than china because foreign imports could not handle the excess capacity overall the fed monitored Manufacturing Activity as slightly down. Half of the districts reported a slow down in manufacturing rather than lay off workers, companies in cleveland were opting to reduce overtime and cut shifts in st. Louis declines in production, new orders and Capacity Utilization for the First Time Since 2016. But, guys, there were still several districts such as philadelphia and minneapolis that were reporting strengthening in Manufacturing Activity so, there was still somewhat of a mixed picture across the country. Back to you. Thanks very much. Steve liesman joins us now with more on what the beige book, steve, is telling us about a possible slow down you see the continuation of the krkz we had in the last hour about the mixed message in the fed. Did a great job covering all the different, you have one place where
Through to the open. The s p up about. 87 . Nice gain. The nasdaq up better than 1 . It is a rally. Please note, the market has completely reversed, the selling that greeted the inverted yield curve scare and the china trade scho scare even though that is a threat. The Hong Kong Police have banned the giant demonstration planned for this saturday and beijing has brought in fresh troops. The scene is set for a crackdown. If that happens, it would likely affect china trade talks. By the way, monday, the hong kong protesters have called a general strike when our market is closed. Watch out Tuesday Morning. Heres what we have for you. The markets rallying bigtime. Interest rates are falling. The president speaks to Brian Kilmeade and here comes dorian. Likely a cat 3 hurricane when it hits florida. Varney company about to begin. Stuart ive got to say this. The market just seems like it just wants to go up, bearing in mind yesterdays rally and what weve got coming at us first thing this mor
Income groups. Im not looking to do that. But if i wanted to do it, i believe i could. Im not looking at a tax cut now. We dont need it. We have a Strong Economy. Certainly a payroll tax cut. David sound bite of President Trump telling reporters just yesterday that he was considering indexing Capital Gains taxes but today, touting a Strong Economy, the president says indexing could be seen as somewhat elitist, the word he used, also saying no need now for a payroll tax cut, but is it a mistake to take these tax cuts off the table . David, its always a mistake to take good tax cuts off the table. John kennedy didnt take it off. He had a Strong Economy in the early 60s, but put in a massive tax cut across the board individually. Go back to the 20s, coolidge did the same thing. President s have done it in the past. Inde keep this economy going, great for the market. David not elitist . It benefits everyone and also helps reduce the deficit because Capital Gains revenues always go up when
The currency weapon has been. Yeah. It was a big surprise last week when the president dropped that tweet about september 1st tariffs. And some people that i talked to, tyler, and kel, it changed the game for them. That what they thought they had was a figured out market for the most part. They felt that way because of the fed and the rate cut and they felt like they had their hands around where the market could go in the months ahead were still throwing out of whack by that. Going into that, this was a market that was up almost 20 , so far this year, trading near record highs coming off of good earnings, fed rate cut, felt it was all working for the markets. As you heard Barry Banister say, sure, we get more of an odds of a fed rate cut, trump did something good on the trade front and markets will be fine on that note, well hand it over to you guys. Youre always one tweet away. Thank you. Well see you later. Welcome to the closing bell. Im scott wapner stocks plummeting, names like ap
A sales miss and more weakness ahead. Is it time to trade out. The Investment Community is ready to go. The Halftime Report starts right now. Welcome good to have you with us on this tuesday. Our Investment Committee at the terrible joe terranova, josh link and the chairman and ceo of the gobelli finds and chief executive officer of merrill private bank. We fin where else, the manchlgts a manchlgts. First though stocks lower as the twoday meeting in washington gets under way mr. Gobelli, the fed is going to cut, right im assuming 20 basis points and the real challenge is the currencies, the negative Interest Rates around the world are causing the dollar to get stronger so how does and what is the impact of that you think the fed should cut . Lets start there. Markets not that far. I dont spend a lot of time on it. I just assume that they will be cutting 25 beeps thats baked into the market of the for example, we have 100 u. S. Treasury fund. No sold taxes and its assuming that already,