Concerns over production of the 737 max jet. And positive news on the housing front, as home builder confidence jumps to its highest level in two decades coming up next hour, former treasury secretary jack lew will join us to discuss trade and the economy. You do not want to miss that and with us for the whole first hour of theshow, dan nathan from risk reversal advisers. Dan, good afternoon. Thanks for joining us. Great to be here. More optimism on trade or whatever you want to put it down to is a lot of this news not already out there . Are you surprised to see ongoing rallies to new highs yet again at the end of the day, you like to see followthroughs. So friday, we had a muted react. A lot of investors expected some kind of surge, similar to what we had at the end of 2017 after the big tax cut. A lot of this was priced in. I think the continuation of last weeks rally into this week is obviously pretty establibullish. Also fairly seasonal as we are looking down the barrel of a week
That goes to biogen. But broadcom still up 2 . The 10 year yield, 1. 79 . Guy lets take a look at where we are here in europe. We are trading toward session lows when it comes to stocks. Also a selloff when it comes to the oil market. The stocks now down the stoxx now down 0. 3 . In italy, bonds have been out in front of the story. They certainly been taking a much more cautious approach when it comes to the trade narrative and the Global Economy over the last few sessions. Equity markets have continued to push ever higher. Lets get some analysis on where we are right now. Lombard chief ts economist, joining us now. I want to start with your view of the u. S. Consumer. We seen two big retailers out today, missing. The stocks have been pummeled. Are you worried about the u. S. Consumer . Charles not really, to be quite honest. Guy why not . Charles i think real income is going up at a reasonable rate. The savings rate is not going to suddenly thaw, and therefore the consumer plunge, unt
Europe is steady powell makes some remarks later on tonight road map begins with megadeal monday lvmh announcing a deal to acquire tiffany. Charles schwab buying ameritrade, 26 about the all stock deal it will combine the companies the two biggest publicly discounted brokers will have more than 5 trillion in client assets ebay set to sell off stub hub for 4 billion david has details on that. Lets start with this Historic Deal in luxury goods lvmh will acquire tiffany. The deal is worth 135 a share, two Companies Expect to complete that deal by mid2020. I assume you can fill us in on what is going to happen to the brand, synergies and all of that. Listen, i mean, it is an important transaction for lvmh, which tried twice before as my understanding and not been able to get there had done it privately. From a m a Strategic Point of view, this went about as well as sort of it had been could have been hoped for from both sides. Seasoned advisers on both sides, who i think i thought they wou
1 it is not the fed. Its not the trade talks, its demand demand for money demand for homes, demand for processing, demand for cancer drugs and programming and demand for cell phones and demand for planes and of course perhaps most important, demand for stocks yet if you listen to most of the experts you here a lot of fury about ow the Global Economy has gotten weaker because the trade war has shut down international trade. I dont want to sugar coat anything the Global Economy has absolutely taken a hit yearoveryear and the tariffs are part of that but here is the thing. Many stocks were trading like were about to get an even more stringent round of tariffs and that didnt happen instead the president started negotiating with china and that allowed a host of flailing stocks to get their mojo back. The tariff made it strong that without the averages demand would have never made it this far. Let me walk you through the places where that demand is m t most palpable first there is demand for
Someone thought there was a method to this madness we are back on the first floor you should watch this show just to see what goes on on times square take my word for it, there is stuff that goes on out there you dont want to miss you got to be 18 for some of this stuff we are ready to go. Brand new set. It is good to be here. We thank everyone for the love beautiful coloring and lights nothing was spared in terms of money for this. Look at this it looks like we are going to take off here. An elon musk designed set. We have that Federal Reserve Board Meeting coming up. Well hear that decision in a couple of hours. In the meantime, you are watching the futures dow indicated up by about 14 points nasdaq by about one point. Nasdaq up about one point. We touched a high yesterday and gave it back a little bit. Still looking at the s p a couple of points off the alltime high. Dow futures indicated up by 16 looking at the treasury market, still looking at the 10year yielding up to 1. 83 somet