Expected to be signed tomorrow headlines injecting uncertainty on existing tariffs and after hittinga new alltime high, apple is now the biggest drag on the dow. Well have much more on why later in the show. We are up 50 points on the dow steve grasso with us for the full hour. Steve, todays session yo yoing. The bottom line though is the deal should be signed tomorrow and the rest of it we kind of knew. It seems like the market is looking for a reason to sell off. You have bulls that want a better entry point, bears that want to push it down and any headline that allows them to do that, theyre going to roll with its about china today i think its going to be about earnings coming up if you really look at where we are in the s p, the 3300 level is pivotal and if you look at earnings, if we fall short, the market will tank and thats a big word tank is a big word. Its a big worry when you say wheres the market going or where do i think its going, i think it will be legitimate to say a 7 t
Brent at a threemonth high, gold at 15. 12. The year end rally, the s p biggest yearly return in seven and nearing its best gains in more than 20 years. Plus ecommerce sales hitting a record, amazon saying billions of items ordered world wide. Boeing still on watch, new documents revealing whats being called quote very disturbing revelations. As 2019 heads into the home stretch, all three major indies says are on track for a fourth straight month of gains. They have surged as last months selloff we remember december 26 when everything rallied 5 . We were bottoming that horrible Christmas Eve when we had first concerns about a tariff war increasing. Then we had the Federal Reserve raising rates on the 19th. That created a cascade, four down days in a row culminating in the down day on the 27th, on the 24th and turn around today. Meanwhile, the year, if you look at the percentage of up days, almost 54 , which is i think only the folks said only five years since 1928 have you had a more c
Maria big show this morning, joining the conversation fox business Dagen Mcdowell, the host of the secrets of wealthy women podcast veronica is here and entrepreneur kevin oleary. Do you want to take money to the sidelines until a deal is done . I come to the conclusion the market wont care because whats really occurring here is we have back tax, valueadded tax on chinese goods and they have been absorbed quite efficiently in the u. S. Economy, every other g7 has a back tax, we have one just on china. I dont care if they continue to ratchet up the tariffs because i think its the right way to get a deal done. Maria youre in on this. People were expecting recession or some sort of recession in 2020, not hearing that nearly as much anymore. Maria absolutely. Whats predicated on that is theres a trade deal, we will see a pullback in market in 2020. Dagen market has told you that the Recession Risk has fallen because the yield curve is no longer inverted and the 10year yield on the treasury
The currency is also higher but it has taken over the conversation and brazil. David he said brazil and argentina were devaluing their currency. What has the central bank been doing . Julia the central bank has been trying to pop up the currency. It has late due to several factors, including the dollar being strong worldwide. A lot of it is not tied to brazil. There was some disappointment in the oil option. There were a lot of factors behind it. Argentina had the election earlier in the year and have currency controls for a while. They are not doing anything. The central banker is speaking at a luncheon and has just reiterated that the brazilian is a Floating Exchange currency we only intervene when there is dysfunction. David give us a sense of how important steel exports are from brazil to the United States. Julia is one of the biggest export products between brazil and the u. S. , the secondbiggest, trailing only oil. In terms of civil exports as a whole, it is not a lot. Brazil ex
Good friday morning. Welcome to squawk alley. I am Carl Quintanilla with Morgan Brennan and jon fortt they addressed the policy on political ads, the Company Remains under pressure about the election Elizabeth Warren says heres the thing, trump isnt just posting a lion his own page for his own followers, facebook is accepting millions of dollars from trump to run political ads, including ones with misinformation and outright lies. Joining us to breakdown the speech, response and more at post nine, early facebook investor, roger mcnamee, author of zucked. What were you most surprised by, rocker that he wanted to come out in public and say all of that to me, the tin ear is so extreme that if it hadnt been for all the other nonsense coming out of washington, it would be the only story people would be talking about today. At the end of the day facebook isnt actually having a Free Expression problem, it has an amplification problem, it has an issue of essentially because it uses micro targe