President trump making a move likely to spark a fight for the west wing. Trade tensions rising again as new tariffs again overnight on the largest trading partners we are not talking china it is friday, october 18 Worldwide Exchange begins right now. Good morning happy friday and welcome to the show hear is how your money is opening up the dow off by about two points so relatively stable the s p 5001 away and the nasdaq 2. 2 away. The bond market now moving ever so slightly on the other side for stocks twoyear note yields just below 1. 61 let us now go worldwide in european trading we are seeing a little more red than green dax up. 1 cac off by. 7 and the same for ftse and mib as well in asia, can you see the nikkei up about. 2 3ers and the hang seng down. We had breaking news overnight the latest read on the chinese Economic Situation it is now slowing to the lowest level in decades eunice, what can you tell us about these numbers. They were pretty bad. The consensus is that beijing i
Trade impact on the economy. Lets look whats driving the action britain and the eu coming to a brexit deal although Boris Johnson still needs to win a vote back at home. U. S. And turkey agreed to a ceasefire in syria and despite ibm the overall earnings picture remains strong with beat from netflix and Morgan Stanley leading the market hire. Were happy to have stephanie link here. I know youre pretty upbeat. So far so good. There have been good reports from csx, from honeywell, from United Airlines jpmorgan, Morgan Stanley. Those have been rewarded also other earnings that have just been good enough. United rentals we talk about positioning, people are not positioned in industrials or health care those two sectors are leading the market today is that why we are where we are. People have your view earnings are good enough . Some are good enough but some are good the best earnings picture was johnson johnson. We also had a lot of health care you entitle e United Health expectations if t
Turs the dow and s p are a little lower. Nasdaq is on pace for the fourth weekly gain. Being looking at raise yeah, the nikkei up and shanghai composite. The ftse is down slightly, actually flat. So is the dax. The cac is up about. 2 . The 10year is yielding 1. 779 in our tariff news du jour, the u. S. Is going to temporarily free more than 400 products from the 250 billion in tariffs imposed. According to documents said to be published by trade representatives today. Including items such as Christmas Tree lights, retractible dog leashes. What . How did that get on the list that wouldnt work for my dogs if it went out, when i brought it in, something would be attached to the mouth. Filters for kcups, tiki torches, grills, electric skate boards stemming from more than 1,100 requests from companies. Holding lower level talks in preparation for higher level talks expected in october. Here is what Vice President pence and black stones steve squartsman had to say. For too long, one administ
Smiledirect begins trading as a public company. Should you buy the stock today our Investment Committee weighs in and caterpillar shares getting a down grade its our call of the day Halftime Report starts right now. Welcome back, everybody. Thanks for joining us here today, the overall market doing well headed for seven in a row. Up 121 points and longest streak in a year and smiledirect just opening moments ago as carl, morgan and john just showed you. That opening not what the markets showed down 14 at the moment and off 3 bucks. A lot of optimism going in on smiledirect. The head of the ipo saying it is trading well or bullish upside potential. That is certainly not the case smiledirect sdc a new issue down 14 right now. All right, lets go now to the macro set up stocks there higher on trade headlines and easy move by europe central bank. If we do close higher on the dow, like we said, lucky 7 7 higher sessions in a row and longest streak in a year your stat of the day, nearly 100 o
We got a new stimulus plan and a rate cut from the ecb ahead of the feds meeting next week. Joining us in the next hour, were 130 points on the dow. The high of the session was up 170. Continuing a good week sector wise below that certainly different than the start of the week we had a big value rotation on monday and tuesday. A little bit yesterday giving it up a little bit today. Thats, i think, because he got that ecb news on the Monetary Policy which basically was in line but very accommodating for a long time. Welcome back the fbi reportedly opening an rates rallied because the u. S. Data investigation into myth real a the core cpi is the highest in capital. This session cofounded by peter thiel, thats pretty important. And i think that also the alleging financial misconduct. In a statement to cnbc. Initial claim story remains very strong as well i mean i think you have a the company sayings in a foiled rotation today but i think next plot by a selfserving week if we get less exem