Hideous beatdown im going to make it real simple for you. The market is spectacular al beit mercurial fashion show. The same stocks that would strut down the runway greeted with oohhs and aahhs will be pelted by tomatoes. Stocks that have languished sell like hot cakes when styles change we call that a rotation on wall street. Investors are furiously recalibrating what theyre willing to pay for and just right now theyre happy to pay up for the stocks of solid companies with healthy dividends and ideally big buy backs. You know what . Theyve lost interest in the stocks of Fast Growing Companies when it comes to revenues. They issued huge gobs of equity and pay people or come up with bizarre new metrics or explain how theyre really doing okay even though they dont have much in the way of earnings if any. In other words, the cloud stocks are up salesforce. Com, adobe, workday, z scale, i could go on and on. These names were all smoking red hot and now theyre struggling you have to wonder
Facebook, is there still too much risk in the stock and differ devidend darling. Ten stocks making big gains. The Halftime Report starts right now. Welcome, good to have you with us on this thursday our vichlt committee, joe turn know, Jim Leventhal and pimco portfolio manager. Nice to have you back. Lets start with the selloff of stocks, it was the worst day for the s p. Chicago pmi number going cold water on things may be bottoming. Josh, about to come in today, apple good, facebook good, earnings pretty good wow that pm movement, 43. 3 versus an estimate of 48. 5, the worst since 15. Are we reassessing now once again . No, because we had a rate cut yesterday. Well it may pause now the s p 500 hit an alltime high yesterday its down marginally today if the stock market went a point a day, no matter what, wed number a bubble. So we backfill perfectly natural. I think there are those that hit prior levels one could be the kre, regional banks down today double sfs on the session. They ju
Except for maybe jp morgan our American Express or honeywell, or Union Pacific thats right where there are more pluses than minuses, because the stocks are generating pin action, are a lot more powerful than when the stocks generate negative pin action dow advancing 57 points, s p, nasdaq jumping there are plenty of down beat stories out there, and the economy is slowing, chinese, whatever, averages, call it whatever you want, the brexit, the tragic, 737 max plane crashes. We are now learning boeing may have known about the planes flaws ahead of time. The litigation thats pommelling the pharmaceutical industry, and the overhang from this years flood of new ipos, many of which turned out to be gigantic losers im going to flush out those wounds later but what matters most right now is the action in individual stocks see, individual stocks, they have no ideology they wont mislead you theyre not bent, as the cops would say in the line of duty, fabulous british detective story. Why dont we
Increase sanctions on iran road map begins with watching the fed. Investors expect the second rate cut in a decade. Stocks mostly lower ahead of the open. Fedex is falling this morning. Shares down in the premarket over trade worries policy uncertainty, of course, as well continuing to weigh on the delivery giant and right idea, wrong approach, House Speaker nancy pelosi sitting down with jim youll hear what she had to say about the president s china trade strategy as we said, a few moments ago, the president tweets, ive just instructed the secretary of the treasury to substantially increase sanctions on the country of iran. So nice that our country is now Energy Independent the u. S. Is in better shape than ever before, Strongest Military by far, biggest economy, no longer even close, number one in energy, maga equals kag. The story is going to be about the attacks and what else the saudis can tell us about it as aramco had that statement out yesterday. Right i think we have to were f
Look at europe. Those numbers are even stronger. You want to see this thats what i was thinking. Wow is that because of our deal here we dont like crises crisis averted. Yeah. Only adding another 300 crisis kicked down the road. Right it gets interesting when you think about the timing of when the next will be treasury yields at 2. 055. Hes like the cnbc app. Youre like a human version of the cnbc app. Joe just recited it before the show began like rain man i decided since you you may or may not know thank you. I cant sleep. Im like cramer, up at 2 00, answering people on twitter. Talking to people. Trying to help at 2 00 in the morning youre doing this no cramer is. Cramer at 3 45 is. I know. Yeah. Its decision day in the uk. The conservative party suspected to name a new Prime Minister today at about 6 45 a. M. Eastern time well bring you that decision as it happens former london mayor Boris Johnson is seen as the clear favorite theresa mays successor will take over tomorrow afternoo