The communicators. Madam chair, thanks for being with us. Guest thank you for having me. Host before we get into some of the issues, some of the telecommunications and technical issues that your committee deals with, i wanted to ask you abot s. T. E. M. Education. You come from a science background, science education. What is your committee doing when it comes to s. T. E. M. Education and what do you think congress should be doing . Guest let me start with the committee. The committee has passed out two major pieces of legislation that was bipartisan. A matteroffact passed on a consent calendar but it has a long way to go in the senate. It is extraordinarily important that we not only just spread the word but also put in instruments in the empire but, the education environment, to make sure that women and minorities are told about the important of s. T. E. M. Courses. Innovation is our future and if we dont have the people educated and trained and we see a lack of the brainpower now wi
Street about the stock. Well debate. The Investment Committee is ready to go. Halftime report starts right now. Our Investment Committee at the table today, the Portfolio Manager at eaten vance. We begin where else . The market. Stocks have been ramping in the past 30 minutes, got above the closing high on the s p on a big day for the semis thanks to intel. All but hitting a new record, as well. Names like jp morgan, so many more hitting 52week highs today. We are about a point away from a new high. Is this the beginning of that longawaited ramp that weve been waiting so long for what drove the market was off to a decent start anyway and then the china news. Then the market went to hyperdrive. So if thats the case, if we have a meaningful agreement with china, we really dont know the details, that could, in fact, increase the trading range. So go through it. I thought there was a bias of the upside slightly. Some numbers are good, some are bad. Its very encouraging when you get a print
In the delivery payoff latest Earnings Report . Thirdquarterssed revenue estimates. Why Revenue Growth did not translate into ad sales. Facebook dominated the week with Ceo Mark Zuckerberg defending his social network before u. S. Congress on wednesday. Scheduled included a huge antitrust and privacy. What is this association. Its a complex project. Do you consider libra to be money . I consider it a Payment System. Its like me having my money in Wells Fargo Bank . You could think about it that way. We are not applying for a bank charter. That is the problem. Facing mywe are commitment is we are not going to launch the libra Payment System until we get the approval from federal regulators. Cooks the competition with china is a National Security issue. In china especially. They kicked off their Publicprivate Partnership in systemo raise to build a like this quickly. Will it be possible to conduct anonymous transactions . It is an open question. Its pretty hard to stop anonymous trading.
Who else but the nba star lebron james has now come out speaking about the recent nba fall out with china, reigniting that controversy that had gone down to a simmer welcome to power lunch. Ive got quite rally reports in eu and uk may be closer to a deal on brexit that s p 500 level thats up, we are less than a percent away from all time record highs and tech nearing a record high they are their best bet into earnings lets go to bob at the new york stock exchange. Its more than just optimism on trade here. Theres several fronts going on. I think the most important is earning. Jp morgan reported strong earnings the consumer side was really good this is a real sign the consumer is holding up and even jamie dimond said that second thing help in the markets, positive comments on the prospect of a brexit deal. They did sicite hard brexit as risk finally a bit of warm and fuzzy feeling from china on the trade talk the global times editor said that fridays meeting did represent a breakthrough
Facing another grilling from lawmakers about the safety of the 737 max. Risks facing the stock Halftime Report starts right now. All right. Good to have you with us on this wednesday from post 9. Our Investment Committee here. Lets begin with the markets the count down to the fed. Investors expecting a cut, but it is the what comes next that matters most of all. And for that we bring in Steve Liesman, who is at the fed today. Thats what everybody wants to know, right . Everybody knows a cut is coming. Its whats next. What i think will happen is powell and the committee will carve out flexibility to react more to the data i think the issue, the way that powell probably not going to put it this way, but simply to understand it is we may cut next time we may not cut next time but were definitely not going to cut were not definitely going to cut is a good way to think about it in other words, the market is building in automatic cuts from meeting to meeting and i think powell will want to b