Investments ever. Were closing in on new records in the markets, this amid new optimism for that potential china u. S. Trade deal as you saw stocks are set to open higher. And the tech lash heads to the states a major multistate investigation into antitrust practices at google, set to be announced later on this afternoon. David, kick us off on t. Interesting here. In so many ways. 3. 2 billion as you said the stake from elliott, the largest single investment i believe they made at the company, a long letter comes out this morning detailing the reasons why this could be a 60 stock within lets call it three years or so, 2021 is what theyre talking about. 65 or so upside to todays stock price. They believe 5 in dividends and 55 stock price, you could get to 10 earnings per share grower with significant margin improvement, what theyre calling for. And buyback. Something i want to make sure people understand here, it is interesting, people who know the company well, but sort of are vaguely
Ten weeks. But with todays move to the upside in a sector largely exposed to china and ahead of another round of expected tariffs in just a few days, where should investors be looking for protection joining us now to discuss, Oak Mark Fund Portfolio Manager bill nygren and nsz capital cofounder, bill slingerlen brad, you have some thoughts specifically around where is a good place to put money at this point. Specifically as it relates to regulation coming down the pike and semiconductors give us a sense, start with semis. Sure. So you know, we think theres no more interesting spot in the tech sector today than in the semiconductor segment, particularly for longterm focused investors. We know theres a lot of noise and a lot of volatility around the trade war and the trade talks that are going on now. We think ultimately, were entering sort of an ai cold war phase between the west and china. But that china and the chinese economy cant exist without cement conductors and frankly, the enti
Johnson threatens a general election road map begins with new tariffs on chinese goods hitting over the weekend. No talks between the u. S. And china in sight. Hurricane dorian battering the bahamas as coastal u. S. Braces for the worst and a longer wait for boeings max, could friction between the company and air safety authorities threaten a new delay for that fleet futures, though, slipping after the new tariffs on roughly 110 billion in chinese imports went into effect on sunday. The 15 u. S. Duty hits consumer goods rafrning fr s ranking fro apparel. Reports say that getting some parameters for new talks is proving to be difficult. Exactly i think that if you want to look at the bright side of that, the preopen this morning says there was no real hope for averting the tariffs. It is not as if you have a deal being handicaps now in terms of what the market is expecting on the other hand, bond yields still at their lows, not giving much of a sense that were through this period of jus
Needle for investors were going to talk about weworks embattled ipo plans and play the long game, thats the white houses message for wall street on china trade stocks pointed to a muted open today. Apple is set to unveil the latest new Iphone Models and other product updates today, features on the phones might include upgraded processors, new camera functionality, the event will take place at the headquarters in california, beginning at 1 00 p. M. Eastern time jim, talking about what else we might hear about, content, some shows rolling out in the coming days i think they have some exciting tv. I want to see trailers i think people are underestimating what they have been working on. I would love to hear more credit card i think that it is too early i do think anyone with the watch, the iterations are getting very exciting. The watch sales, youll hear incredible numbers, i believe. Service revenue very strong. Not sure exactly what to say about the 11, because they have been pretty clos
Ready to go. The Halftime Report starts right now. It is great to have you with us on this wednesday our Investment Committee today, joe terranova, jon and pete najarian, carrie firestone, kevin oleary, and also with us on set, Kathy Entwistle weve got a full house of advice today. Stocks on track to recover their losses from last week. Being driven by strong earnings from target and lowes target hitting alltime highs topping 100 bucks for the first time ever. Do we continue to bet on this consumer, carrie are there enough unknowns in the back half of the year to make you cautious its a great question and what the market has been telling you for the last year is that its a battle its a tugofwar between deal or no deal recession or no recession. Interest rates up or down. And do we put the money in the mattress or the market this week its the market. So if you have earnings growth, which weve been seeing this quarter, and the consumer is strong, people forget that we dont have a trade d