Sports what that could mean for the stock and the major sports leagues. Halftime report starts right now. Welcome good to have you with us Jenny Harrington is the ceo and Portfolio Manager at Gilman Hill Asset management and also with us on set today is cnbc senior economics reporter, steve liesman. We begin with stocks falling the fourth time in five days adp only adding fears today that the economy is slowing more substantially. Bond yields also falling farmer jim, im giving you the first crack. Dow falls 500. More Economic Data comes out soft i was told on this desk that the consumer is so good that it doesnt matter if the manufacturing economy is so bad, stocks can still go up but the consumer is a lagging indicator. I tried to hit that yesterday. The consumer is strong right now, but thats the last crack to form, okay . What youve got is youve got pmis, all the ism surveys in the u. S. Are finally catching up to whats been going on internationally. Thats been happening for some ti
Over. 1 treasury yields, this morning were taking a look and youll see that its trading at 1. 5 . 1. 543 to be precise the two year a little higher than that in terms of the yield. 1. 518 this is no way to run a business, obviously. Im talking about torte reform and things like that when one judge can say yeah, 17 billion he didnt. No, he didnt but he could have thats what we deal with in todays with trial lawyers. Now to get to a developing story this morning, i got my editorializing out even before. Started at least. Thats what the story was Major Court Ruling this is just one state too this is oklahoma we know about the Opioid Crisis. It was against Johnson Johnson. The judges ordered them to pay 572 million for country bouting to the opioid economic in oklahoma under the public nuisance law theres 50 states by the way. Theres also municipalities. Think about it. It says j and j and its unit repeatedly down played the risk of addiction doctors were targeted as key customers. It cove
Wall street is set to join that Global Equity selloff at the open plus, th juan falling to a more than ten year low versus the dollar China Central bank denying it is devaluing its currency shares of apple, theyre down, like everything else, or more, ahead of the opening bell. Which trumps tariff threats could mean for that technology giant. And potentially for the costs of the iphone we start, though, with the Broader Market stocks under pressure around the globe as u. S. China trade tensions escalate. Chinas yuan, which has now breached the 7 level for First Time Since 2008 is certainly a focus this morning in response to that move, the president tweeted this morning, quote, china trdropped the pric of their currency, called currency manipulation, are you listening Federal Reserve, this is a major violation which will greatly weaken china over time so, jim, were back in the concerns about china, of course, this following the decision last week by the president to put 10 tariffs on th
Been if america had not had, as it does, an oil glut. It would have been a much bigger price spike. Thats the upside, i guess, of energy independence. Now, whats happening in oil has not had a negative impact on stocks. We are still looking at a gain for the dow, what, about 90 points, up about 34 on the nasdaq. Part of the dows gain is fueled by the Big Oil Companies which do well when oil prices rise. This tanker story is a big money story. We are all over it. And theres a lot going on. We will keep you in touch with it. Elsewhere, ah, Bernie Sanders outlines his definition of democratic socialism. We will break that down for you. Not literally. The president is setting the political world on fire. He says he would accept information on political opponents from Foreign Governments. Theres a shocker. Connecticut, can you believe this, they are in dire financial straits and they are raising taxes on everything. I mean everything. Varney company is about to begin. If foreigners, if russ
Maria welcome back. Good friday morning, everybody. Im Maria Bartiromo thanks for being here. It is friday, august 18. 7 00 a. M. On the east coast. Time for the hot topic of the hour. House judiciary chairman jim jordan subpoenaed the Justice Department and fbi for documents showing conversations between the agencys private companies and other third party groups, allege showing big tech collusion. In a letter to ag merrick garland, jordan writes this, numerous documents that have been made publicly available reflect the weaponization of the federal governments power to censor speech online, directly and by proxy. It is necessary for congress to gauge the extent to which doj officials have coerced, pressured, worked with or relied upon social media and other Tech Companies to censor speech. Jordan demanding the agencies turn over response documents next month. Daniel, we know what happened here because of the release of the twitter files. We were told 1,000 people in government were wo