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Concerns over software and tech stocks lower weve been up, down, all around for the markets today. As we stand, though, with 59 minutes, were higher on the dow, lower on the s p. Joining us for the full hour, from capital usa, keith, good afternoon to you. Thank you, wilf. Earnings been Strong Enough so far or have they been resoundingly strong this week . Theyve been strong so far. I think the markets have been less than vigorous, shall we say, the last couple of months i think well enter a period less vigorous than it was before thats going to be a key component for how we evaluate the economy and market Going Forward. Lets check in on the markets. S p 500 down by about 0. 1 and the dow higher by four points so far. Retail sales, and eamon javers has the latest on trade lets start with wilf on the banks. Bank of america reported this morning. They continue to feed from yester ....
But still red for each of the major indices. Joining us for the full first hour of the show Courtney Gibson from loop capital markets. Courtney, thanks for joining us. Whats your take on today . Investors in a sort of holding pattern, are they, until we get to the fed unbelievable holding pattern. I mean, volumes are down precipitously today. At least they were before i came on the show today. I talked to our equity desk at loop capital and in the u. S. Alone volumes were down somewhere near 30 and even in europe spain was down i think somewhere near 40 on volumes our desk flow today was down substantially as well. It looks and feels as though investors right now are really kind of sitting on their hands markets as you can see, dow down just slightly but recovering back to the highs of the session. Russell is lagging down 0. 7 utilities, real estate the bestperforming sectors. Energy and tech towards the bottom we have got apple ....
Chewing dotcoms first day of buying has really been seen since the 2008 crisis. The u. S. Justice department is nearing approval of tmobiles 26 billion merger with sprint. This is according to the New York Times. A group of states sued to block the deal claiming pressure on the Justice Department. Our reporter joins us from new york, what do we know . Reporter the doj has been continuing negotiations with sprint and tmobile about how to approve the deal. Sprint and tmobile have promised to do vest a number of assets that include the prepaid phones. Also some spectrum assets to the sec. They are working with the doj to potentially offload some other assets. They have a list of buyers the doj would be comfortable going to. Sprint and tmobile are working with them, that includes dish and others. What the doj wants is for a fourth carrier to be set up out of this deal. Even a ....
Along with other white house staffers so this is a relatively large group for this meeting you remember, last week they tried to have this meeting and the democrats didnt slow up we saw that visual of the president with the empty chairs on either side of him waiting for chuck and nancy, Chuck Schumer and nancy pelosi, to attend the meeting they never came. Today theyll be here. We should see all these chairs filled today what theyre going to discuss, though, is a mystery weve seen a dampening of the tone going into this meeting both sides know theres a lot at stake here in terms of a potential Government Shutdown as early as tomorrow if they dont get a continuing resolution to kick the can down the road another two weeks in terms of government spending. So Sarah Huckabee sanders just briefed the press within the past ....
Take a look at the stocks across the board where are were seeing steep gains. Chesapeake up. Marathon up 5. 5. Conco phillips, hess, all big winners on the day. Does this rally continue . I think in the last couple of weeks certainly the place not to be has been energy in this quarter. I think this deal this morning, and i read jeffs note, which is fantastic, and the news over the weekend regarding opec, i think it gets you more sneptiveized to add back into energy once again. I dont know if i go to the refiners necessarily. I actually got long that this morning. Eog, concho, those shale survivors, you want to begin to put them back on. You own some of the refiners. I do own some of the refiners. Marathon is up today. Elliott took a position in there. I think when you are looking at refiners, you had this is a consolidation play. There are not too many refiners out there. You have lack of capacity coming on, and over time youre going to get pushed by these to consolidate. Is there a fu ....