Negotiations with china. Mixed Economic Data as Consumer Confidence falls, but Housing Market remains mostly steady and disney rallying on two positive notes, which has helped them propel the dow higher. We are on record high watch once again for the major indices. Joining us for the hour, Barbara Duran from bd8 capital partners. Barbara, how do you feel as we sit at these record highs. Can we hold this momentum through the rest of the year i actually think we can normally, ive been very skeptical. I really thought we would just be in a trading range and unlikely to see new highs. But i think weve got one or two new highs left and its not just optimism over the china trade partially being resolved i think its also, unlike last year where people were rushing for the exits, i think this year, theyre rushing to get in, because youve got the performance issue. The market is up so strongly and i would suspect most active managers are underperforming here barbara is with us for the full firs
There. Chinese vice premier liu spoke with u. S. Trade representative Robert Lighthizer and treasury secretary steve mnuchin. The Ministry Says they discussed issues related to a phase one deal and agreed to maintain communication on the remaining issues in the phase one talks. So, we are still very much in phase one talks. Bumping up against that december 15th deadline, though. Right. When you are expected to see new tariffs go in. Right. Thats been the big question do they do it its obvious they dont want the tariffs put in will enough progress be made at that point to say, okay, we wont so you think maybe not a deal by december 15th, but maybe enough of a deal to be able to i dont know. China trade wars are so 2019. Pushing into i just think you need to just, when we talk about beyond and impossible meat, i think you need to look into the future a little bit i just think you need to anticipate, not react. I just think it helps. What do you think happens before december 15th do you t
Russell 2000 index that got our attention this evening the index hitting its own fresh 52week high are the small caps saying big things about the health of this record rally guy. Tim has talked about this and good for dan nathan. Why are you shaking your head . Why . Its monday. Were 30 seconds in. Youre already a downer. Dan mentioned it on the call. Everybody said dan is a downer hes not a downer, he pointed out the russell. 161. 5. That was the high back in may. These are pretty interesting levels the real high is at 173 that we traded back in august 2018 but the small caps are absolutely telling a story they have lagged the Broader Market for a while they seem to be catching up. The question is do we ratchet through this 161 level with the s p trading sideways for a while and retest that 173 high it certainly feels as though thats the next move so yes. Are you optimistic . I bring it up because its obvious. You look at this breakout here weve been looking at this index since the st
Today. Im at the boeing post, where that stock is rebounding right now. Up 2 . Weve got more on that in the meantime, the rest of the market hovering near alltime highs. Weve got 59 minutes to see if we can eke out a new record. Yeah, but just losing that momentum, morgan, in the last few minutes, now red on the a s p 500. Im wilfred frost. Good afternoon to you. Lets look at whats driving the action some trade pessimism as we got news that phase i of the u. S. Trade deal may not be signed in november, as planned Solid Earnings reports from merck and pfizer helping give the Health Care Sector a boost, but tech has turned lower with disappointing results from alphabet and grubhub, driving the nasdaq lower also to come today in our beyond the bundle series, we will get the details from at t about their new hbo max service and well also speak with one of the disrupters in the mccollum the interview coming up on closing bell. We are just negative for all three of the major indices of cours
Numbers and while thats not exactly what we wanted, its what we need thats why stocks were able to rally on that news, the dow gaining 69 points higher most of the day and s p climbing. 09 and the nasdaq is tech heavy and does well when the economy is really slow dips 1. 7 . Why the heck are rerootiwe rootr weak data . Its about the macro ive never been a fan. Its a big picture when Interest Rates are much higher than the rest of the world and the world is reluctant to cut them. The macro matters and matters a lot. Thats why this disappointing payroll report is so important it gives jay powell more leeway to cut Interest Rates if he wants to powell is a traditionalest fed chief, for more than janet yellen thats why powell wants to be measured even though he was anything but measured with his rate hikes asemimet triric l and wrong. This is starting to hurt the economy. I lived through the 70s and understand the fear and if you dont stamp it out, it will wreck your economy this isnt the