Good morning welcome to squawk box here melissa lee is hanging out again with us. Becky is off today for some welldeserved vacation well see her next week. As joe said yesterday, one of the first down days weve seen in a while a little better s p up about 13 and nasdaq looking to open about 45 points higher also showing you treasury yields now you can see where those are standing well flip that around to. 628 on the 10year you thinking about refinancing a mortgage anytime soon, guys . Im as low as they go im good if you have an account where you can use assets for credit line or to make an investment or Something Like that, i remember two or three years ago, i locked this ridiculously low rate if they come to me again and offer another one, it will be lower than it was last time. It was like 2 or 1. 5 when you get money that cheap, dont you think you you are in the drivers seat when rates are this low i dont feel bad about borrowing money at rates like that so you are talking about get
Friday, an incredibly strong job market and an economy. Maria bingo. Dagen i want to point out, there was a Consumer Sentiment report that came out from the university of michigan on friday, seven month high on Consumer Sentiment. Virtually none of the respondents, zero, or 1 of the respondents mentioned impeachment. You have wages that are growing in the november report for production and nonsupervisory workers, the growth in wages was near a post recession high, up 3. 7 . Thats higher than the overall growth rate of 3 . What does that mean . It means that income inequality is shrinking in this country. Thats what people feel. Thats what if anybody you talk to, theyre not talking about impeachment, theyre not talking about oh, what did trump say and wringing their hands about that. They know they can get a better job, they know they can get higher wages. Maria thats absolutely right. Dagen theres safety and security in their finances. Thats what matters. Maria incomeen equality, ive b
Going down. Look, i have the i have a list in my hands, like senator mccarthy of 54 known stocks in the s p and how they would do inverted the top 20 ive been working on. Three are hurt 17 that win. If everybody decides that theyre going to pay less for every stock because of this, all lose the algorithms are set to make sure all these use our economy is not as uniquely sensitive. These are not exporters that need to have a dollar weaker dollar is just getting stronger. Extraordinary rally in the dollar dont want to see it i struggle to reach a conclusion that this is all bad given the fact that germany had rates for some time and the market is not doing that badly, even though they have an export economy and their dax, real terms, is up even though theyre exporting right to china in and those sales are weak as we see the numbers from china it is not the end of the world or the German Market would be down. No one is asking if it is the end of the world if it is the end of the cycle, ri
The American Economy slowing, but not as bad as expected will it affect the feds next move and have stocks already priced in a friendly fed plus a big upgrade on the big banks, buffett making a play too. Is it time to get bullish on the financials the Halftime Report starts right now. It is good to have you with us on this friday. Not as hot a friday as it was last weekend our Investment Committee today, joe, stephanie, zarod, josh brown and ron. I havent this many friends around me in a long, long time. Since high school thats good. Yeah. The s p 500 record highs nasdaq and nasdaq 100 hitting new alltime highs as well with the fang trade front and center. Lets start with amazon versus alphabet who wants to talk alphabet sure. Go. I mean, i own it. It was a very good quarter i think that google sites growing 21 , Constant Currency up from 19 from last quarter shows you last quarter was the aberration you didnt see this massive deceleration that was lasting. Thats good to see a resell r
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